The Gov 2.0 genie is well and truly out of its bottle in Victoria, with the Victorian Government recently advocating that the majority of Victorian public sector information be released for reuse under Creative Commons licensing. Their latest initiative is the App my State competition, which builds on the (currently running) Apps4NSW competition and last…
I was checking my Department’s week-old Drinking Nightmare Facebook Page from home the other day and noticed that besides it up popped an ad for ASIO, inviting me to learn more about being a Survelliance Officer. This was the first time I’d seen ASIO advertising on Facebook – or for that matter any Australian government…
The White House has begun using Twitter as a tool to correct journalistic mistakes and understand the reaction of journalists to news stories, as reported in the article, W.H. messaging in 140 characters. Over the past few months, particularly during and following the change in Federal Liberal leadership, I’ve been finding some of the commentary…
In the last week four separate Gov 2.0/social media conferences have crossed my desk. All claimed to provide a line-up of star speakers with important insights into these topics. Clearly all events vary in quality, but when looking at relatively new areas, like social media and Government 2.0 how do you select those that will…
There is a trend towards greater openness in the licensing of Australian government data. Queensland’s government a few years ago put in place a framework (GILF) for Creative Commons licensing and Victoria’s government recently committing to using Creative Commons as its default copyright licensing system. Some steps have taken place at a federal level, with…
There’s been a very active and engaging discussion in the Gov 2.0 Australia group regarding safe and effective social media use by government agencies. I thought it was a topic worth discussing in this blog. One of the challenges government agencies face is whether or not to get involved with the discussions already occurring about…
This year I’ve started holding events to help bring together Gov 2.0 practitioners and interested parties to encourage discussion and information sharing. After a successful Gov 2.0 dinner in January, the next event is a lunch at Parliament House with Edmonton’s CIO, Chris Moore. Chris is well-known internationally for the work he’s done to open…
Minister Tanner has been making statements in conference speeches about having public servants use social media to engage the community for at least a year now. Yesterday he took this a step further and wrote an article, published in the Sydney Morning Herald, entitled The government wants to blog. Given that the Australian Government has…
If you’ve ever been required to collect ideas from the public – or wanted to – have you considered the use of a ‘ideas market’ or similar system for collecting. allowing comments on, prioritising and reporting back on the use of ideas. Dell and Starbucks both use these systems extensively to seek public ideas to…
I will be liveblogging as much as possible of BarCamp Canberra 2010, however note that I am also speaking and the other two rooms may not have wifi – so I will post my notes later. This year BarCamp is standing room only, with around 90 attendees at the start of the day, and more…
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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