I’ve included my presentation slides below as a reference for those who have asked for a copy.
Apparently 33 of the US’s congressmen are now actively using the Twitter micro-blogging service to give timely updates of what is occurring on the floor of the US Congress. From the article, Twitter takes flight in Congress, in Federal Computer Week, the service has facilitated real-time discussion with constituents regarding legislation under consideration and appears…
This post is republished from LinkedIn with the permission of the author, Anne-Marie Elias, who attended PolicyHack as Champion and Facilitator for the Incentives To Develop Social Enterprises stream. PolicyHack happened – just like that! It was the courage of a newly appointed Assistant Minister for Innovation the Hon. Wyatt Roy MP and his bold vision to hack for change that led to one…
Some of you may have read The Cluetrain Manifesto. This is widely considered to be one of the seminal works for Web 2.0, albeit being written in 1999, before the expression Web 2.0 was coined. The Cluetrain Manifesto outlined 95 theses for how markets would develop and people behave online, forshadowing the growth of social…
You may still have time to consider attending the Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance and the Walkley Foundation’s Public Affairs Conference in Canberra from 5-6 September this year. The conference has a significant Government 2.0 and open government flavour, looking at the new toolkit of digital communication and engagement options available to public relations professionals…
This morning I attended the Innovation Month event “Google Glass as a certain reality”, hosted by the Department of Education. It was a great event, and extremely well attended (well over 100 people in the audience), featuring very engaging talks from Alexander Hayes, Matthew Purcell and seven of his students from Canberra Grammer School. The Twitter…
The NSW government has released a catalogue of over 400 datasets at data.nsw.gov.au, making it probably the second largest government data catalogue in the world (after data.gov in the US). From the discussions I’ve seen and taken part in, this is far beyond what was expected. Many of the datasets are only available as PDFs…
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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