We’re into the third and final day for GovInnovate 2014, with masterclasses from Mark Headd and Dominic Campbell. For the proceedings, follow #govinnovate on Twitter or the liveblog below. Live Blog GovInnovate 2014 liveblog day 3
This morning at GovInnovate 2014, Mark Headd from Accela spoke on the topic of civic hacking – a movement that involves people helping improve their society through spontaneous and unpaid volunteering. He highlighted the example of a group in the UK who, while out on a night out, found a broken bike rack and set…
We’re into day 2 of GovInnovate, with a focus on IT security. Keep an eye on the liveblog below and the Twitter hashtag #govinnovate Live Blog GovInnovate 2014 liveblog Day 2
This morning at GovInnovate 2014 we heard a keynote from Dominic Campbell, founder and CEO of FutureGov. Now up at #govinnovate is Dominic Campbell, talking about more elegant & human technology in government #psinnovate pic.twitter.com/7gdbMWZV4N — Craig Thomler (@craigthomler) November 24, 2014 Dominic made a strong point that governments can’t continue to cut 5% from…
Over the next few days I will be liveblogging and tweeting from GovInnovate 2014, so follow my blog and Twitter feed for all the latest views on the use of digital within government. Live Blog GovInnovate 2014 Day 1
In 2011 an IBM computer, Watson, beat human competitors at Jeopardy! This was a new landmark in artificial intelligence – a computer capable of correctly responding to plain English questions, in real time, by figuring out their intent. At the time Watson was a computer as big as a room, and it was the only…
This week one of the top stories for one of Australia’s leading newspapers has been the purported rape of a woman after she met a man using the ‘Tinder’ matchmaking app. Rape is a terrible act and unacceptable in every circumstance. However the newspaper chose to make Tinder the story, not the rape. Tinder is…
In a great step forward for Australian open data, IP Australia has, for the first time in history, released over 100 years of patent, trademark, design and plant breeder rights records as free publicly accessible and machine-readable data. Released through data.gov.au (at https://data.gov.au/dataset/intellectual-property-government-open-data), while not a real-time feed, the information contained on Australia’s innovation history is staggering….
While agencies often invest significant money into tools for tracking trends on social media, one of the simplest ways to detect and monitor the rise and fall of key topics and issues online is through Google Trends. Google Trends tracks the frequency of use of specific search words in Google searches. This represents the majority…
Australian internet usage has just reached a tipping point, with more Aussies accessing the internet via their smartphones and tablets than via laptops and desktop computers. This has been reflected in web usage statistics, with several agencies I talk to reporting that they now receive more of their website traffic from mobile devices than from…
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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