• IN THIS ISSUE:
• Global portal for social change;
• Split future for Project Nomad;
• Local authorities lead ‘smarter planet’;
• OECD e-government report;
• Birmingham e-consultation;
• Safer streets map;
• The Obama e-campaign legacy.

NEWS: First Global Portal for Social Change

A global, multilingual web portal allowing people to collaborate on social projects such as building schools or helping disaster victims, is set to be launched at the UN Climate Change conference in Copenhagen in December, E-Government Bulletin has learned. Entitled ‘Hope Plus’, the project will create “a place where people can meet, congregate, and participate with NGOs to change the world online”...

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NEWS: Split Future Secured For Project Nomad

A last-minute reprieve has secured a potential future for Project Nomad, an organisation supporting mobile and flexible working within local government – just nine days before its planned closure. The project had been due to cease all activities on 6 November after running into financial difficulties, though a rescue package had always been the hope...

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NEWS: Local Authorities Could Take Lead In ‘Smarter Planet’ Local authorities are set to play a critical role in the development of a “smarter planet”, in which technological tagging of a growing number of objects from cars and PCs to individual pieces of fruit enable better use of resources, Rashik Parmar, IBM Chief Technology Officer – Northern Europe, told E-Government Bulletin. “We will have the ability to instrument pretty much everything [with radio tags and sensors], with everything connected all the time on the internet...” Read full story here, Smarter planet... Back to index

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NEWS IN BRIEF:

Third Prize: The UK has developed the third most sophisticated e-government services in Europe, according to a report from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, which rated only Austria and Portugal higher:

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City Listens: An online database of public consultations about Birmingham, 'Be Birmingham', has been launched, ranging from housing to dentistry:

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Street Smart: A website allowing residents to inform councils and police about potentially dangerous areas of a city is under development by the Home Office. The Safer Streets site invites users to place a virtual pin into a Google street map of their city, detailing perceived hazards:

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CONFERENCE REPORT: The World Forum on e-Democracy The Obama Legacy The campaign to elect Barack Obama to the White House represented a revolution in the US political system, Phil Noble, founder of US e-campaign consultants PoliticsOnline and an advisor both to the Obama campaign and his White House administration, told this year’s World Forum on e-Democracy in Paris, writes Dan Jellinek. But the true impact of Obama’s embracing of the internet was yet to come, as his former campaign team settles into the business of government, said Noble. Read full story here, The Obama legacy... Back to index