It provides a strong view as to why governments need to open up data to the community and is definitely worth viewing and sharing.
Jonathan Zittrain’s new book, The future of the internet – and how to stop it, presents a compelling picture of how the internet has evolved from the ‘sterile’ and unchangeable computer systems of the 1960s and 70s into a ‘generative’ environment, enabling individuals around the world to freely develop applications and services and distribute them…
I have a very strong view on who owns a government agency’s website – it’s operated by the agency on behalf of the public. The teams who look after the code, functionality, design and content are custodians and gatekeepers who ensure that the website; works (is online 24/7) meets all required standards uses appropriate current…
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….
What if everything you’d written on a topic over the last decade could be poured into an AI that interacts with you to develop and explore new insights and ideas? This morning I’ve started testing our proof of concept ‘digital brain’, which has read, absorbed and contextualised everything I’ve written in my eGov.AU blog since…
Brisbane City Council has released an open data public sector information datastore, allowing the community to access and reuse a range of council data under Creative Commons licensing. While not the first council in Australia to do this (with Mosman City Council leading the pack), Brisbane is the first large metropolitan council in Australia to do…
Here’s a very interesting presentation from Linkedin‘s Principal Software Engineer, Nick Dellamaggiore, exploring the ‘guts’ of one of my favourite networking sites. It provides some insight into what is required to deliver an effective social media site. Note that it is technically orientated, so can be hard to follow without the context of the speaker….
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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