Beth Noveck, formerly the White House Deputy CTO, has published a fantastic paper on why it is so important to evolve democratic systems for the 21st century, and providing details of how a range of governments around the world are doing so. The paper is titled “Evolving democracy for the 21st Century” and is available…
With the release of News Ltd’s Future of journalism ‘discussion’ I’ve submitted a ‘Your view’ to the site which may, or may not, be published at some point in the future. On the basis that traditional media is no longer the gatekeeper for participation in public debate I have posted my submission below. I see…
As this article in Fast Company illustrates, social media is now normal, an integrated set of tools for ongoing human interaction. We’ve known for several years that Australians are enormous users of social media, with Nielsen research indicating that the average Australian Internet user (and 95% of us are users based on Sensis figures) spends…
I’ve just read the latest speech by Annabel Crabbe on the changing face of the media and politics and thought it worth highlighting as, to my knowledge, it is the first serious piece by an Australian professional journalist in recognizing the changing face of journalism, politics and communication (including by government agencies). Her views embody…
I’ll let the video speak for itself…
John Sheridan posted a link on Twitter to a very interesting analysis of the impact of social media on the revolutions across the Arab world over the last year. The paper provides strong evidence that social media was one of the key causes of these revolutions due to its ability to place a human face…
Laws have always struggled to keep up with society, however rarely in such a vivid and public way as in Wednesday’s arrest of Sydney Morning Herald journalist, Ben Grubb, and the confiscation of his iPad. The incident, well reported in the SMH, occurred when Queensland Police responded to a complaint regarding a photo hacked from…
I’ve been reading the excellent blog post by Richard Heeks in ICTs for Development on The First e-Government Research Paper. He discusses a research paper by W. Howard Gammon on “The Automatic Handling of Office Paper Work” published in 1954 that looks that the impact of ICT on government – noting at the time that…
There’s still many government online forms and consultation systems that don’t make use of ‘human recognition’ tools such as CAPTCHA to help verify that the people filling in the forms are humans and reduce the attractiveness of online government forms to large-scale automated attacks by bot-armies. However, even where government has added CAPTCHA security, I’ve…
Alex Howard over at GovFresh has a great article and video interview with Nicholas Gruen regarding Gov 2.0 in Australia and some of the challenges of the required cultural change. Read it over at Nicholas Gruen on Gov 2.0 in Australia and cultural change.
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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