Worth a read at How councils are crowdfunding community projects.
In 2008 the Victorian eGovernment Resource Centre was one of the ten finalists for PoliticsOnline and World eDemocracy Forum‘s international award ‘The 10 Who Are Changing the World of Internet and Politics’. Prior to that GetUp was in the Top 10 twice, in 2006 (David Madden & Jeremy Heimans) and 2007 (Brett Solomon). The ACTU…
If you’re not watching the #gov2au hashtag, you might be interested in the latest support information from Twitter – how to use the service effectively for newsrooms. Twitter for Newsrooms provides information on using Twitter to search for news sources and breaking news, how to tweet effectively and engage an audience, branding, publishing via Twitter…
It’s party time at the Department of Finance as GovCMS continues its growth surge, from 78 sites less than a month ago to 102 sites this week. This means the Drupal-based platform is tracking 70% ahead of its 2016 targets, demonstrating how successful a well-engineered and supported digital platform can be in government if well…
This morning at GovInnovate 2014, Mark Headd from Accela spoke on the topic of civic hacking – a movement that involves people helping improve their society through spontaneous and unpaid volunteering. He highlighted the example of a group in the UK who, while out on a night out, found a broken bike rack and set…
Here’s a very interesting presentation from Linkedin‘s Principal Software Engineer, Nick Dellamaggiore, exploring the ‘guts’ of one of my favourite networking sites. It provides some insight into what is required to deliver an effective social media site. Note that it is technically orientated, so can be hard to follow without the context of the speaker….
Commentators have said that major political parties have “failed to harness the full potential of social media in the 2010 Election” or broken the “cardinal rule of social media” due to only engaging in one way (outbound) communication. This is despite recent global examples of the effectiveness of online engagement in shifting votes, such as…
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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