The New York State Senate has launched its Open Senate initiative with an API (Application Programming Interface) allowing the public direct access to its data. The NY Senate is also making the code freely available as open source, stating that, As a user of Open-Source software the New York Senate wants to help give back…
As an outcome of the Government 2.0 Public Sphere Camp last Monday, the points raised by speakers have been aggregated into a wiki for public comment prior to being submitted to the Australian Government as a briefing paper for the new Government 2.0 Taskforce. If you attended Public Sphere and wish to contribute your perspectives,…
The New Zealand’s Inland Revenue department has launched an online consultation around proposed changes to student loans – with the main topic being around totally web-enabling the process for managing student loan accounts. The consultation is at studentloanforum.taxpolicy.ird.govt.nz and might be a useful example for other government departments who might be considering online consultation. The…
In 2007 a combined SMS and online electoral monitoring system went into action in Nigeria to report electoral fraud. Based on increasing mobile use (as fixed infrastructure is very limited in the country), mobile phones were able to provide voters with a voice when ballots were not conducted fairly. Similar systems are now being used…
The Victorian Government’s Economic Development and Infrastructure Committee recently released the final report (PDF) for its Inquiry into Improving Access to Victorian Public Sector Information and Data. The Inquiry was designed to look at and report back to the Victorian Parliament on the potential application of open content and open source licensing to Victorian Government…
At the Government 2.0 Public Sphere Camp, Ministers Tanner and Ludwig have announced the creation of a Government 2.0 Taskforce. Chaired by Dr Nicholas Gruen, the Taskforce is made up of fifteen policy and technical experts and entrepreneurs from government, business, academia, and cultural institutions. The taskforce has two main streams, to increase the openness…
Below is the liveblog for the Government 2.0 Public Sphere Camp being run at Parliament House Canberra on Monday 22 June 2009. This is a jointly published liveblog in co-operation with Des Walsh and Nathanael Boehm. You can pre-register for email notification when the liveblog begins below. Please join in with your comments and questions…
In an interesting and very frank article in NextGov, named The Public Eye, Bev Godwin of the White House’s new media office has provided her views of the challenges and opportunities for government in engaging online.
The US state of Utah has been a very active implementer of government 2.0 initiatives for several years now, and is known as one of the most progressive early adopters (for government) in the space. They recently released a new website which uses many web 2.0 features to improve the experience for uses and also…
Following on from my post on Wednesday, below are some of the federal and non-government initiatives in the Government 2.0 space. FederalABS CDataThe Australian Bureau of Statistics is responsible for collecting and providing access to a large proportion of data collected by government in Australia. Before the internet the reports produced by the ABS were…
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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