The title of this post was used recently in the White House blog to announce the expansion of their online presence to reach into a range of social media including Facebook, MySpace and Twitter, adding to their presence on Flickr, Youtube, Vimeo and iTunes. Named White House 2.0, the post also quoted President Obama calling…
I love the work that Matthew Landauer and a small group of non-partisan, patriotic Australians have done to set up OpenAustralia. If you’re not aware of the site, it’s designed to make the discussions on parliamentary floors visible to the public in an easily accessible way. The site also provides information on Members’ interests (on…
A study of 4,000 UK adults has found that 42 percent had used the internet to access information about government or local council services, or completed a government form or process online in the last year. This shot up to 55 percent amongst adults with home internet access. The study, conducted by OfCom also indicated…
In the US President Obama’s newly appointed (and first) Federal Government CIO Vivek Kundra has committed to finding new ways to make government data open and accessible. The Computer World article, First federal CIO wants to ‘democratize’ U.S. government data, discusses how, In a conference call with reporters, Kundra said he plans to create a…
This is my first go at liveblogging so bear with me. A more professional liveblog of this event is on over at Stilgherrian’s blog. Politics and Technology Forum Here’s a picture of the panel
It’s uncommon (at least in Australia) to see a government-related initiative promoted as a leader in innovation. It’s even rarer to see publications such as Fast Company, with its focus on the most innovative companies in the world, feature government-related initiatives. However this year Fast Company’s profile of “The World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies” is…
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,…
Co-incidental to my post about Twitter on Friday, in the UK the TweetMinister site has launched as a central way to track UK Members of Parliament using Twitter. It’s a very slick looking site, developed as a public service initiative by private organisations, designed to allow members of the public to view what MPs are…
The Department of Broadband, Communication and the Digital Economy (DBCDE) has now closed its blog on Digital Futures, with a Thanks and so long… message. The majority of responses to the blog (and yes I systematically read all the comments that the Department published on the site) related to concerns around the government’s mandatory internet…
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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