For full details, see Pia’s post on the Gov 2.0 Google Group.
Of course, if you already subscribed to the Group, you’d have had a head start 🙂
In the ‘old days’ before the internet, the boundaries of government reports, brochures, fact sheets, policy statements and other discrete documents were hard and unyielding. While a document might feature several attributed quotes and some purchased stock art, all of the content was owned by the organisation that created it. This was a logical approach…
Marketing just isn’t the same anymore – customers are harder to reach, they trust brands less and spend their time listening to each other rather than to media or to corporate or government marketers and communicators. Yet many comms and marketing people are still stuck on the ‘shout louder and longer‘ theory. If someone isn’t…
Reading the eGovernment Resource Centre’s newsletter this morning, the Victorian government has launched an inquiry into the use of social media to reflect on the office of the Speaker, looking at use while parliament is sitting by both parliamentarians and the public galleries. The Legislative Assembly Standing Orders Committee is considering: (1) Should any restrictions,…
When organisations hire accountants they are allowed to use specialist financial software to do their jobs. When organisations hire customer service representatives they are given training and scripts and are then allowed to speak to customers on the phone – monitored for performance reasons but free to communicate in appropriate ways without approval of every…
Prediction markets are a technique used to predict the likelihood of outcomes using values tied to events. So far they’ve proven to be at least as accurate as other predictive approaches, and significantly more engaging. A popular example is the Hollywood Stock Exchange which allows individuals using virtual money to buy and sell shares in…
Rosie Williams of OpenAus recently released her latest open data project, Open Charities, to provide insight into the financials of Australian charities. The service integrates the available open data from 53,000 registered Australian charities in a way never done before, allowing fast and simple analysis of charities by location, electorate and issue. To fund this work…
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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