I’m delighted to kick off 2011 with a Gov 2.0 lunch featuring an international speaker, Chris Quigley, a co-founder of Delib from the UK. Chris’s experience crosses viral marketing, social media and e-democracy. He has an ongoing interest in how people, business and government interact, and how the internet (especially social media) are changing relationships….
In a initiative to improve electoral records, the NSW electoral commission is asking citizens to geocode their own location. The initiative relies on the prevalence of GPS units in peoples’ smartphones and other devices, coupled with an online system which allows people to locate their homes online and confirm that they have been mapped correctly…
I read an excellent article today in the Harvard Business review by Bill Taylor about Why Do Smart People Do Such Dumb Things?. Taylor explores why good ideas go disastrously wrong, why innovation often appears to lead to disaster, concluding that Warren Buffet had the right of it, Leave it to Warren Buffet to offer…
The floods across Queensland, and in other parts of Australia, over the past few months have been a national tragedy. They have also been a wake-up call to communications and media professionals across government on how to effectively inform and engage the public via social media. Queensland Police, through their twitter account, @QPSMedia, Facebook page,…
I’d like to wish everyone who reads my blog a fantastic holiday break with their nearest and dearest and a great New Year. I’m taking a break from writing this blog and plan to continue this conversation with you in early January. Looking back Reflecting back, I believe that 2010 has been a solid year…
The National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) in the US has released an excellent report, NASCIO: Friends, Followers, and Feeds (PDF), which looks at social media adoption by US states, identifying best practice and sharing knowledge on how tools are being deployed. To quote the report, The survey examined adoption trends, current applications…
Andrea Di Maio’s article, 5 necessary truths about Gov 2.0, over at Federal Computer week has just been brought to my attention, and I commend it to everyone involve or interested in Government 2.0. It makes some excellent points which I feel are often not understood or appreciated by governments, that Government 2.0 isn’t all…
There’s still people who believe the internet and social media are flash-in-the-pan technologies – or simply aren’t relevant to their role. This group doesn’t include most senior executives at organisations around the world, as this McKinsey report indicates. The rise of the networked enterprise: Web 2.0 finds its payday (PDF) provides insights from 3,200 executives,…
Given I’ve been paying some attention to Yammer recently, I thought it worth drawing attention to this post in Croakey regarding Yammer use in WA Health. I’ve also been speaking with another Commonwealth agency where Yammer has gone viral, with more than 1,000 users in a short period of time. Another Commonwealth agency has begun…
There’s still talk, from time to time, about the digital divide between internet users and those without internet access. It is said that the divide will produce a long-term group of privileged people with ready access to the world, while leaving those in remote areas, with low literacy or low incomes, trapped in a cycle…
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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