FutureGov Hong Kong – Day 2 LiveBlog
We’ve just started day 2 of FutureGov Hong Kong
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The weekend just past featured the 6th GovHack event, involving over 2,000 participants in 280 teams across 41 locations in Australia and New Zealand working on 439 registered projects. Effectively the world’s biggest government hackathon, GovHack includes some amazing ideas on how to solve public challenges, using open data from agencies in innovative ways. Whether…
Back on the blog
I’ve had a two month break from blogging over summer due to a range of other things going on in my life. I’ll be getting back into the habit of blogging over the next few weeks to catch up on all the awesome – and not so awesome – things happening in the Gov 2.0…
Was the Australian Federal Election in 2007 really the YouTube election?
Maybe not – if this ITnews article Study says the 2007 ‘YouTube election’ is a misnomer is correct. Of course, even using YouTube, Australia is a long way behind the eObama campaign in the US.
Kudos to Queensland government for taking a fun approach to their Premiers Awards for Open Data
Some of you might be aware that at the red carpet event for GovHack 2014 in Brisbane, the Queensland government’s Assistant Minister to the Premier on e-government, Ray Stevens, announced the Premiers Awards for Open Data. The Awards are a competition to come up with the best use of the 1,400 datasets released by the…
The seven deadly sins of social media
For a good summary of how organisations should not use social media, check out The Seven Deadly Sins Of Social Media from DJ Francis. This approach applies as strongly in the public sector as it does in the private.
Blogging in government intranets
I have been working on building the correct conditions for intranet blogging within my agency. This has involved introducing the concept (or ‘meme‘) into the collective consciousness of key managers over the last twelve months, through; forwarding links to online blogs which were of interest to individual managers, publicising the increasing use of the agency’s…