A couple of weeks ago I blogged about 21st Century society vs 19th Century laws and policing. My post discussed the interview and arrest of Ben Grubb, an Australian Technology Journalist, by Queensland Police in the context of the challenges for legislators and law enforcement in remaining current and relevant in a quickly digitalising world….
Possibly the hottest topic for Australian government web managers this year is ‘accessibility’, following on from the release of the Web Accessibility National Transition Strategy by AGIMO (the Australian Government Information Management Office). The strategy confirmed the Australian Government’s adoption of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2 (WCAG 2.0) from the World-Wide Web Consortium…
Crowdsourcing is often used in government for ‘light’ topics, such as selecting a logo or sourcing audience-created videos or photos. However it also offers enormous potential for informing and developing government policy in areas that are considered both sensitive and serious – such as security. About a year ago the Atlantic Council released its recommendations…
A few weeks ago the Department of Defence announced it had selected the advertising agency, George Patterson Y&R to conduct a review of social media risks. This followed the Skype scandal in April this year where several male Defense Force cadets conspired to broadcast a female cadet having consensual sex without her knowledge to half…
It is hard for me to believe that I’ve reached 1,000 posts on eGovAU – all talking about Government 2.0 and related topics. That’s well over half a million words I’ve written on the topic in around three years – around 5 decent-sized novels. Now I’m here I’m indulging in the opportunity to look back…
Laws have always struggled to keep up with society, however rarely in such a vivid and public way as in Wednesday’s arrest of Sydney Morning Herald journalist, Ben Grubb, and the confiscation of his iPad. The incident, well reported in the SMH, occurred when Queensland Police responded to a complaint regarding a photo hacked from…
For May’s Gov 2.0 Canberra lunch we’re joined by Allison Hornery, co-founder of CivicTEC and co-host of Gov 2.0 radio Allison will be speaking about the Government 2.0 trends and activities that she’s observed around the world in recent travels and projects. Note that due to issues caused by no-shows at previous lunches, I am…
I have long struggled with techniques for costing websites in Government. Due to how resources and budgets are allocated – with program areas funding and conducting some content work, corporate areas other and infrastructure and network costs often rolled into a central budget in IT teams (which provides excellent economies of scale, but makes costing…
The UK government last week launched alpha.gov.uk, an experimental site that explores different ways of presenting government information online to better support citizens. Designed based on recommendations from the 2010 Review Report led by Martha Lane Fox, which was intended to revolutionise the UK Government’s online services, the site provides a glimpse into a citizen-centric…
Yesterday evening I watched an interesting TED talk by Eli Pariser, Beware online “filter bubbles”. The talk discussed the increasing personalisation of search engines, news sites and social networks, using algorithms to selectively present or hide search results, content and comments based on a user’s actions. Pariser raised the importance of the flow of information…
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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