In one of his final acts before retirement, Minister Lindsay Tanner has released the Open Government Declaration – one of the recommendations of the Gov 2.0 Taskforce’s Final Report. Released at the AGIMO blog, the Declaration states that the Australian Government is: committed to open government based on a culture of engagement, built on better…
It is rare to see government officials named in the ranks of the most creative or most innovative people. However in Fast Company’s The 100 most creative people in business 2010, Beth Noveck, the Deputy CTO White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, has been named as the 35th most creative person. I’ve never…
THe Australian Labor Party has just launched a social media community designed to provide ways for party members and the community to interact and provide ideas to the ALP hierarchy. Launched by Karl Bitar in a blog post, Australian Labor’s New Community Space, the system includes a ‘ThinkTank‘ for discussion and voting on issues and…
On 21 June Victoria announced the winners of its App My State competition, with prizes being given out by the Premier. A list of the winners and a video of the presentation is here. A few days later on 24 June NSW announced the winners of the Apps4NSW competition, with their own video. Most competitions…
This post by Steve Radick was brought to my attention by Steve Davies of OzLoop. I thought it was worth flagging here and noting that these are not simply Gov 2.0 villains, but are the opponents of innovators and change-leaders in every organisation. The six villains of Gov 2.0. How many of these villains have…
A concern I often hear raised in the public sector is that they can’t release public data yet because it may not be 100% perfectly accurate, or it needs to be accessible to 100% of the population, or it needs approvals from all the involved areas first. The UK has taken a clear step to…
Bang the Table has released a fantastic little handbook for online community engagement. Titled 100 Ideas to Help Engage your Community Online the book provides 10 ideas in each of 10 topics. The book has been released under Creative Commons (BY) – allowing organisations to reuse, share and mash it up for their own needs…
I’ve been looking over my posts for the last year and thinking about how many people may have missed some because they didn’t notice them for the few days they were on the front page. So I thought I should highlight some of the most read posts in my blog over the last year. How…
When I started this blog the level of online discussion in Australia around Government 2.0 was almost nil. I didn’t set out to be one of the leaders in the Gov 2.0 space, I simply wanted to have good conversations with my peers, to share expertise and knowledge and thereby improve our collective professional skills….
Gov 2.0 conferences have become very popular in Australia in the last year, however many are still focused on introducing the concepts of Gov 2.0, rather than exploring some of the aspects, and challenges, of the topic in depth. Geoff Mason is currently working towards a series of more advanced events, covered in his blog…
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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