Steve Davies over at OzLoop has just published a thesis by Dr Derek Ambrose that looks at the topic of leadership in the Australian public sector. It is a fascinating read (particularly from pages 68-80 and 113-185 including the conclusion from pp160), and provides insights into challenges the public sector has experienced in encouraging new…
While this post is a little outside the usual topics I cover in this blog, I thought it touched on enough to publish it. Also it is so long that The Drum may not publish it as a comment on their article Murdoch kills paper, bodycount continues – and note that if it is published,…
Dr Travis Kemp of the Teleran Group presented at the National Stakeholder Engagement and Community Relations Officers’ Forum 2011 in Melbourne a couple of weeks ago. He provided an interesting view on how people identify for or against certain policies and worldviews, how bad humans are at accessing risks, and illustrated how it was possible…
Fierce Government IT reports that Chief of US Naval Operations Adm. Gary Roughead says Ignoring social media is a ‘strategic error of the most basic nature’. In the US the military has been an active adopter of social media, with online channels seen as a critical theatre of influence. Most members of the US armed…
A couple of weeks ago I blogged about 21st Century society vs 19th Century laws and policing. My post discussed the interview and arrest of Ben Grubb, an Australian Technology Journalist, by Queensland Police in the context of the challenges for legislators and law enforcement in remaining current and relevant in a quickly digitalising world….
The Secretary of Prime Minister and Cabinet, Terry Moran, gave a speech last week to the Graduate School of Government, University of Sydney. Titled Surfing the next wave of reform, his speech discussed the public service’s critical role in supporting and enabling government reform and good governance, and what would be expected of the APS…
I’ve been reading the excellent blog post by Richard Heeks in ICTs for Development on The First e-Government Research Paper. He discusses a research paper by W. Howard Gammon on “The Automatic Handling of Office Paper Work” published in 1954 that looks that the impact of ICT on government – noting at the time that…
Traditionally one of the roles of the ‘free press’ is to keep governments honest, to shine a light on inappropriate conduct, poor decisions and uncover corruption, falsehoods and backroom deals. With the advent of social media I’ve been watching this role slowly twist into new forms and relationships. One of the more interesting developments has…
Votaire said, “Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good”. This is often quoted in politics where the acts of creating, selling, passing, implementing and maintaining complex policies can result in challenging decisions between perfect, yet practically impossible and practical but only good outcomes. I’d like to suggest a similar saying for bureaucrats,…
Alex Howard over at GovFresh has a great article and video interview with Nicholas Gruen regarding Gov 2.0 in Australia and some of the challenges of the required cultural change. Read it over at Nicholas Gruen on Gov 2.0 in Australia and cultural change.
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