eGovernance two years ago
The OECD has rediscovered eDemocracy, which I will talk about soon. But let’s first look in the OECD archives. The report Impact of the Emerging Information Society on the Policy Development Process and Democratic Quality was commissioned in 1998 by the OECD Public Management Service to explore how the new information and communications technologies (ITCs) and the emerging “information society” (IS) are changing the way governments handle information in the policy making process, and to discuss some of the issues these changes raise for the conduct of democratic government.
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Rage Against the Machine
In his latest Moving WebWord John S. Rhodes is upset that so many people claim they do usability but they really don’t ! Usability is about psychological research, data collection, and data analysis. It is not really about design, or marketing, or programming.
The Collective Web is what it’s all about!
Today’s insight is a good one, I find. Let me repeat that: The Collective Web is what it’s all about! I am sure somebody has talked about the collective web before, but I haven’t searched thoroughly for whom. The collective web category will be used for gotzeblogs on stuff like P2P, syndication, collaborative web services, community networks, online communities of practice, and the like. I start with some general observations.
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Webloggers can get important metadata
Want metadata for your weblog? It now is possible to get an ISSN for Weblogs, that is an International Standard Serial Number for your Weblog. Your blog will then officially exist in the worldwide standardized encyclopedia of periodicals.
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