This is a guest post from Jayden Castillo, a colleague of mine at Accenture and an active member of Canberra’s innovation community. Read the original post at LinkedIn: I recently attended the Australian Trucking Association (ATA)’s Hackathon aiming to target driver fatigue, aptly named ‘FatigueHack’. I’m fairly new to Hackathons, this was my second after…
There’s been enormous coverage of the new Centrelink debt letters process, whereby the Department of Human Services has automated the process of matching data from the ATO and Centrelink to try to find overpayments (but not underpayments) in welfare benefits to Australia. The automation has involved removing human quality assurance steps, which has led to…
A few months ago I interviewed with Andrew Ramsden of AlphaTransform, who has spent the last year capturing the thoughts of digital leaders around Australia (he also has a book in the works). He’s now published the interview as Episode 16 in his Alpha Geek Podcast – which is definitely worth checking out. You can…
Digital disruption is one of the buzz terms of the last few years, underscoring the increasingly rapid changes in society, industries and governments as new ideas and techniques enabled by digital technologies take hold. Photo by Tsahi Levent-Levi While some embrace this disruption (generally those doing the disrupting), for many it remains an unsettling or…
I’m very pleased to see that the Australian Public Service Commission is finally considering the introduction of ‘free range’ teams of public servants, unattached to specific agencies, who can provide specialist skills as and where needed. I proposed this type of team while I was working within government almost ten years ago now, as I…
Growth of the Chief Digital Officer (CDO) role has been incredibly rapid over the last few year, reflecting the increasing importance of technology to organisational success and survival. However not all CDO roles are created equal, with enormous variation in their responsibilities, resourcing and capability to generate change, in the form of digital transformation, in…
The weekend just past featured the 6th GovHack event, involving over 2,000 participants in 280 teams across 41 locations in Australia and New Zealand working on 439 registered projects. Effectively the world’s biggest government hackathon, GovHack includes some amazing ideas on how to solve public challenges, using open data from agencies in innovative ways. Whether…
Role models are incredibly important for humans across both their personal and professional lives. Role models can help show us and make us believe we can exceed our own boundaries. They can open doors and windows to new ideas, fostering innovation and positive change. The more restricted and limiting the environment, the more important role…
PS News has a great report on the growth of data.gov.au – linking to a report on the Department of Finance’s blog which indicates the site added 100 datasets in June. The site has also upgraded to provide more data visualisation capability for users, as well as a responsive template for improved mobile access. Most interesting…
I’ve been attending a number of networking and other business events in the last month across Canberra, and have noticed that amongst all the CEOs, CTOs, Financial Directors and similar, that there’s been no senior public servants in attendance. While there was a good turn-out of public servants at one event I’ve attended, the Life…
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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