There’s been discussion on Twitter over the last day about whether Australian government should be building online platforms, such as a video aggregation and distribution service, URL shortcut tools (which Victoria have done) or collective infrastructure for hosting and developing all government websites. This has been an area of on-and-off discussion for over a year…
We’ve finished up Pat’s workshop with a discussion of potential future projects, working on a Citizen 2.0 basis. Three we discussed are listed below… Future project ideas Save me Personal safety initiative – a smartphone application with a single red button ‘save me’. If you believe you are in danger you press the button. It…
We have bid farewell to Andrew Stott and welcomed Patrick McCormick to lead the second workshop at the CEBIT Gov 2.0 conference. One of the first things we’ve done is an exercise in information overload that is easy to replicate in your own office. Get a group of four people, nominate one as the subject….
In this post-industrial society many of us are knowledge workers, using information as a key input to create new products, services and ideas. Particularly in government knowledge is critical. That’s why government departments invest a great deal of resources into research, stakeholder engagement and community consultation. Without a reliable and diverse flow of information government…
Last Monday (4 October) one of the US’s most loved brands tried to introduce its new logo. The company went about it in the traditional, time-honoured way. Marketing staff had consulted internal stakeholders (who thought after twenty years the logo looked a little tired), considered the research and wrote a brief. Working with a creative…
Last year Australia’s Gov 2.0 Taskforce initiated the GovHack event, produced by Web Directions, to showcase what could be done with open government data. This year I’m glad to see that GovHack is returning – as part of Amped, a free 10 hour hack day, in Sydney’s PowerHouse Museum on Sat 16th of October. Whether…
I thought I’d share a post brought to my attention by Geoff Mason via the Online Communicators Forum group in LinkedIn Written by Jared Stein at Flexknowlogy, Defining “Creepy Treehouse” explores the pitfalls when an organisation creates an online social environment. The article defines the term “Creepy Treehouse” in several ways, including as the following:…
Some of you may be aware of the Mercury 10 national counter-terrorism exercise currently being held in Australia, involving a variety of government bodies. While this type of scenario is only one of potentially many different types of crises or disasters that could occur, natural disasters, pandemics, rocks from space, and so on, it does…
As covered in The Australian’s article, Australian Bureau of Statistics embraces world of blogs and wikis, the ABS has implemented an internal collaboration platform supporting blogs, wikis and collaborative documents. The article reports that 30% of staff have begun using the wiki and blog functions. If reported correctly this reflects a huge demand for internal…
AGIMO’s latest blog post, Welcome to the WCAG 2.0 Community of Expertise (CoE), has invited those with an interest or involvement with accessibility matters to join a new Community of Expertise or provide guest posts to the AGIMO blog. Related to the endorsement of WCAG 2.0 (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0) by the Australian government…
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