Fierce Government IT reports that Chief of US Naval Operations Adm. Gary Roughead says Ignoring social media is a ‘strategic error of the most basic nature’. In the US the military has been an active adopter of social media, with online channels seen as a critical theatre of influence. Most members of the US armed…
Delib’s Chris Quigly has released the edited Australian digital democracy mini-documentary that he recorded earlier this year with a number of Government 2.0 leaders (plus myself) across Australia. The nine minute mini-documentary provides an interesting perspective on Gov 2.0 approaches and trends in Australia. It also provides a defining view from the outside – how…
Davied van Berlo‘s two books “Civil Servant 2.0” and “Civil Servant 2.0 beta” have finally been translated into English and are available online for free. I’ve admired and followed the work of Davied, a Dutch Civil Servant, for several years now. Davied has been using the internet for about as long as I have and…
I’ve been a bit behind on blogging in the last two weeks due to my new job, however expect to get back into the flow next week. In the meantime, this week has seen the important announcement of the Government 2.0 Register from AGIMO, which attempts to collect all of the Australian Government’s social media…
Thanks to links from John Sheridan (@sherro58) and Kerry Webb (@kwebb), I’ve been reading some of the latest articles and blog posts talking about Twitter. They attempt to analyse and ‘place’ Twitter on the spectrum of human communication – discussing whether the service is more like text or like speech. They also discuss the potential…
A couple of weeks ago I blogged about 21st Century society vs 19th Century laws and policing. My post discussed the interview and arrest of Ben Grubb, an Australian Technology Journalist, by Queensland Police in the context of the challenges for legislators and law enforcement in remaining current and relevant in a quickly digitalising world….
Possibly the hottest topic for Australian government web managers this year is ‘accessibility’, following on from the release of the Web Accessibility National Transition Strategy by AGIMO (the Australian Government Information Management Office). The strategy confirmed the Australian Government’s adoption of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2 (WCAG 2.0) from the World-Wide Web Consortium…
Crowdsourcing is often used in government for ‘light’ topics, such as selecting a logo or sourcing audience-created videos or photos. However it also offers enormous potential for informing and developing government policy in areas that are considered both sensitive and serious – such as security. About a year ago the Atlantic Council released its recommendations…
A few weeks ago the Department of Defence announced it had selected the advertising agency, George Patterson Y&R to conduct a review of social media risks. This followed the Skype scandal in April this year where several male Defense Force cadets conspired to broadcast a female cadet having consensual sex without her knowledge to half…
It is hard for me to believe that I’ve reached 1,000 posts on eGovAU – all talking about Government 2.0 and related topics. That’s well over half a million words I’ve written on the topic in around three years – around 5 decent-sized novels. Now I’m here I’m indulging in the opportunity to look back…
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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