2010 is a historical year in Hungarian politics, just as it is in UK. While in UK the government is in coalition after a long time, in Hungary, for 20 years of democracy, never happened, that 1 party can govern the country without making any coalition. Fidesz (Young Democrats' Alliance) won the 2/3 majority of the parliamentary seats in Hungary. They did not hesitate, started to work, modified the constitution, started to act, but I’m sure you can read about it, if you care. Why I’m writing this post. Now

I am interested in their relation to internet, virtual field and web 2.0. No doubt, it will be an interesting and new attitude to web2. The online communication of the governing party (Fidesz) was innovative and had a unique style since Tibor Navracsics took the responsibility for it while they were in opposition. But right now they are governing. And he is the so called “governor”, who has the duty to reform the public administration. With it, he surely does it in virtual wise too.

In the first day of his new job, if you happened to visit any of the governmental website, you met a frontpage, that is very unique, never happened style and solution before:

OMG
The new government wants to put the governmental websites in order as well. We consider the present situation to be unworthy of Hungary, the websites of the ministries lack any kind of uniform structure and design, most of them are technically cut-of-date and incoherent.

We have been informed that at the moment of hand-over 443 domain names are registered to the government, but only 125 of those have some type of content. We are going to check every single website. We will decide if they need to be kept and if they should be operated in the present form or need restructuring.

Obviously it will be an enormous task

But we have started.

OMG had hyperlink to hungarian wikipedia, explaining what OMG means (Oh my God...)

The beauty of web2 is, that it's interactive. And the web2 users started to edit the referred page of wikipedia, giving funny explanation what OMG means, like "Orban Majrezik Gyurcsynatol" (Orban -prime minister- is shit scared of Gyurcsany -ex prime minister-). Isn't it marvelous?

Well. All my instincts say, something very new is going to happen. My profession side is very excited, looking forward to see the results. How they want to integrate web2? How far they want to let us –citizens- go into eDemocracy? These are my big questions. Let’s see.

MTFBWY (May The Force Be With You)

PS: By the way Hungary is not that bad in eDemocracy. Magyarorszag.hu is fair enough, giving online services. The trouble is the attitude of the politicians, minsitries, and leaders to web2. But indeed public service needs a good online strategy.