Over the last year I’ve observed a couple of good and bad trends in governments around Australia. The first – the good trend – is towards the recognition that social media is a valid and significant channel for government communication and engagement. This has led to the creation of a new type of role, the…
Crowdsourcing often seems to be a high stress area for organisations, who fear what might happen if they allowed their users to design their products and services. However what is often forgotten is that it’s not about handing over the design process, it is about sharing it as a codesign process – combining the brain…
I’ve been a little busy this week, what with my wedding on Saturday, however here, belatedly, is my presentation from last Friday at RightClick. Gov 2.0 in a gov 1.0 world View more presentations from Craig Thomler.
In what I believe might be a first in Australia, the ACT Government has released the requirements and wireframes for its upcoming open government website for public scrutiny and comment at its Time to Talk website. Essentially the ACT government has decided to allow the community to give feedback on the upcoming website’s proposed functionality…
Fresh from my session (which was tweeted and filmed – will be up in a few days and Ross Dawson published a great article on James Kleimt’s talk “The fabulous case study of Queensland Police on Facebook“ and James Dellow has published his slides), I’m in the third session for the IPAA conference, in the…
It can be difficult to get a perspective on the Government 2.0 activities in non-English speaking countries. However thanks to Francis Irving, who posted an account in the My Society email list in the UK, forwarded to the OpenAustralia Community list in Australia, here’s a very interesting mini case-study on one initiative in Latvia. In…
One of the assumptions often applied to government funding for aid and governance reform programs is that the funding must be granted to established corporations, NGOs or not-for-profits that have hierarchies, governance structures, offices and methodologies for achieving outcomes. It only makes sense – when investing government money into development activities there needs to be…
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…
Crowdsourcing is often used in government for ‘light’ topics, such as selecting a logo or sourcing audience-created videos or photos. However it also offers enormous potential for informing and developing government policy in areas that are considered both sensitive and serious – such as security. About a year ago the Atlantic Council released its recommendations…
For May’s Gov 2.0 Canberra lunch we’re joined by Allison Hornery, co-founder of CivicTEC and co-host of Gov 2.0 radio Allison will be speaking about the Government 2.0 trends and activities that she’s observed around the world in recent travels and projects. Note that due to issues caused by no-shows at previous lunches, I am…
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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