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I was working with one of our teams in the Middle East to help them prepare for a presentation to a group of Government CIO’s around Gov2.0. I put together some slides for them, got some background reading, example sites etc and sent it over.
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There are three interesting posts this week from various sources around Social Media. First one really underlines why it cannot be ignored. After reading the post ‘Social media now more popular than personal email – Neilsen’ and looking at
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Like all things there are good and bad examples of Gov 2.0. One of the main drivers for Gov 2.0 should be a reduction in cost of communication with citizens and I came across two separate examples with different outcomes. Spenta , a Spanish partner
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I know when someone first started to describe to me the concept that the government should not hold data about me, but rather I should hold it instead – it took me a little while to understand why this was a good thing. A paper has been released by the
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I am rather enjoying Andrea DiMaio’s latest post – It is time to explore the dark side of Government 2.0 . As I have noted a few times here , here and here not everything is always rosy in the Gov 2.0 garden. One of the issues that I see is
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Gov 2.0 can and will effect all levels of governments and associated agencies. Over on the Headstar e-government blog there is a case study of Web 2.0 in Local Government which sparked my interest for two reasons. Firstly and totally unrelated to the
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Tim Berners-Lee has published a set of notes that he has written after talks with various people in the UK and US governments. They are pretty rough and high level, but interesting to see the direction he is taking after his appointment . It is
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There is so much being written about Gov 2.0, about what it means to different people - however we have no ‘formal definition’. Personally I am one of those people who does not really care if we cannot all agree on a definition – Gov 2.0 will continue
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Andrea DiMaio the Gartner eGov blogger posted yesterday about Governments needing to be “employee-centric” to get Gov2.0 to work – ie. without support from within their own organisations and from their own employees their transformation efforts will fail.
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An important thing happened today, and hopefully it will influence the Gov2.0 direction that the UK takes. The Cabinet Office has announced that Tim Berners-Lee is helping the UK government to be more open and accessible on the web. So aside from
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There are a number of reasons why Governments need to start looking at Gov 2.0. One of those reasons is because citizens are using these tools to talk about what is going on in Governments already. Governments need to get involved in these
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I referenced some of the issues that Gov 2.0 can come up against in some previous posts, and it is going to be interesting watching the successes and failures in this space over the next few years. In the post Welcome to America 2.0 I highlighted
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There have been a number of different threads discussing whether Government should even have web sites at all. Starting back in the spring last year the Garner analyst Andrea Di Maio proposed ‘The future of Government is no Government’ , and since
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I have to admit, I do think Wordle is great. It is a really interesting way of viewing what is being talked about in blogs, web pages etc. Thought I would run it against this blog and this is what it produces: It would be interesting to see how politicians
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Boris Johnson the Mayor of London is now on twitter. However, just because you are on twitter does not make you Gov 2.0. 1,318 people following you, and you are following no-one? Not very Gov 2.0. OK, so lets tell Boris; lets feedback
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