Socitm Insight has launched a microsite to support and supplement its report Web 2.0: what it is and why it matters – a briefing for public sector managers. The report describes a wide range of ‘Web 2.0’ developments - and discusses their significance for all public sector managers, not just web or ICT specialists.

Socitm Insight, publishers of the annual Better connected reports on local authority websites, is to run a seminar on Web 2.0 as a curtain-raiser to publication of its forthcoming report Web 2.0: what it is and why it matters - briefing for public sector managers.

A report from think tank, Demos, into understanding digital exclusion, commissioned by Post Office Broadband, identified the non-line outsider who wants to get online but is hampered by fear, uncertainty or structural barriers such as lack of tuition Post Office Post Office commissioned the report,Web Im 64: Ageing, the internet and digital inclusion from think tank, Demos, December 2007. The repo...

Responding to a BusinessWeek report, which questioned whether the Web 2.0 industry will survive the credit crunch, enterprise specialist WorkLight predicts that Web 2.0 will actually prosper, despite many areas of modern IT struggling.

The Higher Education Academy and JISC have welcome yesterday’s (Tuesday 12 May) publication of the HE in a Web 2.0 World report, which looks at the projected future trends in the use of technology in higher education.

Council interest in Web 2.0 is signalled by huge interest in Socitm Insight event to launch Web 2.0 in the public sector report.

WorkLight says that consumers - particularly in the US - are turning to Web 2.0-enabled online healthcare, as healthcare providers realize the cost advantages of using "Healthcare 2.0" technology. A recent industry report confirms that over 60 million adults are now using Web 2.0 for healthcare in the United States.

We’ve uploaded a Web Exclusive report by Lloyd Evans on the latest Spectator / Intelligence Squared debate: “Heathrow needs a third runway”. You can read it here.

Socitm (The Society of Information Technology Management) is the professional association for ICT managers working in and for the public sector. This site was created to support its report Web 2.0: what it is and why it matters – a briefing for public sector managers which was published in September 2008. It focused ion the benefits of web 2.0 applications (such as blogs, wikis, mashups and socia...

Becta has published major new research into the use of Web 2.0 technologies, such as wikis, blogs and social networking, by children between the ages of 11-16, both in and out of the school environment.