There’s plenty of good examples of how government is using social well – for policy development, service delivery, engagement and more.
In 2008 the Victorian eGovernment Resource Centre was one of the ten finalists for PoliticsOnline and World eDemocracy Forum‘s international award ‘The 10 Who Are Changing the World of Internet and Politics’. Prior to that GetUp was in the Top 10 twice, in 2006 (David Madden & Jeremy Heimans) and 2007 (Brett Solomon). The ACTU…
The UK government has announced that the UK will be phasing out the ‘Click-Use’ online licenses for the reuse of Crown and Parliamentary Copyrights by May this year with a new license modelled on Creative Commons 3.0. A review by the UK Office of Public Sector Information in 2009, reported in an article in CreativeCommons.org,…
In a first for a major political party in Australia, the Australian Labor Party (ALP) has embedded blogging, tweeting and video in the heart of its website, relaunching www.alp.org.au as a Politics 2.0 website. Termed ‘Labor Connect’ the redeveloped site aims to foster active policy debates, stating that, We know we won’t always agree about…
APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) are a technique for interacting with data (usually on the web) which liberates users from relying on particular applications or having to do complex programming to reuse the data in interesting ways. Unfortunately few government agencies go the extra distance to release their data with an API, instead using specific data formats…
Microsoft Australia has launched a trial site ‘Ask a Pollie‘ which allows citizens to watch and potentially participate in topic-based discussions around set topics between politicians and expert panels. While the intent may be to promote dialogue between politicians and their constituents, as Ron Lubensky points out in his Deliberations blog, the site is more…
My experience in both the public and private sectors has been that organisations often face enormous resistance against the introduction of social media channels for staff. Given how new social media tools are, this, in my view, reflects similar resistance to other new innovations, such as the introduction of: phones on every desk (staff could…
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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