It provides a strong view as to why governments need to open up data to the community and is definitely worth viewing and sharing.
How would it change the management of your website if anyone could make an unmoderated public comment about any page at any time – totally outside your control? How would your Minister and senior management respond if people could freely critique your content, pointing out any errors or misleading statements or airing their complaints (and…
I’m beginning to see more and more organisations and their various advertising and PR agencies look seriously at social media as a core communications channel for their campaigns and other customer, client and citizen engagement activities. This is beginning to make me wonder how communications professionals who know little or nothing about social media will…
For a very, very long time (more than ten years) I’ve been asking marketers and communicators in commercial and public sectors why they invest so heavily in producing and showing advertisements for channels which fewer and fewer people are watching and invest so little in the newer channels emerging. In most advertising budgets there’s still…
Prime Minister Gordon Brown has given an astounding presentation, Gordon Brown: Wiring a web for global good, in opening TED Oxford. It firmly establishes his interest and commitment to the use of new technologies by government to aid in the solution of global and national issues. To quote from the synopsis, We’re at a unique…
Opening up data is one thing, but using it in a productive way is another. Data may be released in formats that are hard to reuse, data may be ‘dirty’ (with mistakes) or incomplete. However when organisations release data in machine-readable formats, with a reasonable level of completeness, it can be surprisingly easy for even…
An interesting article was released in the Yale Journal of Law & Technology earlier this year discussing a view that government should focus on providing usable data online rather than full-blown websites. Titled Government Data and the Invisible Hand , the premise was quite simply explained in the abstract: Rather than struggling, as it currently…
This archive mirrors the original eGov AU blog — Craig’s professional commentary on AI, digital government and technology in public life, running since 2006.
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