I’ve been attending a number of networking and other business events in the last month across Canberra, and have noticed that amongst all the CEOs, CTOs, Financial Directors and similar, that there’s been no senior public servants in attendance. While there was a good turn-out of public servants at one event I’ve attended, the Life…
I’ve had a long involvement in the energy industry, having cofounded two startups in the sector, one that is now listed on the ASX. Why energy, when my background is digital? Because the industries are extremely similar – far more similar than archaic regulations environments allow them to do. Like the media, for most of…
Most organisations wouldn’t hire unskilled people to manage their financial accounts. They wouldn’t (normally) allow untrained staff to respond to customer phone calls or be interviewed on a television chat program. However how much experience and training do they expect their social media leads to have before they begin commenting online publicly? That is –…
It’s uncommon (at least in Australia) to see a government-related initiative promoted as a leader in innovation. It’s even rarer to see publications such as Fast Company, with its focus on the most innovative companies in the world, feature government-related initiatives. However this year Fast Company’s profile of “The World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies” is…
Over the last three years we’ve seen an increasing level of sophistication and capabilities in successive generations of open data sites. To aid governments in their open data journey, I’ve mapped five generations for the progressive development of open data sites, detailed in the document below. Please feel free to reuse the information within the…
There’s often lots of small – and not so small – activities that communications teams want to carry out online that would make their jobs easier, but aren’t really tasks to give to IT teams. For example, you may wish to update your agency’s Facebook and Twitter profile pictures when your logo changes, automatically post…
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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