Over the last four years the Australian Government has engaged in a stop-start process towards becoming a full member of the international Open Government Partnership, which now counts 70 countries in its membership, plus is beginning to explore state-based membership as well. The Open Government Partnership was founded five years ago by eight countries to…
I was privileged to attend CSIRO’s On Innovation Bootcamp on Wednesday and Thursday this week, a two day intensive for CSIRO, university and other government teams transitioning concepts from government scientific research towards becoming startup companies. This was the third round for the ON programme, with approximately 80 teams having now gone through the process…
Henry Sherrell is a former Australian Public Servant who now works in policy research at the Australian National University. As a researcher, open data has become an important input into his work. As such I thought it worth sharing (with his permission) this post from his blog, On The Move, as an example of some…
Both the Senate Inquiry report on Census 2016 and the Review of the Events Surrounding the 2016 eCensus (by Alastair MacGibbon, Special Adviser to the Prime Minister on Cyber Security) have just been released – I’ve embedded both reports below (so they appear in one place). They are a good read with some useful recommendations…
After 18 months freelancing in digital engagement and innovation consulting, I’ve been revisiting the recruitment market to see what opportunities are becoming available as the digital transformation environment matures across Australia. There’s definitely some very interesting roles around – more and more of them part-time – but also still a great deal of older thinking…
The Australian Public Service Commission (APSC) has just released a consultation paper asking for feedback regarding how public servants may be able to ‘Make Public Comment’ specifically focused on social media. It’s great to see the APSC consulting on this area. It is subject to rapid change, both in the nature of the approaches and tools…
Last week the government released Australia’s draft Open Government National Action Plan, a requirement to join the international Open Government Partnership, for community consultation. Australians have until the 18th November (Edit: extended from 14th based on community feedback) to comment on the plan, at which stage the government intends to move to rapidly endorse it…
On the tail of the 2016’s Census issues dealing with four relatively small distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks, the US East Coast was recently hit by a massive DDOS attack that succeeded in taking offline, or at least slowing down, major sites – from Amazon, Twitter and Spotify to PayPal and Netflix. This major…
Openness in government is supported by low barriers to engagement between citizens, agencies and politicians. For example, making the House of Members’ Register of Interests available publicly is great – but not THAT great if it is only available for viewing in hardcopy in one location in Canberra between the hours of 9-5pm (which used…
Digital disruption is one of the buzz terms of the last few years, underscoring the increasingly rapid changes in society, industries and governments as new ideas and techniques enabled by digital technologies take hold. Photo by Tsahi Levent-Levi While some embrace this disruption (generally those doing the disrupting), for many it remains an unsettling or…
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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