Does your organisation keep an eye on current browser standards and adoption rates? If not it’s worth surveying the market a few times each year to ensure that your web standards continue to align with market trends. Below is a quick whip around the market, looking at the main browsers in use today. Internet ExplorerMicrosoft…
Andrew Krzmarzick has posted an interesting article on his
In case you’ve not seen the buzz around mailing lists, the second Canberra BarCamp is on next weekend, 28 March, at the Australian National University. What’s a BarCamp? Think of it as an impromptu conference featuring talented designers, developers and other online professionals. They gather to share their knowledge and expertise in a series of…
A study of 4,000 UK adults has found that 42 percent had used the internet to access information about government or local council services, or completed a government form or process online in the last year. This shot up to 55 percent amongst adults with home internet access. The study, conducted by OfCom also indicated…
A group of students from Penn State University have developed a methodology for assessing the personal risk to privacy when participating in online social media. It’s an interesting attempt to quantify objectively the risks for individuals and could be a useful starting point for government departments to help their staff understand the impacts of their…
The US business.gov website has launched an online community for small business owners, providing a place where they can discuss business-related issues across a range of topics. While there is a slant towards topics related to business engagement with government – from registration processes through to how to successfully do business with government, the topics…
Last year I posted about redesigning sites to put customers at the centre of the universe. At the time we were reviewing my agency’s primary site based on usability research and surveys. Through these our customers had indicated that the site was perceived as about us rather than about them (the tools and information they…
In the US President Obama’s newly appointed (and first) Federal Government CIO Vivek Kundra has committed to finding new ways to make government data open and accessible. The Computer World article, First federal CIO wants to ‘democratize’ U.S. government data, discusses how, In a conference call with reporters, Kundra said he plans to create a…
This post from Oliver Bell’s OSRIN blog, eGovernment Interoperability Frameworks, time for a rethink?, served to crystalise thoughts that have been bouncing around in my head for awhile. Oliver contends that most of the technical standards for interoperability via the internet have been resolved, with commercial and citizen usage of the internet built on these…
On Wednesday 18 March I attended the Google in Government Symposium, hosted by Hedloc. I had planned to liveblog the day, as I liveblogged the recent Politics and Technology forum, however due to a lack of available wi-fi (the National Convention Centre still charges $40 for six hours access – which I was not personally…
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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