I’m happy to come chat to any government agency or council on these topics if it adds value to what you’re trying to do.
Arthur C. Clarke, a famous science fiction and futurist once said, Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic I believe we reached that point quite some time ago in our civilisation. While most people watch television, drive cars, use electrical appliances, fly in jet aircraft, use computers and surf the internet, few understand how…
Nathanael Boehm has provided more details on what may be the first official joint Commonwealth/State/Territory government blog in Australia. In Government Blog: blog.training.gov.au, he talks about the purpose behind the site and how it was constructed, using opensource technologies to deliver a fast, cheap and secure solution. This achievement is a great example of how…
I attended Gartner’s Government Day on Monday for their ITXPO Symposium (I was on a panel), and it was very interesting to hear the views expressed about social media. Below are some of the quotes I recorded from Gartner analysts and senior IT leaders. They are not all verbatim and have been reordered to flow…
I will be liveblogging much of the Walkley Public Affairs in the Nation’s Capital conference today. See below for the liveblog, or follow the event on Twitter under the tag #wpanc. There is also a blog for the day at http://walkleypanc2011.posterous.com/ written and edited by a team made up of the Walkley Foundation’s Kylie Johnson…
A dilemma we’re dealing with in my agency is that many projects have placed their documentation within the intranet and, over time, this has become the authoritative source of the most current copy of some documents. This means that the owners of the content are very sensitive towards any changes to the intranet’s structure which…
On the tail of the 2016’s Census issues dealing with four relatively small distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks, the US East Coast was recently hit by a massive DDOS attack that succeeded in taking offline, or at least slowing down, major sites – from Amazon, Twitter and Spotify to PayPal and Netflix. This major…
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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