Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has pre-announced the launch of his new Climate Change blog with the following Tweet via the KevinRuddPM Twitter stream, Starting my blog tomorrow on Climate Change. Like to hear your ideas on practical action. KRudd Another step for the Australian Government into the online consultation space, it will be interesting to…
I highlighted the online Netflix prize quite some time ago as an example of how an organisation could work with its community to drive innovation. Netflix has a longstanding prize of US$1,000,000 on offer for the group who could improve their online movie/TV recommendations engine by at least 10%. The goal is to substantially improve…
It is common practice for government Departments to go to consultants when they need specific skills or experience. The strategy is often to draw on this expertise to get started, transfer as much knowledge as possible to staff and move forward. However sometimes it can be more cost-effective to draw on the existing skills of…
The Government 2.0 Taskforce are asking for the public to vote on their preference of user-submitted banners for the taskforce website. There are 24 banners to choose from, of a very high standard. While this vote is non-binding (meaning that the Taskforce reserve the right to pick a different banner to the public) the process…
In 2007 a combined SMS and online electoral monitoring system went into action in Nigeria to report electoral fraud. Based on increasing mobile use (as fixed infrastructure is very limited in the country), mobile phones were able to provide voters with a voice when ballots were not conducted fairly. Similar systems are now being used…
The US government has taken the first step towards meeting President Obama’s pledge to make US taxpayer funded information freely available online in reusable formats late last week with the launch of the Data.gov website. At launch the site featured dozens of datasets from around 20 Federal agencies ready to be used by the public,…
Beth Noveck, director of President Obama’s open government initiative, said in a recent essay, Our institutions of governance are characterized by a longstanding culture of professionalism in which bureaucrats – not citizens – are the experts. Until recently, we have viewed this arrangement as legitimate because we have not practically been able to argue otherwise….
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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