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When Ellen Miller talks, you've got to listen. For those with an interest in Open and Transparent Government, keeping the Executive and legislative branches accountable and uncovering the links between money and polities, her work at Sunlight has been inspiring. She recently appeared on C-SPAN's Communicators to talk about how the... [read more]
Early eGovernment history is littered with examples of implementations by departments who were struggling to work out what it meant to provide an online service. Many of those early sites did little more than provide you with a form that you could download, print, and then drop in the regular mail once it was completed. Others needed... [read more]
A NSW public service manager made this comment on The Hon Penny Sharpe MLC’s blog post about NSW Public Sphere: Transparency and access are both 2-sided. Somewhere, it would be great to see a discussion about how departments avoid being tied up by citizens who get new, ever more public channels to push their own grievance? Particularly... [read more]
Obama Team Officially Gets a Second Life.When President Obama spoke to a live audience in Ghana, his address was streamed to audiences in the virtual worlds of Second Life and Metaplace. After the speech there was a virtual discussion, led by a panel with the former ambassador to Qatar and an African historian. This event was announced... [read more]
Social media is a valuable way to engage constituents in an ongoing dialog and build support for legislative/agency initiatives. So why's everyone so afraid of it? For years, government didn't have to engage constituents on an everyday basis - they could rely on communications efficiencies (the lack of social media) to effectively limit... [read more]
The Open Government Team, in the Office of Science and Technology Policy at the White House has announce the opening of Phase 3 to accept draft recommendations. The final phase of the initiative was launched yesterday and runs through this Sunday, June 28. Phase 1, Brainstorming, encouraged the sharing of idea... [read more]
A new site was launched last week allowing the public to post their experiences of using UK public services. The project is currently in the pilot stage, but has already received dozens of comments. It is funded by the Ministry of Justice through their Innovation Fund, and hosted by the non-profit advocacy group mySociety. William Heath... [read more]
While the timeframes for developing and distributing publications, media releases, and even website news items is extremely well understood by government departments, often there is a much lower understanding of the level of effort (in time) required to engage communities online via different channels.Fortunately there are now several... [read more]
The Register has published an article, Google force feeds Web 2.0 to US gov, providing some key insights into challenges the US government is facing in implementing government 2.0 (or egovernment) initiatives - largely due to embedded policies and processes within legislation and the bureaucracy.Some of these issues, and potentially... [read more]
Dean Halstead is a Lead Associate with Booz Allen Hamilton and serves on the Advisory Board for the SmartBrief on Social Media. More »
John Kamensky is a Senior Fellow with the IBM Center for The Business of Government. More »
Steve Radick is a Lead Associate with Booz Allen Hamilton and serves on the Advisory Board for the SmartBrief on Social Media. More »
Maybe they'll get it right this year, they can't afford to fail again, the competition is too tight on the electric car market. Sure there's still room for breakthroughs, I read some interesting articles about it on www.partsgeek.com, we should expect some interesting electric car technologies in ...
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