NSW MP Paul Macleay has opened voting on projects to receive a portion of the economic stimulus package allocated to his electorate, Heathcote.
To view how this example of community budgetting works, visit Paul’s site at www.paulmcleay.com.au.
Note that you must live within the electorate to participate.
For all the claims of government communication being expensive or ineffective compared to the private sector, government has topped the Vision 6 Email Marketing Metrics Report for January – June 2012. Vision 6, an email marketing company based in Queensland, has reported on the email marketing effectiveness of Australian companies and agencies for the last…
Australia’s Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, has now announced the review panel for MP remuneration expenses, and in my view it’s close to becoming another missed opportunity to improve government engagement, accountability and transparency with the community. The panel will consist of five ’eminent’ individuals. Two will be former politicians (one Labor and one Liberal), one…
Using the media to build public opinion pressure against an opponent is one of the oldest tactics in the political playbook. However in the modern world politicians and organisations can go one better – marshalling their social networking followers and using social media avenues to directly build and channel public opinion. While we’ve not seen…
There are many approaches in government – and the private sector – to managing their online channel. The area is still young and as yet I’ve not seen best practice structures emerge, as has occurred within other areas of organisation management. In this post I intend to reflect on the different approaches and my own…
In the run-up to GovHack this weekend, Australian governments have been hard at work preparing new or updated open data sites, many using CKAN as their base technology. This includes the new Australian Government beta data.gov.au site, the new South Australian government’s data.sa.gov.au and the NSW government’s new data.nsw.gov.au/data/. We also have Queensland’s data.qld.gov.au, Victoria’s data.vic.gov.au and the ACT’s data.act.gov.au (which uses…
Science and the scientific process is core to the delivery of modern government, with its focus on evidence-based policy and sound social research. So it’s about time we had an organisation in Australia focused on exploring how the arrival of Web 2.0 and Gov 2.0 is affecting science – how it is conducted, reported and…
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