Senator Conroy has released the Australia’s Digital Economy: Future Directions paper. The paper provides a current view of the digital situation in Australia and provides indications of the platform that the country will need in the future to be a leader in the digital space. It provides a number of examples of Australian digital success…
Steve Radick has published an insightful post regarding different Government 2.0 personality types. Can you recognise yourself in one (or more) of these type? The amended post is at What’s Your Government 2.0 Personality Type? and a copy with other comments is visible at Govloop.
In their Global Faces and Networked Places report (PDF), Neilsen has found that social networks and blogs (Member Communities) are now the 4th most popular online category – ahead of personal email. In December 2008 Neilsen found that 59% of online Australians used social networks and blogs, compared to 80% in Brazil, 69% in the…
I highlighted the online Netflix prize quite some time ago as an example of how an organisation could work with its community to drive innovation. Netflix has a longstanding prize of US$1,000,000 on offer for the group who could improve their online movie/TV recommendations engine by at least 10%. The goal is to substantially improve…
The Government 2.0 Taskforce are asking for the public to vote on their preference of user-submitted banners for the taskforce website. There are 24 banners to choose from, of a very high standard. While this vote is non-binding (meaning that the Taskforce reserve the right to pick a different banner to the public) the process…
In 2008 the Victorian eGovernment Resource Centre was one of the ten finalists for PoliticsOnline and World eDemocracy Forum‘s international award ‘The 10 Who Are Changing the World of Internet and Politics’. Prior to that GetUp was in the Top 10 twice, in 2006 (David Madden & Jeremy Heimans) and 2007 (Brett Solomon). The ACTU…
Accenture has released a new report, Web 2.0 and the Next Generation of Public Service (PDF), which highlights four key things that citizens around the world want from government 2.0. They are, Improved social and economic outcomes. Balance between choice and flexibility on the one hand and fairness and the common good on the other….
A key factor in government 2.0 is that it doesn’t have to be a government body that delivers the government 2.0 experience. Sometimes government should simply be the platform providing the data and allow external organisations to provide the combined services and information that the public wants. This can lead to faster, cheaper and more…
I’ve been known to say, from time to time, that what you cannot measure you cannot manage. This is especially true in IT-based projects, which often involve significant investments and where deadlines and budgets can easily slide. Given it has been estimated that 68% of IT projects fail to realise the benefits or outcomes they…
Every now and then a work shines through with absolute clarity. The video below, sent to me by a former colleague, provides such clarity regarding the fifth great media shift in the last 500 years – the internet. It may be very useful for public servants in educating their colleagues about the changes occurring around…
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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