Due to the rise of online social networks and informational sites, secret questions based on biographical information are losing strength as a supplementary to password-based security. As discussed in a Time article, Those Crazy Internet Security Questions, as more information on individuals becomes easily available – either provided by them directly or via government, corporate…
Yesterday (Wednesday) I was privileged to attend a think tank in Melbourne discussing the future of the Victorian Government’s whole-of-government intranet, CentralStation. Being the only state government in Australia I am aware of with such a tool, I was surprised to learn that it had been originally created in 1996. To my knowledge that makes…
Reflecting Forrester’s Groundswell report, Universal McCann has released a study detailing how the internet has turned all customers (citizens) into influencers. Titled INTERNET USERS, THE NEW INFLUENCERS – When did we start trusting strangers? (PDF), the study included around 17,000 internet users from 29 countries, finding that enmasse customers have moved from being passive consumers…
Technorati has released its report, State of the Blogosphere / 2008, providing a view on the growth and application of blogs as a medium. The report can be summed up in the statement “blogging is here to stay”. Notable to me in the report was that the fifth top topic and sixth most used tag…
IBF has launched Intranets Live, a monthly ‘online media channel’ featuring interviews and commentary on intranets and intranet topics from around the world. While it is useful to access a monthly podcast on what is occurring around the world in the intranet area, the price tag for this option would require careful consideration by intranet…
Uganda has become the latest nation to announce that it is following a centralised government portal strategy, launching a statewide web portal managed by their Ministry of ICT. This reflects the approach taken in many other nations, including Australia (www.australia.gov.au and www.business.gov.au) to provide a central face to government online, to a greater or lessor…
Cost cutting is a fact of life across public and private sectors. At some point every few years (or every year in some cases) organisations decide that the most effective way to improve productivity or profits is to reduce expenditures. Intranets are a common target of cost cutting, either by delaying improvements to infrastructure, cancelling…
I’ve posted earlier about how the Holz and Hobson report picked up on one of my posts and decided to use it as the central topic of one of their radio shows. The show was held a little over a week ago, and I realised I’d not yet linked to it in eGovAU, so here…
The most exciting change I’m seeing in US politics at the moment is the degree of top level support and enthusiasm for transparency in government. Nextgov has published an article, Obama says he would use IT to open government, which details the strategies the Democrat nominee for President says he will mandate for the US…
I find conferences a very useful avenue for networking with other egovernment and online channel professionals. I often get ideas or insights that I can share across my team and agency – and implement in our sites. However the attendance cost continues to rise. Sadly both the commitment in time and price means that I’ve…
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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