Read it over at Nicholas Gruen on Gov 2.0 in Australia and cultural change.
Social media followers and fans are not particularly good metric for judging the success or ROI of a social media campaign and I’d advise strongly against measuring success through these numbers alone. However as businesses attach a commercial value to their mailing and email lists, as a corporate asset, I thought it would still be…
The Waseda university in Japan has released its 2009 Waseda University International e-Government Ranking, the fifth consecutive report on how 34 leading countries are progressing in their egovernment activities. Australia managed to reach 13th position, down from 7th in 2008. In fact Australia experienced the second greatest year-on-year fall in ranking of any country (only…
Just in case you missed this the other week, on 21 January the UK launched the data.gov.uk website with 2,500 government datasets available for access and reuse by the public. This leapfrogged the US’s data.gov, which now has around 1,000 datasets available. The UK site also extends the government open data space in several other…
The Victorian government released the results of it’s year-long internet usage survey last week, providing a Demographic Profiling of Victorian Government Website Visitors. Taking into account nearly 250,000 respondents, this is the largest sample I’ve seen for an egovernment usage survey within Australia. The full results are available from Victoria’s eGovernment Resource Centre, however I’ve…
I’ve been looking over my posts for the last year and thinking about how many people may have missed some because they didn’t notice them for the few days they were on the front page. So I thought I should highlight some of the most read posts in my blog over the last year. How…
A study of 4,000 UK adults has found that 42 percent had used the internet to access information about government or local council services, or completed a government form or process online in the last year. This shot up to 55 percent amongst adults with home internet access. The study, conducted by OfCom also indicated…
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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