I thought I’d share this quote. It was sent to me by a colleague who read it on a social networking site: Isn’t email, intranet databases/webs and phones enough? Sounds like bureaucracy to me. Or is it another step toward the “nanny state” – sorry but I don’t agree with large organisations/governments using social networking…
In Paris, on Thursday 14 October 2010, Senator Kate Lundy became the first Australian and 10th annual winner of the World e.Gov Forum and PoliticsOnline‘s International eDemocracy award – the equivalent of the Academy awards for eGovernment and Gov 2.0 practitioners. In an award ceremony at France’s Department of Foreign Affairs, in front of more…
I’m in Paris for the World e.Gov Forum due to my selection in PoliticsOnline’s Top 10 Who Are Changing the World of Internet and Politics for 2010. Liveblogging hasn’t been possible so far, so keep an eye out for my tweets under the hashtag #wegf See a program of the forum. I am recording notes…
Last Monday (4 October) one of the US’s most loved brands tried to introduce its new logo. The company went about it in the traditional, time-honoured way. Marketing staff had consulted internal stakeholders (who thought after twenty years the logo looked a little tired), considered the research and wrote a brief. Working with a creative…
If you’re seeking to communicate with Australians it is wise to step beyond traditional media channels and investigate how to engage through Australia’s blossoming blogosphere. The Australian blogosphere is the collective term for the entire ecosystem of Australian blogs – how they interconnect, how ideas (memes) spread and how links allow audiences to flow between…
Yesterday was a historic day for Australian intellectual property rights. Ann Steward, the Australian Government CIO, announced that the Australian Attorney-General’s Department had released an amended Statement of Intellectual Property Principles for Australian Government Agencies. The amended version endorsed one of the Gov 2.0 Taskforce’s recommendations – that the default copyright position for public sector…
I felt that it would be useful to compile the online discussions during media140 #OzPolitics into a single work, a permanent record that could be reread, referenced and reconsidered. So over the long weekend, with assistance from PeopleBrowsr, the support of Julie Posetti and permission from FirstDogOnMoon and Mike Stuchbery to reuse some of their…
Some people know that I’ve been tracking the posts and articles published online discussing the outing of the author of the Grog’s Gamut blog by The Australian. EDIT – due to updates to the spreadsheet below the figures presented in this section of the post are only valid at the original time of publication. Please…
Last year Australia’s Gov 2.0 Taskforce initiated the GovHack event, produced by Web Directions, to showcase what could be done with open government data. This year I’m glad to see that GovHack is returning – as part of Amped, a free 10 hour hack day, in Sydney’s PowerHouse Museum on Sat 16th of October. Whether…
As some might already know, I was selected as one of ‘Top 10 Who Are Changing the World of Internet and Politics’, in PoliticsOnline and the World eDemocracy Forum’s 11th annual awards. Senator Kate Lundy was also selected, and you can find her press release here. It is rare to have two Australians receive such…
This archive mirrors the original eGov AU blog — Craig’s professional commentary on AI, digital government and technology in public life, running since 2006.
'; loop.parentNode.insertBefore(w,loop); })();