Policy Bloggers Network

Paul Johnston responses to the policy questions for 2025

1.       Digital trends –

a) internet of things b) increasing use of video including real-time video communications c) ICT in the service of the green agenda

2.       Impact in Europe – a) even greater integration of digital technologies into daily life b) varying impacts on different industries depending on their relation to new digital world (e.g. impact on postal services, newspaper industry, etc) c) changing nature and patterns of work, e.g. more people will work for several employers at the same time, more people’s closest work colleagues will not have the same formal employer as them etc

3.       Political/Social Life – a) virtual communities (or digitally brokered connections) will play a much greater role in people’s identities, beliefs and actions b) politicians and political institutions will have to accept much greater transparency but hopefully this will lead to greater maturity of debate c) political parties will have to change the ways they operate and offer a different deal both to members and to non-members

4.       Issues Today – a) do more to encourage the social aspects of the internet and the potential to use it for public good b) accelerate use of ICT to reduce carbon dioxide emissions c) broaden access and improve quality of access (i.e. bandwidth).

Mark Drapeau responses to the policy questions for 2025

1.       What do you think are the most important digital technology trends in the world today and why?  (No more than 3 please).

[mobile/GPS ubiquity, social technologies emerging, semantic web]

2.      What do you think will be the most important impacts of digital technologies on Europe’s economic life by 2025 and why?  (No
more than 3 please).

3.       What do you think will be the most important impacts on Europe’s political and/or social life by 2025 and why?  (No more than
3 please)

2 + 3 => [ubiquity of information disrupting the media industry, emerging social and video technologies disrupting marketing/advertising industry and associated sectors like PR and consulting, ubiquity of mobile devices with GPS and other technologies inpacting everything from nighclub attendance to instant hospitality feedback to law enforcement tactics]

4.      In view of your answers, what do you think are the three most important policy issues Europe’s political leaderships need to address
today?

[access to the internet for all people and downstream implications of any digital divide, personal and cyber safety and security in an increasingly connected world, the use of emerging social, video, etc technologies for positive outsourcing, eg., international online home
education ....]

Jerry Fishenden responses to the policy questions for 2025

1.       What do you think are the most important digital technology trends in the world today and why?  (No more than 3 please).

* the use of technology to impose the authority of the state over the liberties of the individual
* openness (everything from open source through to transparency in everything a government, or the EU, does)
* ubiquitous computing and its implications for the way we live, learn, work and play

2.      What do you think will be the most important impacts of digital technologies on Europe’s economic life by 2025 and why?  (No more than 3
please).

* Europe will continue to perform behind and fall further behind the US, Korea, India and elsewhere unless it moves away from the “centre knows best” model and empowers local innovation rather than central bureaucracy. A confederate rather than federate model may be more appropriate.

* IF technology is properly understood, the EU could reinvent itself as the first successful post-digital society, but this requires grass-roots empowerment not the continuing protection of old industrial era models of governance imposed from above by eurocrats

* erosion of civil liberties and traditional European values if projects such as STORK succeed and the narrow, misunderstanding of ICT by eg IDABC continues

3.       What do you think will be the most important impacts on Europe’s political and/or social life by 2025 and why?  (No more than 3 please)

* misdirected technology could enable the development of a pan-European panopticon and the imposition of the state/EU in all aspects of our daily lives
* properly directed technology will enable the EU to reinvent itself and become the centre of global innovation and post-digital economic life,
out-performing the US and other power blocs
* properly directed technology will empower the free movement of goods, ideas and people to mutual beneficial outcome

4.      In view of your answers, what do you think are the three most important policy issues Europe’s political leaderships need to address today?

* cut the central IT budget and programmes, which are focused on a “centre knows best” model and instead fund ground-up/grass-roots  innovation and initiatives
* ensure the EU us properly run and properly accountable, including being able to get its accounts signed-off for the first time. This level of
corruption and lack of accountability would be unacceptable in any member state, and is unforgivable at the EU level
* stop trying to compete through regulation (eg large fines on non-EU companies such as Intel) and instead compete through fostering innovation.

And where regulation really is required, use the funds raised by fines on eg Intel, Microsoft etc to invest back into grass roots ICT innovation in
member states rather than just swallowing it into general EU overheads and admin

Dr Wayne Moses Burke responses to the policy questions for 2025

Q1. What do you think are the most important digital technology trends in the world today and why? (No more than 3 please).

I think the most important digital technology trends in the world today are mobile technology and the adoption of online communications and
social media. The former is making the world’s information universally available when and where it is most useful; and the latter is fundamentally shifting our culture from one of uni-directional broadcast of information to one that supports multi-directional discussion with
the capability to include every individual with an opinion.

Q2. What do you think will be the most important impacts of digital technologies on Europe’s economic life by 2025 and why? (No more than 3 please).
Although idyllic in nature, let us consider the economic impacts of digital technologies based on the following assumption:

Digital technologies will bring a more level playing field to international trade with a consequent reduction in wealth disparity, ferocity of competition, and enmity between countries.

While the results of this shift will only begin to be felt by 2025, its dramatic and long-term impacts make it prescient for current discussion.
Specifically:
Products. Europe will see a shift in the products in which it has global competitive advantage. While a contentious issue, I would even argue that the export of staple foods will become too large a burden for the  EU, and drastic changes in the Common Agricultural Policy will be required.

Metrics. The recent report commissioned by President Sarkozy recommends against an excessive focus on economic metrics, and I would  argue that the future will only advance their ineffectiveness. These indicators are primarily based around the competitive nature of economics, eg countries strive to increase their Gross Domestic Product relative to other countries. But as enmity and economic disparity between  countries lessens, it will become increasingly important to utilize additional metrics that measure the effectiveness of the economic system at
achieving its goal: sustainable human well-being.

Importance of goodwill. As countries trend towards being on equal economic footing, there will be more sources and less variance in price and quality between commodities. In this situation, goodwill becomes an increasingly important factor in the determination of trading partners.

Q3. What do you think will be the most important impacts on Europe’s political and/or social life by 2025 and why? (No more than 3 please)

Types of political leaders. Online instant communication and the ability for every individual to engage their leaders around the issues that are most important to them will require a different type of leader. Today, especially at the EU, there is so much distance between the MPs and the citizens, that a representative with a unique ability to navigate the political sphere may be very successful. However, as the adoption of digital technologies transforms government communication, leaders will find that they also need the ability to maintain meaningful relationships with  the citizens that they are in office to serve.

Cultural diversity. As access to information and other cultures becomes ubiquitous, and as immigration from outside Europe accelerates; cultural diversity will become an even larger problem than it is today. Those who are concerned with maintaining their unique cultural identity will find themselves in conflict not only with the burgeoning immigrant cultures but also with a growing population that prizes global interconnectedness.

Q4. In view of your answers, what do you think are the three most important policy issues Europe’s political leaderships need to address today?
Support the developing world. If we accept the premise that in the future, goodwill will become a more important part of global economics, then it can also be accepted that Europe today has a competitive advantage in this regard. By strengthening your commitment to support and encourage legitimate development in the developing world, Europe has an opportunity to build alliances that will ensure its place as a global
leader for centuries to come.

Manage cultural diversity. The other side of the future European success story is successful internal management. While Europe has struggled with integration of its own diversity as well as the influx of new cultures, this could prove a significant breaking point if not dealt with gracefully over the next fifteen years.

Determine new metrics. While this may seem a bizarre and even eccentric point to add to the top three, I’m a big believer that success comes from having the proper perspective. And a government’s perspective, especially in economic terms, is filtered through the metrics that it uses to view the world. If Europe devotes the energy necessary to determining accurate metrics for the new economic models that are just beginning to emerge, it will be better situated to properly handle the shift as it occurs.

Steve Ressler responses to the policy questions for 2025

1.       What do you think are the most important digital technology trends in the world today and why?  (No more than 3 please).

Mobile – moving the mobile device from a place to make phone calls to a place for games/videos/photos and much more.  See services like foursquare which redefine social interaction through mobile. Social networking – finding new ways to connect and engage all types of networks – ranging from personal networks to citizen networks and niche networks.  Places like Sermo provide a social network for doctors, GovLoop a social network for government innovators, and there will be more and more.

2.      What do you think will be the most important impacts of digital technologies on Europe’s economic life by 2025 and why?  (No more than 3 please).

Mobile cities – leveraging the mobile device to solve real problems in cities from fixing potholes to finding near-by businesses. Redefining work   moving to telework and removal of location as a barrier

3.       What do you think will be the most important impacts on Europe’s political and/or social life by 2025 and why?  (No more than 3 please)

Citizen solutions – citizens solving large-scale problems together as a community with government.  Not just by government Tribes – politics  will turn to the leaders who can build the largest tribes of followers willing to volunteer, give money, and spread the message.  And corporate  interests will decline

4.      In view of your answers, what do you think are the three most important policy issues Europe’s political leaderships need to address
today?

Citizen engagement – how do we engage citizens in policy-making and solving large-scale problems

Broadband access for everyone
Open data – all public data should be available in
machine-readable format online.  This will help spur lots of small and large-scale innovation and new businesses

Andrew Krzmarzick responses to the policy questions for 2025

1. What do you think are the most important digital technology trends in the world today and why? (No more than 3 please).

As never before in history, humans across the planet have access to vast amounts of knowledge and information at their fingertips almost anytime, anywhere. To make an important distinction and explain this notion of ubiquitous access, I view knowledge as the sharing of content from human to human. Social media – blogs, wikis, and social networks – have enabled people to query and counsel one another with increasing speed and effectiveness. Whether it’s consumer to consumer inquiries about the quality of products or services or citizen to citizen links that lead to unanticipated election results (think of both the US and Iran in the last twelve months), people are connecting with one another in extraordinary ways. What’s most remarkable is the speed with which trust is established in these online conversations.

The crowd believes in its collective wisdom and readily anoints its own tribe leaders – people whose voices in the past were muffled by traditional media’s control over content and distribution channels. In the virtual realm, individuals value one another’s opinions and generously share experiences and insight.

Information, on the other hand, is what we find when we turn to search engines and databases. Enter keywords into Google, Bing or Internet Explorer and it spits back related content. However, unlike the social media described above, this content does not include an immediate human interaction upon discovery. But even these vehicles are becoming more sophisticated as we move toward a semantic web where the  threads that weave content together – both knowledge and information – will be unraveled and reconstituted in ways that will make this  biquity  even more extraordinary and valuable. At the same time, the tools that enable us to obtain this content will be increasingly smaller to enable rapid, mobile access. Very little information will be stored on personal machines. It will exist in a virtual cloud that further promotes the potential for anytime, anywhere access.

2. What do you think will be the most important impacts of digital technologies on Europe’s economic life by 2025 and why?

This trend toward ubiquitous access to knowledge and information will have a profound impact on where and how people work, making a  mobile lifestyle much more commonplace. If an individual has uninterrupted, universal access to the content they require to perform their work-related tasks and desires a balance between personal and professional activities, why would s/he travel to a designated place for a  structured period of time? Both public and private institutions will have a distributed workforce and wonder what to do with the vacant  buildings that once forced workers to waste hours each day in commuting to mostly urban, centralized structures. Obviously, this phenomena will have a greater impact on knowledge workers. Countries that offer less expensive labor pools will continue to engage in the lion’s share of manufacturing and production jobs, though the ability to contribute as a knowledge worker from anywhere in the world will lead to greater competition for these positions.

3. What do you think will be the most important impacts on Europe’s political and/or social life by 2025 and why?
People will return to their neighborhoods and we will see a renaissance in civic engagement. People will have more time to interact with one another in communities – both physical and virtual. With the move toward greater transparency and accountability in government, citizens will come to expect greater input into legislation at earlier stages. They may even begin to wonder why they have representatives in elected positions such as parliament or congress when collaborative technology provides the power for anyone to introduce and vote on proposed legislation. Moreover, effective governments will spend less money on people in paid positions providing services to citizens and more energy and resources enabling citizens to serve one another. Power will shift away from a privileged few to a more democratic system where influence resides with individuals and organizations who can capture the attention of the masses through new media and harness their collective strength to initiate change.

4. In view of your answers, what do you think are the three most important policy issues Europe’s political leaderships need to address
today?
a. Support legislation that urges mobile communication and Web-based technology providers to integrate and collaborate.
b. Incentivize private and public sector organizations to implement a more mobile, home-based workforce, where appropriate.
c. Address the legal and security issues that present barriers to more widespread use of collaborative technology.

Hello all
Following our original outreach, we had some good feedback. I set the background below and then the responses. We will continue to evolve this framework with both online and offline meetings and discussions. If you are interested in participating in the Policy Bloggers Network, please contact me at ajit.jaokar at futuretext.com

Background
The goal of the Policy Bloggers Network is to bring together bloggers who have an interest in the policy space  We will launch the network on Sep 29 at the European parliament in Brussels  We are working with the European Internet Foundation -   on this initiative. The mission of the European Internet Foundation is to help provide European political leadership for the development of European multilateral public policies responsive to the political, economic and social challenges of the worldwide digital revolution.

Specifically, the Policy bloggers network is working with the “The Digital World in 2025″ from the EIF “The Digital World in 2025″ is a collective analysis by members of the European Internet Foundation of probable outcomes based on trends observable today.  It covers technology trends, economic trends and  socio-political trends.  The European Internet foundation  is an independent, non-partisan, not-for-profit  organisation governed by Members of the European Parliament.  The purpose of the project is to challenge
European political leaders and  policy-makers to put Europe’s place in the digital world of 2025 at the centre of their preoccupations and priorities today.

keywords we will cover include:
1)  Patents
2)  Innovation
3)  Collaboration
4)  Citizens participation + eGov
5)  Copyright and DRM (ex three strikes bill
6)  Measuring impact of social media on government
7)  Privacy
8)  Recession (overcoming through tech – ex broadband)
9)  Cybersecurity  [online safety / protection of minors]
10) Government 20
11) DNA databases
12) Future of the Internet
13) Standards
14) 2025 – society/Youth etc
15) Liberation of data (make data available from governments)
16) Transparency (Government)
17) e-identity
18) Cyber Threats
19) Governance and self governance
20) Education and R and D (Related to tech) [Skills - IT skills /
localized skills/ R+D / IT supporting education]
21) Digital inclusion [Rural -urban/ aging populations]
22) Evolution of the network
23) SMEs and small businesses
24) Cloud
25) Smart grids
26) IT for carbon trading (additional to smart GRID and Green IT)

Today, the EIF  launched the digital world in 2025 report in the European parliament and I also formally announced the Policy bloggers network. Many thanks for all your comments and feedback and special thanks to Steve Ressler, Andrew Krzmarzick and David Osimo for their help as well.

I will update the comments and feedback including details from the days’s event here in Brussels later this week.

Meanwhile, here is the Digital world in 2025 report created by the Electronic Internet Foundation. Any comments welcome

1)  Looking at the CDC’s Cell Phone Findings

The number of wireless-only households now outnumbers those with landline-only service, according to the preliminary results of a survey released on May 6 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The survey found that 20 percent of households had only cell phone service in the last half of 2008, while 17 percent had only landlines.  Looking at the CDC’s Cell Phone Findings Tags: CDC cell phone survey, CDC Survey findings, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

2)  Why young people should care about Internet Policy

We the “Internet generation,” are at risk of losing the platform as we know it. We’ve gone through the last ten years watching our peers commandeer new technology, turning up their noses at the Internet bubble of ’99 and developing some of the most innovative, fast-growing companies anywhere, much less on the Internet. This technology is ours. But if we don’t do something about the direction of broadband policy, there may never be another Mark Zuckerberg. Why young people should care about Internet policy Tags: Internet, young people, broadband policy, new technology, net neutrality

3)  The European Commission’s forthcoming White Pape on ICT standardization

Several interesting themes can be expected in the European Commission’s forthcoming White Paper on ICT standardisation. This was evident after a speech by Anne Lehouk, Principal Administrator at the European Commission, at the Talk Standards event in Brussels.  The European Commission’s forthcoming White Paper on ICT standardization Tags: ICT standardization policy, European Commission, White Paper,

4) White House Photos – Does the Public Need a License to Use?

The White House has recently unveiled its Official White House Photostream on Flickr, posting dozens of stunning photos by official photographer Pete Souza. The White House chose a Creative Commons Attribution license — which means the public is free to download, copy, and re-mix freely, so long as the original photographer is credited.

The license made us wonder: if these are official photos by the official White House photographer, aren’t they government works? If so, they aren’t copyrightable, but should instead be flagged as public domain. As it happens, there is a kind of public domain option on Flickr. The White House should reconsider its licensing approach, and work with Flickr to flag these government works in the same way. White House Photos — Does the Public Need a License to Use? Tags: White house photos, public license, official white house photos, copyright issues, attribution license,

5) Future Trends: When will Europe get its act together?

The U.S. National Intelligence Council’s (NIC) “Global Trends 2025: A Transformed World” report, was published in November 2008. The report is the fourth unclassified report prepared by the NIC in recent years and gives such rigorous long-term trends information in a readable manner (the Chinese also take this approach). Might it not be a good idea to create something similar in the EU, as exists in the US, to get a clearer idea of what the EU might expect in the future? Future Trends: When will Europe get its act together? Tags: NIC, National Intelligence Council, Global Trends, European Union, future trends,

6) DC tech titans

Congrats to the 100 “Tech Titans” named by Washingtonian Magazine. The search was focused on two factors: (1) success, defined as a proven track record in the tech world, and (2) influence, being listened and look to by others for leadership and vision. DC Tech Titans Tags: Tech Titans, DC tech Titans, Technology leaders

7) GovLoop, the “Facebook for Feds,” Reaches 10,000 Users in Less Than a Year

Govloop has passed the 10,000 user mark. A revolution is happening in government as the result of a new generation of government employees, the rise of Web 2.0 technologies, and the Obama administration’s focus on transparency, participation, and collaboration. This revolution is often called “Government 2.0” and GovLoop is at the center of this movement. GovLoop, the “Facebook for Feds,” Reaches 10,000 Users in Less Than a Year Tags: GovLoop, Government 2.0, web 2.0, social networking

8 ) A case study in corporate stupidity

Thinker, entrepreneur and social activist William Heath is engaged in a running battle with mobile telco Orange after a contract was fraudulently taken out in his name. Despite his reporting the incident to the police, and a mountain of correspondence with Orange, they have set the debt collectors on him.  A case study in corporate stupidity Tags: Orange, William Heath, fraudulent contracts, ID crime

9) Public access to European Parliament, Council and Commission documents (repeal. Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001)

The European Parliament adopted a legislative resolution amending, under the first reading of the codecision procedure, the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council regarding public access to European Parliament, Council and Commission documents (recast). The amended proposal adopted by 439 votes to 200 with 57 abstentions. However, at the request of the rapporteur (Michael CASHMAN, PES, UK), the final legislative vote was postponed and the regulation was referred back to the Civil Liberties Committee. Public access to European Parliament, Council and Commission documents (repeal. Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001) Tags: European Parliament, Council and commission documents, public access

Here is a list of the top policy blogs we follow. If you would like to be included or would like to recommend a blog, please email us at ajit.jaokar at futuretext.com

1) Sean Garrett-Blog on Technology, policy trends, insight and news -Weekly Update

2) News, analysis and opinions about the digital revolution.

3) Ken Cousins & Mike Evans – Tracking the politics of information technologies, promoting their use in political scholarship and teaching – Frequency of update varies.

4) Protecting small business innovation – Updated everyday

5) Brooke Oberwetter – Arts+Labs – Updated every few days

6) The Center for Democracy and Technology’s blog. Discusses new developments in the technology and policy areas – Multiple Updates per Week

7) Alan Mather – e-Government @ Large – Updated every few days

8 ) James Elles – Member of European Parliament- Weekly Update

9) Braden Cox- Technology and Policy – Updated every few weeks

10) The Progress & Freedom Foundation blog – Updated every 3/4 days.

11) Not active since Aug 2008

12) The Washington post technology site – Updated every few days

13) Cisco’s policy blog with thoughts and opinions on government affairs -Updated every3-14 days

14) Staff blogs from the Department for International Development – Updated every few days

15) Roy Mark – Technology and policy – Updated every few months

16) DEREK SLATER – Musings Blog about digital media and copyright law -Quarterly Update

17) DOC SEARLS – Internet Culture – Daily Update

18) John Palfrey – Blog from the Berkman Centre at Harvard Law School – Updated every few days to months.

19) Brough Turner -Technology, economic and social issues of communications at the intersection of telecom, mobility and the Internet - – Weekly Updates

20) Broadband Census – Updated everyday

21) Beth Simone Noveck -Discussions about the Fist Amednment, Democratic Design and Civic Innovation for the Digital Age .-Monthly Updates

22) Candi Harrison -Ways to make government communications practices better. – Weekly Update

23) Candi Harrison – Blog on Government Communications Practices – Updated every few days/weeks

24) DAN GILLMOR – Center for Citizen Media -Weekly Update

25) Charlie Schick is Editor-in-Chief for Nokia Conversations – Thoughts and actions ranging from biomedicine, molecular manipulations, indiscriminate writing, the long now and a post-electronic age -Weekly Update

26) United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transport.

27) Creative commons – Nonprofit corporation dedicated to making it easier for people to share and build upon the work of others, consistent with the rules of copyright. – Updated every 3-4 days

28) The Berkman Center for Internet and Society – Updated every 3-4 days

29) The Center for Internet and Society (CIS).

30) Federal Internet Law and Policy – An Educational not-for-profit project . – Updated every few days

31) Dave Fletcher – Government and Technology Weblog – Updated every few days/weeks

32) Australian eDemocracy site – Updated every month/3-4 days

33) David Osimo – Blog on benchmarking e-government in web 2.0 – Updated forthnightly/monthly

34) The Institutions of the European Union endeavour to be transparent, open and accessible. -Daily Update

35) The events calendar of Techpolicy Central.

36) Andrew Krzmarzick – Blog promoting the power of generational diversity, Web 2.0/social media and flexible work environments in the government . – Updated every few days/fortnight

37) The GigaOM Network blog on technology and trends – Updated everyday

38) Bob Boynton – Blog on international news – Updated frequently

39) Public Policy Blog:Google’s views on government, policy and politics – Updated every day/every few days.

40) – An up-high view on state and local government – Updated every few days

41) The Hansard Society, UK’s leading independent, non-partisan political research and education charity

42) Brad Templeton EFF Chairman -Crazy ideas, inventions, essays and links -Weekly Updates

43) James Fallows – Updated everyday

44) – News, perspectives and analysis on legal and policy issues – Updated every few days

45) Recent posts on technology, trends and more . – Frequency of updates varies from few days to few months

46) Politics & law – Updated every day

47) Jerry Fishenden’s – Technology Policy blog – Updated every few days

48) Peter Fleischer-Privacy Blog – Monthly Updates

49) A technology and telecommunications policy blog by Verizon – Multiple Updates per Week

50) Simon Dickson – Blogs about e-government, online news and politics – Updated every few days

51) -Evoting Blog – Quarterly Update

52) Susan Crawford – Blog on ICANN, technology, trends

53) News and information site covering search engine marketing, searching issues and the search engine industry – News Updated frequently.

54) Dead-Moved to Puffbox

55) Public Strategist(pseudonym) – Blog on public strategy – Updated every few days/months

56) Magazine National Journa’ls Tech News digest-Discusses politics and policy in the wired world -Multiple Updates per Week

57) Tech policy blog – Updated every few days

58) A community space, initiated by Cisco’s Internet Business Solutions Group – Updated every few days

59) Steve Ressler Govloop

60) MIT Communications Forum.

61) ACT focuses on the needs of small business innovators.

62) Keeley Vega and Dirk Avery – technology, policy and trends – Not updated since last year

63) AeA (formerly the American Electronics Association) a nationwide non-profit trade association that represents all segments of the technology industry

64) Geoff Daily – Broadband networks, applications and policy . – Updated every 3-4 days

65) Fred Wilson – Blog on technology, trends – Updated every day/3-4days.

66) Unkown Author -Politics. Economics. Love & Death .- Not updated in Since last year

67) BSA the IT industry group, with policy, legal and/or educational programs in 80 countries.

68) Voice, Video and Broadband – Updated every few days

69) Andrew – technology and communication policy – Updated every few months

70) Clive thompson -Science Technology Culture – Weekly Update

71) CompTIA the leading association representing the international technology community.

72) The privacy,identity and consent blog – Weekly Update

73) Amy Gahran’s news and musings on how we communicate in the online age . – Updated every few days

74) David Wilcox – Social Media, Engagement, Collaboration – Updated every few months

75) News and Reports by the Center for digital future . – Updating frequency varies from every fortnight to month

76) Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)’s blog -Daily Updates

77) eGov Blog – Updated every few months/days

78) Impact of social computing (web2.0) on public services – Updated every few months

79) The European Ideas Network – Updated every month

80) LSE Public Policy and Oxford Internet Group

81) Blogs connecting the government community – Updated everyday

82) DAVID WEINBERGER – Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder -Daily Update

83) The Ideal government blog . – Updated a few times a week

84) The Internet Advocacy Center (IAC) politics.

85) The Institute for Politics, Democracy & the Internet (IPDI) Blog . – Updated every 3-4 days

86) DAVID ISENBERG – MUSINGS ABOUT LOCI OF INTELLIGENCE AND STUPIDITY – Weekly Update

87) Business development, public policy leadership, market forecasting and standards development

88) The Information Technology Industry Council (ITI)

89) John Hudson – Welfare states, the information society, the policy process, a little bit of football – Updated every month

90) Lawrence Lessing – Blog on varied topics like technology, trends, news . – Updated every few days

91) wireless policy – Updated once in few weeks

92) Congress Daily’s tech central – Updated with latest news every day/few days

93) Netcaucus Congressional Internet Caucus Advisory Committee, a diverse group of public interest, non profit and industry groups working to educate the Congress and the public about important Internet-related policy issues.

94) The New America Foundation a nonpartisan public policy institute

95) The Oxford Internet Institute

96) The Hansard Society Blog for the Parliament of the future project . – Updated every few months

97) Andy Calvin-Education and Internet Culture -Weekly Updates

98) Internet resource devoted to politics and technology – Updated every few months/days.

99) News, Tools and Strategies on politics – News updated everyday

100) Scott Clealand – Forward thinking at the nexus of policy, markets and change . – Updated every few days/month

101) Transactional Corporate Campaigns and Digital Communications

102) Public Knowledge blog – Updated every few days

103) Blog of the The SavetheInternet.com Coalition which aims at protecting Internet freedom – Weekly Updates

104) Reports from the intersection of telecommunications, the Internet and Public Policy – Updated everyday

105) The Software & Information Industry Association

106) Social strategies, social news

107) David Stephenson – Web 2.0 homeland security – Updated every month

108) Standards Development – Weekly Update

109) The Technology CEO Council, the IT industry’s public policy advocacy organisation.

110) Weblog dedicated to profiling and reviewing new Internet products and companies – Updated every day.

111) News stories about changes in government policy, technology and legal issues – Updated everyday

112) TechNet is the bipartisan, political network of CEOs and Senior Executives that promotes the growth of technology and the innovation economy.

113) Tech policy summit

114) The National Center for Digital Government (NCDG)

115) Research and software development group based at the University of Washington and the SUNY Institute of Technology

116) Blogs on web 2.0 , technology, policies . – Updated every few days

117) The White House on issues

118) -Exploring How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything

119) Wired politics – News updated everyday

120) Social Informatics Research Unit (York university)

121) DANAH BOYD – Microsoft Research -public/private, identity, context, youth culture, social network sites, social media – Fortnightly Update

122) Research database of people, projects, and information about Information Technology and Politics for the American Political Science Association.

123) Berkeley Center for Law & Technology

124) Buzz machine

125) Electronic Internet Foundation