The mash-up (or Apps) competitions we’ve seen in Australia thus far have been broad and largely untargeted. Governments have released a bunch of public sector datasets and invited developers to create a bunch of applications related to that data for their jurisdiction, but without a highly specific goal or purpose in mind, other than creating…
Lisa Howdin, who now works with me, has been compiling a set of guidelines and information around how to develop, write, manage and moderate social media tools in Government in the form of a wiki. She’s looking for contributions from people across Australian government who are working in this area and have learnings they can…
Tiphereth Gloria has posted on Digital Tip a very interesting post regarding how iPhones dominate mobile internet access in Australia. Quoting June 2010 figures, her post iPhones dominate Australian mobile internet says that iPhones account for 93% of mobile access, with Android, Blackberries, Symbian and other operating systems combined only accounting for 7% of the…
Traditionally, in my experience both in the private and public sector, the way to build a ‘perfect’ website has been considered to be; invest a large quantity of resources, personnel and time at the start of the development process, use this investment to build all the functionality that the developers can dream up, write all…
Victoria’s App My State competition has now closed to entries, and has already been an enormous success for the Gov 2.0 efforts in that state. The competition attracted 171 entries, 75 applications and 96 ideas, over 12 weeks. Judging has now commenced – with the public able to vote for the ‘popular choice’ award and…
If you’ve been watching Twitter (specifically the hashtag #gov2au), you might have seen that yesterday the Government released its response to the Gov 2.0 Taskforce, supporting 12 of the 13 recommendations (and deferring the 13th, information philanthropy, pending the outcomes of several related reviews). The response was announced in AGIMO’s new blog platform, Govspace, released…
Many people consider Google as a search engine, or maybe as a search and email system, with a few extra frills like maps. However with over 1 billion searches a day, Google is not only aggregating the world’s knowledge, it is learning about the world’s citizens, what interests them, how they think and feel –…
Everyone who runs a website dreams of what they would do if they had more funds to spend on improving their online presence. I’ve been doing some thinking around this lately as a thought exercise around building priority lists for what needs to be done to strengthen my department’s online presence. I always come back…
The Public Sector Innovation Network email list (run by the Department of Innovation – you can subscribe from their website) sends out some very interesting articles about innovation every week. This week one in particular caught my eye, a piece entitled The Biggest Obstacle to Innovation that looks at inertia and how this may have…
On Sunday I was made aware of a Seek advertisement for a ‘web and social media expert’ position in a ‘VERY high-profile government client’ in the ACT. The ad (which is here), seeks someone with, a strong understanding of how the web and social media operate, the ability to contextualise that within the Government’s needs…
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