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 🙂
Often those of us within government, and those on the outside, can form an impression that the process of change, innovation and the adoption of new ideas in government can be very slow. However sometimes it is worth a reality check – while the world appears to be moving extremely fast, in some ways really…
The recent Public Sphere: Government 2.0: Policy & Practice, run by Senator Kate Lundy’s office captured a number of views on government 2.0 in Australia. These views are now in the process of being prioritised based on public feedback. The prioritised views will be submitted to the Government 2.0 Taskforce to use in their work…
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…
While travelling to and from the GovHack international awards red carpet event (which was great BTW), I’ve been reading ‘So you’ve been publicly shamed‘, the latest book by Jon Ronson (the author of The men who stare at goats), and was reflecting on some of the experiences he talks about. A common theme throughout the…
I’m liveblogging at least the morning session of CEBIT’s Gov 2.0 conference in Canberra. Please add your comments and questions and I’ll seek to pass them on to the speakers and blog the responses. For those of you on Twitter, the hashtag to follow is #gov2. Gov 2.0 Conference – Morning
The last week has seen several incidents where members of Australian political parties has been suspended from social networking sites and outed in the media for making controversial comments. Most recently Nick Sowden, a Young Queensland Liberal National Party member, referred to US President Obama as a ‘monkey’ on Twitter. His tweets were widely discussed…
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