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Government 3.0: Rethinking Governance and Re-Imagining Democracy for the 21st Century at the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at NYU is a semester-long exploration of how to use technology to improve governance. Through conversations with leading technology and policy innovators, in-depth reading and, above all, personal reflection we will teach ourselves more about advances in technology, how those innovations can be applied to making decisions and solving problems and design new experiments that might help advance institutional innovation.

I saw a fascinating presentation by the guy who help make this. It is quite a fascinating attempt to summarize rich personal opinions and bring people together. Although the linked page, never seemed to take off, it shows potential.

Reasonwell helps people to engage in productive, structured policy debate by making it easy to map out arguments, assumptions and evidence.

"The Web is about IDEAS+PEOPLE. Cohere is a visual tool to create, connect and share Ideas. Back them up with websites. Support or challenge them. Embed them to spread virally. Discover who - literally - connects with your thinking."

HDI Forum III: The Health Datapalooza promises to bring together a diverse group of data experts, technology developers, entrepreneurs, policy makers, health care system leaders, CIOs, CTOs, and community advocates to support innovative applications of health and health care data. The Health Data Initiative (HDI), originally launched in 2010 by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as the Community Health Data Initiative, is a public-private collaboration that encourages innovators to utilize health data to develop applications to raise awareness of health and health system performance and spark community action to improve health. The Forum will feature keynote addresses, an Apps Expo, demonstrations of new, cutting-edge apps, and thought-provoking panel discussions. There will also be plenty of time for networking and one-on-one interaction. It is a great opportunity to be in on the vanguard of data applications to improve health and health care. This year's event promises to be one you do not want to miss!

interesting case of data-intensive policy-making

It turns out you can govern in 140 characters. Social media is often accused of coarsening our public discourse and of making us stupid. But some innovative public leaders are taking to their keyboards and finding that the payoff is a direct and personal connection with their communities.

Summer 2012 Game Development Conferences Compiled by Ben Sawyer "Recently I saw several friends say there were a number of game conferences coming up so I put together the following schedule and links to make sure everyone knows where to go, when, and what for."

"An Evidence Hub is designed to help your members add their insights where they'll make the highest impact, and through the use of different visualizations/maps, helps answer questions such as the following: Who in my region is working on this problem? Are there any partnerships between projects in these two areas, on this theme?"

Our platform empowers you to: Go far beyond simple keyword counting. Benefit from the only patent-pending social media monitoring and analysis technology. Dig deeper than measuring positive versus negative. Tap into billions of current and past online conversations. Gain actionable insights into the market's opinion of your brand and your products. Leverage a customizable, private dashboard. Know how and why your messaging is resonating (or not resonating) with your audience. Know what opinion leaders think about specific product features. Know what your customers like (and dislike) about the competition. Gain the insights necessary to make critical business decisions.

A Euro project looking at the impact of citizen participation in a knowledge-intensive policy field.

Last night the ARG:dundee team conducted close argument analysis on a live 45 minute broadcast of an episode of the BBC Radio 4 programme, The Moral Maze, using our Argument AnalysisWall. We aimed to make debates available on the Argument Web for all the different compatible online tools to access.

Nifty website for querying any EU bodies. They are bound to answer under a sort of FOIA.