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e-Government - Outlook 2011

It seems to be a common practice for newsletters, newspapers and magazines to publish expectations for how trends in technology is going to affect our everyday life in the coming year.

Read more on the source post 

http://sorenduus.blogspot.com/2011/01/e-government-outlook-2011.html

 

FaceBook economic impact

Source: http://www.deloitte.com/assets/Dcom-UnitedKingdom/Local%20Assets/Documents/Industries/TMT/uk-tmt-media-facebook-europe-economic-impact.pdf

 

The Open Data Manual

Source: http://opendatamanual.org/

This report discusses legal, social and technical aspects of open data. The manual can be used by anyone but is especially designed for those seeking to open up data. It discusses the why, what and how of open data – why to go open, what open is, and the how to ‘open’ data.

To get started, you may wish to look at the Introduction. You can navigate through the report using the Table of Contents (see sidebar or below).

We warmly welcome comments on the text and will incorporate feedback as we go forward. We also welcome contributors or suggestions for additional sections and areas to examine.

 

Don't forget the why of Gov 2.0

Source: egovau.blogspot.com/2012/01/dont-forget-why-of-gov-20.html

Putting users at the heart of the Digital Agenda for Europe

Have a look on 

http://cirn.wikispaces.com/Putting+users+at+the+heart+of+the+Digital+Agenda+for+Europe

and also

http://greatemancipator.com/2012/01/21/participating-in-a-democracy/

Eleven things to consider when using Facebook in government

Source: egovau.blogspot.com/2012/01/11-things-to-consider-when-using.html

Introduction

When websites first starting to become popular it became common for Marketing and Communications teams in organisations to receive requests from various areas saying "we need a website".

Now that social media is firmly embedded in Australia, I'm seeing and hearing about the same type of requests - particularly for Facebook.

So, drawn from a response I provided to one agency who asked for my views, I've compiled a list of 11 things to consider when looking to use Facebook in your campaign, program, consultation, activity or otherwise for your agency.

This looks like a long list, but realistically is no more than should be considered for other channels (particularly online). Many of these areas can be addressed quickly through borrowing strategies and approaches from other agencies.

Italia: open data

An address

http://dati.camera.it/it/#nav

EC: digital aganda

To read on

http://greatemancipator.com/2012/01/04/a-digital-agenda/

Extract

Strangely there is also a demand that public sector websites are fully accessible by 2015 and that proposals around this should be released by the EU in the next six months, and that in the six months after there is planned to be a single instrument on the topics of eSignatures, eIdentity and eAuthentication, which may be amusing given the UK’s lack of anything substantial for government along with hardcore resistance to it doing anything.

20 things you can do this year to improve your user's experience

Have a look on this address

http://www.userfocus.co.uk/newsletter/jan2012.html

Mark that e-Page! The Usability of making Notes, Bookmarks, and Highlights in Three E-Readers

See also http://www.surl.org/usabilitynews/132/ereader.asp

Summary. E-Readers, or electronic reading devices, are becoming a household item; however, there exists little research on the usability of these devices. This study investigates the ease-of-use of three e-Readers (iPad, Kindle 2, and Nook 1st Edition) for basic e-Book navigation. Participants (N = 17) were asked to complete a series of book tasks (e.g., opening a book, bookmarking a page, etc.) on the three e-Readers. For each device, participants were asked to rate the task difficulty and the facilitator recorded completion time and number of taps to complete the task. Participants also rated each device in terms of perceived workload and satisfaction. After using all three e-Readers, participants were asked to rank each device on a series of attributes (e.g., screen size, bookmarking, glare, etc.) and overall preference. Results revealed that the iPad was better than the Nook and Kindle on all performance measures, task difficulty, perceived workload, satisfaction, and preference. The only task in which the iPad proved to be more difficult than the Nook and Kindle was the note-making task. Suggestions for improving future e-Readers are discussed. 

iPad Usage Patterns On-the-Go and at Work

Usability News is a free web newsletter that is produced by the Software Usability Research Laboratory (SURL) at Wichita State University. The SURL team specializes in software/website user interface design, usability testing, and research in human-computer interaction.

See http://www.surl.org/usabilitynews/132/iPad.asp

A very good source about usability

Download Usability News 132 - Nguyen