£4 million to help local authorities fight climate change

Interesting news item this morning on eGov monitor:  A new £4 million programme to help local authorities tackle climate change was announced by Environment Minister Phil Woolas and Local Government Minister John Healey today. The programme will spread existing best practice on climate change among local authorities, and provide training and mentoring to help them … Keep reading

links for 2008-03-11

Dead Tree Web 2.0 Reading List – backpass version.. « backpass.org Matt Jukes’ take on the web 2.0 reading list (tags: matt+jukes, deadtreeweb2.0readinglist) Lifestream, but don’t tell me twice | jon bounds I guess this is what being made an example of feels like. (tags: friendfeed, twitter, blogging)

Hello, Rohan Silva

I, like Nick Booth and presumably countless others, got an email from someone called Rohan Silva today, who has an @parliament email address. Rohan writes: I thought you might be interested in how Cabinet Office minister Tom Watson‘s speech yesterday on new technologies and the internet “mashed up” Conservative Party policies, speeches and ideas from … Keep reading

Be my boss!

 The information authority is currently recruiting a Community and Stakeholder Manager. This is a great job, not least because it means you get to tell me what to do. Here’s some details: With senior-level communications and stakeholder-management experience in the public or private sector, you’ll promote and support a new way of working across the … Keep reading

Tom Watson’s been busy

Tom Watson, the Cabinet Office minister for web stuff, has been busy, first of all giving a speech on Government 2.0: Driving through the cultural change in all our communications that sees the internet, mobile and other new media as the norm ensuring better innovation and much faster implementation. Build stuff small, test it out … Keep reading