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This is a great presentation on exploiting location-based information, following on from my post on mashups.
Some readers may be aware of Digg, a site where the users vote on news stories and those with the most votes get listed on the homepage. It’s an approach based on a news site’s users knowing more about what they want to see than the professional news makers – and it has been relatively…
A few days ago the Australian government announced the launch of the DataStart fund, to be managed by Polleniser and with the involvement of RightClick Capital, which aims to foster open data driven startups with commercial ideas. The pilot nine month process will see 20 startups pitch to a board of government and industry judges,…
Yesterday Minister Turnbull announced the launch of the NationalMap beta – a project jointly developed by the Department of Communications and NICTA to create a single authoritative geographic view of Australia from an open data perspective. The Minister said the Map was “part of the Government’s commitment to increasing the number of publicly available datasets.” The NationalMap…
Alex Howard over at GovFresh has a great article and video interview with Nicholas Gruen regarding Gov 2.0 in Australia and some of the challenges of the required cultural change. Read it over at Nicholas Gruen on Gov 2.0 in Australia and cultural change.
The recent revelations in the media about the collection of personal information from up to 87 million Facebook users by Cambridge Analytica and its use to influence political outcomes (successful or not), should be sending chills down the spines of everyone involved in information security, privacy and governance. That people’s data can be appropriated and…
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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