An extremely thought-provoking post about The street as platform written by Dan Hill in February 2008 has been brought to my attention by Darren Sharp. The post explores the virtual life of a city street, all the digital data exchanging hands between systems, infrastructure, vehicles and people in the street unseen to human eyes. While…
I’ve spoken before about the fantastic Historic Australian Newspapers archive program at the National Library to digitalise old newspapers, coupling OCR scanning with a online crowdsourcing tool that allows the public to fix mistakes in scanned text. One of the key people behind the program, Rose Holley, recently presented at Mosman Library about the initiative….
Using the media to build public opinion pressure against an opponent is one of the oldest tactics in the political playbook. However in the modern world politicians and organisations can go one better – marshalling their social networking followers and using social media avenues to directly build and channel public opinion. While we’ve not seen…
Many people consider Google as a search engine, or maybe as a search and email system, with a few extra frills like maps. However with over 1 billion searches a day, Google is not only aggregating the world’s knowledge, it is learning about the world’s citizens, what interests them, how they think and feel –…
With over 11 million active players, World of Warcraft is one of the largest massive multiplayer online games in the world. In fact if it were a country it would be 75th – just behind Zimbabwe and ahead of Rwanda. Back before the 2007 US Presidential election, a small study was carried out amongst US…
In what I believe is a world first, the US Bureau of Engraving and Printing has launched its new US$100 note, featuring Benjamin Franklin, via an online video in YouTube. Brought to my attention by Nicholas Gruen, the 82 second long production provides a clear view of all the security provisions included in the banknote….
One of the trends with Government 2.0 is for jurisdictions to make more of their information available online in more readily accessible, machine readable and useful forms. We’ve seen the rise of data.gov, data.gov.uk and a host of open data sites for nations and states around the world. The latest addition has been the World…
The last week has seen several incidents where members of Australian political parties has been suspended from social networking sites and outed in the media for making controversial comments. Most recently Nick Sowden, a Young Queensland Liberal National Party member, referred to US President Obama as a ‘monkey’ on Twitter. His tweets were widely discussed…
The Department of Finance and Deregulation has announced on its Web Publishing Guide blog that it has opened its internal network to Facebook, Twitter and other social network tools and released a guide for staff, Social Media 101: A beginner’s guide for Finance employees. Social Media 101 includes guidance for staff use of social media…
Steve Radick has written an excellent “Getting Started with Government 2.0” Guide. Designed for those new to the Gov 2.0 space, Steve’s guide provides a great range of information from what Gov 2.0 means through how to take baby steps into the area to good blogs and sites to read. Read it and share it!
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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