On Monday, coinciding with the release of the Government’s Gov 2.0 Taskforce report response, AGIMO launched its new blog and blogging platform at AGIMO.Govspace.gov.au. More than simply a Departmental blog, Govspace, as discussed on Twitter by John Sheridan, is a blogging – and eventually a wiki – platform available for other Departments to use, @purserj…
If you’ve been watching Twitter (specifically the hashtag #gov2au), you might have seen that yesterday the Government released its response to the Gov 2.0 Taskforce, supporting 12 of the 13 recommendations (and deferring the 13th, information philanthropy, pending the outcomes of several related reviews). The response was announced in AGIMO’s new blog platform, Govspace, released…
A blog is a blog is a blog in the same way that a TV show is a TV show is a TV show. That is to say, there are many kinds of blogs in the same way there are many different kinds of TV shows, depending on their goals, audience, subject matter and format….
An extremely thought-provoking post about The street as platform written by Dan Hill in February 2008 has been brought to my attention by Darren Sharp. The post explores the virtual life of a city street, all the digital data exchanging hands between systems, infrastructure, vehicles and people in the street unseen to human eyes. While…
I’ve spoken before about the fantastic Historic Australian Newspapers archive program at the National Library to digitalise old newspapers, coupling OCR scanning with a online crowdsourcing tool that allows the public to fix mistakes in scanned text. One of the key people behind the program, Rose Holley, recently presented at Mosman Library about the initiative….
Using the media to build public opinion pressure against an opponent is one of the oldest tactics in the political playbook. However in the modern world politicians and organisations can go one better – marshalling their social networking followers and using social media avenues to directly build and channel public opinion. While we’ve not seen…
Many people consider Google as a search engine, or maybe as a search and email system, with a few extra frills like maps. However with over 1 billion searches a day, Google is not only aggregating the world’s knowledge, it is learning about the world’s citizens, what interests them, how they think and feel –…
Everyone who runs a website dreams of what they would do if they had more funds to spend on improving their online presence. I’ve been doing some thinking around this lately as a thought exercise around building priority lists for what needs to be done to strengthen my department’s online presence. I always come back…
With over 11 million active players, World of Warcraft is one of the largest massive multiplayer online games in the world. In fact if it were a country it would be 75th – just behind Zimbabwe and ahead of Rwanda. Back before the 2007 US Presidential election, a small study was carried out amongst US…
In what I believe is a world first, the US Bureau of Engraving and Printing has launched its new US$100 note, featuring Benjamin Franklin, via an online video in YouTube. Brought to my attention by Nicholas Gruen, the 82 second long production provides a clear view of all the security provisions included in the banknote….
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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