The Social computing for public services 2.0 Blog

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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 replies

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
2009-03-15 15:27:27| No Replies

Howto dutch widgets project

Howto Widgets 1 Is this for you? Do you work for a government organization that wants to take some small 2.0 steps? Do you have dynamic and (for the public) interesting information? Do you wish to ... [read more]
widget eups20 howto
2009-03-15 15:25:07| No Replies

howtos dutch open government project and overheid20.nl project

I could’t get around to writing the howtos on the Government 2.0 platform and our open data project. However, there is some interesting material for you to read, written by the people involved. ... [read more]
open government data overheid20 eups20
2009-02-28 13:01:12| No Replies

Open innovation, uncomfortable parallels

When we (Dutch ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations) started with our government 2.0 projects last year, we chose to embark on a perilous journey called open innovation. Well, for as open ... [read more]
web20 government open innovation netherlands
2008-12-29 16:25:16| 1 replies

the future of social media in government

Hi all, The W3C eGoverment Interest Group (http://www.w3.org/2007/eGov/IG/) is working on several topics being one of them the use of social media in government. The Chairs have recently authored a ... [read more]
ps20 standards w3c
2008-12-22 17:55:25| 1 replies

who designs and what software for epractice

Hi I run a community of practice on inclusive entrepreneurship (COPIE) and also work for URBACT an EU funded programme which runs 30 learning networks of cities across Europe involving 300 ... [read more]
2008-11-20 11:49:58| 2 replies

Social computing webmonitor

In April 2008 a list of cases was published on this community. These are more than 100 initiatives related to social computing in public services. This is a work in progress, useful to identify the ... [read more]
ps20 cases database socialcomputing
2008-11-20 11:43:18| No Replies

Administrator issues

Due to a mistake made while adding a new administrator to the community, all members were added. The good folks at ePractise have helped us to correct this error. [read more]
2008-11-20 09:34:08| No Replies

How do you, as a user, experience the impact of ePractice.eu?

Dear fellow community members! TNO Research Institute invites you to take part in a quick survey on the user experience and impact of ePractice.eu. This survey contributes to a study that helps ... [read more]
survey epractice web2.0 impact
2008-11-12 12:55:05| No Replies

more than guidelines: teaching public servants to blog

The British government is going proactive: the Norfolk country council launched a campaign to teach blogging which includes videos, booklets and events http://civicsurf.org.uk/about-cllr20/ We should ... [read more]
ps20 blogging
2008-10-24 16:06:19| 1 replies

please post your guidelines for web2.0 usage

I am here in Dublin at an interesting training on web2.0. Interesting presentation on the "your mental health" campaign, on the Bebo social network www.bebo.com/yourmentalhealth Derek Chambers who ... [read more]
guidelines
2008-09-30 10:02:36| No Replies

Invitation to expert validation "Impact of Social Computing on Public services"

Dear members, On behalf of the TNO Research Institute and the Danish Technological Institute (DTI), I would like to invite you to participate in a brief online expert validation. TNO and ... [read more]
Social computing public services impact assessment
2008-09-18 05:52:57| No Replies

cross reference: see the community on governance and policy modelling

Hi just to inform you that I wrote some blog entries on the other community, ICT for governance and policy modelling. They are relevant for social computing as well. In addition, I have a private ... [read more]
2008-07-14 15:33:34| 1 replies

Welsh civil servant sacked for blogging

After the civilserf affair in England, another interesting case of problems with civil servants blogging. This time in ... [read more]
ps20 guidelines blogging
2008-06-24 18:49:35| 1 replies

Can Civil Servants Blog? The UK guidelines

The UK government has come out with guidelines oin civil servants blogging http://www.civilservice.gov.uk/iam/codes/social_media/participation.asp See how short and snappy they are! [read more]
ps20
2008-05-12 18:02:54| 2 replies

Can civil servants blog? some guidelines from NZ

There's been a lot of discussion on if and how civil servants could blog, in particular following the CivilSerf episode in the UK. As often, New Zealand is the at the forefront, in this case in ... [read more]
ps20 guidelines
2008-05-07 22:37:33| 1 replies

intro

Hi been introduced to this network via David and previously Alex Stobart. I blog here > paulcanning.me.uk Work in UK local government and have fifteen years as a webbie, for my pains ... wide and ... [read more]
uk, egov
2008-05-07 16:04:49| 1 replies

three interesting initiatives

Three initiatives that I think are very interesting: 1) SIMI (Innovation System of Minas Gerais State, Brazil) A social network website where users can create their profile, engage in online ... [read more]
ps20
2008-05-07 15:19:10| 1 replies

Using common tags: ps20

As suggested on the common blog: Please let's start adding the tag PS20 on any ePractice contribution which relates to web 2.0 in public services. Thanks david [read more]
ps20 community
2008-04-18 12:10:27| No Replies

Consultation on FP7 "ICT for governance"

I wanted to post this in the community but it's not possible, so I blog it. The forthcoming consultation on FP7, focussing on issues such as visualization and mass collaboration, is VERY relevant to ... [read more]
fp7 consultation socialcomputing
2008-04-18 11:42:58| No Replies

Coming soon on this community

Dear members of the Public Services 2.0 community, the next month will be quite active on this community so I would like you to "get prepared" because we look for your feedback and input. First, our ... [read more]
ps20
2008-03-30 13:53:25| No Replies

What can go wrong with social computing

We recently held a workshop at IPTS on the socio-economic impact of social computing (the EROSC project). In order to go beyond the hype, we had one post-it session on why social computing will NOT ... [read more]
dark_side web2.0
2008-03-27 18:26:11| 5 replies

Best practices in public services 2.0

Could someone start indicating what they consider to be the best practices in terms of pulic services 2.0? [read more]
gov20 bestpractice
2008-03-26 17:19:50| No Replies

Launching the community on the impact of social computing in public services

We are now launching a community to share and discuss the impact of social computing (web2.0) in public services. We will present and discuss also the results of current research on this topic. We ... [read more]
web2.0 governance policies egovernment ehealth einclusion elearning impact