http://www.thinkegov.com Reflections on technology, digital government and social media Sun, 13 Dec 2009 18:43:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Are you tired of potholes? Wanna do something about it? If you live in the UK you can report your local pothole at potholes.co.uk. The site is run by an independent organization supported by an insurancecompany.  The aim of the site is to make the problem visble on a national scale ... http://www.thinkegov.com/?p=114#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed Tim O'reilly (@timoreilly) has written an article telling why he loves Twitter. His 5 reasons for loving twitter are Twitter is simple - does one small thing and does it well. Twitter works like people do - you can follow first and become "friends" later. Twitter cooperates well with others - Integreates well with ... http://www.thinkegov.com/?p=106#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed "Broadband for All May Not Be as Urgent as Many Say" says analyst at Gartner Andrea DiMaio. He argues that investments in services should follow any big investment in infrastructure.  He concludes that the current emphasis on building infrastructure is only promoting the entertainment-services not the public services that would ... http://www.thinkegov.com/?p=102#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed The City of Copenhagen has announced that 3 of their 31 public toilets now accepts payment by SMS. A visit to the toilets costs 2 kroner and finding a coin when needed sometimes seems to be a problem for the users. Paying with you phone is easy. You just send a ... http://www.thinkegov.com/?p=97#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed The first time I tried twitter more than a year ago when a friend od mine told me about this new thing. We both twitted sending messages to eachother. After a while we stopped unable to see any use for this crazy program. A couple of weeks ago I finally understood how usefull twitter ... http://www.thinkegov.com/?p=84#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed Betty is employed by the the City of Frederiksberg. She has been working for Frederiksberg for a year now, most of the time working on the main web-site, www.frederiksberg.dk, but lately she is also working in the callcenter answering questions on the phone.  So who is Betty? She's a computerprogramme assisting ... http://www.thinkegov.com/?p=69#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed The book State of the eUnion: Government 2.0 and Onwards was released as a PDF-version for download. Read about Goverment2.0. Learn what it is and read about the contributors view on goverment2.0 and the current status. PDF-version can be found at 21.gov.net web-site. http://www.thinkegov.com/?p=63#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed On nov. 17 local elections for members of the 98 municipality boards were elected in Denmark. Alle citizens aged 18 and above was invited to vote for their favorite candidates in the municipalities and in the regional government. This year a initiative involving 31 municipalities held a youth election for youths aged ... http://www.thinkegov.com/?p=37#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed Every year since 2001 the National Danish IT and Telecom Agency has evaluated and benchmarked the quality of public websites. In 2009, the project "Bedst på Nettet" (Top of the Web) examines around 600 public websites. Websites and their digital services are checked for navigation, usability, and utility value. User satisfaction ... http://www.thinkegov.com/?p=29#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed Congratulation to the municipality of Gentofte for receiving the prestigious prize for their eSolutions Genvej (danish for "shorcut") which gives the citizens an easy way to access data and services from the municipality.   Read an extract about Genvej at epractice.eu and you can find a short instructive movie on the gentofte.dk-website. http://www.thinkegov.com/?p=3#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed