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A decalogue like a work in progress, to promote the idea and the principles of a new Public Administration more able to act and operate in the era of the Nets. This is the “Manifesto Amministrare 2.0”

The Venetian event permitted to collect a lot of ideas and suggestions useful to the writing of the document. First of all, anyway, it was very important to understand that many italian Administrations, and inside them politicians, managers and civil servants, are strongly convinced that the Public Administration need to embrace, at least partially, that “web 2.0 philosophy” who is changing the web and, more important, the life of organizations, enterprises and millions of people

The role of politics Politicians must be able to take responsibility of their choices. The organizational dimension Public Administrations must change their organization and their procedures, pursuing a new idea of relationship with citizens and abandoning the self-approach. The Net as a right The access to the Net, specially to broadband, must be easy and cheap everywhere. Beyond the cultural divide Citizens must be helped to develop a new digital culture. The involvement of citizens There’s no Public Administration 2.0 without a strong intervention in favour of participation. The multi-channel approach as opportunity Service are really tailored if there’s attention to the channels more appropriate for the different users’ target. Disintermediation to better act To promote a Public Administration no more “one way” and finally “2.0” is important to foster a bigger disintermediation between institutions and citizens. Re-start form the semantics of public contents The semantics presentation of public information, services and contents must be conceived with the final users and open to folksonomies. Software as enabling factor Software used in public sector must be open and re-usable by other administrations. Foster the development of active communities User groups and social networks must be considered as a fundamental stimulus to design public web services, starting from their desires and indications.

ust when politicians thought that they might get some time away from the public gaze, as the electorate grows weary of MPs' expenses, a new watchdog has been born

Drawing on the success of political sites such as TheyWorkForYou, Democracy Live will provide a one-stop shop of political videos, with eight video streams to watch – including proceedings from Westminster and Strasbourg, as well as debates taking place in Holyrood, Cardiff and Stormont.

The BBC's main political blogs, with contributions from its political editor, Nick Robinson, the Europe editor, Gavin Hewitt, and home editor, Mark Easton, will be featured in a comment section. This will also offer a forum for public figures, starting with an article by the House of Commons Speaker, John Bercow, about how to rebuild trust in parliament

e étude à l'échelle européenne montre en effet que la présence des partis politiques reste "très faible" sur le web: "125.000 visiteurs uniques par mois pour le site UMP, à peu près idem pour le PS et les autres partis européens à l'exception de la CDU allemande (600.000 visiteurs)", explique le secrétaire national Benoist Apparu.

Le PS reste discret sur le budget dédié à cet outil, assurant qu'il n'est "pas plus élevé" que les 400.000 euros annoncés par Europe-Ecologie.

Pour les régionales, le rassemblement écologiste, déjà en pointe sur internet aux européennes avec un réseau social de 13.000 personnes, veut multiplier les fonctionnalités, selon Alexis Braud (Verts). Conçu comme une "galaxie de l'écologie numérique", le site national offrira une "mise en réseau" des sites de chaque région -"indépendants et interdépendants"-, avec les blogs des militants et les sites des eurodéputés

Barack Obama admitted (*gasp*) that he has never used Twitter.

ccording to the Twitter stream, the president was answering a question about whether he thought the Chinese firewall was a good idea and whether Chinese people should be able to use Twitter. His response: "I have never used Twitter. My thumbs are too clumsy. But I'm a big believer in technology."

If this was meant to be a public conversation, why take so few questions from the web? Was the point here to give Facebook employees a chance to interact with the president, while we watch? Did it really make sense to have Zuckerberg, the owner of the platform, ask the questions (and, it seems, possibly pick them)? For all those people newly paying attention, you have to wonder whether they were encouraged to come back and do it again. In a bit of bad timing for both the White House and Facebook, this happened to be the day that all over the news were comments of a Facebook staffer suggesting that perhaps they had been allowing "too much, maybe, free speech" in countries not accustomed to the free flow of information we enjoy here in the States.

L’UE s’est mise à fond dans les réseaux sociaux. On le voit avec le Parlement qui enchaîne les succès en la matière, de la très bonne campagne électorale en 2009 aux chats réguliers sur Facebook depuis plus d’un an. La Commission n’est pas en reste avec ses commissaires qui bloguent et twittent à des degrés divers. Quant au Conseil, tristement connu pour son absence de communication et de transparence, il semble lui aussi céder au phénomène par la voix de son président permanent, Herman Van Rompuy, qui tient un blog vidéo, un compte Twitter et même une page Facebook.

C’est clair, c’est net, c’est sur Facebook : en 2011, notre président Herman veut connaître notre avis de citoyen lambda sur une page sobrement intitulée “Ask your question“, alias “pose ta question”. Vous êtes sceptique ? Regardez bien cette vidéo (à partir de 1 min) : une grande leçon de médias sociaux !