Worth a read at How councils are crowdfunding community projects.
It’s come to my attention that the BushfireConnect team were unsuccessful in securing a small grant under the National Disaster Resilience Grant Scheme to support their work in providing emergency support during Australia’s bushfire season. I’ve been told that the reason the grant was rejected was that, “as the VIC Emergency Services do not yet have a Social…
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…
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…
“We are all cyborgs now” claims Amber Case in her January 2011 TED Director Talk (see her video below). The concept of humans as purely biological beings ended long ago, potentially 3,000 years ago, with the first documented prosthetic limb on an Egyptian Mummy. However the widespread use of mechanical or electronic devices to aid…
These days the majority of postal mail people in Australia receive is either advertising material or bill. In the future, this may be cut even further to only ads. In the European Union there’s a major project underway to create a whole-of-government standard for all EU government invoicing, that can also be propagated across the…
Are government communicators – and their agencies – perceived as authentic? If you believe the Authentic Enterprise report from the Arthur W. Page society, this is one of the most critical questions for government in the digital age. The report looks at three converging trends for corporate and government communications in the 21st society, The…
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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