If you’ve ever been required to collect ideas from the public – or wanted to – have you considered the use of a ‘ideas market’ or similar system for collecting. allowing comments on, prioritising and reporting back on the use of ideas. Dell and Starbucks both use these systems extensively to seek public ideas to…
Following the lead of the Gov 2.0 Taskforce’s MashupAustralia and NSW’s Apps4nsw competition (which runs until 24 March), Victoria’s Minister for Information and Communications Technology, John Lenders, has announced the ‘Apps my state’ competition. In his media release, Minister Lenders said that, “App My State is a competition to encourage software developers and members of…
Just in case you missed this the other week, on 21 January the UK launched the data.gov.uk website with 2,500 government datasets available for access and reuse by the public. This leapfrogged the US’s data.gov, which now has around 1,000 datasets available. The UK site also extends the government open data space in several other…
The organisers of the US-based ‘Apps for Democracy’ competition have released a guide for other governments and organisations on how to run their own similar contests. The Guide to Creating Your Own Apps for Democracy contains many useful tips based on how to setup a content and what worked and didn’t work in the contests…
January 21 was the one year anniversary of the US Government’s open government initiative, measured from when President Obama released his first memorandum in office, committing the US government to an approach involving openness, transparency and collaboration. In recognition of this anniversary, Delib, a UK Open Government consultancy, has released a short documentary about the…
A recent report from talent management companies Human Capital Institute and Saba indicates that a majority of US government agencies are using social media. The report estimates that 66% of US government agencies use social media tools, with 65% using more than one tool. A graph from the report (see below) indicates that the US…
On Tuesday afternoon the Gov 2.0 Taskforce released its final report, Engage: Getting on with Government 2.0. As stated in their blog post, the Taskforce handed the report to the responsible Ministers who immediately authorised its public release – a sign of great confidence in the report! The report generally followed the recommendations and included…
I’ll be chatting with Adriel Hampton on Gov 2.0 radio early next week to give US Gov 2.0 people some operational insights into Gov 2.0 happenings in Australia. Gov 2.0 radio is a weekly podcast on collaborative and transparent government hosted by Adriel, a noted US-based Gov 2.0 and new media strategist. I expect the…
I’m reliably informed (via a public tweet and the Taskforce site) that the Gov 2.0 Taskforce draft report should be out at some point today. The Taskforce Chairman, Dr Nicholas Gruen, says in the announcement linked above that it will be publicly available for comment until at least Wednesday 17 December. Keep an eye on…
The Centre for Policy Development, a non-partisan Australian think tank, has released the Upgrading Democracy Edition of Insight, their enewsletter. With a foreword by Minister Lindsay Tanner and articles from Senator Kate Lundy and Gov 2.0 Taskforce member Martin Stewart-Weeks – amongst a set of other fantastic essays, I recommend reading this Insight to gain…
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