[Yr7-10it] How Obama Will Use Web Technology

[Costello, Rob R]

The pope's previous role was Prefect of the "Congregation for the
Doctrine of the Faith" - which I gather is the same part of the church
that oversaw the Inquisition ... 

...gives a new aspect to internet filtering 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: yr7-10it-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:yr7-10it-
> bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of andrew barry
> Sent: Sunday, 25 January 2009 9:58 PM
> To: Year 7 - 10 Information Technology Teachers' Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [Yr7-10it] How Obama Will Use Web Technology
> 
> maybe we can ask the pope for his opinion:)
> 
> On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 6:54 PM,  <stephen at melbpc.org.au> wrote:
> > How Obama Will Use Web Technology
> >
> > Saturday, January 24, 2009; 2:54 AM
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-
> > dyn/content/article/2009/01/24/AR2009012400646.html>
> >
> >
> > President Barack Obama was sworn into office this week as our
nation's
> > 44th president. Despite running into a few technical challenges in
the
> > first few days at the White House, the Obama Administration will
embrace
> > technology in unprecedented ways.
> >
> > Led by forward thinking, web savvy technologists, President Obama's
new
> > media team looks poised and ready to fulfill President Obama's
vision of
> > open-source democracy.
> >
> > Coincident with Mr. Obama being sworn in, the Obama Administration's
new
> > media team assumed control of www.WhiteHouse.gov at 12:01 PM EST on
> > Tuesday. This is the official website of the sitting administration.
> >
> > The new media team has identified three top priorities of the new
> > administration, communication, transparency and participation.
> >
> > http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/change_has_come_to_whitehouse-gov/>
> >
> > Let's examine how the new administration has been leveraging web
> > technologies to meet these priorities.
> >
> > Communication:
> >
> > This administration's use of Google's YouTube during both the
campaign
> > and after winning the election leverages Internet video to reach a
> > generation of Americans and global citizens who no longer tune in to
AM
> > radio on a regular basis. President Obama has vowed to continue
video
> > recording his fireside chats and publishing them via YouTube and
other
> > video sites. With the transition of www.WhiteHouse.gov to the new
> > administration, for the first time ever an official White House blog
> came
> > online. You can sign up for email updates from the president.
Through
> the
> > blog, Mr. Obama is the first U.S. president to have an RSS feed!
> >
> >
> > During the campaign President Obama relied heavily on Facebook,
Myspace
> > and Twitter to build support, communicate with constituents and
develop
> a
> > core audience. By far, Mr. Obama has more followers on Twitter than
> > anyone else (168,000). His fan page on Facebook has more than 4
million
> > fans. <http://twitter.com/BarackObama>
> >
> > Transparency:
> >
> > Mr. Obama promises to run the most open, honest and transparent
> > administration to date. Through the Your Seat at The Table section
on
> the
> > CHANGE.GOV transition site, the Obama transition team posted the
minutes
> > of hundreds of private meetings with then President-Elect Obama.
> >
> > <http://change.gov/open_government/yourseatatthetable>
> >
> > Even all of the content on the www.CHANGE.GOV site, unless otherwise
> > noted, is licensed to the public at large via a Creative Commons
> > Attribution 3.0 License.
> >
> > The Obama-Biden Transition Team used blist to disclose the names of
all
> > donors to the transition project. Two key points of note are that
the
> > disclosure was entirely voluntary and the tool they chose to use
made
> the
> > data itself much more consumable by the mainstream public. Compared
to a
> > plain HTML table, which is bulky, cumbersome and hard to work with,
by
> > publishing the data via a blist widget the data can easily be
sorted,
> > searched, filtered, downloaded, printed, emailed and even
republished.
> >
> > Obama Administration has been conducting bold experiments in
interactive
> > government. The Citizen's Briefing Book, powered by Salesforce.com,
has
> > allowed citizens to suggest topics Mr. Obama should consider upon
taking
> > office.
> >
> > Once a topic was submitted, other visitors to the Citizen's Briefing
> Book
> > could vote the topic up or down and comment on it. Voting, ranking
and
> > commenting are hallmark features of web social media applications.
> > <http://citizensbriefingbook.change.gov/>
> >
> >
> > The new Administration has brought forth a new era of honest, open,
> > participatory and transparent government by creatively employing
web-
> > based software from innovative companies like Google, Facebook,
> > Salesforce.com and blist. We're eager to see the use of these
> > technologies extended to www.WhiteHouse.gov initially and from there
> we'd
> > love to see more government agencies quickly embrace web
technologies to
> > promote communication, transparency and participation.
> >
> > --
> > Cheers people
> > Stephen Loosley
> > Victoria, Australia
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