World 2.0 & Politics 2.0 in Latin America

(TV special edition). 

For more information (in spanish): http://www.epolitics.com.ar/ 

I came across this while I was doing some research for something vaguely related the other day and thought it summed things up quite nicely in terms of human behaviour, relationships and the web.

For more from David Armano, check out his blog or follow him on Twitter. Consistently very high quality thinking.

Conference: a new media in Government and Politics (Spanish)

Interview with Lucas Lanza, President of the "Sociedad de la Información para las Americas" (http://www.eamericas.org). Politics 2.0 in Argentina. Campaign, elections and the future.  Can the politics use the new media for the government? 

The first of many bits and pieces we're bound to share with you after our visit to the fantastic Personal Democracy Forum in New York last week, here Marc Smith gives you the run down on what he and his colleagues are working on around social network analysis and online relationships.

As I say more of this sort of thing as we catch up on our post-event reading, but for now take a look at the event summary from FutureGov's Carrie as well as what was said on Twitter during the 2 day event.

Oh, and then there's always the recordings of the keynotes brought to you by Civico of course... :)

Today we launched our new look website (and web address) over at wearefuturegov.com

Why not take a look - we'd love to hear what you think!

And while you're at it, grab yourself a spot at our next FutureGov Network event being run with the Improvement and Development Agency for local government:

Local by Social: Social Innovation for local government

We came across this interesting tool from govfresh-launched by the Sunlight foundation transparencydata.com allows users easy access to federal and state campaign contributions over the last 20 years.

Read the full article here!