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Civil Servant, Social Media and Online Engagement

2009-11-13T11:00:00+01:00

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“…imagine for a moment it was your job to create the guidelines that will help public servants engage online. Although you have the examples from other organisations, you are given the rare luxury to start with a blank sheet of paper (at least for this exercise). What would you write?

What issues would you include? Where would you start? Who would you talk to?”

Sources: 03 November 2009 | David Eaves

Part 2: http://eaves.ca/2009/11/03/if-i-could-start-with-a-blank-sheet-of-paper%E2%80%A6-part-2/

Part 1: http://gov2.net.au/blog/2009/11/02/if-i-could-start-with-a-blank-sheet-of-paper%E2%80%A6/

An official British platform to enable conversation with the developer community around innovative use of digital technologies

2009-11-11T10:56:00+01:00

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UK: Welcome to Directgov | innovate: http://innovate.direct.gov.uk/

We developed our platform to enable conversation with the developer community around innovative use of digital technologies. In addition to our blog we ask people to submit examples of innovative citizen focused apps or ideas for apps that could be developed using government data or that demonstrate innovative use of technologies.

U.S. data.gov: http://www.data.gov/

The purpose of Data.gov is to increase public access to high value, machine readable datasets generated by the Executive Branch of the Federal Government. Although the initial launch of Data.gov provides a limited portion of the rich variety of Federal datasets presently available, we invite you to actively participate in shaping the future of Data.gov by suggesting additional datasets and site enhancements to provide seamless access and use of your Federal data. Visit today with us, but come back often. With your help, Data.gov will continue to grow and change in the weeks, months, and years ahead.

How to use Data.gov

Data.gov includes searchable data catalogs providing access to data in three ways: through the "raw" data catalog, the tool catalog and the geodata catalog. Please note that by accessing datasets or tools offered on Data.gov, you agree to the Data Policy, which you should read before accessing any dataset or tool. If there are additional datasets that you would like to see included on this site, please click here. For more information on how to use Data.gov, view our tutorial.

RSS feeds to improve your presence in search engines

2009-11-09T15:59:18+01:00

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Google has announced that it now reads RSS feeds of the websites, this information enabling faster indexing of new content ...
Google is very often the gateway to the Internet and the engines internal sites of the Institutions of the Union does not shine by their performance ... That the reason why it would be good to expand the offer of RSS feeds within EU websites

Source : Abondance, http://actu.abondance.com/2009/11/google-suit-les-fils-rss-pour-decouvrir.html du 3/11/2009

UK: Finalists announced in the e-Government National Awards 2009

2009-11-09T08:33:15+01:00

The finalists have been announced in this year’s e-Government National Awards (www.e-governmentawards.co.uk).

The highly sought-after awards recognise excellence across eleven categories, highlighting the UK’s top public sector innovators in the use of technology, enabling businesses and citizens to better communicate with councils, central government, NHS and other public sector organisations. UK Government CIO John Suffolk will reveal the winners on 20th January at a Ministerial dinner at the City of London's Guildhall.

Source: http://www.publictechnology.net/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=21812

“A Strategy for Copyright in the Digital Age”: a very useful official british report

2009-11-07T11:15:04+01:00

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Ministerial Foreword

“…We are, however, at a crossroads in our relationship with our new digital world. Digital technology means access to information on a vast scale. It has changed the way people publish and consume works. It allows anyone and everyone to make and distribute quick, cheap and totally accurate copies. Consumers have reached out to grab the potential of this new technology. The copyright debate, once in the hands of the professionals of the creative industries, is now a debate for everyone. Businesses and governments have seen the challenges but have been slow to respond…”

References:

The report: “© The Way Ahead : A Strategy for Copyright In The Digital Age”

Intellectual Property Office

Source: http://scinfolex.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/angleterre-un-rapport-montre-la-voie-du-copyright-2-0/

US House of Representatives : Pelosi Addresses e-Parliament Conference

2009-11-06T15:33:16+01:00

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Source: http://blog.sunlightfoundation.com/2009/11/04/pelosi-addresses-e-parliament-conference/ , by John Wonderlich , Tags: eparl, Nancy Pelosi, Pelosi

Speaker Pelosi yesterday spoke on a panel to kick off the World eParliament Conference 2009, in the US House of Representatives.

Her prepared remarks are available here, and include the following:

“In the history of American democracy, there was a time when a message could travel only as fast as a horse could gallop or a ship could sail. Today, a message from the American people to their representatives in Congress travels as fast as a citizen can twitter, blog, or post to Facebook…

Led by the innovation and enthusiasm of young people, Americans and Members of Congress are holding a running conversation – in real time. There is no greater tool to increase transparency than the internet. Now, Americans can watch committee hearings, check votes, read bills, and review financial disclosures–all online. Next month, they will be able to see exactly how Members of Congress are spending their office funds, and at the start of next year, they will be able to watch and search our House floor proceedings in real time …

Clearly, Sunlight agrees that “there is no greater tools to increase transparency than the Internet.”

Also, “watch[ing] and search[ing] floor proceedings in real time” will be a welcome addition to the current real-time web presence of the House.

Speaker Pelosi also engaged in a long aside during her delivered remarks yesterday, invoking the distinction between disclosure through office-hours-basement-binder-public-inspection and disclosure in real time, online, expressing an explicit preference for the latter.

Ellen is presenting this morning, and I’ll also be tweeting from much of the event.

Reference

http://www.ictparliament.org/wepc2009/index.htm

See background paper in the Documentation

e-Citizen Charter

2009-11-05T21:52:00+01:00

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Citizenlink continues the e-Citizen Charter (BurgerServiceCode) developed by the former eCitizen Programme This charter is a quality standard for eGovernment written from the citizen’s perspective. It consists of 10 quality requirements for digital contacts, both in the field of information exchange, service delivery and policy participation.

The charter has been adopted as a quality standard on all levels of Dutch government.

How to implement the charter is explained in the e-Citizen Charter Workbook. This is an instrument in an awareness and take-up campaign for politicians, managers and civil servants to stress the importance of:
- a common standard for quality requirements in order to support interoperability;
- cooperation between government agencies to guarantee integrated services;
- citizen centricity as a condition for take up and enclusion.

Source : http://www.burgerlink.nl/englishsite/e-citizen-charter/e-Citizen-Charter.xml

Translations : see http://www.burgerlink.nl/englishsite/e-citizen-charter/burgerservicecode.xml

Workshops: see http://www.burgerlink.nl/englishsite/e-citizen-charter/Werkschrift-BurgerSericeCode.xml

Feed me! Google Alerts not just for email anymore

2009-11-05T14:09:33+01:00

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Source: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/10/feed-me-google-alerts-not-just-for.html 10/31/2008

This week, our Trondheim-based Google Alerts team launched support for feeds, a highly requested feature you can use to receive alerts via the RSS feed reader of your choice. (Of course, we think the best places to view your updates are iGoogle and Google Reader.) Until now, alerts have been delivered via email only, but those days are over. Now your News, Web, Blog, Video, and Groups alerts are more easily accessible than ever.

Once you sign in to Google Alerts and create an alert, you can opt for feed delivery by clicking 'Edit' next to your alert on the 'Manage Your Alerts' page and changing your 'Deliver to' selection from 'Email' to 'Feed' (click on the image to see larger).