It provides a strong view as to why governments need to open up data to the community and is definitely worth viewing and sharing.
Associate Professor Axel Bruns, who has previously done marvelous work mapping Australian blogs and tracking social media activity around the Queensland bushfires, has released his team’s latest research on mapping the Australian Twittersphere. Drawing (slightly paraphrased) from the joint CCI and Queensland University of Technology media release: With as many as two million Australians now…
National Australia Bank (nab.com.au) Banks do it, utilities do it, even media does it, is it time for government to also do it – drop the ‘www’ from web site promotions in advertising and links? This came to my attention while playing with the Australian Department of Health and Ageing’s new my child’s eHealth record…
I’m beginning to get annoyed with the attitudes I’m seeing both in the mainstream press and at many conferences discussing social media. The discussion is still about how important social media is becoming, how if you don’t get on now you’ll be left behind and about the antics of celebrity and sports tweeters. To me…
Paul Budde (former journalist and Australia’s leading telecommunications researcher) has published a fantastic piece on how mass media – which anyone born since the 1960s takes for granted – is really an anomaly, titled The anomaly of the mass media. Niche-based media is more reflective of human communications activity in the longer-term. The piece also…
Earlier this week I presented at RightClick in WA about the latest in global digital government. My main points were that government in Australia has largely been doing OK in the digital stakes, although talent is thinly spread and there is not a consistent level of expertise across agencies. For example, the fourth computer in…
Last week I discussed how Google was preparing to announce the release of it’s new Ad Planner tool. It’s now available in beta with selected Google customers and an Ad Planner sneak peak is available online, with an image of the interface which demonstrates how the tool can segment site reach by demographics including gender,…
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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