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The W3C has published an excellent paper named Improving Access to Government through Better Use of the Web. I commend it to anyone developing egovernment policy. As stated in the foreword, This document is an attempt to describe, but not yet solve, the variety of issues and challenges faced by governments in their efforts to…
In January this year LinkedIn reached 200 million active users globally, demonstrating that professional social networking is beginning to be recognised as being valuable alongside personal social networking. I’ve just been sent their ‘early adopter’ infographic, which unlike the infographic on LinkedIn’s blog (which gives great demographic breakdowns by profession), provides a view on the country…
I’ve been too busy and tired this week to really commit to putting much content into eGovAU – which doesn’t mean I’m not listening and thinking about what is happening in the wider egovernment world. So instead of a regular post I thought I’d share some thoughts that have particularly stuck with me this week….
The Public Sector Innovation Network email list (run by the Department of Innovation – you can subscribe from their website) sends out some very interesting articles about innovation every week. This week one in particular caught my eye, a piece entitled The Biggest Obstacle to Innovation that looks at inertia and how this may have…
In September I was honoured to be invited to speak at the first Best Practice in Data Journalism seminar for Australia at Melbourne University, hosted by the Centre for Advancing Journalism. The event included many of Australia’s leading data journalists, together with academics and other representatives working in the data space. At the event I…
JD Stanley of Cisco has published a very interesting initial paper on ‘digital swarming‘, an approach towards the use of collective intelligence to generate higher quality and faster decisions – with particular relevance to the public sector. To quote, Digital Swarming is about a digitally connected human and machine world. A world where dynamically forming,…
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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