Andrea DiMaio about how to interact with citizens via Web 2.0 applications: “…the best option is for government folks to dress casual and join the cyberequivalent of pubs, soccer and baseball fields, to be on their own citizens’ social media groups and pages, listen to what they discuss and – where relevant and appropriate – contribute to those discussions” It is about human interaction and engagement and not just about technology.
“The Chief Technology Officer Council’s Information Domain have written some guidance on design considerations for how UK public sector URIs should be developed and maintained. It has been published as an interim standard , and we would greatly appreciate your feedback, so the people at Write to Reply have kindly hosted a version open for your input on which you can comment, commend or criticise.”
“The US Government has embarked on an initiative to enable people to sign into US Government web sites using commercial identities. The public announcements of the first steps were made last week during the Gov 2.0 Summit. Now that we can write about the initiative, here’s a personal recap of some of the steps that have gotten us here, and thoughts about what comes next.” Interesting summary by Mike Jones.
“data.australia.gov.au is the home of Australian government public information datasets. We encourage you to make government information even more useful by mashing-up the data to create something new and exciting!”
“Openly Local is a new project to develop an open and unified way of accessing Local Government information. So far we have opened up data for over 40 local authorities, and more are being added every week, with more information being opened up too.”