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Roundup: 50 suggestions for how President-elect Obama can use the Internet to govern

November 10, 2008

As soon as Barack Obama was elected President, in part of the strength of a brilliant online campaign, the blogosphere offered up its ideas on how he could use the Internet to govern, too. This round-up of 50 ideas for e-government offer an enduring source of inspiration for policy-makers in America and beyond.

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Research and writing

September 19, 2008

I have written on technology issues for the Toronto Star, Business 2.0 magazine, the Chronicle of Higher Education, CBC radio (PDF) and the Vancouver Sun (for which I was a columnist) . Selected clippings and coverage Trying to build an online community? Don’t get tangled in a Web (PDF) The Globe and Mail, March 3, [...]

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Writing and research

June 4, 2005

I have written on technology issues for the Toronto Star, Business 2.0 magazine, the Chronicle of Higher Education, CBC radio (PDF) and the Vancouver Sun (for which I was a columnist) . You can find most of my blog posts from Social Signal, Change Everything and other social media sites on my blog at http://www.alexandrasamuel.com. [...]

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Digital era records management

April 5, 2005

I recently heard from Sarah Demb, a fellow Canadian now working with the International Records Management Trust in London. The IRMT fills an interesting niche in the governance world:

The Trust was set up in 1989 to help develop new strategies for managing public sector records. Records are so fundamental to democracy that governments and international [...]

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E-democracy and egovernment tags – DoWire.Org

March 29, 2005

Steve Clift has set up a wiki page for e-democracy and e-government tags, following up on my call for a common tag taxonomy.

If you work in the e-democracy or e-government field, please visit this page to add any tags or keywords that you use for tracking bookmarks or blog posts in this area.

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Technological leapfrogging

January 17, 2005

I have a story in today’s Toronto Star on Leapfrogging the Technology Gap. The story looks at communities or even whole countries in the developing world that are using information and communication technologies to leapfrog directly from being an agricultural to an information economy. It’s a phenomenon that combines technology high and low in innovative [...]

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