As posted in the Online Community Consultation blog, Newcastle Council was recently stung by having hackers take over its online consultation community and redirect the site to an independent site containing adult content. As discussed in the post, Red faces in Newcastle, the lesson to be learnt is to ensure effective security is in place…
As discussed in the Online Community Consultation blog, the CTO of Seattle, Bill Schrier, has made an interesting post in his blog discussing How Web 2.0 Will Transform Local Government Bill’s post runs through a broad set of tools and how they can be applied by local government – equally of value for at state…
I’m not a fan of terms such as Web 2.0, which seems to refer to any internet development since 2001. The web is an evolving medium, just like any other. We don’t see the term ‘Television 2.0’ (or 5.0 considering all the generational changes) used to refer to reality TV. I’m even less comfortable with…
Paul Johnston has posted in the Connected Republic a blog post, Web 2.0 and the Public Sector, discussing Cisco’s draft paper on Government 2.0, Realizing the Potential of the Connected Republic (PDF) from the US Public Services Summit in December. The paper provides many examples of practical uses of Web 2.0 tools and techniques by…
The eGovernment Resource Centre has tipped me off that the Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy has set up a consultative Future directions blog for two weeks with the purpose of soliciting public comments that will contribute to the development of a Future directions paper for the digital economy. It’s good to see…
Following AGIMO’s Web 2.0 in government seminar this morning, what is your opinion on how well Australian government has been implementing Web 2.0? I’m writing this before the event and will not be attending due to other commitments (but are sending several of my team), and so are very interested in what others thought.
Given that a case study on Mosman council is being included in today’s Web 2.0 in Government seminar being run by AGIMO, I thought it was worth referring people to this article in Govtech by Bill Shrier, the CTO of Seattle. The article, per its title, discusses How Web 2.0 will transform local councils. Rightly…
It can be a challenge for government agencies to get the level of buyin required to build or buy the infrastructure required for online consultation. Questions get asked at senior levels around security and privacy, the risk of consultations being hijacked, the level of resourcing required, the concern about publicly getting few (relevant)responses or contrarywise…
I’ve been reading an article in the New York Times regarding the public competition Netflix has been holding. The competition, named the Netflix Prize, has a prize of US$1 million for the individual or group who can improve their movie/TV recommendations engine by 10%. The article, If you liked this, sure to like that, discusses…
The British government is funding a campaign, CivicSurf to teach British local politicians how to blog. It would also be useful to public servants in understanding and communicating the benefits of blogging (as well as how to become bloggers themselves). Thanks to Stap isi for referring me to the site. The campaign includes the website,…
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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