Here’s an excellent example of where crowdsourcing doesn’t work. The City of Austin decided to crowdsource a new name for its Solid Waste Services Department. It received plenty of ideas and votes, however few were meaningful or useful – though a number are quite funny. However don’t take this as a lesson that crowdsourcing doesn’t…
Chris Quigley of Delib is in Australia at the moment, on a trip around capital cities talking about Open Government from a UK and US perspective. Today and tomorrow he’s in Canberra meeting with various people around the traps (and speaking at the Gov 2.0 lunch). Tonight, to welcome Chris, we’re having informal drinks at…
Alex Howard over at GovFresh has a great article and video interview with Nicholas Gruen regarding Gov 2.0 in Australia and some of the challenges of the required cultural change. Read it over at Nicholas Gruen on Gov 2.0 in Australia and cultural change.
Today telecommuting often refers to people who work from home, logging into computer networks to prepare documents and exchange information remotely. However across the world we’re starting to see examples of much broader and more intense forms of telecommuting. Warfare Take for example the RQ-1 Predator, an unmanned aerial vehicle that has been used since…
I’m delighted to kick off 2011 with a Gov 2.0 lunch featuring an international speaker, Chris Quigley, a co-founder of Delib from the UK. Chris’s experience crosses viral marketing, social media and e-democracy. He has an ongoing interest in how people, business and government interact, and how the internet (especially social media) are changing relationships….
In a initiative to improve electoral records, the NSW electoral commission is asking citizens to geocode their own location. The initiative relies on the prevalence of GPS units in peoples’ smartphones and other devices, coupled with an online system which allows people to locate their homes online and confirm that they have been mapped correctly…
I read an excellent article today in the Harvard Business review by Bill Taylor about Why Do Smart People Do Such Dumb Things?. Taylor explores why good ideas go disastrously wrong, why innovation often appears to lead to disaster, concluding that Warren Buffet had the right of it, Leave it to Warren Buffet to offer…
The floods across Queensland, and in other parts of Australia, over the past few months have been a national tragedy. They have also been a wake-up call to communications and media professionals across government on how to effectively inform and engage the public via social media. Queensland Police, through their twitter account, @QPSMedia, Facebook page,…
I’d like to wish everyone who reads my blog a fantastic holiday break with their nearest and dearest and a great New Year. I’m taking a break from writing this blog and plan to continue this conversation with you in early January. Looking back Reflecting back, I believe that 2010 has been a solid year…
The National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) in the US has released an excellent report, NASCIO: Friends, Followers, and Feeds (PDF), which looks at social media adoption by US states, identifying best practice and sharing knowledge on how tools are being deployed. To quote the report, The survey examined adoption trends, current applications…
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