On Friday (29 August) Peter Gershon submitted his review on the status of the $16 billion Australian Government technology budget to the Federal Government for consideration, as reported in a number of places, including this Australian article, Gershon submits govt ICT review. The Australian article reports that, Sir Peter said his recommendations involve a major…
The UK has been operating an online ‘television’ channel for public servants, LocalGovTV, featuring government initiatives and egovernment examples for some time now. The service has now launched a regular news channel featuring the latest news on public sector developments within the UK. While it is necessary to register to view the service, it contains…
A frantic day catching up yesterday, so I did not get to write this post until this morning. On Monday I presented at Ark Group’s Driving Interoperability and Collaboration in eGovernment conference in Brisbane. There was a great line-up of speakers, and I had a long list of take-aways from the day. Here’s my key…
I really admired the efforts of our New Zealand cousins in the egovernment arena as I’ve mentioned before. One of their initiatives is their ParticipationNZ wiki, which is allowing NZ public servants to collaboratively develop, assess and reflect on the overall approach to online participation by government agencies. If your agency is considering participating in…
Next Monday (25 August) I’ll be speaking at the Ark Group’s conference on Driving Interoperability and Collaboration in eGovernment in Brisbane on the topic of Driving ongoing improvements in online services provision. If you’re attending, please come and introduce yourself at some stage through the conference. If you won’t be there, I’ll be making my…
When chatting with a friend about risk management via IRC recently, he referred me to the essay The Psychology of Security. This is quite a good paper discussing how poor humans are at understanding and assessing risks and their impact on security. Most of the time, when the perception of security doesn’t match the reality…
Just as electricity infrastructure is the lifeblood of an industrialised society, high-speed broadband is the lifeblood of a modern information society. There’s an enormous wealth gap between nations that took a first mover advantage in establishing appropriate infrastructure to facilitate economic development and those that did not place infrastructure as high on the agenda. We’re…
The last few days have seen a number of media reports criticising the new Federal government Grocery choice website. Amidst the noise there are several key takeaways for public sector website managers. Note that I’m not involved with the Grocery choice website or program. I’m commenting from the perspective of a public sector web manager…
I regard mobile internet access as of strategic concern to Australia’s development as a connected nation. While fixed wire broadband is also crucial, mobile access is the best approach for filling the gaps cost-effectively in a large low-population nation such as Australia. Also mobile internet supports ubiquitous instant access to information, which fixed broadband does…
Prediction markets are a technique used to predict the likelihood of outcomes using values tied to events. So far they’ve proven to be at least as accurate as other predictive approaches, and significantly more engaging. A popular example is the Hollywood Stock Exchange which allows individuals using virtual money to buy and sell shares in…
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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