There is a trend towards greater openness in the licensing of Australian government data. Queensland’s government a few years ago put in place a framework (GILF) for Creative Commons licensing and Victoria’s government recently committing to using Creative Commons as its default copyright licensing system. Some steps have taken place at a federal level, with…
There’s been a very active and engaging discussion in the Gov 2.0 Australia group regarding safe and effective social media use by government agencies. I thought it was a topic worth discussing in this blog. One of the challenges government agencies face is whether or not to get involved with the discussions already occurring about…
This year I’ve started holding events to help bring together Gov 2.0 practitioners and interested parties to encourage discussion and information sharing. After a successful Gov 2.0 dinner in January, the next event is a lunch at Parliament House with Edmonton’s CIO, Chris Moore. Chris is well-known internationally for the work he’s done to open…
Minister Tanner has been making statements in conference speeches about having public servants use social media to engage the community for at least a year now. Yesterday he took this a step further and wrote an article, published in the Sydney Morning Herald, entitled The government wants to blog. Given that the Australian Government has…
If you’ve ever been required to collect ideas from the public – or wanted to – have you considered the use of a ‘ideas market’ or similar system for collecting. allowing comments on, prioritising and reporting back on the use of ideas. Dell and Starbucks both use these systems extensively to seek public ideas to…
I will be liveblogging as much as possible of BarCamp Canberra 2010, however note that I am also speaking and the other two rooms may not have wifi – so I will post my notes later. This year BarCamp is standing room only, with around 90 attendees at the start of the day, and more…
Following the lead of the Gov 2.0 Taskforce’s MashupAustralia and NSW’s Apps4nsw competition (which runs until 24 March), Victoria’s Minister for Information and Communications Technology, John Lenders, has announced the ‘Apps my state’ competition. In his media release, Minister Lenders said that, “App My State is a competition to encourage software developers and members of…
Just in case you missed this the other week, on 21 January the UK launched the data.gov.uk website with 2,500 government datasets available for access and reuse by the public. This leapfrogged the US’s data.gov, which now has around 1,000 datasets available. The UK site also extends the government open data space in several other…
Whirlpool’s survey is one of the few surveys that provides a comprehensive view of internet usage in Australia. I’ve used the results that are published (freely) from the survey for a number of years to develop strategies for audiences, both within the public and private sector. However to keep its value, people have to complete…
Other than at AGIMO, I’m unaware of any other senior public sector managers directly responsible and tasked with driving Gov 2.0 and new media initiatives. That changes next Monday when Tom Burton, formerly General Manager and Managing Editor of smh.com.au, arrives at the Australian Communications and Media Authority to drive their Gov2.0 and engagement strategy….
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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