On Monday, 27 September 2010, Grog, of the Grog’s Gamut blog, was outed by James Massola of The Australian as Greg Jericho, a federal public servant who happens to blog on matters of politics. Massola, in his article Controversial political blogger unmasked as a federal public servant, has questioned Grog’s right to challenge journalistic views,…
In what is looking like another milestone for Government 2.0 in Australia, the Media140 #OzPolitics event on 23 September at Old Parliament House has an amazing lineup of speakers exploring how the real-time web is changing the face of Australian politics and government engagement. It features a range of presentations as well as five panels,…
The Guardian reported in July that the UK government has released details on the costs of developing, staffing and hosting their major government websites. The data includes web traffic, accessibility and user opinions on the websites. This type of data is very useful when modeling the costs of developing and operating government sites, allowing agencies…
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…
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…
Victoria has maintained its lead over other Australian states in the adoption of Government 2.0 through today’s release of the Government 2.0 Action Plan – Victoria. The Plan outlines four priority areas for Gov 2.0: Driving adoption in the VPS > Leadership Engaging communities and citizens > Participation Opening up government > Transparency Building capability…
I’ve been looking over my posts for the last year and thinking about how many people may have missed some because they didn’t notice them for the few days they were on the front page. So I thought I should highlight some of the most read posts in my blog over the last year. How…
I was reading an article at Mashable today about What Facebook gets right and it got me thinking. Facebook, despite its many failings, does some things very well. Things that if governments also did well would help them be successful in the 21st Century. Consider if Facebook was a country, with 500 million citizens –…
Late last year the Australian and international media was full of stories about the demise of Twitter. Articles talked about how the service’s growth had slowed – perhaps even reversed – and that there were clear signs that people were tired and looking for the next big thing. Six months later and Twitter has released…
According to the Sydney Morning Herald article, Twitter debate for NSW leaders Keneally, O’Farrell and Rhiannon, NSW’s political leaders will stage Australia’s first political leadership debate via Twitter this morning at 11.15am. Featuring NSW Premier Kristina Keneally from the Labor party, Opposition Leader Barry O’Farrell from the Liberal party and Greens party leader Lee Rhiannon…
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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