Oct

31

The feds get in on the act

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It seems the Canadian federal government is setting up its own wiki to allow departments to post information on new policies and to offer comments and feedback on those same issues. The new wiki, dubbed GCpedia (the GC presumably standing for Government of Canada), should create a greater openness of the government when reporting issues, but it seems could also cause some significant embarrassment if the wiki is open to the public. There’s some suggestion that the wiki will initially be available only to government employees to encourage greater cooperation and information sharing among departments.

It’s intriguing when even the federal government thinks it needs to operate in a Web 2.0 way. It sure encourages me, as a teacher, to use collaborative technologies ’cause if the government is doing it, Web 2.0 has gone mainstream.

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