The South Australian government has released its draft ICT policy, SA Connected, for public consultation via the SA Plan consultation site. The five key perspectives in the SA draft ICT policy The position paper, which has already undergone industry consultation, presents five key perspectives for the future of South Australian government IT, Serving People Innovating…
The Australian Government Information Management Office (AGIMO) has released a Big Data Strategy Issues Paper and, while it’s not clearly stated in the title of their blog post, is seeking public and industry comment until 5 April 2013. You can find the paper and the ways in which they are accepting comments and formal responses,…
The US government uses challenge.gov to involve citizens in designing innovative solutions to government and civil challenges. The UK government has adopted a digital-by-default approach and has mandated that agencies follow this, providing detailed guidance on what they must do and by when (even open sourcing service design guidance on GithHub for citizens to improve)….
This is a presentation I gave on Monday to NSW Health, including a review of Australian social media adoption, how agencies have been using social media, risks to watch out for and some examples of good public sector social media execution. I’m happy to come chat to any government agency or council on these topics…
John Sheridan has been an active senior public sector advocate for the use of digital technologies in government for some years now. He’s stepped this up a notch with his recent appointment as Australian Government’s Chief Technology Officer and I thought it was valuable to share one of his most recent presentations on social media, as published…
Quiip and Delib Australia have just released the Australian Online Community Management Report, the first research that has ever been conducted specifically on the emerging profession of online community managers in Australia. The report has been designed to: assist people professionally managing online communities to articulate their skills, challenges and support requirements, support organisations entering or…
Part of a conversation I’ve had with 2SER’s Charmaine Wong about data journalism and the role of open data and Government 2.0 is being broadcast this morning on 2SER between 9:00am and 9:30am as part of a program on data journalism. You can listen online via the 2SER website (http://www.2ser.com) or via an actual radio…
One of the major impacts of the internet on society has been the reduction on barriers to communication. Suddenly people didn’t need to be a trained journalist, media license holder, a wealthy individual or company or to be in the right place at the right time (often just luck) to have a significant public voice….
I’m currently in Singapore, having just finished running a two-day masterclass for Singaporean public servants on how to use social media in emergency management. It is a very interesting topic and one I don’t think is high enough on the radar in Australia or many other countries, although there’s now plenty of case studies on…
Several of Twitter’s US staff are in Australia next week and Pia has managed to lasso them into providing a special presentation to Canberra’s Gov 2.0 community. If you’re in Canberra on Tuesday 12 March, I strongly recommend that you head along to this special Gov 2.0 lunchtime event – just make sure you RSVP first by…
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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