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I really admired the efforts of our New Zealand cousins in the egovernment arena as I’ve mentioned before. One of their initiatives is their ParticipationNZ wiki, which is allowing NZ public servants to collaboratively develop, assess and reflect on the overall approach to online participation by government agencies. If your agency is considering participating in…
Paul Johnston, posting at TheConnectedRepublic, has brought to my attention the following video and report on the rise of the video republic. This looks at how people – particularly young people – are using online video to express their views, share opinions and shape the world views of their generation. It’s a fascinating watch and…
If you’re based in WA, or in Perth on 5th September this year, consider attending the Western Australia Institute of Public Administration’s fourth annual RightClick conference, focusing on “Technology but not for its own sake”. I’ll be providing a keynote on ‘shiny new things’ and why people are attracted to them and there’s a great…
We’re into the third and final day for GovInnovate 2014, with masterclasses from Mark Headd and Dominic Campbell. For the proceedings, follow #govinnovate on Twitter or the liveblog below. Live Blog GovInnovate 2014 liveblog day 3
My agency has historically provided documents within our website and intranet in three formats, HTML (web pages), RTF (Rich Text Format) and PDF. The rationale behind this has been to give customers choice. It has also allowed us to look at relative usage over time to see which formats are most preferred by our customers…
Over in California a controversy over the level of public access to public information flared up where the The Bee newspaper in Sacremento published a searchable online database of public sector officials and their salaries. The newspaper simply pulled publicly available information together into a single source – no information was assumed or obtained illegally. This has…
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