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Apr 23 2009

KidareStreet – Bringing Access To Government A Step Further

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Successive Irish governments have talked about “initiatives” to encourage “egovernment”. Some of the work they’ve done has been pretty good, but a lot of it wasn’t exactly stellar.

So it’s great to see that a totally independent, citizen volunteer project like Kildare Street has not only managed to give us, the people, access to Dail (parliament) transcripts, but also allows to pass comments, get alerts and so much more.

Kildare Street is the brainchild of John Handelaar and is based on similar project in the UK.

John’s announcement explains it all:

Since 20th January 2004, the Dáil has been in session for 493 days (including today).

Up until this morning TDs made 249,489 speeches, and asked 160,503 questions which received written responses.

On average, TDs are producing 507 speeches and 326 written answers per sitting day.

And Handelaar’s site has now made all of that content accessible and searchable.

Now that is cool!

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Written by Michele Neylon · Categorized: cool, politics, reviews, useful · Tagged: cool, Dáil, Dáil Éireann, Ireland, Kildare Street, parliament, politics, reviews, Society and Culture, useful

Jan 02 2009

IrishBlogs.ie

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While it may not be the most visually attractive website, IrishBlogs.ie wins me over as it’s so useful.

IrishBlogs.ie is a blog aggregator ie. it collects the blog posts from multiple blogs and bloggers, which in this instance are all Irish or related to Ireland.

As you explore the site you can see that it groups posts on particular subjects etc.,

A handy resource, especially if you want to find out what Irish bloggers are saying about you or your business

On a related note.. the Irish Blog Awards are now accepting nominations

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Written by Michele Neylon · Categorized: cool, entertainment, events, fashion, food, green, health, humour, kids, music, photography, politics, reviews, shopping, useful · Tagged: Aggregator, blog, Ireland, On the Web, Social network, Weblogs, Website

Nov 17 2008

Change.gov

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Barrack Obama’s recent presidential campaign was very much online, so it’s only natural that his transition site would attract quite a bit of interest

If you’d like to find out about who is going to be involved in running the US for the next 4 years, then head on over to Change.gov (great domain!)

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Written by Michele Neylon · Categorized: cool, politics, useful · Tagged: cool, politics, useful

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