At an event with colleagues last week, I overheard several talking about their surprise at the levels of caution and fear they still encountered amongst various professionals regarding Gov 2.0 and social media. “It’s as if they were still living in the early 1990s,” said one. “Some people just don’t seem to understand how far…
I attended Gartner’s Government Day on Monday for their ITXPO Symposium (I was on a panel), and it was very interesting to hear the views expressed about social media. Below are some of the quotes I recorded from Gartner analysts and senior IT leaders. They are not all verbatim and have been reordered to flow…
I’m speaking this afternoon at the Garner Symposium ITXPO 2010 on a panel discussing the spread and success of Government 2.0 initiatives in Australia and a couple of other related topics. Thinking about it this morning I don’t think government in Australia needs more Government 2.0 initiatives. In fact I don’t think we need any…
Government is the master of the written word. Across Australian governments we probably produce billions of them each year, carefully organised into documents designed to impart knowledge and influence decisions. If you were to consider a medium-size agency producing, let’s estimate, twenty 100 page reports each year, fifty 2-page media releases and 200 4-page minutes,…
There’s been discussion on Twitter over the last day about whether Australian government should be building online platforms, such as a video aggregation and distribution service, URL shortcut tools (which Victoria have done) or collective infrastructure for hosting and developing all government websites. This has been an area of on-and-off discussion for over a year…
One of the more curious things about Government 2.0 is how differently it is interpreted and delivered around the world. For example the map below (clickthrough to more information at Google Maps) illustrates how widespread Participatory Budgeting (PB) is – an approach whereby a government allocates some or all of its budget based on direct…
I’ve recently been looking around some at some of the ‘white-label’ social network services. They allow anyone to establish their own branded social network at little or no cost. Most include features such as personal profiles, blogs, forums, newsfeeds, photo and video libraries, live chat, email lists, calendars as well as widget markets (with custom…
As a record of the event, below is a link to the Twitter stream, for the CEBIT Gov 2.0 Conference (#gov2cebit) from the record at wthashtag. In all there were 1,416 tweets by 231 participants during the two days. Note that the times are US Pacific Time. Add 18 hours for the correct tweeting time….
We’ve finished up Pat’s workshop with a discussion of potential future projects, working on a Citizen 2.0 basis. Three we discussed are listed below… Future project ideas Save me Personal safety initiative – a smartphone application with a single red button ‘save me’. If you believe you are in danger you press the button. It…
We have bid farewell to Andrew Stott and welcomed Patrick McCormick to lead the second workshop at the CEBIT Gov 2.0 conference. One of the first things we’ve done is an exercise in information overload that is easy to replicate in your own office. Get a group of four people, nominate one as the subject….
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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