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The finalists of the 2009 global egovernment award, The Top 10 Who Are Changing the World of Internet and Politics have been announced. Courtesy of Victoria’s eGovernment Resource Centre, the top 10 finalists are: The Democracy Center, represented by Jim Shultz, Executive Director (Bolivia) CLIME, Center for Liberty in the Middle East, represented by founder…
Last week I discussed how Google was preparing to announce the release of it’s new Ad Planner tool. It’s now available in beta with selected Google customers and an Ad Planner sneak peak is available online, with an image of the interface which demonstrates how the tool can segment site reach by demographics including gender,…
Steve Davies over at OzLoop has just published a thesis by Dr Derek Ambrose that looks at the topic of leadership in the Australian public sector. It is a fascinating read (particularly from pages 68-80 and 113-185 including the conclusion from pp160), and provides insights into challenges the public sector has experienced in encouraging new…
I’ve been tracking the discussion on the outing of Greg Jericho as author of the Grog’s Gamut blog by The Australian journalist James Massola. In the last seven days there have been over 100 posts, articles and interviews and nearly 2,000 tweets on the topic – discussing freedom of speech, anonymity, media power and public…
NSW has been the scene of an interesting series of events over the last week regarding the right of iPhone developers to republish NSW Rail timetables in their applications. Covered in the Sydney Morning Herald articles, CityRail puts brakes on iPhone timetable app and How RailCorp’s derailing commuter ‘apps’, last week it emerged that NSW…
As discussed in NSW MLC Penny Sharpe’s blog last week, the NSW government is trialling video Hansard for proceedings in both NSW houses. Videos are tagged via the Hansard transcripts to improve searchability – though at present the search system implemented finds the video clip, but not the precise time within the video. In addition…
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