Role models are incredibly important for humans across both their personal and professional lives. Role models can help show us and make us believe we can exceed our own boundaries. They can open doors and windows to new ideas, fostering innovation and positive change. The more restricted and limiting the environment, the more important role…
Back in 2009 I predicted that government communications professionals only had about 10 years to gain social media skills or become unemployable. At the time I received quite a bit of scoffing and pushback from senior communications professionals in government. They believed that digital wouldn’t grow very fast and would remain a minor component in…
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…
There’s a lot of buzz across governments in Australia at the moment about ‘digital transformation’. What this commonly refers to is taking current government services and systems and redeveloping them as digital solutions based on Agile and Lean approaches, principles and methodologies to make them far easier to use and manage. Users are placed at…
Below is a guest post from John Sheridan of DB Insights, republished with permission from his LinkedIn blog. John is, in my view, one of the most insightful and thoughtful people in the Australian digital space and I heartily commend reading John’s other posts. Ready, willing and able… Most of you won’t remember the song…
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…
Over the last year in Australian government there’s been increasing rhetoric around transformation (primarily digital) and innovation. This has come both from the political level, particularly since Malcolm Turnbull became Prime Minister, and from the administrative level, as the Secretary’s Board and an increasing number of senior public servants have internalised these terms within their…
The Australian Tax Office (ATO) is currently asking Australians what they think of the idea of the ATO going digital by default. As they rightly point out in the Consultation paper, the current ability of the ATO to do this is restricted by legislation, which often defines the channels by which certain transactions can occur…
This is a guest post from Alun Probert, founder of GovComm and former Director of Communications at the NSW Government. It has been republished from LinkedIn with his permission: Working in Government communications, it’s practically impossible nowadays to avoid discussions of all things “digital”. From the most extreme and simply distracting notion of “Disrupting Government” to the…
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…
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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