I found an interesting post on Govloop the other day by Martha McLean, Bureaucracy 2.0 – make sure your team is ready to stand and deliver. This identified a challenge that is facing public servants – do we prepare our teams to engage in Gov 2.0 activities (possibly preempting the need), or do we wait…
The Government 2.0 Taskforce has been requesting submission in response to their recently released, Towards Government 2.0: An Issues Paper. So far there are four submissions listed on the Taskforce’s website. Now while these may not represent all the submissions received to-date (as it may take time to process and put them online), it does…
Australia’s Gov 2.0 Taskforce will be holding Open Forums in every state and territory of Australia over the next few weeks, seeking input from a range of audience groups – government, industry, academics, NGOs and interested others. If you wish to influence the future of the Australian government’s Gov 2.0 agenda, look for details and…
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd yesterday held his first live web chat on climate change with a group of 20 commenters from his climate change blog post. While the chat apparently suffered from some technical hiccups and, reading the transcript, the PM’s typing skills were limited (he stated that “my typing skills are a toal embarassment…
It appears that the the Clerk of Queensland’s Parliament has barred OpenAustralia from republishing the state’s Hansard on a series of grounds, in a blow to OpenAustralia’s goal of making all of Australia’s parliamentary Hansard records available online in a searchable format. OpenAustralia has blogged about the matter, in the post, Queensland bars OpenAustralia from…
The recent Public Sphere: Government 2.0: Policy & Practice, run by Senator Kate Lundy’s office captured a number of views on government 2.0 in Australia. These views are now in the process of being prioritised based on public feedback. The prioritised views will be submitted to the Government 2.0 Taskforce to use in their work…
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