Last Thursday and Friday I was fortunate enough to be invited to (and have the leave available to attend) the Realising our Broadband Future Forum in Sydney on a personal basis (not representing my Department). You can see my liveblogs of the forum in the two posts below this one. The forum targeted senior decision-makers…
Many organisations use campaign-based communications models. They develop their campaign strategy, identify and engage their audience, communicate a message, then wind down the campaign and allow the audience to disengage and disperse. At a future time, when the audience no longer seems influenced by the previous message, they repeat this process – potentially reusing campaign…
Many government initiatives need to be communicated to all or some of the community to increase awareness and, in some cases, encourage behavioural change. Whether advising people of changes in tax laws, informing and influencing the community’s health habits, or seeking public submissions in a consultation, there needs to be communications strategies in place to…
Australia’s Government 2.0 Taskforce has announced the winners of its structured brainstorming competition, which was held in September – October this year. The competition involved public submissions and voting via an ideas market system with the final decision on winners being made by the Taskforce. In the structured brainstorming category there were two winning ideas,…
In my experience, where possible, Australian public servants avoid controversial topics when consulting with the public. Controversial topics are messy, unpredictable, raise high emotions and draw out divergent viewpoints – making discussions difficult to manage and control. They also often edge into political matters which are outside the scope of the public service, who strive…
The US is a little behind Australia in considering a National Broadband Network, however it has taken a very different approach in consulting and engaging citizens, opening up the discussion to the US community in a Gov 2.0 manner. The US Government’s Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has launched Broadband.gov as a web 2.0 enabled site…
The Gov 2.0 Taskforce has launched a brainstorming site (via Ideascale) to source ideas that will help the Taskforce meet its goals. The first brainstorm is asking for ideas that consider the question, “How can the Government 2.0 Taskforce best meet its Terms of Reference?”, however is also capturing related ideas. There are cash prizes…
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…
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…
Priorities from the recent Government 2.0 Public Sphere are now available for public comment via the Australia 2 BETA website before being handed over to the Government 2.0 Taskforce for consideration. For a recap of the Public Sphere visit Senator Kate Lundy’s website. To comment and vote on the top Government 2.0 priorities visit the…
This archive mirrors the original eGov AU blog — Craig’s professional commentary on AI, digital government and technology in public life, running since 2006.
'; loop.parentNode.insertBefore(w,loop); })();