Similar Posts
When government crowdsourcing doesn’t work (careful you may laugh)
Here’s an excellent example of where crowdsourcing doesn’t work. The City of Austin decided to crowdsource a new name for its Solid Waste Services Department. It received plenty of ideas and votes, however few were meaningful or useful – though a number are quite funny. However don’t take this as a lesson that crowdsourcing doesn’t…
It’s past time for governments to mandate security levels for all internet-connected devices
On the tail of the 2016’s Census issues dealing with four relatively small distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks, the US East Coast was recently hit by a massive DDOS attack that succeeded in taking offline, or at least slowing down, major sites – from Amazon, Twitter and Spotify to PayPal and Netflix. This major…
Liveblogging ‘Future Citizen Engagement for Government Forum Asia 2012’ Day 1
Over the next few days I am in Singapore at Liquid Learning’s Future Citizen Engagement for Government Forum Asia conference. I’ll be liveblogging the presentations today and may liveblog parts of tomorrow, when I am chairing, speaking and on a panel. Liveblog: Future Citizen Engagement for Government Forum Asia
Google trends launched for websites
Google Trends is a great tool for tracking the ebb and flow of ideas, products and personalities in the public eye. I’ve used it, for example, to track customer awareness of an agency name change – which gave my agency a good handle on the speed at which our communications was shifting perceptions. This is…
UK makes learning to program mandatory in all state-run primary and secondary schools from September
In the UK, from September this year (the start of their school year), all primary and secondary students in state-run schools will be taught how to program computers as a mandatory part of their national curriculum. Announced as part of the UK’s ‘Year of Code’, the introduction of this new mandatory computing curriculum was necessary,…
View the UK open policy presentation from Gov 2.0 Canberra lunchtime event in February 2013
Gavin Tapp has been doing his magic so, with the support of the ACT Government, Ben Fowkes’ presentation on open policy in the UK from February’s Canberra Gov 2.0 event is now available for your viewing pleasure.