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VicHealth has just announced the start of the VicHealth Seed Challenge, where the agency is asking people from across the nutrition sector, fruit and vegetable industries, researchers, social innovators/entrepreneurs and the digital world to collaborate and seek solutions to the wicked problem: “How do we improve fruit and vegetable supply and access, as well as…
The question in my title is of course a little provocative – who is to say whether a website is better or worse? The answer, in my view, is our users. For some reason in Australian we have never, to my knowledge, asked our citizens to compare government websites against universal categories such as awareness,…
Stepping into the fifth year I’ve operated the eGovAU blog, I wanted to take a look back into its history, and a look forward to what readers can expect in the next year. I started eGovAU in 2008 to help access and share information and experience across the online communications space within government, as I…
THe Australian Labor Party has just launched a social media community designed to provide ways for party members and the community to interact and provide ideas to the ALP hierarchy. Launched by Karl Bitar in a blog post, Australian Labor’s New Community Space, the system includes a ‘ThinkTank‘ for discussion and voting on issues and…
While diamonds may be forever, Department and agency names, communications campaigns and government programs are not. This poses an interesting challenge when planning social media strategies – how do you effectively exit from a channel when a campaign ends (as the money stops and people go), or reframe a social media presence when your agency…
CSIR Mk 1 with Hollerith equipment, Sydney 1952 Source: Museum Victoria The Australian government was one of the earliest adopters of computers and computerisation. CSIRAC (or CSIR Mk1), the first computer in Australia (and now the oldest surviving first-generation electronic computer), was used by scientists within CSIRO, by the Snowy Mountains Hydro Electric Authority and various…
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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