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.
I’ve managed to organise with The Australian Centre for Social Innovation (TACSI), for two of their leading codesign practitioners to provide a presentation on codesign (a highly collaborative approach to community engagement) in Canberra from 6pm on Monday 29 April 2013. TACSI, which was seed funded by the South Australian Government, has led a number…
This month the Gov 2.0 event in Canberra has been organised at the last minute to take advantage of a rare visit to Canberra by Facebook’s Manager of Public Policy, Katie Harbath. All the details are on the Eventbrite page at: http://www.eventbrite.com.au/event/6670292023 You can also find out more about Katie from her Facebook page: www.facebook.com/katieharbath See…
I attended the Australian Science Communicator’s new media forum last night, participating on the panel as a Gov 2.0 Advocate, along with a distinguished group of science communicators and academics. One view expressed on the panel was that while scientists should communicate basic science to the public, the uninformed masses should not be involved in…
My team’s web designer forwarded me the article Good Designers Redesign, Great Designers Realign from A List Apart earlier this week. It looks at the justification behind design decisions – whether to change the design, layout and information architecture of a website or product – dividing it into two camps. Redesigners – who base their…
Arthur C Clarke, the renown science fiction writer, formulated three laws of prediction, the third of which stated; “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” We seem to have largely reached this point in society. The majority of people do not understand how an internal combustion engine works, let alone a microchip or mobile…
I’ve always been an advocate for small wins. Certainly work on the big wins in the background, but deliver ongoing small wins over time and you build the organisational cred to take on the bigger projects. I’ve also a big fan of reusing the good ideas of other and building on them. Few ‘new ideas’…
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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