The UK government last week launched alpha.gov.uk, an experimental site that explores different ways of presenting government information online to better support citizens. Designed based on recommendations from the 2010 Review Report led by Martha Lane Fox, which was intended to revolutionise the UK Government’s online services, the site provides a glimpse into a citizen-centric…
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…
Here’s the current line-up for BarCamp Canberra presentations today. LT1 – Big Theatre 9.30 How to deliver a kick ass presentation 9.50 Make Hack Void Community Update 10.10 Interact, robotics, wearable computing 10.30 Minecraft 10.50 Communication Science and Skepticism 11.10 E-Dialogue 11.30 Possible Skeptitechnical Improv 11.50 Enabling Digital Society – the gov part 12.10 Web…
Listening to the US’s National Public Radio (NPR) last week, I caught a story about how Chinese citizens are now using micro-blogging services (similar to Twitter) to communicate about missing or stolen children and, in some cases to locate them. According to The Guardian article, Chinese parents turn to microblogging in hunt for missing children,…
Based on information I’ve collected over the last year, and using the data collected via the Vic Government, I have prepared a Google Spreadsheet designed to identify who in the Commonwealth Government is using which social media channels in their activities. It is fairly basic at this stage; it is only Commonwealth for now (sorry…
I hear a great deal of discussion by colleagues (and have engaged in it myself) about the lack of trust within organisations. “There’s all this process because our senior leadership doesn’t trust its own staff.” “If they’d just trust the [Communications/Web/IT/Finance/Procurement/Program/Policy] team – we know what we are doing and have some very talented people…
I’ve just updated my list of Australian government blogs, checking the list I had is still valid, looking for others (frankly they’re not that easy to find, you need to promote them and link to them from your sites guys) and checking the post frequency and level of comments. My assessment is that Australian public…
If organizations that used Facebook to disseminate their message were actual people, NASA would be the captain of the football team and the class president, the White House would be his cheerleader girlfriend and the the Department of Commerce would be the nerd they both pushed into a locker… Technews Daily Digital IQ Index: Public…
What do you think Australia’s Government 2.0 future will look like? Today Kate Carruthers and I have launched a new project; one we’d like you to be part of. Government 2.0 is gaining momentum around the world. Not a fad management approach or minor adjustment to policy and processes, Government 2.0 is underpinned by one…
I attended Gartner’s Government Day on Monday for their ITXPO Symposium (I was on a panel), and it was very interesting to hear the views expressed about social media. Below are some of the quotes I recorded from Gartner analysts and senior IT leaders. They are not all verbatim and have been reordered to flow…
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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