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YouGov and Quadriga Consulting Partner on Government 2010
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YouGov partnering the first Government 2010 Event in London
YouGov are pleased to be partnering the first Government 2010 Event in London on October 22nd, 2009. Peter Kellner, President and Head of Political and Social research at YouGov, will be giving a keynote address.
The event will bring together parliamentarians, civil servants, technologists, bloggers and researchers to discuss and debate what we should do in response to the changes facing government and public service.
In his keynote address, Peter will use YouGov’s research data to show that so-called web 2.0 technologies are transforming the way people communicate, interact and entertain themselves. He will demonstrate how YouGov’s online survey tools, where respondents engage with web 2.0 technologies, produce consistently accurate results when predicting election outcomes.
He will argue that if government is to remain current and relevant it needs to open up to a society that is more information savvy than government itself. People of all ages are, increasingly, by-passing traditional media and creating their own. They are communicating via a myriad of new social networking tools. They have the ability to build better web based information portals than government itself.
For more information on the Government 2010 event, please click on the link below:
Gov 2.0 and Web 2.0 Expo
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One of the best keynote sessions at today’s Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco was the interview of Ellen Miller of the Sunlight Foundation by Tim O’Reilly .
Sunlight Foundation is focusing on making government more transparent through Web 2.0 tools. The fact is that in the US (never mind the UK) too many government departments spend too much money on web site development that delivers too little in terms of understandable information.
This means that valuable information that should be in the public debate is hidden. It’s a kind of web obfuscation caused by bloat and poor user interface design.
Ellen mentioned that the Sunlight Foundation often produces ‘alternative’ web sites that present government data in much better, more visually understandable ways. The result is that the alternative sites – often built for peanuts compared to federal budgets – become much more popular that the ‘official sites’.
The Foundation also challenges the vastly inflated costs associated with official sites such as Recovery.gov - that has a massive budget of multiple tens of millions of dollars. Why such budgets in a Web 2.0 world?
The Sunlight Foundation is a non-profit organisation that is shaking the processes by which governments provide citizens with information. We need its equivalent in the UK.
Web 2.0 Expo
Posted by: | CommentsWeb 2.0 Expo starts in just over a week’s time. I’m very much looking forward to it.
To enter into the spirit of things Silicon Valley I thought I’d embed the weather forecast for San Francisco into a blog post. With a cut and a paste from the BBC Weather site…just look at what’s possible. The power of Web 2.0 I suppose…
Quadriga Client Media Release 
New version enhances collaborative working and accelerates Microsoft SharePoint, Lotus Notes and Enterprise 2.0 secure web applications
Belfast, Northern Ireland, 20th February 2009 – Replify, the company that pioneered the all-software based approach to application acceleration, has announced an enhanced version of its Reptor application acceleration suite. The suite now includes seamless integration between corporate servers and distributed workgroup resources. It achieves this by accelerating traffic between virtual appliances, in the corporate data centre, and remote offices connected by wide area network connections. This means that remote workgroup workers have a significantly improved collaborative working and file sharing experience.
Replify Selected for Web Mission 2009
Posted by: | CommentsQuadriga Consulting client Replify Ltd has been selected for Web Mission 2009. Over 200 companies applied but only 20 companies have been chosen to take part in this year’s mission – which coincides with Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco.
Web Mission is organized by serial entrepreneur, Oli Barrett and reputation analytics company Polecat. Web Mission seeks to introduce 20 of the best Web 2.0 companies to the many inspiring people and supportive Web 2.0 networks which exist in Silicon Valley.
Kevin Donaghy, Replify’s CEO, will be attending the mission. Jeffrey Peel, CEO of Quadriga Consulting, will be attending the Web 2.0 Expo.
Quadriga at Web 2.0 Expo
Posted by: | CommentsJeffrey Peel, MD of Quadriga Consulting, will be attending the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco (April 22 – 25th).
If you’re attending and would like to meet Jeff to discuss areas of mutual interest please contact us.
Jeff will also be reporting from the show in his capacity as Editor of the crea8ivity.com web site.
