During this Public Sector Innovation Month, I thought I should focus my eGovAU posts a little more closely on the topic of innovation. I’ve commented previously on the ‘shiny new thing’ issue – whereby humans place unrealistic expectations on a new device or approach to solve a long-standing existing issue. It’s an issue that occurs…
Across April I’m spending a week participating in government-run sessions to contribute to the democratic life of our nation. I’ll spend two days with CSIRO, supporting their startup commercialisation programs, a day with the NSW Department of Transport supporting their deliberations on future transport needs and policies and a day with the Department of Prime…
These days it seems almost everyone in government is focused on quick wins – outcomes that can be achieved fast, with limited resources but a big impact. I recognise the logic. Going after low hanging, minimal risk, cheap and (sometimes) easy, quick successes satisfies both the insatiable desire for Ministerial media announcements and helps build trust within…
Late last week the shortlisted start-ups for the DataStart program were released – here’s why it’s significant and what happens next. In November 2015 the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, in parternship with Pollenizer Ventures, announced Australia’s first open data commercialisation competition, DataStart. Designed as a pilot to test the approach, entrepreneurs, data scientists…
This post is republished from LinkedIn with the permission of the author, Anne-Marie Elias, who attended PolicyHack as Champion and Facilitator for the Incentives To Develop Social Enterprises stream. PolicyHack happened – just like that! It was the courage of a newly appointed Assistant Minister for Innovation the Hon. Wyatt Roy MP and his bold vision to hack for change that led to one…
Rudd & Gillard could work the Twitters. Abbott understood the need to engage digitally, if not the tech, the value or the full impact (and mistakenly thought one of his Ministers had invented the Internet). Even Howard got onboard the digital express with a few YouTube videos. However Australia has never before in its history…
This is the fourth in a series of interviews I’m doing as part of Delib Australia’s media partnership with CeBIT in support of GovInnovate. I’ll also be livetweeting and blogging the conference on 25-27 November. View other posts in this series. With thousands of governments at local, state and national level around the world that need…
As part of the CodeAcross2014 series of global events (over 44 events in 9 countries), Code for Australia is holding a free event on Friday 21 March from 5:30pm in Melbourne. Featuring four guest speakers, the event will approach the “Beyond Transparency” theme by discussing how citizens, civil servants and entrepreneurs can move beyond open…
Today has provided an interesting lesson for several organisations, with the crash of both the David Jones and ClickFrenzy websites in Australia. But first, some background. ClickFrenzy is a new 24-hour sale for Australian online retailers starting from 7pm on Tuesday 20 November. Based on the US ‘Cyber Monday’ sale, which now attracts over 10…
EmergencyAUS app I had a very interesting conversation the other day regarding the challenge of government mobile apps in the age of open data. The example used was the EmergencyAUS app, which has been developed by Gridstone Pty Ltd. As an app created by a commercial entity, EmergencyAUS aggregates emergency information released by a variety of…
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