Intranets can be an important business ‘glue’ for both private and public organisations. They enable geographically diverse individuals to share knowledge and productively collaborate, areas within the organisation to disseminate information, help senior leadership reinforce corporate values, strengthen internal communication and help align management and staff with corporate goals. Not surprisingly many of the challenges…
If you’ve not yet registered, there are still a few tickets left for the Gov 2.0 lunch in Canberra on Friday 25 November. The event will feature a presentation from Dominic Campbell, a leading UK digital government specialist and social innovator with a background in government policy, communications and technology-led change. Learn more and register here.
A recent Harvard Business Review study found that when researchers asked large language models for strategic advice, they got “trendslop” – recommendations that defaulted to whatever sounds fashionable in contemporary management: ‘Innovation’, ‘Augmentation’, ‘Long-term thinking’. The strategic advice was plausible, confident and, in many cases, largely useless. This isn’t a bug. It’s these AI systems…
Prediction markets are a technique used to predict the likelihood of outcomes using values tied to events. So far they’ve proven to be at least as accurate as other predictive approaches, and significantly more engaging. A popular example is the Hollywood Stock Exchange which allows individuals using virtual money to buy and sell shares in…
I’ve run the conversation from the ACT Virtual Community Cabinet, held yesterday, through some statistical systems to look at how the event went. Based on the CoverItLive session I recorded, there were 92 participants using the #ACTvcc hashtag between the beginning and the end of the Virtual Community Cabinet. I excluded conversations outside the period…
Open source is no longer new news. The movement has been around for over 30 years, longer than the public internet or widespread use of mobile phones, and around the same age as the desktop computing revolution which saw computers on every office worker’s desks. However for some reason open source has taken a very…
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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