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…
The Australian Public Service (APS) has now been told three times by three different reports in the last year about the importance of releasing much of its information openly to the community. This began with reforms to Freedom of Information which, once passed, will encourage a pro-disclosure environment within the APS and make it easier…
Cheryl from the Victorian eGovernment Resource Centre recently brought to my attention the launch of the BrandKarma website. The website aggregates information about top brands and allows the public to indicate whether they love, hate or want to watch them. It also allows comments and, in the best social networking style, the creation of personal…
Public voting is now open for Apps4NSW, but only until Monday 22 March. So if you wanted to check out and vote for applications submitted to the competition, go to the Apps4NSW public voting site. EDIT: Note that it was entries that closed 22 March. Public voting remains open until 9 April.
We’re beginning to see the early shape of 21st Century statecraft, through how the UK and US have begun adopting social media approaches in their international relations. Both nations have recognised the need to engage their own citizens, and the citizens of other nations, in ongoing conversations – tapping broad bases of expertise and improving…
Inventorspot has compiled a list of ten of the top branded social media nightmares. These are situations where organisations or their staff have been caught behaving badly, where social media campaigns went past the line of good taste or where organisations failed to get onto social media and were not able to become part of…
The Gov 2.0 genie is well and truly out of its bottle in Victoria, with the Victorian Government recently advocating that the majority of Victorian public sector information be released for reuse under Creative Commons licensing. Their latest initiative is the App my State competition, which builds on the (currently running) Apps4NSW competition and last…
I am speaking next Tuesday at the National Public Sector Communications Officers’ Forum, giving a Gov 2.0 case study about yourHealth and discussing citizen engagement on behalf of my employer. If anyone attending the Forum has any questions they’d particularly like me to answer about these topics, please let me know in the comments below…
There is a trend towards greater openness in the licensing of Australian government data. Queensland’s government a few years ago put in place a framework (GILF) for Creative Commons licensing and Victoria’s government recently committing to using Creative Commons as its default copyright licensing system. Some steps have taken place at a federal level, with…
If you’ve ever been required to collect ideas from the public – or wanted to – have you considered the use of a ‘ideas market’ or similar system for collecting. allowing comments on, prioritising and reporting back on the use of ideas. Dell and Starbucks both use these systems extensively to seek public ideas to…
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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