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National Diabetes Services Scheme releases

Bycraigthomler 25 December 2008

The National Diabetes Services Scheme (NDSS), an Australian Government initiative administered by Diabetes Australia, last month released the a national online map of the spread of diabetes in Australia.

Located at www.diabetesmap.com.au), the service is a wonderful example of how online map systems (in this case Microsoft’s free Virtual Earth tool) can be ‘mashed-up’ with data to provide new ways of visualising and understanding data.

More details are available in the NDSS’s media release, National Online Map Launched to Track Diabetes in Australia.

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What competing Australian broadband policies really tell us about how Australian politics and government are changing
Bycraigthomler 10 April 2013

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…

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Stop talking about engagement and get on with it
Bycraigthomler 28 November 2011

Guest post by Steve Davies Yesterday I spend a little time getting involved in the ACT Government Twitter Cabinet. The focus was on Canberra beyond 2013. Lots of ideas and views exchanged. Through sheer serendipity one of my views on life struck a note with our Chief Minister, Katy Gallagher. So the next Twitter Cabinet…

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When senior public officials use online platforms to lead social change, we’re witnessing a paradigm shift in government
Bycraigthomler 3 May 2013

I don’t think this has been widely noticed in government yet, but Australia achieved an interesting Gov 2.0 first this week on the back of the Myers disability scandal. The backstory: after the Prime Minister announced that DisabilityCare, the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), would be partially funded through an increase of 0.5% in the…

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Less words, more pictures = better government
Bycraigthomler 2 July 2008

One of the biggest issues I’ve seen in government websites is excessive use of words. Government agencies often treat each website page as a stand-alone fact sheet. This means they err on the side on completeness, leading to wordiness. Most of us have seen the research. People don’t read wordy, jargon-filled pages – they skim….

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Newcastle council online community hijacked by hackers
Bycraigthomler 28 December 2008

As posted in the Online Community Consultation blog, Newcastle Council was recently stung by having hackers take over its online consultation community and redirect the site to an independent site containing adult content. As discussed in the post, Red faces in Newcastle, the lesson to be learnt is to ensure effective security is in place…

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The power of raw government data
Bycraigthomler 19 March 2009

In the US President Obama’s newly appointed (and first) Federal Government CIO Vivek Kundra has committed to finding new ways to make government data open and accessible. The Computer World article, First federal CIO wants to ‘democratize’ U.S. government data, discusses how, In a conference call with reporters, Kundra said he plans to create a…

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