Liveblog for Govinnovate 2014 Day 2
We’re into day 2 of GovInnovate, with a focus on IT security. Keep an eye on the liveblog below and the Twitter hashtag #govinnovate Live Blog GovInnovate 2014 liveblog Day 2
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GovInnovate Day 1: Government must do more than tinker around the edges
This morning at GovInnovate 2014 we heard a keynote from Dominic Campbell, founder and CEO of FutureGov. Now up at #govinnovate is Dominic Campbell, talking about more elegant & human technology in government #psinnovate pic.twitter.com/7gdbMWZV4N — Craig Thomler (@craigthomler) November 24, 2014 Dominic made a strong point that governments can’t continue to cut 5% from…
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Liveblog for Govinnovate 2014 Day 1
Over the next few days I will be liveblogging and tweeting from GovInnovate 2014, so follow my blog and Twitter feed for all the latest views on the use of digital within government. Live Blog GovInnovate 2014 Day 1
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The future of intelligence is distributed – and so is the future of government
In 2011 an IBM computer, Watson, beat human competitors at Jeopardy! This was a new landmark in artificial intelligence – a computer capable of correctly responding to plain English questions, in real time, by figuring out their intent. At the time Watson was a computer as big as a room, and it was the only…
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Use of government open data creeping into universities
In September I was honoured to be invited to speak at the first Best Practice in Data Journalism seminar for Australia at Melbourne University, hosted by the Centre for Advancing Journalism. The event included many of Australia’s leading data journalists, together with academics and other representatives working in the data space. At the event I…
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Don’t blame the technology, blame the humans
This week one of the top stories for one of Australia’s leading newspapers has been the purported rape of a woman after she met a man using the ‘Tinder’ matchmaking app. Rape is a terrible act and unacceptable in every circumstance. However the newspaper chose to make Tinder the story, not the rape. Tinder is…
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IP Australia releases open data including over 100 years of patent, trademark, design and plant breeder rights records
In a great step forward for Australian open data, IP Australia has, for the first time in history, released over 100 years of patent, trademark, design and plant breeder rights records as free publicly accessible and machine-readable data. Released through data.gov.au (at https://data.gov.au/dataset/intellectual-property-government-open-data), while not a real-time feed, the information contained on Australia’s innovation history is staggering….
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How current events play out in search requests – terrorism & related terms in Google trends
While agencies often invest significant money into tools for tracking trends on social media, one of the simplest ways to detect and monitor the rise and fall of key topics and issues online is through Google Trends. Google Trends tracks the frequency of use of specific search words in Google searches. This represents the majority…
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Is government paying enough attention to privacy in its mobile apps?
Australian internet usage has just reached a tipping point, with more Aussies accessing the internet via their smartphones and tablets than via laptops and desktop computers. This has been reflected in web usage statistics, with several agencies I talk to reporting that they now receive more of their website traffic from mobile devices than from…
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Civic hackers, government’s hidden allies – an interview with Mark Headd of Accelera
This is the fifth in a series of interviews I’m doing as part of Delib Australia’s media partnership with CeBIT in support of GovInnovate. I’ll also be livetweeting and blogging the conference on 25-27 November. For some people helping government use technology to better serve the public is their job, for others it’s their passion. Mark Headd is firmly in…