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Votaire said, “Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good”. This is often quoted in politics where the acts of creating, selling, passing, implementing and maintaining complex policies can result in challenging decisions between perfect, yet practically impossible and practical but only good outcomes. I’d like to suggest a similar saying for bureaucrats,…
John Sheridan posted a link on Twitter to a very interesting analysis of the impact of social media on the revolutions across the Arab world over the last year. The paper provides strong evidence that social media was one of the key causes of these revolutions due to its ability to place a human face…
Yesterday the Liberal-National Coalition released its broadband policy for Australia, in front of a high-tech set at Sky News, in contrast to the Labor Government’s NBN plan and current rollout. I’m not going to go into the politics of this announcement, nor the potential economic and social impacts of the differences between the policies in…
Earlier today ZDNet reported on the Media and Arts Alliance’s submission on copyright infringement, where the MEAA (as the peak body for journalists, actors, dancers, photographers and people working across the media) took a position that appeared to support internet filtering. I have been a member of the MEAA for a number of years –…
Media commentators have called the Australian Government’s budget “austere”, “responsible” and “boring but good”. I call it historic. Why so? Look at the copyright information in Budget Paper 1: BUDGET STRATEGY AND OUTLOOK. Budget Papers 2, 3 and 4 have been released on a similar basis. What is different? For the first time in history…
Henry Sherrell is a former Australian Public Servant who now works in policy research at the Australian National University. As a researcher, open data has become an important input into his work. As such I thought it worth sharing (with his permission) this post from his blog, On The Move, as an example of some…
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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