Brookings University recently released its report Improving Technology Utilization in Electronic Government around the World, 2008 (link to PDF). This ranks the government websites of 198 nations, reviewing 6-10 sites in each nation. Australia ranked 6th, behind South Korea, Taiwan, the US, Singapore and Canada, up from 8th position last year. As a benchmark this…
I’ve just been reading the State of the eNation report on the Beijing Olympics website, where they invited disabled web users to test the accessibility features of the site. While they found a number of the worst issues commonly reported by these users had been addressed, the remaining accessibility problems still made it very difficult…
The UK has been operating an online ‘television’ channel for public servants, LocalGovTV, featuring government initiatives and egovernment examples for some time now. The service has now launched a regular news channel featuring the latest news on public sector developments within the UK. While it is necessary to register to view the service, it contains…
A frantic day catching up yesterday, so I did not get to write this post until this morning. On Monday I presented at Ark Group’s Driving Interoperability and Collaboration in eGovernment conference in Brisbane. There was a great line-up of speakers, and I had a long list of take-aways from the day. Here’s my key…
With regular changes in departmental structures across State and Federal government, there’s significantly greater need for public agencies to have the skills to manage the merger and demerger of intranets and websites than is faced in most sections of the private sector. The NSW Department of Primary Industry has taken the step of sharing some…
Border control is really only a recent development in the evolution of nations. For thousands of years we can distinguish nations by their common language, culture, cuisine and other shared characteristics. However, with a few exceptions, it is only in the last few hundred years that the physical borders solidified into boundaries that delineated the…
The Victorian government’s eGovernment Resource Centre has been nominated in the 9th annual global edemocracy award for the Top 10 Who Are Changing the World of Internet and Politics.The prestigious award seeks to recognise the innovators and pioneers, the dreamers and doers who bring democracy online. It is managed by PoliticsOnline and the World eDemocracy…
I really admired the efforts of our New Zealand cousins in the egovernment arena as I’ve mentioned before. One of their initiatives is their ParticipationNZ wiki, which is allowing NZ public servants to collaboratively develop, assess and reflect on the overall approach to online participation by government agencies. If your agency is considering participating in…
I’d like to thank Kate Carruthers, a formidable change agent and renaissance woman, for prompting this post through a presentation she’s published on SlideShare, Enterprise 2.0 and stakeholder resistance. One of my key roles and, I believe, a key role for many in the online arena, is to be a change agent for digital channels….
Next Monday (25 August) I’ll be speaking at the Ark Group’s conference on Driving Interoperability and Collaboration in eGovernment in Brisbane on the topic of Driving ongoing improvements in online services provision. If you’re attending, please come and introduce yourself at some stage through the conference. If you won’t be there, I’ll be making my…
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