The government for the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) has just launched a consultation asking for the community’s views on what the city should be like in twenty years time. The Canberra 2030 consultation has gone some way to integrate Web 2.0 tools. It allows residents to submit ideas and vote on the ideas of others…
Some of you may be aware of the Mercury 10 national counter-terrorism exercise currently being held in Australia, involving a variety of government bodies. While this type of scenario is only one of potentially many different types of crises or disasters that could occur, natural disasters, pandemics, rocks from space, and so on, it does…
I’ve been speaking with a few lawyers and solicitors lately regarding the risks of various social media initiatives and tools. Today, over lunch, it struck me that lawyers rarely – if ever – speak about the legal benefits of social media, the ways in which the use of social media can provide better outcomes for…
As covered in The Australian’s article, Australian Bureau of Statistics embraces world of blogs and wikis, the ABS has implemented an internal collaboration platform supporting blogs, wikis and collaborative documents. The article reports that 30% of staff have begun using the wiki and blog functions. If reported correctly this reflects a huge demand for internal…
Brought to my attention by Mia Garlick via Twitter, the UK has redeveloped its legislative database with a focus on reuse by external parties. The recently released site legislation.gov.uk covers 800 years of legislation from England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. According to an article from Cornell University Law School, Legislation.gov.uk, John Sheridan, Head of…
Commentators have said that major political parties have “failed to harness the full potential of social media in the 2010 Election” or broken the “cardinal rule of social media” due to only engaging in one way (outbound) communication. This is despite recent global examples of the effectiveness of online engagement in shifting votes, such as…
I read constantly to keep up-to-date with the Gov 2.0 and Web 2.0 world, so I thought I’d publish a list of what I’ve read today based on the pages I have open currently in my web browser. Global Gov 2.0 – “Generation GovLoop” Provoking Profound Change? Highlights how changes in public service demographics will…
Victoria has maintained its lead over other Australian states in the adoption of Government 2.0 through today’s release of the Government 2.0 Action Plan – Victoria. The Plan outlines four priority areas for Gov 2.0: Driving adoption in the VPS > Leadership Engaging communities and citizens > Participation Opening up government > Transparency Building capability…
The mash-up (or Apps) competitions we’ve seen in Australia thus far have been broad and largely untargeted. Governments have released a bunch of public sector datasets and invited developers to create a bunch of applications related to that data for their jurisdiction, but without a highly specific goal or purpose in mind, other than creating…
This post is in reflection to a post by Nicholas Gruen over at Club Troppo entitled, What Coalition Politicians ‘get’ Government 2.0? For me the post triggered a broader question – does Gov 2.0 require government leadership or participation? I think examples from both Australia and overseas demonstrate that the mass enablement of societies via…
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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