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Votaire said, “Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good”. This is often quoted in politics where the acts of creating, selling, passing, implementing and maintaining complex policies can result in challenging decisions between perfect, yet practically impossible and practical but only good outcomes. I’d like to suggest a similar saying for bureaucrats,…
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….
At the next Gov 2.0 Canberra lunch we’re taking a look at a topic rapidly growing in importance for government agencies – managing and moderating online communities. Quiip Director and Community Manager, Alison Michalk, will provide her insights into online community management, user-generated-content moderation and risk mitigation within the Web 2.0 space. The presentation will…
Having now spent around three years listening to colleagues across federal, state and local government, I hear remarkable consistent themes raised as barriers to successful Gov 2.0 implementations. The number one theme I have heard raised is the lack of Gov 2.0 commitment and experience across senior public service management. This reflects similar views in…
Not all projects completely succeed. For a variety of factors some do not meet some or all of the original goals laid out for them. There is a tendency to label these projects as failures, to totally write them off and be more cautious when initiating similar projects in the future. In the web space,…
Last weekend (31 May – 2 June) was a big weekend for Government 2.0 in Australia, with the first truly national GovHack held across eight locations, including seven of Australia’s eight major states and territories. With over $170,000 in prizes, and around 100 national and local prizes on offer, GovHack 2013 attracted 900 participants, who…
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