I’ve included my presentation slides below as a reference for those who have asked for a copy.
There’s been a lot of ‘bitsa’ initiatives in Australia around the online channel as both the private and public sector come to terms with the new online options to support communication, collaboration, consultation and engagement. However it’s been rare to see effective integrated use of online channels in a co-ordinated fashion to support ongoing initiatives….
In what I believe might be a first in Australia, the ACT Government has released the requirements and wireframes for its upcoming open government website for public scrutiny and comment at its Time to Talk website. Essentially the ACT government has decided to allow the community to give feedback on the upcoming website’s proposed functionality…
The Gershon Review of the Australian Government’s Use of Information and Communication Technology report has been released by the Department of Finance, and it makes for an interesting read.Peter Gershon’s key findings were that, 1. There is weak governance of pan-government issues related to ICT. 2. Agency governance mechanisms are weak in respect of their…
Fresh from my session (which was tweeted and filmed – will be up in a few days and Ross Dawson published a great article on James Kleimt’s talk “The fabulous case study of Queensland Police on Facebook“ and James Dellow has published his slides), I’m in the third session for the IPAA conference, in the…
As posted in the Online Community Consultation blog, Newcastle Council was recently stung by having hackers take over its online consultation community and redirect the site to an independent site containing adult content. As discussed in the post, Red faces in Newcastle, the lesson to be learnt is to ensure effective security is in place…
Something I’ve had on the backburner for awhile has been the development of a better way to share and compare political party policies. If you’ve ever looked at the policy platforms of different political parties in the same election campaign, you’d recognise that each writes their policy in a different format, including different information and…
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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