The ACT Chief Minister’s Office, in conjunction with Bang The Table, has launched a consultation asking Canberra residents how they prefer to be engaged by the government. I’ve been taking a look at some of the comments being made and there are some very clear preferences for not using telephone consultation, ensuring that people get…
EDITED: Monday 9 June, 2009: The Open Government Public Sphere Camp has been renamed ‘Government 2.0 Public Sphere Camp’. This more effectively communicates the content and purpose of the event. Other details have not changed. The second of Senator Kate Lundy’s Public Sphere series has been combined with the Canberra BarCamp unorganisers’ Gov 2.0 concept…
Around four weeks ago the Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy (DBCDE) launched its first online consultation with 11-17 year old children on the topic of Cyberbullying. Announced via the Australian Labour Party’s website back on 4 May, Youth to advise on cyber-bullying and cyber-threats, the consultation involves 15 schools and 305 students…
The Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC) has launched an online forum allowing Australians to provide their views and ask questions about human rights in Australia. Hosted by Open Forum, the discussion forum is open until Friday 26 June 2009. 29/05/09CORRECTION: Per the comment from Leon below, this discussion forum is not being operated…
The title of this post is derived from the question the US government is currently asking American citizens in the Open Government Brainstorm. The site allows individuals to suggest ideas for open government, and rate those of other – providing a prioritisation list that the US Federal government can then choose to act on. Other…
I’ve previously discussed how actively the US has taken up Twitter as a communications tool in government circles – as have the UK, Canada, Israel and several other countries. Looking at the website Who Politicians Tweet, there are now more than 130 US Federal politicians using Twitter, or around 24% of all 535 elected members…
The APH website team are currently holding a survey seeking views on how they should redesign their site to better meet the needs of users. As reported in Senator Kate Lundy’s blog, Redesign of the APH website – your thoughts, The website for Parliament of Australia – www.aph.gov.au is about to be redesigned. The first…
Illustrating one of the ways in which parliamentarians are now actively engaging the public online, Senator Kate Lundy has posted in her blog about a series of online ‘Public Spheres’ she will be hosting to, facilitate regular topics of interest to both the general public and to the government. Discussed in her post, Public Sphere…
At about the time this post will appear on my blog I’ll be speaking at the Hitwise/Australian Marketing Institute breakfast in Canberra on a topic related to Maximising engagement online whilst reducing costs. My presentation will explore ways of identifying where audiences are going online to help organisations form appropriate strategies to target them with…
Crispin has published a post, Why (Government) Organisations Should be Engaging their Community Online, over at his Online Community Engagement blog providing eleven reasons why government should be engaging its community online. This is a nice piece and I thought I might add a few more that spring to my mind. Global reachThere are many…
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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