These days it seems almost everyone in government is focused on quick wins – outcomes that can be achieved fast, with limited resources but a big impact. I recognise the logic. Going after low hanging, minimal risk, cheap and (sometimes) easy, quick successes satisfies both the insatiable desire for Ministerial media announcements and helps build trust within…
This is a guest post written by Rosie Williams, a leading Australian Open Data Developer and Citizen Journalist, who created and manages infoAus.net and writes for NoFibs.com.au. It’s republished with her permission. Can open data really form the basis of a social good startup in Australia? I’ve come round to the realisation that doing open…
More and more organisations are finding themselves the focus of social media crises. Whether the crisis originates online, or from another source, it is frequently expressed, shared and amplified via social channels, and can become a matter of national or even international attention very rapidly when handled poorly. Many organisations still struggle to deal effectively…
There’s a lot of buzz across governments in Australia at the moment about ‘digital transformation’. What this commonly refers to is taking current government services and systems and redeveloping them as digital solutions based on Agile and Lean approaches, principles and methodologies to make them far easier to use and manage. Users are placed at…
I’ve had an interesting day today, with a number of meetings with different businesses to discuss various projects and activities they’re undertaking that are affected to a significant extent by government decisions. In three of those meetings business people, from vastly different businesses, told me about recent decisions by government agencies that had made their…
Open government means different things to different people, and in Australia, where our government is already quite open, it’s sometimes not considered such a priority. However alongside our open data, public consultations, freedom of information laws and transparent voting systems, there’s still many areas where the Australian government could lift its openness and improve public…
Below is a guest post from John Sheridan of DB Insights, republished with permission from his LinkedIn blog. John is, in my view, one of the most insightful and thoughtful people in the Australian digital space and I heartily commend reading John’s other posts. Ready, willing and able… Most of you won’t remember the song…
In business if no-one will pay for a product it ceases being made, or never gets off the drawing board. Government doesn’t quite work the same – many government functions and services are designed as ‘public goods’ – things we all need, but that many ‘customers’ cannot or would not pay for. This includes services…
It’s fairly widely acknowledged throughout the emergency community that due to the rise in citizen use of technology, emergency services are now rarely the first on the scene of a disaster. Most emergencies are first publicly highlighted on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram or another social media platforms as people proximate to the situation take photos and…
Late last week the shortlisted start-ups for the DataStart program were released – here’s why it’s significant and what happens next. In November 2015 the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, in parternship with Pollenizer Ventures, announced Australia’s first open data commercialisation competition, DataStart. Designed as a pilot to test the approach, entrepreneurs, data scientists…
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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