The finalists of the 2009 global egovernment award, The Top 10 Who Are Changing the World of Internet and Politics have been announced. Courtesy of Victoria’s eGovernment Resource Centre, the top 10 finalists are: The Democracy Center, represented by Jim Shultz, Executive Director (Bolivia) CLIME, Center for Liberty in the Middle East, represented by founder…
The Gov 2.0 forum has released a second round of projects for quotes including for a Whole of Government Information Publication Scheme, Online Engagement Guidance and Web 2.0 Toolkit for Australian Government Agencies, Framework for Stimulating Information Philanthropy in Australia and Hypotheticals — Ethical and Cultural Challenges of Digital Engagement by Government – amongst other…
Google has launched a Google Public Service site for Australia showcasing some of the tools they provide and how they can and are being used by government agencies around the world to engage with citizens and empower public servants and politicians. If it interests you, you may also find Google’s public sector blog worth reading.
Information Victoria, in the Department of Innovation, Industry and Regional Development for the Victorian Government has released a report, Web 2.0: The New Tools for Democratic Conversations – A snapshot of Initiatives in Government. Available at Victoria’s eGovernment Resource Centre (using the link in last paragraph), the report provides an excellent snapshot of many of…
The US is a little behind Australia in considering a National Broadband Network, however it has taken a very different approach in consulting and engaging citizens, opening up the discussion to the US community in a Gov 2.0 manner. The US Government’s Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has launched Broadband.gov as a web 2.0 enabled site…
Being sick in bed at the moment, I’ve used the opportunity to review which Australian Federal, State and local government departments and agencies are now using Twitter. My count is 9 federal, 24 state and 37 local government agency streams – excluding politicians and public servants. A total of 70 government streams in Australia, which…
Hopefully many of you are aware of the Gov 2.0 Summit that is being held in Washington at the moment. As part of the pre-event, the inaugural Gov 2.0 Expo included presentations in five categories, demonstrating examples of the best Gov 2.0 organisations and initiatives – not only from the United States. There was a…
Some of you may have read The Cluetrain Manifesto. This is widely considered to be one of the seminal works for Web 2.0, albeit being written in 1999, before the expression Web 2.0 was coined. The Cluetrain Manifesto outlined 95 theses for how markets would develop and people behave online, forshadowing the growth of social…
Launched by the NSW Premier at NSWSphere on Friday, Apps4NSW is the first Australian public competition for reusing online NSW government data to create useful applications for the public. Quoting the new site, In the competition, individuals and groups will compete for cash prizes by creating ideas and software application prototypes that can be used…
Fiat in Brazil is currently crowd sourcing the development of an concept car for 2010, the Fiat Mio. The concept is that the public (from anywhere in the world) can submit ideas for what they’d like to see in a car, these ideas can be voted and commented on by others and Fiat engineers will…
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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