This is a guest post from Jayden Castillo, a colleague of mine at Accenture and an active member of Canberra’s innovation community. Read the original post at LinkedIn: I recently attended the Australian Trucking Association (ATA)’s Hackathon aiming to target driver fatigue, aptly named ‘FatigueHack’. I’m fairly new to Hackathons, this was my second after…
Eyeballs is the primary measure of choice of all mass medias – how many people viewed a television program, listened to a radio station, read a newspaper or magazine, or visited a website. It’s a great measure for the advertising industry as it’s relatively easy to quantify and track over time and simple to value….
I’ve been advised of an interesting situation with a resident of the Parramatta Council area, who has been blocked by council from their Twitter account. He’s upset and has written to the Council, claiming that it is unconstitutional for a council to block its own rate-playing constituents from viewing their social media accounts, referring to…
Rudd & Gillard could work the Twitters. Abbott understood the need to engage digitally, if not the tech, the value or the full impact (and mistakenly thought one of his Ministers had invented the Internet). Even Howard got onboard the digital express with a few YouTube videos. However Australia has never before in its history…
This is the third in a series of interviews I’m doing as part of Delib Australia’s media partnership with CeBIT in support of GovInnovate. I’ll also be livetweeting and blogging the conference on 25-27 November. View other posts in this series. As one of the national organisers of Innovation GovCamp Australia, founder of GovCampus and producer…
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…
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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