Blogging As a Public Servant

Points rather germane to this exercise!
http://psnetwork.org.nz/blog/2007/02/16/blogging-as-a-public-servant/

The Three Pillars to Open Government

The Australian government is increasingly open to citizen centric services, open and transparent government and innovation facilitated by digital dialogue and inclusion.

http://www.katelundy.com.au/2009/06/20/three-pillars-of-open-government/

W3C Improving Access to Government

A fabulously rich resource on e-participation, re-use of government data, open government and heaps more.

http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/NOTE-egov-improving-20090512/

Democratising Access to Government Data

The Obama administration’s CIO and the Director of Citizen Participation are both moving this agenda foward at a great pace.

http://welcomeobama.com/2009/new-technologies-and-participation/

ACT Govt consulting online on how citizens want to engage

The Act government is currently asking its citizens how they want to engage with government. Check it out.
http://www.bangthetable.com/actconsultations

Public Data to become truly Public?

UK Government moves towards freeing up public data for citizen use. Are we on the road to a more creative unbundling and reconstituting of government itself? Will it lead to greater transparency and heightened performance accountability? Will it open up new business opportunities through a value-add by citizens to the data that sits in isolation in silos? Watch this space.

http://www.epsiplus.net/news/public_data_to_be_more_freely_available

Community and Government as Partners

This blog explores the logical next step to open government whereby we leverage engagement already happening outside of government to co-create programs and services. This step acknowledges an equal and active participation of government and non-governmental players in the process of program and service creation. It cedes power by sharing it and in this why helps to revitalise the democratic contract!

gartner.com/mark_mcdonald/2009/05/10/social-computing-and-how-it-should-lead-to-co-creating-public-sector-programs-and-services/#comment-137

Public Sector Management Issues

A terrific set of essays on all sorts of issues to do with doing our job better. His overall message is that whatever the reform there is no perfect way or perfect tool and as such we need to be brave and bold in doing the best we can.

http://www.hks.harvard.edu/thebehnreport/

Authenticity/blogs and vlogs

An interesting blog on allied themes exploring open government, social media, the use of video to communicate policy and other explorations.

http://lindseymmonroe.com/

Public Internet Channel

Look at this fantastic innovation in government to citizen communications!  It uses instructional videos to get the message out to the community and doesn’t just rely on the written word (and let’s face it, some of our words tend to inadvertently exclude those most in need of guidance).

http://www.pic.tv/shows