Almost exactly a year ago (on 28 October 2009) I posted a set of four videos from the ‘Shift happens’ and ‘Did you know?’ series, mapping the changes in society and growth of the internet through a range of statistics. It is time to update this – with the latest videos on the same topic…
Four years ago Government 2.0 was a barely known concept in Australia and social media was regarded by many in Canberra as a youth fad. President Obama made social media ‘cool’ for politicians by using it as a key plank in his run for office. Since his election he has spearheaded a Gov 2.0 agenda…
Google, Facebook, Twitter, Wikipedia, Google Maps, WordPress. What do all these online services have in common? They are all part of the world’s virtual infrastructure, providing collective public goods that many people, including many Australians, use on a daily basis – whether for the storage, organisation, distribution or discovery of information. They are also all…
In their Global Faces and Networked Places report (PDF), Neilsen has found that social networks and blogs (Member Communities) are now the 4th most popular online category – ahead of personal email. In December 2008 Neilsen found that 59% of online Australians used social networks and blogs, compared to 80% in Brazil, 69% in the…
The Register has published an article, Google force feeds Web 2.0 to US gov, providing some key insights into challenges the US government is facing in implementing government 2.0 (or egovernment) initiatives – largely due to embedded policies and processes within legislation and the bureaucracy. Some of these issues, and potentially other issues that do…
Often those of us within government, and those on the outside, can form an impression that the process of change, innovation and the adoption of new ideas in government can be very slow. However sometimes it is worth a reality check – while the world appears to be moving extremely fast, in some ways really…
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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