Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) has copped a downpour of headlines for spending A$96.5 million on what some gleefully call “a website.” That framing is catchy – but it’s wrong. The public‑facing interface – the bit we click – cost about A$4.1 million. The heavy lifting was a complete rebuild and testing of the systems…
There’s been a lot of attention paid to AI ethics over the last few years due to concerns that use of artificial intelligence may further entrench and amplify the impact of subconscious and conscious biases. This is very warranted. Much of the data humans have collected over the last few hundred years is heavily impacted…
Over the last two and a half years I’ve been deep in a startup using generative artificial intelligence (AI that writes text) to help solve the challenge organisations face in producing and consuming useful content. This has given me practical insights into the state of the AI industry and how AI technologies can be successfully…
I’ve had a continuing interest in start-up ecosystems across Australia, having been a member of several of these ecosystems & helping to mentor and support a range of start-ups over the years. I’ve maintained a Canberra ecosystem map for about four years now, mostly for my own interest and to understand some of the relationships…
I shared this via a Twitter thread, but wanted to include it here for longevity. To learn more about GovHack and the National Red Carpet event, which I attended as a representative of my team & the ACT Spirit of GovHack winner (and finalist for the National Spirit of GovHack), visit www.govhack.org I’ve…
Starting in a single Canberra venue in 2009, GovHack is now the largest open data hacking competition for government worldwide, with over 3,000 participants, coaches, mentors and organisers across 36 venues around Australia and New Zealand. Over a 46-hour period participants including coders, creatives, data crunchers and facilitators, redesign and reimagine citizen services and use…
As the world’s largest hackathon, GovHack is on at over 25 locations across Australia and New Zealand again this year from Friday 6pm this week until Sunday afternoon (28-30 July). With over 3,000 participants and 437 completed projects in 2016, GovHack is an opportunity to develop prototypes of new services, visualisations and mashups with government…
Henry Sherrell is a former Australian Public Servant who now works in policy research at the Australian National University. As a researcher, open data has become an important input into his work. As such I thought it worth sharing (with his permission) this post from his blog, On The Move, as an example of some…
I’ve been having a play with IBM Watson’s Personality Insights Service. The service uses “linguistic analytics to extract a spectrum of cognitive and social characteristics from the text data that a person generates through blogs, tweets, forum posts, and more.” While this is quite a mouthful, the service provides an interesting external perspective on how…
One of the emerging challenges for governments in the online age is managing the discrepancy between the speed of transparency and the speed of accountability. With digitalisation and the internet, the speed at which government information is made public is becoming faster, with it being easier to collect, aggregate and publish information and data in…
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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