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- How do you sell the idea of a social media strategy in government?
- by Craig Thomler. eGov AU - eGovernment thoughts and speculations from an Australian perspective, Thursday, November 20, 2008. "Nick over in the WA egovernment blog Web 2.0 showcase, posted an excellent article back in August entitled, Selling the idea of a social media strategy. This focused on approaches for encouraging government departments to look at social media - at least as a research tool to understand what people were saying..."
Added: 20 November 2008;
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- Network Citizens: Power and responsibility at work
- by Peter Bradwell, Richard Reeves. Demos, 29 October 2008. "... Social networks are providing tremendous opportunities for people to collaborate. But until now, thinking has focused only on how organisations can respond to and capitalise on networks. This report argues that we have to look equally at how networks use organisations for their own ends. That is where the new contours of inequality and power lie that will shape the network world. We have to face networks’ dark side, as well as their very real potential..."
Added: 13 November 2008;
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- Towards a sustainable e-Participation implementation model
- by M. Sirajul Islam. European Journal of ePractice, 31 October 2008. Topic: eParticipation, eDemocracy and eVoting. "This paper proposes a framework for an effective e-Participation model that can be suitable under certain socio-economic settings and applicable to any country. Most of such previous initiatives were experimental in nature and lacked in both public awareness and clearly defined expected outcomes..."
Added: 6 November 2008;
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- DEMO-net: Researchers corner
- "DEMO-net has gathered a large selection of resources for researchers working in eParticipation contexts. This researchers corner provides direct links to key research assets within the DEMO-net knowledge portal..."
Added: 29 October 2008;
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- Focus - Effectiveness of E-Participation: Rules Of Engagement
- by Tobias Escher. E-Government Bulletin Live, October 27, 2008. "Although e-participation - the use of the internet to engage citizens in dialogue and policy consultation - is high on the political agenda of all Western governments, there is surprisingly little well-founded knowledge as to whether the use of such technologies and techniques really makes much of a difference..."
Added: 29 October 2008;
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- Social Networks Will Change Government, Says Gartner
- Government Technology, October 23, 2008. "By 2011, 70 percent of social computing deployments in government that achieve business benefits will do so in unplanned or unexpected ways, according to Gartner Inc. Government organizations around the world are showing great interest in social computing, yet deployment so far is relatively limited..."
Added: 24 October 2008;
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- Web 2.0: Community Building for Local Governments
- By CIO Task Force. Government Technology, October 15, 2008. "The following is excerpted from a White Paper by the Digital Communities CIO Task Force, entitled Government 2.0: Building Communities with Web 2.0 and Social Networking. The full white paper is available for free download from our Resource Center..."
Added: 16 October 2008;
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- Government 2.0: Building Communities with Web 2.0 and Social Networking - in pdf format (524kb)
- (This document requires the use of Adobe Acrobat Reader). Government Technology - Digital Communities, 2008. "... Government 2.0 in general describes efforts undertaken by communities, states and the federal government to implement the tools and technologies developed and adopted by the private, commercial sector of the economy that extend the utility of the Internet. Such efforts are collectively known as Web 2.0. Among those jurisdictions that have chosen to explore the possibilities, the consensus seems to be that Web 2.0 can help government enhance its existing relationship with citizens by creating new avenues of interaction. But based on research conducted by the Center for Digital Government, it is clear that for every community that has decided to explore the possibilities another has decided not to; at least not right now..."
Added: 16 October 2008;
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- New Whitepaper Explores Web 2.0 in Government
- By Blake Harris. Government Technology, October 15, 2008. "Many new web developments, now collectively referred to under the umbrella of Web 2.0, are receiving increased scrutiny in the government sector. Basic questions arise. Is Web 2.0 simply another hype storm created by technocrats and marketers in an attempt to generate new demand for products? Or do these technologies offer a real answer to some of the traditional shortcomings of citizen government interaction?..."
Added: 16 October 2008;
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- Ten practical online steps for government support of democracy
- By Steven Clift. DoWire.org - Democracies Online. "Does e-government have anything to do with democracy and citizen participation? Let's get straight to the point - not yet. Should it? Yes. Government should be leading a charge into the increasingly and fundamentally interactive web..."
Added: 30 September 2008;
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- Why it is important to engage people online - Interview with Susanna Haas Lyons, AmericaSpeaks
- Pan European eParticipation Network, September 15, 2008 – 10:11 am by politik-digital.de. "AmericaSpeaks organizes large-scale town-meetings on political issues and wants to get people engaged in the decision-making process. To widen the public outreach and to foster a diverse and representative participation, online methods play a more and more important role..." Video interview by Volker und Tilman Aguears.
Added: 29 September 2008;
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- e-Participatory Budgeting: e-Democracy from theory to success? - in pdf format (105kb)
- (This document requires the use of Adobe Acrobat Reader). By Tiago Peixoto. E-Democracy Centre, Universität Zürich, Switzerland. e-Working Papers 2008. "This paper concerns the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) as a strategy for reinforcing democratic processes - broadly defined as 'electronic democracy' practices - and focuses on the use of ICTs in participatory democracy initiatives. By considering the experience of the e-Participatory Budgeting in the city of Belo Horizonte (Brazil), the aim is to understand some of the possible prospects and limitations offered by ICTs in participatory processes at the local level... Among other findings, this paper argues that even though the use of ICTs was essential to the success of the initiative, other factors were also crucial in accomplishing such a level of participation, notably: i) the scope of the public works at stake; ii) the salience of the initiative and iii) citizens' perception of their actual impact in the decision-making process..." .
Added: 19 September 2008;
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- Senior public sector managers must overcome their status as 'digital immigrants' and embrace Web 2.0 says new report from Socitm
- Source: Socitm. eGov Monitor, 10 September, 2008. "Senior public sector managers should overcome their natural scepticism about Web 2.0 – born of their status as 'digital immigrants' - and embrace this latest revolution in the information age..."
Added: 12 September 2008;
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- IAP2: International Association for Public Participation Australasia
- IAP2 Australasia is an Association of members who seek to promote and improve the practice of public participation in relation to individuals, governments, institutions, and other entities that effect the public interest in nations throughout the world.
Added: 11 September 2008;
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- Connecting to Constituents and Customers Securely with Web 2.0
- By David Lavenda – Vice President, Marketing and Product Strategy, Worklight. eGov Monitor, 8 September, 2008. "Web 2.0 is changing the way private corporations and public service organizations get business done, drawing on the increasing popularity of such services as Facebook, iGoogle, Windows Live, RSS social tagging and desktop gadgets..."
Added: 10 September 2008;
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