About

This is a list of blogs authored by government organizations, or by people in official capacities with governments.

The goal of this page is to track blogs from Presidents, Prime Ministers, Ministers, Secretaries of State, and from government departments and ministries.

It is not intended to be a list of "political blogs", so should not include MPs, Members of Congress, political parties, etc.

To add to this list, please edit this page or send a note to Ian Ketcheson (ian at ketcheson dot com).

The list

Canada

• Michaelle Jean, Governor General - http://www.citizenvoices.gg.ca/

European Union

• Margot Wallstrom, Vice-President of the European Commission, Inter-Institutional Relations and Communication Strategy - http://weblog.jrc.ec.europa.eu/page/wallstrom

Germany

• Angela Merkel, President - http://www.bundeskanzlerin.de/ (podcast only)

Indonesia

• Juwono Sudarsono, Minister of Defense - http://www.juwonosudarsono.com/

Iran

• Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, President - http://www.ahmadinejad.ir/

Japan

• Akira Amari, Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry - http://www.amari-akira.com (Japanese only)

United Kingdom

• David Miliband, Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - http://www.davidmiliband.defra.gov.uk/

• HM Ambassador Alan Fletcher Goulty CMG, UK Ambassador to Tunisia - http://www.britishembassy.gov.uk/servlet/Front?pagename=OpenMarket/Xcelerate/ShowPage&c=Page&cid=1132597995390

• Andrew Wadge, Chief Scientist, Food Standards Agency - http://www.fsascience.net/

• Office of National Statistics - Small Area Geography consultations - http://www.onsgeography.net/

United States

• Department of Defense - "For The Record" site comes close to being a blog. The site "is dedicated to correcting and clarifying errors of fact and perception about Department activities—which includes errors of our own." - http://www.defenselink.mil/home/dodupdate/index-b.html

• Federal Trade Commission, "Tech-ade" blog on "exploration of new technologies and their impact on products and business practices." - http://ftcchat.us/blog

• Centers for Disease Control, Jay M. Bernhard, Director of Health Marketing - http://www.cdc.gov/healthmarketing/blog.htm

• Anthony A. Williams, Mayor of Washington, D.C., - http://blog.mayor.dc.gov/ (inactive)

• Houston's Metropolitan Transit Authority - Story here: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/4291464.html

• Chris Cox, Securities and Exchange Commission chairman - Doesn't blog, but he did post a comment to the Sun Microsystems CEO's blog on the relationship between Regulation FD and blog/website postings - http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/sunlight_on_a_cloudy_day...#comments

• Cardinal Sean O'Malley - Not really government, but he is doing it in an official capacity and there are great lessons to be learned here. He has been blogging for awhile, and has announced he will start podcasting his masses soon - http://cardinalseansblog.org/