eGovernment links
This is a great set of eGovernment links at Del.icio.us.
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I’ve been having a play with IBM Watson’s Personality Insights Service. The service uses “linguistic analytics to extract a spectrum of cognitive and social characteristics from the text data that a person generates through blogs, tweets, forum posts, and more.” While this is quite a mouthful, the service provides an interesting external perspective on how…
Guide to creating your own ‘Apps for Democracy’ contest
The organisers of the US-based ‘Apps for Democracy’ competition have released a guide for other governments and organisations on how to run their own similar contests. The Guide to Creating Your Own Apps for Democracy contains many useful tips based on how to setup a content and what worked and didn’t work in the contests…
ABS launches CodePlay competition for tertiary students
The ABS has launched the CodePlay initiative as a Gov 2.0 approach to help drive collaboration between students, developers and national and international statistical agencies. The competition challenges Australian tertiary students to help the ABS design the next generation of open-data tools to help people access, view and use statistical information. While I’m not sure…
eObama – the US Presidential election goes digital
I’ve been watching the campaign for the Democratic nomination for the US presidency with ‘shock and awe’. This has been the first election to see social media become a significant factor in the outcome – even (in many commentators’ opinions) the deciding factor. There has been very little coverage of this in Australia and I’m…
A watershed in Australian Gov 2.0 – Realising our Broadband Future Forum
Last Thursday and Friday I was fortunate enough to be invited to (and have the leave available to attend) the Realising our Broadband Future Forum in Sydney on a personal basis (not representing my Department). You can see my liveblogs of the forum in the two posts below this one. The forum targeted senior decision-makers…
Should governments be using popular VOIP tools for customer enquiries?
In Australia about 10% of households don’t have a landline phone any more. In some other countries the figure is higher – and it is growing as people abandon the ‘fixed to one location’ phone for personal mobile phones. When calling a government agency – even a ‘free call’ line – there’s often additional charges for mobile phones,…