At the Government 2.0 Public Sphere Camp, Ministers Tanner and Ludwig have announced the creation of a Government 2.0 Taskforce. Chaired by Dr Nicholas Gruen, the Taskforce is made up of fifteen policy and technical experts and entrepreneurs from government, business, academia, and cultural institutions. The taskforce has two main streams, to increase the openness…
Below is the liveblog for the Government 2.0 Public Sphere Camp being run at Parliament House Canberra on Monday 22 June 2009. This is a jointly published liveblog in co-operation with Des Walsh and Nathanael Boehm. You can pre-register for email notification when the liveblog begins below. Please join in with your comments and questions…
In an interesting and very frank article in NextGov, named The Public Eye, Bev Godwin of the White House’s new media office has provided her views of the challenges and opportunities for government in engaging online.
The US state of Utah has been a very active implementer of government 2.0 initiatives for several years now, and is known as one of the most progressive early adopters (for government) in the space. They recently released a new website which uses many web 2.0 features to improve the experience for uses and also…
Following on from my post on Wednesday, below are some of the federal and non-government initiatives in the Government 2.0 space. FederalABS CDataThe Australian Bureau of Statistics is responsible for collecting and providing access to a large proportion of data collected by government in Australia. Before the internet the reports produced by the ABS were…
The European Union is currently going through a process to decide on the content of a new egovernment declaration. To support and facilitate this, an independent group has launched an open online brainstorm to solicit bottom-up feedback on what citizens believe should be done. This is being facilitated through a site, Co-creating an open declaration…
Last week I posted about some of the Government 2.0 initiatives around the world. This week I’m posting about some of the initiatives going on in Australia. There are a number of government and non-government organisations who are very actively participating online and a great deal of experimentation going on. In fact while we’re not…
I’m not quite sure when these edits happened, but reading through the APS Values and Code of Conduct in practice last night I noticed that they have been updated to comprehensively include blogs and social media (particularly Section 15: APS employees as citizens). If you’ve not read this recently, it is worth reviewing to see…
The events of the past few days in Iran have demonstrated the capability of Twitter to circumvent controls on traditional media, allowing people to communicate and provide images of what is going on on the ground. In case you’ve not yet heard through television, radio or the press, there have been a series of massive…
The US government has been running an online consultation on the topic of open government via the OpenGov suggestions market. A summary analysis report on the first stage of the brainstorm has now been released, outlining the main suggestions and topics US citizens found critical for open government. Some of the highlighted recommendations included, each…
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