Paul Johnston has posted in the Connected Republic a blog post, Web 2.0 and the Public Sector, discussing Cisco’s draft paper on Government 2.0, Realizing the Potential of the Connected Republic (PDF) from the US Public Services Summit in December. The paper provides many examples of practical uses of Web 2.0 tools and techniques by…
While speaking to a colleague earlier in the week about the rush on access to government support in some areas of Australia due to the current economic conditions, I realised that it is a very good time for the public sector to build capacity and skills. The IT skills crunch has affected Australian government for…
As reported in Friday’s Sydney Morning Herald in the article, Australian court serves documents via Facebook, Today in what appears to be a first in Australia and perhaps the world, Master Harper of the ACT Supreme Court ordered that a default judgement could be served on defendants by notification on Facebook. Previously both email and…
I’m closely watching (and reading) the new Department of Broadband and the Digital Economy blog. It is seeing a number of thoughtful and constructive comments from organisations and individuals. The blog is highlighting to me one of the often overlooked key issues for organisations when implementing Web 2.0 tools – resourcing. With 912 published comments…
The W3C has finally released the final version of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0. Announced in a press release this morning Australian time, W3C Web Standard Defines Accessibility for Next Generation Web, the W3C states that, This new standard from the W3C’s Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) will advance accessibility across the full range…
In a first for an Australian Commonwealth government agency, the ABS is set to release most of its website data under Creative Commons licensing on 18-19 December. Announced in their Website changes coming soon page, the ABS states, Creative Commons provides a spectrum of licensing for the use of intellectual property between full copyright and…
In one of the more misguided approaches to internet regulation, the UK government banned the majority of UK citizens from editing Wikipedia earlier this week. This was done, according to the SMH article, Wikipedia added to child pornography blacklist, due to the identification of a photo in one article (of the more than 2.6 million…
Being a parent with school-aged children, their education and future prospects are of significant interest and concern to me. I want to ensure that my children are prepared for the world as it will exist in ten, twenty and thirty or more years. The government should be at least as concerned. The impacts of effective…
About this time last year Laurel Papworth reported that Facebook listed over 2 million Australians as members in a post in her blog titled, Australia has over 2 million Facebook members. I’ve just rechecked this figure, using the same approach as Laurel (via Facebook’s ad tool), and found that Facebook now lists 4,252,860 Australian members…
The eGovernment Resource Centre has tipped me off that the Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy has set up a consultative Future directions blog for two weeks with the purpose of soliciting public comments that will contribute to the development of a Future directions paper for the digital economy. It’s good to see…
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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