Over the last few years I’ve often thought about the value of having a complete picture of web traffic to the Australian government. This would require a common way to track and report on the usage of each discrete government website and the ability to track and measure the traffic between them over time (using…
While open government advocates are calling for governments around the world to be more transparent and accountable, one of the issues that has to be worked through is how to ensure that the data made publicly available is complete and accurate. Generally transparency costs dollars – even online. Therefore there needs to be suitable commitment…
The Government 2.0 Taskforce has released the final version of their official issues paper,Towards Government 2.0: An Issues Paper. Some of the key questions raised include, How can we build a culture within government which favours the disclosure of public sector information? What government information should be more freely available and what might be made…
Chris Anderson, the owner of Wired, recently wrote a very thought-provoking article about the need for organisations to consider how to operate within an abundance mindset rather than a scarcity-based one in his article, Tech Is Too Cheap to Meter: It’s Time to Manage for Abundance, Not Scarcity. Chris uses one example of how Wired…
I highlighted the online Netflix prize quite some time ago as an example of how an organisation could work with its community to drive innovation. Netflix has a longstanding prize of US$1,000,000 on offer for the group who could improve their online movie/TV recommendations engine by at least 10%. The goal is to substantially improve…
I’ve been known to say, from time to time, that what you cannot measure you cannot manage. This is especially true in IT-based projects, which often involve significant investments and where deadlines and budgets can easily slide. Given it has been estimated that 68% of IT projects fail to realise the benefits or outcomes they…
The New York State Senate has launched its Open Senate initiative with an API (Application Programming Interface) allowing the public direct access to its data. The NY Senate is also making the code freely available as open source, stating that, As a user of Open-Source software the New York Senate wants to help give back…
The Victorian Government’s Economic Development and Infrastructure Committee recently released the final report (PDF) for its Inquiry into Improving Access to Victorian Public Sector Information and Data. The Inquiry was designed to look at and report back to the Victorian Parliament on the potential application of open content and open source licensing to Victorian Government…
At the Government 2.0 Public Sphere Camp, Ministers Tanner and Ludwig have announced the creation of a Government 2.0 Taskforce. Chaired by Dr Nicholas Gruen, the Taskforce is made up of fifteen policy and technical experts and entrepreneurs from government, business, academia, and cultural institutions. The taskforce has two main streams, to increase the openness…
The US state of Utah has been a very active implementer of government 2.0 initiatives for several years now, and is known as one of the most progressive early adopters (for government) in the space. They recently released a new website which uses many web 2.0 features to improve the experience for uses and also…
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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