EDITED: Monday 9 June, 2009: The Open Government Public Sphere Camp has been renamed ‘Government 2.0 Public Sphere Camp’. This more effectively communicates the content and purpose of the event. Other details have not changed. The second of Senator Kate Lundy’s Public Sphere series has been combined with the Canberra BarCamp unorganisers’ Gov 2.0 concept…
The Department of Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts has become the first Australian Federal Government agency to my knowledge to appoint a New Media head. I’ve previously commented on the rising trend in governments overseas to acknowledge the importance of online and new media by appointing New Media and Social Media Directors, and the…
Step Two Designs has released the book, What every team should know written by James Robertson. The book is designed as a ‘quick start’ for intranet teams and provides practical advice on how to plan, design, manage and grow intranets. Combining over 13 years experience in intranets and building on the free reports available from…
Around four weeks ago the Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy (DBCDE) launched its first online consultation with 11-17 year old children on the topic of Cyberbullying. Announced via the Australian Labour Party’s website back on 4 May, Youth to advise on cyber-bullying and cyber-threats, the consultation involves 15 schools and 305 students…
Following the style of the ClueTrain Manifesto, Steve Radick has developed twenty theses for Government 2.0. To quote his post, Just as the Cluetrain laid out 95 theses that described the new global conversation taking place via the Internet, here are 20 theses (I’m not nearly as ambitious as the Cluetrain authors) for carpetbaggers, gurus,…
Encouraged by the success of a imposter claiming to be the NSW Police on Twitter, the NSW Police have now taken over the account and are using it to constructively communicate information to the public. Reported in the Sydney Morning Herald, Twitter con gives police tweet idea, the NSW Police Twitter account is being used…
The Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC) has launched an online forum allowing Australians to provide their views and ask questions about human rights in Australia. Hosted by Open Forum, the discussion forum is open until Friday 26 June 2009. 29/05/09CORRECTION: Per the comment from Leon below, this discussion forum is not being operated…
The title of this post is derived from the question the US government is currently asking American citizens in the Open Government Brainstorm. The site allows individuals to suggest ideas for open government, and rate those of other – providing a prioritisation list that the US Federal government can then choose to act on. Other…
In an example of how the public is pushing government towards embracing the online channel, the TweetMP site has been launched to encourage tweeting by Australian politicians. The site features a method to invite Australian Federal parliamentarians to set up a Twitter account, includes a full list of publicly tweeting MPs and their latest tweets….
In conjunction with the Data.gov launch, Sunlight Labs in partnership with Google has launched the Apps for America 2 competition to find the best mash ups using US Federal government data. Over US$20,000 is being given away for open source online applications using the Federal datasets at Data.gov based on the following criteria: Transparency: Does…
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