The Chief Minister of the ACT has announced via Twitter that the next Virtual Community Cabinet (on Twitter) will be held on 30 August at 7pm AEST. As last time it will include all four ACT Cabinet Ministers, @KatyGMLA, @ABarrMLA, @SimonCorbell and @JoyBurchMLA. It will use the same hashtag, #actvcc. Participants do not require a…
In Australia many people still treat microblogging tools such as Twitter with scepticism and scorn, or even dismiss it outright as a tool for ‘discussing breakfast’. While the more negative views are beginning to shift, due to the active role Twitter played in the Brisbane floods, Australians still largely consider microblogs as a tool for…
A Govcamp is an unconference specifically for government people, discussing government-related topics (usually, but not always related to community engagement, IT, the internet and Gov 2.0 topics). They’ve become a regular feature of the landscape in the UK, US, Canada and even New Zealand, however there’s been less interest in Australia for running one –…
There seems to be a consistent supply of people new to Government 2.0 filtering through the various events I track around Australia. Whether commercial conferences, ‘Masterclasses’, government-supported events or university courses – many (though not all) now providing decent ‘101’ or introductory information and case studies on social media use for government and even on…
Below is a live feed of the ACT Virtual Community Cabinet, on from 12.30pm to 1:30pm today, Tuesday 26 July, 2011 By capturing the tweets via CoverItLive they’re stored publicly beyond the lifespan for tweets. UPDATE: Due to load issues with my blog I’ve removed the CoverItLive replay from this post. My archive of the…
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…
Ovum has published an interesting article by Steve Hodgkinson on Co-production: the new face of public services. In the article Hodgkinson concludes that, Agencies now need to nurture and embrace co-production by design, or risk either failing to harness this new resource or being left behind like old-style monopolists in an increasingly dynamic and competitive…
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…
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…
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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