The ACT government has announced that their first Virtual Community Cabinet will be held today from 12:30 – 1:30pm on the topic of Public Transport, using Twitter as the discussion tool. To follow the discussion keep an eye on #actvcc, the hashtag for the event. The ACT Cabinet will be in the Cabinet room, following…
Steve Davies posted a very interesting piece on OzLoop last week, which with his permission I’ve posted below. The original, including comments from one of Australia’s Senators, is available at http://apsozloop.ning.com/profiles/blogs/are-australian-politicians Are Australian politicians really comfortable with Gov 2.0 and social media? I thought a lot about this post. On the one hand it is…
A couple of weeks ago I had one of the most traumatic experiences a citizen can have with government, the type that can shake one’s faith with the system to the core… My garbage wasn’t collected on schedule. Just like any other week I put out my garbage and recycling bins on Wednesday night. On…
While this post is a little outside the usual topics I cover in this blog, I thought it touched on enough to publish it. Also it is so long that The Drum may not publish it as a comment on their article Murdoch kills paper, bodycount continues – and note that if it is published,…
Tonight the Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research has released the Public Sector Innovation Toolkit website. The website is part of the APS-wide innovation agenda, designed to help public servants develop and apply innovative solutions. Published under a Creative Commons Attribution license, the Innovation Toolkit is being used to, provide information about the innovation…
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…
Thanks to links from John Sheridan (@sherro58) and Kerry Webb (@kwebb), I’ve been reading some of the latest articles and blog posts talking about Twitter. They attempt to analyse and ‘place’ Twitter on the spectrum of human communication – discussing whether the service is more like text or like speech. They also discuss the potential…
A couple of weeks ago I blogged about 21st Century society vs 19th Century laws and policing. My post discussed the interview and arrest of Ben Grubb, an Australian Technology Journalist, by Queensland Police in the context of the challenges for legislators and law enforcement in remaining current and relevant in a quickly digitalising world….
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…
There’s lots of interesting debates going on about ownership at the moment. Are the products and content you buy and enjoy owned by you? Do you have the right to switch formats, modify hardware, install software or make a personal copy? Sony has been fighting for years to prevent customers from modding their Playstations, arguing…
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