This is a fantastic example of how blogs and other Web 2.0 tools can be used to support government initiatives and help reduce project costs. First I should note that I know Nathanael Boehm, one of the members of the project team. He’s an early adopter of web technologies, with a great deal of experience…
Regardless of how egovernment progresses, Australian citizens are moving forward to create the tools they want online. The latest example is is a site named Open Australia. Built based on the UK site They Work For You and the New Zealand site of the same name – TheyWorkForYou.co.nz, Open Australia feaures a fully searchable record…
This post was triggered by a question post over at Strange Attractor, asking Why isn’t social software spreading like wildfire through business? This is a question I have considered as well, in the last year from a government perspective. It particularly puzzled me late last year when I made unsuccessful efforts to get a wiki…
It’s an established fact that intranets (or internal networks) grow and live within your organisation’s firewall. Or is it? New approaches and technology are now challenging the concept that intranets must be stored within your organisation’s direct structure. For instance in Australian government there is Govdex. This wiki-based extranet system meets secret level Federal government…
I’ve had a keen interest in the Attorney General’s Department for a number of years now. That’s not because they may – or may not – be the government department most likely to have James Bond, Triple X or the Men In Black working for them. It’s because they do a lot of important things…
Here are some great ideas from Step Two Designs in a presentation resulting from their Innovative Intranets Awards this year. It includes a voiceover from James Robertson What do innovative intranets look like?
Commoncraft have made another fantastic video, this time focusing on Social Media. This (older) presentation is also a great Dummie’s Guide to social media: Social Media and Marketing: Evolution or Revolution?
I’ve never liked the term Web 2.0, but it’s become established as the ‘in term’ for websites involving more than flat pages and information. These days everyone wants to be seen to be doing Web 2.0 – even when they are not. But what really IS Web 2.0? What separates the sites that are really…
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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