A concern I often hear raised in the public sector is that they can’t release public data yet because it may not be 100% perfectly accurate, or it needs to be accessible to 100% of the population, or it needs approvals from all the involved areas first. The UK has taken a clear step to…
Bang the Table has released a fantastic little handbook for online community engagement. Titled 100 Ideas to Help Engage your Community Online the book provides 10 ideas in each of 10 topics. The book has been released under Creative Commons (BY) – allowing organisations to reuse, share and mash it up for their own needs…
I’ve been looking over my posts for the last year and thinking about how many people may have missed some because they didn’t notice them for the few days they were on the front page. So I thought I should highlight some of the most read posts in my blog over the last year. How…
When I started this blog the level of online discussion in Australia around Government 2.0 was almost nil. I didn’t set out to be one of the leaders in the Gov 2.0 space, I simply wanted to have good conversations with my peers, to share expertise and knowledge and thereby improve our collective professional skills….
Gov 2.0 conferences have become very popular in Australia in the last year, however many are still focused on introducing the concepts of Gov 2.0, rather than exploring some of the aspects, and challenges, of the topic in depth. Geoff Mason is currently working towards a series of more advanced events, covered in his blog…
The ACT has launched a Fix My Street service providing ACT residents with methods for reporting and tracking “municipal service requests” online. According to the site, ACT residents can submit service requests using a menu of topics and even create an account to track the progress of their own requests. While a major step forward,…
I am not aware of a central calendar for all of the Gov 2.0 and social media events run in Australia, so I’ve created one. I welcome submissions to the calendar and will also be trying to keep it up to-date with the events I learn about. To add an event please email me: craig[dot]thomler[at]gmail[dot]com…
To kick-off this week, I thought it might be useful to link to an excellent video from the US’s Sunlight Foundation providing a glimpse into why there’s growing interest in making public information collected and managed by governments public. It doubles as an introduction to the Public = Online campaign, which is being used in…
Four years ago Government 2.0 was a barely known concept in Australia and social media was regarded by many in Canberra as a youth fad. President Obama made social media ‘cool’ for politicians by using it as a key plank in his run for office. Since his election he has spearheaded a Gov 2.0 agenda…
I was reading an article at Mashable today about What Facebook gets right and it got me thinking. Facebook, despite its many failings, does some things very well. Things that if governments also did well would help them be successful in the 21st Century. Consider if Facebook was a country, with 500 million citizens –…
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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