I’m a little late starting, due to a late plane and sourcing power and wi-fi, but hope to liveblog the eGovernment Forum throughout today. Here’s the eGovernment Forum event program for today. I am starting a little late – Minister Tanner has already provided his keynote via video, stating that there he will be giving…
On Tuesday CEBIT is hosting the eGovernment Forum, with the involvement of the Australian Government Information Management Office (AGIMO) in the Department of Finance and Deregulation. I am attending the Forum as a guest of AGIMO to receive a Gov 2.0 Innovator Award, alongside Mosman Council and ABC Pool (per the Gov 2.0 Taskforce’s Innovators…
Everyone who runs a website dreams of what they would do if they had more funds to spend on improving their online presence. I’ve been doing some thinking around this lately as a thought exercise around building priority lists for what needs to be done to strengthen my department’s online presence. I always come back…
AGIMO’s Excellence in e-Government Awards are on again for 2010, with nominations opening on 1 February (and closing 1 March). This year the categories have been revised. There are now five project specific Awards plus a team or individual Award for outstanding achievement in an Information Technology area within the Australian Federal Public Service. Details…
Many government initiatives need to be communicated to all or some of the community to increase awareness and, in some cases, encourage behavioural change. Whether advising people of changes in tax laws, informing and influencing the community’s health habits, or seeking public submissions in a consultation, there needs to be communications strategies in place to…
Australia’s Government 2.0 Taskforce has announced the winners of its structured brainstorming competition, which was held in September – October this year. The competition involved public submissions and voting via an ideas market system with the final decision on winners being made by the Taskforce. In the structured brainstorming category there were two winning ideas,…
Government runs on rules. Policies, processes and procedures designed to address every contingency and plan for every possible risk in order to provide equity, stability and certainty. However, as experience has shown time and time again, we cannot predict the future. While we continually attempt to plan ahead, largely these plans are based on extrapolating…
I was chatting with friends on Twitter the other day regarding how useful it would be for Australian government to see positive and practical examples of online government engagement initiatives. With fortunately timing, Crispin of Bang the Table recently posted about a new report from the US based Public Agenda’s Centre for Advancement in Public…
If you missed the Future Tense program on Thursday morning (24/9) regarding Participatory democracy, Web 2.0 and the Government 2.0 Taskforce, it’s now available on the ABC National site, including an extended interview with Nicholas Gruen, the Gov 2.0 Taskforce chair, that wasn’t broadcast.
The Gov 2.0 Taskforce has blogged that they are looking for further ideas they can fund for Gov 2.0 projects. So if your Department – or you personally – have project concepts that require some extra funds to get off the ground, read the post Allocating the project fund: we want your ideas and make…
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