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…
I’ve been reading a post by James Dellow at his Chieftech blog, Using Twitter as a benchmark for Australian local government use of social media. He compared the 90 out of 468 (approx. 20%) UK councils using Twitter to the 3 out of 677 (less than 1%) Australian councils using the tool to engage online,…
Following on from the Canberra Barcamp last week, a subset of the organisers and a group of other volunteers are busy organising a government 2.0 event in Canberra. The event, which is in initial planning stages, aims to bring together a group of government online professionals to share their experience and knowledge, building a reference…
Google maps were originally developed in Australia and one of the founders of the original company, Dr Lars Rasmussen, now a Google employee, is giving a talk at the Powerhouse museum, “From Australia to the World – The Rise & Rise of Google Maps” on 2 July. It should be an interesting presentation both on…
Last Saturday the second BarCamp Canberra was held, featuring 25 presentations on an assortment of online focused topics, both ICT and business related. With roughly 75 attendees, including the first Member of Parliament to attend an Australian BarCamp, Senator Kate Lundy (who is also on Twitter as @katelundy), the themes for the day focused on…
The US “Social Media for Government” conference was held in Washington, DC last week. It appears to have discussed a large number of topics that would be of equal interest to public servants and officials here in Australia, so I’ve attached a few below…. Social Media For Government 3.23.09 View more presentations from Maxine Teller….
I am pleased to present this guest post from a colleague who has done a fantastic job of incorporating online tools into the government project management mix. I feel that the work Nathanael Boehm and his team have been doing on the Training.gov.au project is an example of how social media can improve the ability…
Information held by the Government is a national resource and should be managed in the public interest. Access to government information increases public participation, and leads to increased scrutiny, discussion, comment and review of government activity. It would be great to hear an Australian government make a statement like the above, acknowledging that much of…
If your Department or agency is considering getting started in blogging it’s worth considering the platforms that others in government are using to meet their needs. Looking across the Australian government, there are now at least several different platforms used to deliver successful blogs. For example the ABS’s Statistically speaking blog uses Blogger (as I…
The US government might have become one of the most active public administrations using blogging, Twitter, Facebook and other online ‘social’ mediums, but until now there have been legal issues over how and whether Federal agencies could legally use these tools. However, after nine months of negotiations and discussion, the GSA has now signed an…
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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