Social computing for public services 2.0

This community aims to share knowledge and discuss experiences on the impact of social computing (web2.0) on public services. IPTS held a tutorial on this topic at the EU Ministerial conference (www.egov2007.gov.pt). We are currently managing several research projects on this topic and the related content could provide a first basis for the discussion.

Domain:
eGovernment

Topic:
Efficiency & Effectiveness, Benchmarking eIdentity and eSecurity eParticipation, eDemocracy and eVoting Services for Citizens Multi-channel Delivery Open Source Policy User-centric Services

Tags:
cases, policies, research

Latest Blog Posts
2009-11-03 10:45:27 | No replies.

Email as the central and broken tool for online communication

Today social networks and other online messaging tools all use email as the central method to notify users of events (e.g. new messages, content) on their platforms. But email is not able to handle [read more]
Mozilla, Raindrop, Email
2009-03-15 15:29:52 | 1 reply

howto dutch goverment 2.0 competition and conference

Howto Government 2.0 competition and conference. 1 Is this for you? Do you work at national level (at a ministry for example)? Do you wish to organize a conference about web 2.0 and government? Do [read more]
eups20 howto government competition conference
Highlighted News

EU: Launch of the Financial Transparency System

15 October 2008 | EU Institutions
Currently under the test phase, the Financial Transparency System (FTS) website is one of the building blocks in the Commission's wider European Transparency Initiative (ETI). The FTS focuses on the [read more]

HU: Space information system to support decision-making

20 May 2008 | Hungary
The Regional Interactive Space Information System has been established to support the work of the politicians, decision makers and scientific experts dealing with these issues and being responsible [read more]
Highlighted Cases
27 June 2008 | Italy

ELDY - bringing the computer to the elderly

Enrico Neri (Eldy)
Eldy is a project to bring elderly to an enriching web and computer experience. Eldy is the name of the project, the name of the freeware software and the name of the no-profit organization behind [read more]
14 June 2007 | Spain

Gencat 2.0 - redefining radically the eGovernment portal concept

Marta Continente (Generalitat de Catalunya - Directorate General for Citizen Attention)
Gencat.cat (the Internet website of the Catalan Regional Government) is an example of a radical redefinition of the eGovernment portal concept, and a mass-scale deployment based on transparency and [read more]
Highlighted Library Items

EU: Web 2.0 in Government: Why and How?

13 May 2008 | EU Institutions
Description (short summary): Since 2003, a new wave of web-based applications, which now go under the name of web 2.0, have been launched with very little investment and have encountered dramatic [read more]