Archive for the 'Globalization' Category
from Bev Godwin, USA.gov and Web Best Practices, GSA Office of Citizen Services, March 3, 2008
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Technology |
Simple Definition |
Examples |
Opportunity/Potential in Government |
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| Blogs | Journal or diary with social collaboration (comments) | GovGab.gov, 20 federal agencies,
USA.gov government blog library, Webcontent.gov |
Meaningful info delivered from a govt authority to new audiences. Puts human face on govt using informal tone. Opens public conversations | |||||||||||
| Wikis | Collaborative authoring & editing | GSA Collaborative Work Enviornment, NASA, US Courts, Intellipedia, US Foreign Svc, Utah Politicopia, Wikipedia | Workgroup or public collaboration for project management, knowledge sharing, public input. Contributions to 3rd party sites e.g. Wikipedia | |||||||||||
| Video Sharing (and Multimedia) | Videos, images, & audio libraries | USA.gov Multimedia library, NASA YouTube , Coast Guard, Virginia YouTube Channel, Americorps contest, Tobacco Free Florida contest | Public outreach, education, training, other communication for “connected” and on-line audiences. How To videos & audios to improve service and achieve mission. | |||||||||||
| Photo-Sharing | Photo libraries | USA.gov fed/state photo libraries, USGS internal photo gallery with Flickr API, EPA photo contest | Cost savings potential. New audiences. Awareness. | |||||||||||
| Podcasting | Multimedia content with an enclosure for syndicating via RSS for use on iPod TM, Mp3 players & computers | White House, NASA, USA.gov federal podcast library, Webcontent.gov, Peacecorps | More ways to get message out to “connected” and on-line audiences. How To messages. Use in emergencies. Live govt deliberations | |||||||||||
| Virtual Worlds | Simulations of environments & people
(Second Life, Active Worlds, Kaneva, ProtoSphere, Entropia Universe, uWorld) |
NASA, NOAA, CDC, Natl Guard, Dept of Energy, Real Life Govt in 2nd Life Google group, National Defense Univ Federal Consortium for Virtual Worlds | Public outreach & other communication for niche Internet audiences. Virtual Town Halls, Education, Training. Ability to bring people together worldwide for meetings, lectures, etc. | |||||||||||
| Social Networking Sites | Connecting people globally | EPA Facebook group, NASA Colab, MySpace, Linkedin | Intranet use to cross internal agency stovepipes. Cross government coordination. Public communities. Viral impact. Knowledge mgmt. Recruitment. Event announcements. | |||||||||||
| Syndicated Web Feeds | Automated notifications
(think RSS) |
USA.gov Federal RSS Library,. NOAAWatch | Do more with RSS, XML/Web feeds. Expand reach. Pull content together across government. Authoritative source. Reduce duplication. | |||||||||||
| Mashups | Combine content from multiple sources for an integrated experience | USA Search, USGS, NASA, EPA, Virtual Earth, Google Earth, Google maps | Lots of potential. Improved govt reach, service, usefulness, and functionality. Integrate external data. Get licenses, stay vendor neutral. Make content available to others who create mashups | |||||||||||
| Widgets, Gadgets, Pipes | Small applications & code in Web pages or for desktop use | FBI widgets, Veterans Affairs, Census Population Clock & NASA Planet Discoveries Desktop widgets | Increase awareness, use, and usefulness of .gov sites, information, and service. Bring content to the user’s home page (iGoogle, netvibes, etc) | |||||||||||
| Social News (Sharing, Tagging) Sites | Ways of sharing content with others | USA.gov, NASA, Govt blogs, Digg, Delicious Technorati .AddThis | Increase the popularity and use of .gov pages, information, and services. Viral marketing. | |||||||||||
| Micro-blogging | Form of blogging which allows brief (instant message size) text updates | Twitter, Jaiku, Cromple, Pownce, NASA Edge, USA.gov, GovGab, Univ of Mich | Seek input. Broadcast msgs: emergencies, news, | |||||||||||
Check out two cool new tools.
Graphwise is a data-specific search engine and visualization tool.
Iterasi is a social bookmarking tool for dynamic web pages.
Correlates of War can aid any kind of war, peacekeeping, or diplomacy research. The website collects data sets from mostly academic sources on the quantification of war, and includes obvious data sets (like data on all state-to-state wars from 1823 to 1990) and less obvious ones (like data on all international formal alliances from 1816 to 2000, arranged by type of alliance).
Often, you have to do some massaging of the content for it to make any sense (such as manually adding column titles to the spreadsheet), but the thoroughness of the data itself is good.
The World Economic Forum released today Global Risks 2008, which highlights the need for new thinking and concerted action on a number of problems. The report expresses fears that the current liquidity crunch will spark a US recession in the next 12 months and calls for new thinking on systemic financial risk in response to the revolution in financial markets over the last two decades. It also recommends a set of principles for country risk management and examines how the financial sector might take on an increasingly important role in risk transfer in the future. More from press release.
The 54 page report is published in collaboration with Citigroup, Wharton School Risk Center and other major financial services. The full text of the report is available here.
The KOF Index of Globalization, provided by the KOF Swiss Economic Institute, measures globalization on economic, social, and political dimensions. Detailed data is available for download, and users can utilize the mapping and graphing tools that add an informative visual element to the data. Indexes for over 100 countries are provided for every year dating back to 1970.
Source: Swiss Institute of Technology, Zurich