Category Archives: egov

Knowledge Hub (part 2)

It’s taken a while for me to get around to posting an update to my “Knowledge Hub Part 1” post, mainly as a result of being fully immersed in the technology procurement process these past several months. This phase is … Continue reading

Posted in Communities of Practice, egov, Knowledge Hub, Linked Data, Public Sector, Web2.0, Web3.0 | Tagged khub, Linked Data, localgov | 3 Comments

Ordnance Survey datasets and products available for free use and re-use from 1 April 2010.

On 23 December 2009, the Government published a consultation paper on policy options for geographic information from Ordnance Survey. The purpose of this consultation was to seek views about how to best implement proposals made by the Prime Minister on … Continue reading

Posted in Data, egov, Gov 2.0, Public Sector, Semantic Web | Tagged datasets, Gov2.0, mapping, Ordnance Survey | Leave a comment

Communities of Practice Case Studies

Just picked up from Nick Milton’s blog, the Kuwait Petroleum Company have published a series of case studies from the communities of practice his company  helped them to launch and build over the last year.  Some of thee case studies … Continue reading

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Can Government ever be agile?

Paul Canning writes about the changing and shifting priorities of central government in relation to ‘eDemocracy’, and specifically the possible demise of the International Centre of Excellence for Local eDemocracy (ICELE), which  is – or was – a government funded … Continue reading

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