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Essentially its purpose was to ask Canadians how they are interacting with government now, and how they would like to interact in the future regarding service delivery. Information sharing across governments. What Canadians want from government service delivery: Convenience (ease of access, channels and usability). Mobile: 10% of respondents stated they use smartphones to access government services; 32% stated they will do so in the future. MORE
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Government departments need to stop waiting for an official policy to come from TBS; It won’t anytime soon. There is a growing effort on part of certain “social media activists&# (internal to government) to standardize these guidelines/policies. The current GCpedia (internal government wiki) has numerous pages outlining “best practices&# and sample guidelines that are ready for use. MORE
As usual, in the spirit of “social&# media, I have decided to post up my recent “Government Blogging&# presentation slides (from the CSPS Armchair Presentation ) on SlideShare. There’s also the sad fact that government servers (my main audience is comprised of public servants) don’t allow for files larger than 5mb to be sent to them. tags: government 2.0 government ). Tags: Government 2.0 MORE
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The other week I had the honor of chairing the Advanced Learning Institute’s “Social Media and Government&# December conference. In government communications, it’s no longer good enough to be the first or to be using social media. When it comes to social media and government, some do not know where to start. Advanced Learning Institute communications empowerment encouragement government government communications inspiration leadership USA.gov. MORE
Over the course of the past two decades there have been numerous initiatives / movements relating to the Government of Canada and the digital space. At the time, the only high-level official government group responsible in some way for web 2.0 MORE
Here’s the scoop: “Having released the first-ever evaluation of provincial and territorial open government and egovernment initiatives, the Stratford Institute for Digital Media, in partnership with Brainmaven, turns to Canadian citizens to participate in the Citizen-App Challenge. Visit egov.brainmaven.com to share ideas for apps that draw on government data to provide new and useful services. Open Data apps Canada data gov20 Government 2.0 MORE
I’ve mentioned this before and I’ll mention it again, certain government departments are full of great hidden online products/tools that few people know of. Those outside of government walls may find it hard to believe, but it’s true. MORE
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In the meantime, I wanted to share my rough notes with you from the Digital Governance Forum , which I attended this past week here in Ottawa. Five applied domains were covered including: democratic governance, policy-making, service delivery, regulation, and risk and accountability. MORE
This post is based on a comment I left on the following OECD blog post the other week : Measuring government impact in a social media world. MORE
The reason I’m blogging about it is since I see a similarity to what is currently going on in government (i.e. A few examples: Empowerment: The amount of pure “command and control” operations I have seen as a consultant for government in this town (Ottawa) is quite unfortunate. Government Insight 10 5 Canada cut-backs effectively efficiently fiscal restraint harper ottawa public serviceTwo weeks ago I managed to seriously fracture my humerus bone. MORE
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