On Tuesday morning I gave a brief talk about building a social media infrastructure at OPC IT’s Web Xchange event. I’ve included my presentation slides below as a reference for those who have asked for a copy.
It is 46 years since the internet was first developed (ARPA network), 21 years since the development of the first web browser (aptly named WorldWideWeb) and fifteen years since the launch of the first recognisable social network (SixDegrees.com). Today half our population actively uses Facebook, and over 60 per cent of Australians use some form of…
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…
I had an interesting discussion last week with a colleague about the terminology of government. We talk about politicians as moving the ‘levers of power’ and departmental restructures as ‘machinery of government’ (MOG) changes (sometimes used as a verb “we got mogged!”) Lack of progress in bureaucracy is called ‘spinning wheels’ (which often appears to…
One of the perils of the digital age, as traditional media goes digital or goes downhill and more and more people rely on the internet for their daily news, is that countries such as Australia are losing ‘editorial’ control over what news is promoted as the ‘top stories’ each day or what links appear at…
I attended and keynoted RightClick 2012 yesterday in Perth and wanted to share my notes, which I presented as a round-up at the event, as well as my presentation. It was a good event, with an excellent turn-out of WA public servants. From the feedback I overheard, the attendees were pretty happy with the event….
Heard about design and design thinking but not sure what it is or what it has to do with the work of the public service? Interested in design but want to know more? Want to meet others interested in design in the public sector? I’ve just learnt about a great upcoming event that is being…
The ACT government today announced the soft-launch of their new open data site, dataACT, through their equally new Government Information Office blog. In my view this is now the best government open data site in Australia. What makes it the best? Data is available in a range of common reusable formats – from JSON and RDF through RSS and…
It’s time to register for the next (free) Government 2.0 lunchtime event in Canberra – this time featuring Matthew Gordon from OurSay.org and Gina Beschorner from the Department of Human Services. Matthew will be talking aboutOurSay’s approach to public engagement in government and business decision making, drawing upon experiences holding forums with government agencies, political candidates, local…
Science and the scientific process is core to the delivery of modern government, with its focus on evidence-based policy and sound social research. So it’s about time we had an organisation in Australia focused on exploring how the arrival of Web 2.0 and Gov 2.0 is affecting science – how it is conducted, reported and…
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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