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My idea for today is that established nations could launch startup countries within their own borders, free of all the legacy restrictions in the parent country. The startup country, let's say the size of modern day Israel, would be designed from the ground up for efficiency.

The entire banking system would be automated. There would be no cash in the start-up country. You wouldn't need to "apply" for a loan because the virtual bank would always have a current notion of your credit-worthiness.

The tax code in the startup country would be simplified to the point where residents might forget it exists.

Essentially, officials want Congress to require all services that enable communications — including encrypted e-mail transmitters like BlackBerry, social networking Web sites like Facebook and software that allows direct “peer to peer” messaging like Skype — to be technically capable of complying if served with a wiretap order.

The bill, which the Obama administration plans to submit to lawmakers next year, raises fresh questions about how to balance security needs with protecting privacy and fostering innovation.

But law enforcement officials contend that imposing such a mandate is reasonable and necessary to prevent the erosion of their investigative powers.

A new Single Market to deliver the benefits of the digital era

Improve ICT standard-setting and interoperability

Enhance trust and security

Als Informationen des öffentlichen Sektors gelten alle Arten von Daten, die von öffentlichen Einrichtungen generiert werden, wie beispielsweise Karten und Informationen zum Wetter, zum Recht, zur Verkehrslage sowie zu Finanzen und zur Wirtschaft. Diese sollen offen gelegt werden, wie es die Unterstützer von "Open Government Data"-Initiativen rund um den Erdball (Hier finden Sie einige Videos zu dem Thema) bereits länger fordern. Diese Daten könnten dann beispielsweise für Smartphone-Apps wiederverwendet werden, so die EU-Kommission in einer Aussendung. Scheinbar könnte der App-Boom dem Konzept Open Government Data Auftrieb verleihen.Mit der kostenlosen oder gebührenpflichtigen Wiederverwendung öffentlicher Daten wird einer Studie von 2006 zufolge ein Umsatz von schätzungsweise mindestens 27 Mrd. Euro pro Jahr in der EU erzielt. Beiträge, die zu dieser Konsultation bei der EU-Kommission eingehen, fließen in die Überprüfung der PSI-Richtlinie mit ein und sind Teil der Digitalen Agenda für Europa, die einen Beitrag zu den Zielen der EU – höhere Wettbewerbsfähigkeit, mehr Innovation und Arbeitsplätze – leisten soll. Die Konsultation läuft bis zum 30. November 2010.

rden Informationen des öffentlichen Sektors besser und stärker genutzt, eröffnet sich ein enormes Potenzial für neue Geschäftsmodelle und Arbeitsplätze, und die Verbraucher haben eine größere Auswahl und bekommen mehr für ihr Geld. Der Markt für mobile Apps, die sich zum Teil auf PSI-generierte Daten stützen, könnte bis 2013 auf 15 Mrd. Euro anwachsen.

Die Überarbeitung der zugrunde liegenden PSI-Richtlnie ist der Kommission zufolge "eine der wichtigsten Maßnahmen der Digitalen Agenda für Europa. Regierungen könnten beispielsweise die Märkte für Inhalte fördern, indem sie Informationen des öffentlichen Sektors unter "transparenten, effektiven und nichtdiskriminierenden Bedingungen" bereitstellen.

Kaum hatte die Seite das Licht der Facebook-Welt erblickt, folgten auch schon die ersten negativen Kommentare. Am Anfang beschränkte sich die Kritik noch auf das "mitgelieferte" Video. Von "arm" oder "verwerflich" war die Rede, "Den Werber (...) solltet ihr rauswerfen!", kommentierte zum Beispiel Manuel. Reaktion durch die Betreuer der Seite: Null. Wenig später schoss sich dann die Facebook-Gemeinde auf die Bahn selbst und ihr Social Media-Auftreten ein. Die Frage nach einer Moderation wurde immer lauter.

Die Bilanz nach neun Stunden: Auf insgesamt 37 Posts (die eigenen eingeschlossen) hatten die Betreiber es geschafft, sechs Mal zu kommentieren. Fünf Mal wurde bei einem eigenen und einmal wurde auf einen "externen" Post kommentiert. Ein Online-Dialog auf Facebook sollte einfach anders aussehen. Wer sagt, die Bahn reagiere nur auf inhaltliche Posts zu ihrem "Chefticket" (das eigentlich mit der Seite beworben werden soll), liegt falsch. Fragen, wie der Kunde denn das Ticket über Facebook bezahlt oder überhaupt genau bekommt, blieben ebenfalls unbeantwortet.

Interessanter Punkt am Rande ist, dass die Facebook-Vanity-Url "facebook.com/deutschebahn" einer Privatperson gehört - hat die Bahn gar kein Interesse daran? Apropos: Eine allgemeine Facebook-Seite der Bahn gibt es auch. Aber ob die echt ist, ist stark zu bezweifeln. Obwohl, nach dem heutigen Fehlstart der Deutschen Bahn ist eigentlich alles möglich.

If it seems like American teens are texting all the time, it’s probably because on average they’re sending or receiving 3,339 texts a month.

No one texts more than teens (age 13-17), especially teen females, who send and receive an average of 4,050 texts per month. Teen males also outpace other male age groups, sending and receiving an average of 2,539 texts.

Texting is Easier and Faster than Voice Calls

Create a management framework that accepts and rewards internal entrepreneurs.

Government 2.0 is a citizen-centric philosophy and strategy that believes the best results are usually driven by partnerships between citizens and government, at all levels.  It is focused entirely on achieving goals through increased efficiency, better management, information transparency, and citizen engagement and most often leverages newer technologies to achieve the desired outcomes.

Government employees are traditionally risk-averse, a good thing when the pace of change is relatively slow.  However, in today's fast-paced world the pace of government change, the pace of government execution is often too slow.

privacy advocates are pushing for a similar “do not track” feature that would let Internet users tell Web sites to stop surreptitiously tracking their online habits and collecting clues about age, salary, health, location and leisure activities.

Consumer advocates worry that the competing agendas of economic policy makers in the Obama administration, who want uniform international standards, and federal regulators, who are trying to balance consumer protection and commercial rights, will neglect the interests of people most affected by the privacy policies.

In the 1990s, the Commerce Department had an extremely prominent role in developing what we think of as Internet policy, and we are reinvigorating that historical role

We face many challenges today, none more urgent than the economic crisis, but with it comes an opportunity to seek new ways of governing. In San Francisco, like other cities, we are using this opportunity to engage our greatest resource, the public, to build a government that works better for all of us.

Internal (intra or inter-government) collaboration. Institutional presence on external social networks Open government data Employees on external social networks 

Increased government efficiency Increased government accountability Increased citizen engagement and participation Increased innovation

Potential loss of privacy Invalid data

In the past few months, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) asked us how a Netflix Prize sequel might affect Netflix members' privacy, and a lawsuit was filed by KamberLaw LLC pertaining to the sequel.

In light of all this, we have decided to not pursue the Netflix Prize sequel that we announced on August 6, 2009.We will continue to explore ways to collaborate with the research community and improve our recommendations system so we can constantly improve the movie recommendations we make for you. So stay tuned.

While their overall assessment anticipates that humans’ use of the internet will prompt institutional change, many elaborated with written explanations that expressed significant concerns over organization’s resistance to change. They cited fears that bureaucracies of all stripes – especially government agencies – can resist outside encouragement to evolve. Some wrote that the level of change will affect different kinds of institutions at different times. The consensus among them was that businesses will transform themselves much more quickly than public and non-profit agencies.

Many selected the “change” option, but said they were not sure drastic change will occur in organizations by the 2020 time frame. They said the most significant impact of the internet on institutions will occur after that. Some noted this change will cause tension and disruption.

By the Autumn an online e-”domesday” book giving “an inventory of all non-personal datasets held by departments and arms-length bodies

A new “institute” for web science headed by Tim Berners-Lee and Nigel Shadbolt and with an initial £30m in funding

It's not your traditional ROI model. Back to the culture, it supports the fact that you don't need a hard number at the end of the day. It's the right thing to do, we want to listen to our customers, so let's do it.

... you get the whole funnel of ideas and it's a challenge as to how to disperse them. Everybody has full-time jobs. We make further strides every day in getting reporting and getting everything set up so people can get engaged, on the site and just with the information. To me, that's the hard part. And it goes back to making sure we're listening, making sure we're closing the feedback loop.

Their collaborative agreement on what's most important floats to the top for everyone to see. So you can easily see which are the most popular ideas and which ideas are new, should people want to jump on in and vote on those.

First to digitalise – to make Britain the leading superfast broadband

Second to personalise –

Third to economise – in the Pre-Budget Report we set out our determination to find £11 billion of savings by driving up operational efficiency,