I founded a number of innovative companies during the 1990 and 2000s (and even at school in the 1980s), so have a deep and abiding interest in inspiring and promoting innovation in public sector workplaces. As such, with the release of the Public Sector Innovation Toolkit, I thought I’d share an approach to managing innovation…
While this post is a little outside the usual topics I cover in this blog, I thought it touched on enough to publish it. Also it is so long that The Drum may not publish it as a comment on their article Murdoch kills paper, bodycount continues – and note that if it is published,…
Ovum has published an interesting article by Steve Hodgkinson on Co-production: the new face of public services. In the article Hodgkinson concludes that, Agencies now need to nurture and embrace co-production by design, or risk either failing to harness this new resource or being left behind like old-style monopolists in an increasingly dynamic and competitive…
If you’re not watching the #gov2au hashtag, you might be interested in the latest support information from Twitter – how to use the service effectively for newsrooms. Twitter for Newsrooms provides information on using Twitter to search for news sources and breaking news, how to tweet effectively and engage an audience, branding, publishing via Twitter…
Tonight the Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research has released the Public Sector Innovation Toolkit website. The website is part of the APS-wide innovation agenda, designed to help public servants develop and apply innovative solutions. Published under a Creative Commons Attribution license, the Innovation Toolkit is being used to, provide information about the innovation…
One of the assumptions often applied to government funding for aid and governance reform programs is that the funding must be granted to established corporations, NGOs or not-for-profits that have hierarchies, governance structures, offices and methodologies for achieving outcomes. It only makes sense – when investing government money into development activities there needs to be…
Dr Travis Kemp of the Teleran Group presented at the National Stakeholder Engagement and Community Relations Officers’ Forum 2011 in Melbourne a couple of weeks ago. He provided an interesting view on how people identify for or against certain policies and worldviews, how bad humans are at accessing risks, and illustrated how it was possible…
Delib’s Chris Quigly has released the edited Australian digital democracy mini-documentary that he recorded earlier this year with a number of Government 2.0 leaders (plus myself) across Australia. The nine minute mini-documentary provides an interesting perspective on Gov 2.0 approaches and trends in Australia. It also provides a defining view from the outside – how…
Davied van Berlo‘s two books “Civil Servant 2.0” and “Civil Servant 2.0 beta” have finally been translated into English and are available online for free. I’ve admired and followed the work of Davied, a Dutch Civil Servant, for several years now. Davied has been using the internet for about as long as I have and…
I’ve been a bit behind on blogging in the last two weeks due to my new job, however expect to get back into the flow next week. In the meantime, this week has seen the important announcement of the Government 2.0 Register from AGIMO, which attempts to collect all of the Australian Government’s social media…
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