Fresh from my session (which was tweeted and filmed – will be up in a few days and Ross Dawson published a great article on James Kleimt’s talk “The fabulous case study of Queensland Police on Facebook“ and James Dellow has published his slides), I’m in the third session for the IPAA conference, in the…
I am spending the day at the Institute of Public Administration Australia’s (IPAA) NSW State Conference, which is themed “The future course of modern government”. There’s a packed room and a great speaker lineup, featuring commentators such as Ross Dawson and Martin Stewart-Weeks, leading (past) public servants such as Peter Shergold and the Premier of…
Steve Davies posted a very interesting piece on OzLoop last week, which with his permission I’ve posted below. The original, including comments from one of Australia’s Senators, is available at http://apsozloop.ning.com/profiles/blogs/are-australian-politicians Are Australian politicians really comfortable with Gov 2.0 and social media? I thought a lot about this post. On the one hand it is…
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…
data.gov.uk has dramatically revised its layout (for the better!) and recently released 557 datasets (1.8 million entries) representing all UK government spending over 25,000 pounds under the section Open Spending. This represents a new milestone in open data releases around the world and provide a new range of insights into the financial decisions of the…
July’s Gov 2.0 Canberra lunch will feature a presentation by Margaret Manning, global CEO and co-founder of Reading Room, a digital communications agency with offices in London, Manchester, Australia and Singapore. Margaret will be speaking about what comes beyond social media. Full details are below. Online Ticketing for Gov 2.0 Canberra Lunch – July 2011…
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…
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