"Get local planning applications sent directly to you via a Twitter DM (direct message)"

"DiSo (dee • soh) is an initiative to facilitate the creation of open, non-proprietary and interoperable building blocks for the decentralized social web." (so not geeky at all then )

"311 is New York City's phone number for government information and non-emergency services. Whether you're a resident, business owner, or a visitor, all the resources of New York City are just a phone call away…"

real-time website analytics and uptime monitoring

Report back on the IDeA's Knowledge Hub workshop FG took part in last Friday. One to watch.

Top summary and links from Gov20Camp

"Don Tapscott asks whether the economic collapse has triggered a crisis of confidence in our previously trusted sources of knowledge."

Hot on the heels of Gov20Camp in DC, Stephen brings the model to Oz

"The New Local Government Network is calling on organisations to recognise equalities policy as a strategic necessity to developing high-quality public service delivery, particularly in leadership roles."

"An online community for advocates of smarter government"

"Andrew Rasiej, founder of Personal Democracy Forum and Sunlight’s senior technology advisor, led a panel discussion about what the meaning of transparency is in the Obama administration. During the discussion, Andrew and the participants came up with “Top 10 Measurements for Transparency.” And it’s quite a comprehensive list."

"Nick Booth is about to launch a Channel 4-backed website in Birmingham called Help Me Investigate, a sort of investigative Wikipedia, where local people will raise issues - "What happened to the money that was supposed to be spent regenerating X?", "Why do the local hospital's NHS contracts have gagging clauses, and is that legal?" - and everyone else in the community will pool their knowledge and efforts to find out. If successful, it will be rolled out nationally, part of the social-networking revolution which - if the internet zealots are to be believed - will transform information gathering and civic life over the next couple of decades."

via Nick Booth

It's all about the real time

Helping lead the march to hyperlocalism

Private lives a thing of the past?

Customer segmentation and social media strategies

"ChangeCamp is a free participatory web-enabled face-to-face event that brings together citizens, technologists, designers, academics, policy wonks, political players, change-makers and government employees to answer one question: How do we re-imagine government and citizenship in the age of participation?"

Doing great things to push Gov2.0 in the US