I see a lot of examples of Gov 1.0 and Gov 2.0 these days, but one I saw recently struck me an an object example of the differences between these approaches – how far Australian government has come, and how far there is left to go. In May the Victorian government quietly launched its ICT…
Governments love big announcements. Billions of dollars in spending, bold new projects and initiatives, launches and major events. These types of announcements are believed to be the best way to cut through the media storm, attract journalist interest and public attention. These big announcements appear to work well for traditional media channels, that are always…
A matter I’ve been mulling over for some time has been whether Australian public servants should comment on the operations of other government departments – at whatever jurisdictional level. I am aware of several cases where individual public servants have commented on a difficult personal situation they experienced with another agency and received an informal…
An extremely thought-provoking post about The street as platform written by Dan Hill in February 2008 has been brought to my attention by Darren Sharp. The post explores the virtual life of a city street, all the digital data exchanging hands between systems, infrastructure, vehicles and people in the street unseen to human eyes. While…
Many people consider Google as a search engine, or maybe as a search and email system, with a few extra frills like maps. However with over 1 billion searches a day, Google is not only aggregating the world’s knowledge, it is learning about the world’s citizens, what interests them, how they think and feel –…
With over 11 million active players, World of Warcraft is one of the largest massive multiplayer online games in the world. In fact if it were a country it would be 75th – just behind Zimbabwe and ahead of Rwanda. Back before the 2007 US Presidential election, a small study was carried out amongst US…
The Public Sector Innovation Network email list (run by the Department of Innovation – you can subscribe from their website) sends out some very interesting articles about innovation every week. This week one in particular caught my eye, a piece entitled The Biggest Obstacle to Innovation that looks at inertia and how this may have…
On Sunday I was made aware of a Seek advertisement for a ‘web and social media expert’ position in a ‘VERY high-profile government client’ in the ACT. The ad (which is here), seeks someone with, a strong understanding of how the web and social media operate, the ability to contextualise that within the Government’s needs…
There are now over 1.7 billion internet users in the world, sending more than 270 billion emails each day. Over 400 million people use Facebook each month (about 50% of them daily). Over 50 million Tweets are sent each day and over 75 million people visited Twitter’s site in January 2010. There are approximately 3…
The Digital Policy Council at Digital Daya has released a thought-provoking report on the incidence of social media use by government leadership around the world, characterised through the use of Twitter, entitled Real Leaders Tweet (PDF) Considering the 163 countries recognised by the United Nations, the report indicates that 24 (15%) already have leaders or…
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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