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…
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…
Lisa Howdin, who now works with me, has been compiling a set of guidelines and information around how to develop, write, manage and moderate social media tools in Government in the form of a wiki. She’s looking for contributions from people across Australian government who are working in this area and have learnings they can…
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…
Microsoft has just released a beta version of Internet Explorer 9, however is still having to ask organisations to stop using Internet Explorer 6 (IE6). Despite lacking the ability to fully view the modern web IE6, released nine years ago, is still used by a number of Australian organisations, including some government agencies. The Sydney…
Traditionally, in my experience both in the private and public sector, the way to build a ‘perfect’ website has been considered to be; invest a large quantity of resources, personnel and time at the start of the development process, use this investment to build all the functionality that the developers can dream up, write all…
If you’ve been watching Twitter (specifically the hashtag #gov2au), you might have seen that yesterday the Government released its response to the Gov 2.0 Taskforce, supporting 12 of the 13 recommendations (and deferring the 13th, information philanthropy, pending the outcomes of several related reviews). The response was announced in AGIMO’s new blog platform, Govspace, released…
An extremely thought-provoking post about The street as platform written by Dan Hill in February 2008 has been brought to my attention by Darren Sharp. The post explores the virtual life of a city street, all the digital data exchanging hands between systems, infrastructure, vehicles and people in the street unseen to human eyes. While…
Many people consider Google as a search engine, or maybe as a search and email system, with a few extra frills like maps. However with over 1 billion searches a day, Google is not only aggregating the world’s knowledge, it is learning about the world’s citizens, what interests them, how they think and feel –…
On Sunday I was made aware of a Seek advertisement for a ‘web and social media expert’ position in a ‘VERY high-profile government client’ in the ACT. The ad (which is here), seeks someone with, a strong understanding of how the web and social media operate, the ability to contextualise that within the Government’s needs…
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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