At about the time this post will appear on my blog I’ll be speaking at the Hitwise/Australian Marketing Institute breakfast in Canberra on a topic related to Maximising engagement online whilst reducing costs. My presentation will explore ways of identifying where audiences are going online to help organisations form appropriate strategies to target them with…
Yesterday’s announcement of the Australian Government’s plans to build a national broadband network has created a huge amount of buzz online. If you’ve not seen the news, yesterday morning the government announced that they have terminated the tender process due to cost concerns and shortcomings in all tender proposals. Instead the government will invest up…
Andrew Krzmarzick has posted an interesting article on his
In the US President Obama’s newly appointed (and first) Federal Government CIO Vivek Kundra has committed to finding new ways to make government data open and accessible. The Computer World article, First federal CIO wants to ‘democratize’ U.S. government data, discusses how, In a conference call with reporters, Kundra said he plans to create a…
Microsoft have developed a Future Visions series to provide some insight into where technology is headed, and how it will help people. If you are looking to anticipate the needs of your customers, rather than simply play catch-up, the series provides some very thought provoking ideas. Here is the montage video, exploring different concepts in…
It’s uncommon (at least in Australia) to see a government-related initiative promoted as a leader in innovation. It’s even rarer to see publications such as Fast Company, with its focus on the most innovative companies in the world, feature government-related initiatives. However this year Fast Company’s profile of “The World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies” is…
Jakob Nielsen, often considered one of the world’s leading thinkers on usability, has discussed the mobile web in his latest Alertbox monthly update, equalling the state of mobile websites today as similar to the state of the desktop internet in 1998. I tend to agree that for many organisations this is the case, with Nielsen’s…
The ATO has begun a two month trial of allowing the use of credit cards to make payments of all tax liabilities (up to $10,000 in value) via the government easypay site. Details of the trial are on the ATO website. When looking at egovernment, supporting credit cards payments is one of the few ways…
Wellington city in New Zealand is preparing for its next ten year plan (2009-2019) and has launched a website, Wellington long-term plan, to facilitate citizen involvement in the planning process. The site features an ideas market-based discussion area allowing citizens to suggest ideas, then vote on different suggestions to provide their vision and priorities for…
The micro-blogging platform Twitter was the breakthrough social media tool for journalists in 2008. It became a pipeline for breaking news for both professional reporters and citizen journalists, with the massacre in Mumbai, the Hudson River plane crash and Obama’s inauguration highlighting its effectiveness as a source of live, user-generated online content. The statement above, from a recent article published in MediaShift,…
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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