Like most people with a broad digital footprint I’ve been hacked multiple times, usually in fairly minor ways. Around ten years ago I had my PayPal account hacked through malware in the Amazon site, costing me $300. PayPal staff insisted this was a legitimate payment for goods (which I hadn’t ordered) being delivered to my…
A few months ago I interviewed with Andrew Ramsden of AlphaTransform, who has spent the last year capturing the thoughts of digital leaders around Australia (he also has a book in the works). He’s now published the interview as Episode 16 in his Alpha Geek Podcast – which is definitely worth checking out. You can…
Victor Perton, former Victorian Parliamentarian, Government Advisor, Advocate, Board Member and one of my mentors founded AustralianLeadership.com in 2016 with the mission to “celebrate, understand and improve Australian leadership.” He interviewed me on the topic of Australian Leadership in late 2016 and recently posted the interview, which I’ve replicated below. For other great interviews, visit…
I’ve been monitoring the Australian Public Service Commission (APSC) public consultation on the current social media guidelines for Australian public servants (APS). While they clearly aren’t interested in comments from former or potential future public servants, having neglected to publish, or even link to, my comments – which I submitted to the APSC four weeks ago – there’s…
Innovation is one of the global buzzwords today. From Parliament House in Australia to the remotest regions of Africa, the world is talking about innovating to solve old problems using new techniques and emerging problems using old ideas in new ways. As a career entrepreneur and innovator, I’m supportive of these innovation agendas – innovation…
I wrote this post in response to a LinkedIn conversation around this article, Digital government could become just more cost cutting, warns Internet Australia – which should be read first for context. Digital transformation should never focus on the digital, it’s about transformation. Digital is a toolset and has opened new doors to how services and…
Over the last four years the Australian Government has engaged in a stop-start process towards becoming a full member of the international Open Government Partnership, which now counts 70 countries in its membership, plus is beginning to explore state-based membership as well. The Open Government Partnership was founded five years ago by eight countries to…
I was privileged to attend CSIRO’s On Innovation Bootcamp on Wednesday and Thursday this week, a two day intensive for CSIRO, university and other government teams transitioning concepts from government scientific research towards becoming startup companies. This was the third round for the ON programme, with approximately 80 teams having now gone through the process…
Henry Sherrell is a former Australian Public Servant who now works in policy research at the Australian National University. As a researcher, open data has become an important input into his work. As such I thought it worth sharing (with his permission) this post from his blog, On The Move, as an example of some…
Both the Senate Inquiry report on Census 2016 and the Review of the Events Surrounding the 2016 eCensus (by Alastair MacGibbon, Special Adviser to the Prime Minister on Cyber Security) have just been released – I’ve embedded both reports below (so they appear in one place). They are a good read with some useful recommendations…
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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