The Federal Mobility 2.0 Study, released a couple of days ago in the US, has reported that wireless internet access for Federal public servants improves their productivity. In fact over 70% of respondents, who all used wireless internet, reported that it improved their productivity. At the same time only 40% of Federal agencies reported that…
Google recently released a report on web browser security, conducted in June 2008, which found that more than 630 million internet users were not using the most secure version of their chosen web browser. Mainly this reflected Internet Explorer use – 577 million users were not using the most secure version of the browser –…
I’ve been reviewing a very interesting presentation from Paul Ramsay, one of my blog’s Canadian readers. Titled RoboCop, Public Service in the Internet Age, it asks whether government is simply on the internet, or is part of the internet. It frames this question based on whether government is simply using the intranet to replicate the…
1) Our traditional ad agency tells us so – and as radio, print and television advertising is more profitable for them, they must be right! 2) It’s easier to simply build a bells and whistles website, promote it via traditional means for a month and then ignore it. Our audience will find it, really. 3)…
I’m on a bit of a social media kick this weekend due to all the fantastic resources I’ve found on the topic in the last several days. I wanted to flag a couple of these in particular that I found useful, and may be useful for others. My first great find was a CIO magazine…
I was able to take part in an inpromptu live online video and text discussion this morning between Congressman John Culberson of Texas and initially with the Managing Editor of the Wall Street Journal, and then with Grover Norquist, the President of Americans against Tax Reform (pictured below) at a fund raising event in the…
If you have a spare US$50-100,000 you may be able to buy your own top-level internet domain from ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers). ICANN moderates top level domains around the world. These domains, such as .com, .net, .com.au and .gov.au, are the basic naming structure of the internet and control what…
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…
Reading up on one of my favourite eGov blogs, In the Eye of the Storm, I found this post from February with some great slides and commentary on how far e-government has gone, but how little has changed in the last few years, e-government 3.0. Edited 16/06: This article is further reinforced by this article…
The W3C launched a public forum last week that aims to explore how to use internet technologies to improve governance and citizen participation. Termed the eGovernment Interest Group (eGov IG), there’s an open invitation to any person or organisation interested in eGovernment to join the forum. More information is over at http://www.w3.org/2007/eGov/IG/ The charter of…
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