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Tuesday, March 16, 2010
An edition for SharePoint Roadmap Governance Themes , looking at the user adoption strategies for organizations using SharePoint. Many thanks to the 407 people who took the User Adoption Strategies report. There is some fantastic material in there, and while I've been talking about it all over Europe, I haven't published the findings here yet. Now that I'm back, that's about
 
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Last week, the Chinese government insisted that it was not prepared to compromise in the matter of censorship – and issued a brusque warning to Google’s business partners that it would not tolerate any divergence from its censorship directives, regardless of what Google itself did. Finally, a government panel appeared to have Google locked in its sights when it called for a news tax to be levied on news-regurgitators last week. Welcome to eModeration's round-up of all that is intriguing, alarming or odd in the world of social media, compiled by Kate Williams. For more social
 
Monday, March 15, 2010
We've written previously about the Obama Administration's Open Government Directive . Last week the White House issued a new memorandum titled " Guidance on the Use of Challenges and Prizes to Promote Open Government " (PDF) — a further step towards citizen engagement. The memorandum also mentions that the government is building a new web platform for the management of challenges, as well as a community of practice for federal employees and contractors involved in these Among other things, the Directive has led to a proliferation of innovative " ideas sites " across the federal agencies.
 

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We're seeing exciting trends in governments making data more available  ? Whether on crime, education, or the environment, governments are putting more data on the web. communities (and readers of this blog) have heard about the federal government's Data.gov initiative (and the winner of a certain Apps for America competition using these data sets). and valuable ? for the public.
In the absence of social media compliance and regulatory standards, social networking technologies face increased scrutiny in both the government and commercial sectors. While many government leaders and corporate executives recognize the ability for social media to enable organizations to ?tap Confronted with a Memorandum for Transparency and Open Government and over 200,000 websites designed to spoof tap into the vast amounts of knowledge ? in communities across the country?
The Obama administration is close to unveiling a new Open Government Directive to push agencies to become more transparent, accountable, and collaborative. The directive builds upon the memorandum on transparency and open government released by the administration in January, and was announced by US CTO Aneesh Chopra during the Gov 2.0 This is a huge opportunity that will help make it even easier for third parties to Summit . Since the announcement, there has been a lot of discussion focused on the expected component of the directive that pushes federal agencies to make data
In this video taken at the Mayor of San Francisco’s press conference, @ev (Evan Williams, CEO and co-founder of Twitter) is talking about how businesses use Twitter… and government departments Technorati Tags: Australia , for business , for government , Online Communities , social networks , statistics , Twitter ...Tags: Tags: Some of his examples and points: Events - Earthquakes creates viral spike in activity
This new paper examines the potential for a social network platform that empowers citizens to manage government . It is authored by Britt Blaser, David Weinberger, and Joe Trippi, for submission to the Digital Governance Society of North America 2009 conference. Well-understood social networking services could provide a barackobama.com for the constituents of any politician and to the stakeholders of any government agency or service. Via Matt Cooperrider : What the paper doesn’t tell you is that this platform is almost built (the code name is OrgWare ).
Just as social software is not about replacing human intelligence with software, but augmenting it, government 2.0 is not a matter of substituting government with bottom-up initiatives, but augmenting its innovativeness and its impact by letting third parties build on top of government data and services. David Osimo, who participates in the Open Declaration blog , reviews the contrasting interpretations of the Government 2.0 meme and concludes that it should be about Augmented Government , not replacing government. David Osimo: “Here
David Ronfeldt has posted not just his own table comparing four forms of governance, but a host of other tables from other scholars who have attempted similar typologies, making this entry a very useful resource . Peer to peer is the relational dynamic at work in distributed networks, leading to self-aggregation around the production of common value, and the 3 new social processes of peer production, peer governance, and peer property. I’m posting David’s table and comments below, but please go to the original page for the complete text with all tables. There is
Question: How does governance without government come possible? In your work (2005, 2008) you firstly define what governance and government imply (”government is enforcement by coercion backed up by force or the threat of force” whereas “governance involves voluntary compliance by the governed because of shared norms and values”), and then articulate that the reason why governance becomes possible without government is because in the information age, governance is based on accurate information and transparency.
peer governance , has taken off in any real sense, though many studies do tackle the governance of open source communities, but without naming it as peer governance. So I find this publication significant, as a founding moment for the dedicated study of peer governance, even though the author does not use the concept. Tags: P2P Books P2P Governance P2P Hierarchy Theor Book: Cyberchiefs. Autonomy and Authority in Online Tribes .
as a city, and on the government level after the high profile nomination (by Obama) of open government advocate Vivek Kundera. Data enthusiasts like Cohen and Gundersen see in this changed information landscape the potential to do something big: leverage the interest of a newly enlightened public with ever-improving technological tools at its disposal to shine a giant spotlight on the inner workings of the government. Eventually we could How well is data-driven democracy doing? In the Washington Monthly , Charles Homans has an extensive investigation into the early efforts,