While on the topic of OpenAustralia, on 5 January the site became the first website to make the (Federal) Register of Senators’ Interests available online. Quoting from OpenAustralia’s news item, Read the Register of Senators’ Interests here, Today is a big milestone. We are the first website to make the Register of Senators’ Interests available…
Instantiate has posted an audio interview (MP3 podcast – 34Mb) with the founders of OpenAustralia, a non-partisan, website run by a group of volunteers site which aims to make it easy for people to keep tabs on their representatives in Australian Parliament. The interview provides an insight into why volunteers establish this type of site,…
I was recently alerted to the Queensland government’s Share My Story website, which invites individuals to share their stories of road tragedies in order to help others rethink their conduct on the road and avoid future traffic injuries and deaths. In my opinion Share My Story is an amazingly good website and a model for…
The UK has announced 11 winners and 10 highly commended initiatives in its annual eGovernment awards. Selected from 68 finalists, there are many interesting initiatives that could be adapted and used by Australian governments to deliver better and more cost-effective services.
The Victorian government has published the Intranet Information Architecture Best Practice Analysis report, conducted by the IA Strategy project team in the Web Domain Group, Department of Human Services (DHS) Victoria. The analysis is available in summary and in full from the eGovernment Resource centre. One of the writers of the report, Suze Ingram, has…
For the last ten years I’ve been making use of Adobe Flash (formerly Macromedia Flash) within websites to provide rich content features and applications unattainable with HTML. Unfortunately I still get asked the same questions about Flash, regarding accessibility, file size and how many users have the technology. I’d like to put these to bed….
Forbes magazine has asked whether IT departments are their own worst enemies, in an article, The un-marketing of IT, citing examples such as, Promoting e-mail use but limiting inbox storage and file attachment sizes. Touting the Internet as a data goldmine, then blocking people from visiting so-called non-business sites. Providing people with a PC as…
With a ICT staffing crisis already underway in Australia, it’s interesting to read in USA Today that in the US Women (are) fleeing tech jobs because of (the) glass ceiling. I’ve never understood why people discriminate at the office on the basis of gender, and I hope that with Australia having a female Federal Government…
I am co-presenting the first presentation on Wednesday at the Ark Group’s Advancing Intranet Management in the Public Sector conference in Sydney. My colleague and I will be discussing how our agency’s intranet was used to support staff through the recent major reform of the Australian Child Support Scheme and the cultural shifts through the…
Reflecting Forrester’s Groundswell report, Universal McCann has released a study detailing how the internet has turned all customers (citizens) into influencers. Titled INTERNET USERS, THE NEW INFLUENCERS – When did we start trusting strangers? (PDF), the study included around 17,000 internet users from 29 countries, finding that enmasse customers have moved from being passive consumers…
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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