A challenge in any organisation is to foster two-way communications. Many organisations have used suggestion boxes, ‘chat with the CEO’ email accounts, or other primitive tools to offer pseudo-two way communication, but without the immediacy or ability to readily expose discussions to the broader organisation. These are often mistrusted by staff as they are essentially…
JD Stanley of Cisco has published a very interesting initial paper on ‘digital swarming‘, an approach towards the use of collective intelligence to generate higher quality and faster decisions – with particular relevance to the public sector. To quote, Digital Swarming is about a digitally connected human and machine world. A world where dynamically forming,…
The UK government has announced that the UK will be phasing out the ‘Click-Use’ online licenses for the reuse of Crown and Parliamentary Copyrights by May this year with a new license modelled on Creative Commons 3.0. A review by the UK Office of Public Sector Information in 2009, reported in an article in CreativeCommons.org,…
The Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC) has launched an online forum allowing Australians to provide their views and ask questions about human rights in Australia. Hosted by Open Forum, the discussion forum is open until Friday 26 June 2009. 29/05/09CORRECTION: Per the comment from Leon below, this discussion forum is not being operated…
I spoke at the IBR Gen AI Transforming Govt PA & Comms conference last week. The event handed out copies of the Government Writing Handbook – the APS Style Manual in distilled form – to everyone in the room. My immediate thought was: Is this available as a GenAI skill yet? Or as a RAG knowledge…
I’ve had a long time interest in Ice TV. In fact about five years ago I was considering investing in the company, or encouraging my then employer (ActewAGL/TransACT) to invest in it as an extension to their cableTV service. For anyone unaware of the company, they sell electronic program guides (EPGs) for free-to-air channels for…
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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