While I’ve not yet seen an official statement confirming whether Australian government will support the second version of the W3C’s Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.0), there has been a report released by UsabilityOne reviewing 12 Federal Government websites against the guidelines. The Accessibility Industry Report found a number of issues across the sites that…
The UK government’s HM Revenue & Customs service (roughly equivalent to the ATO) has launched an online consultation site seeking public input into its proposed charter. Named Have your say the site asks citizens to answer questions around the proposed charter and provide their views of what it contains and should contain. It’s a fairly…
James Robertson of Step Two Designs has published an interesting scenario regarding how a mid-sized government agency can meet global needs (corporate communications, top-level strategy, culture), while also meeting varying local needs. He’s opened the floor for ideas on how to most effectively support the needs of both management and staff. Judging by the comments…
The US has had a watershed year for government and political use of the internet. The Obama campaign has triggered a series of initiatives both at public sector and political levels by demonstrating that millions of people are willing and able to engage and mobilise online. Now the US is beginning to talk about the…
The US’s Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) has launched the Forge.mil site supporting software developers to collaborate online in developing open-source software for engineering applications. The goal is to cut software development cycles from years to weeks, saving costs and improving time to market enormously. Reported in Nextgov in the article, Defense launches online software…
I’m a keen PC and console gamer, as are many of my friends around the same age. In fact I’ve been playing electronic games since about the age of 8 – which means I’ve been playing for about as long as the average Australian gamer is old (30 years old). While my parents feel I…
Over in the US Microsoft is running a major campaign targeting government which aims to collect best practice videos from senior IT leaders in the public sector. Based on the premise that shrinking government budgets means that IT has to achieve more with less, the Bright side of Government site aims to, spotlight the “bright…
The name of this post is the title of a paper published by the US Federal Web Managers Council, the peak body for federal government web managers in the United States. The US is facing similar policy, legal and privacy issues around the use of Web 2.0 tools and this paper is a step towards…
Does it take a command from the top to kickstart egovernment activity? It surely varies across agencies and jurisdictions, but in the US there’s a clear view that a top-down approach will help unclog some of the channels and create high level attention to generating significant egovernment activity. On January 21, the new US President…
Comscore’s media release last week indicated that Global Internet Audience Surpasses 1 billion Visitors, According to comScore. While this is probably an understatement, as it only accounts for those aged 15+, the release highlighted the increasing diversity of internet users, with China very clearly in the top spot with 179,100,000 users, compared to the 2nd…
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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