Similar to my listing of twitter accounts from Australian Federal, State and local government agencies, I’m attempting to put together a listing of Australia’s government-run Facebook pages and YouTube channels. This is a big job and I’d appreciate your help. If your agency operates one or more Facebook pages or YouTube channels, or you are…
The US government recently launched Challenge.gov, a site allowing US agencies to manage and promote challenges, prizes and competitions where the community is asked to help solve a wide range of public governance issues – all in one central location. The challenge concept is a simple one. By tapping into the wisdom of crowds governments…
The other day I came across a couple of experienced communications professionals who were unaware of Lolcats and several other well-known internet memes. I believe it is quite important to understand the language, trends and traditions of a medium that you wish to use to communicate with and engage your audiences, so in the interests…
Bang The Table has released an excellent video piece on their moderation system (titled 24/7 moderation), including a part where Matt Crozier (one of their founders) says that independent moderation can be very important for government organisations in order to avoid risks of claims of censorship when they must remove some comments from a forum,…
The government for the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) has just launched a consultation asking for the community’s views on what the city should be like in twenty years time. The Canberra 2030 consultation has gone some way to integrate Web 2.0 tools. It allows residents to submit ideas and vote on the ideas of others…
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…
This weekend Canberra is hosting a Start-up Camp, a three day event where entrepreneurs form teams and develop new online business concepts. This type of event could be an opportunity for government to tap into smart and skilled people, gathering and testing new ideas. In this camp there are six projects underway, as listed below:…
The mash-up (or Apps) competitions we’ve seen in Australia thus far have been broad and largely untargeted. Governments have released a bunch of public sector datasets and invited developers to create a bunch of applications related to that data for their jurisdiction, but without a highly specific goal or purpose in mind, other than creating…
BuzzNumbers, an Australian social media monitoring service, has launched the free BuzzElection service monitoring election mentions online. BuzzElection includes a tool tracking the online discussion of election issues by the level of interest, state by state analysis and an analysis of the most influential tweeters in the election debate. This type of tool allows the…
According to a report in FutureGov, Australia’s GCIO talks tough at FutureGov Forum, Ann Steward has urged public servants to actively embrace Government 2.0 in their agencies. The article stated that, Steward said that although a lot of good work was being done, agencies needed to identify the internal barriers to embracing Gov 2.0, and…
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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