There’s still many government online forms and consultation systems that don’t make use of ‘human recognition’ tools such as CAPTCHA to help verify that the people filling in the forms are humans and reduce the attractiveness of online government forms to large-scale automated attacks by bot-armies. However, even where government has added CAPTCHA security, I’ve…
Microsoft has launched a website specifically designed to get organisations to stop using Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) and upgrade to newer browsers. The Internet Explorer 6 Countdown website has the stated goal of watching global use of IE6 drop below one percent, stating that, 10 years ago a browser was born. Its name was Internet…
On Saturday 19 March Canberra is hosting the 4th BarCamp Canberra, a free one-day user-generated not-for-profit ‘unconference’ covering topics ranging from social innovation, Gov 2.0, web, technical development, science communication, critical thinking, sustainability and the environment. If you’ve attended previous BarCamps you’ll know how exciting and fun they can be, packed full of interesting and…
At least one state agency in the US, Maryland Division of Correction, recently started requiring employees to provide their personal Facebook password and allow their employer to scrutinise their account as a condition of continued employment. Apparently this request wasn’t illegal – although it breaches Facebook’s usage policy (which could mean the employee loses their…
Last Friday I presented on a personal basis at the Seamless CMS Government Conference in Melbourne to a collection of Councils from around Australia and New Zealand about the state of Government 2.0 in Australia. I’ve included my presentation below. It was an interesting conference. Councils are struggling with the same issues regarding Government 2.0…
Mary Meeker, managing director for Morgan Stanley’s global technology research unit recently gave an excellent presentation on mobile internet trends. It highlights the incredible growth of tablets and apps, the rise of Android, the new uses that smartphones are being put to (only 32% of time is spent on phone calls) and the relative effectiveness…
Listening to the US’s National Public Radio (NPR) last week, I caught a story about how Chinese citizens are now using micro-blogging services (similar to Twitter) to communicate about missing or stolen children and, in some cases to locate them. According to The Guardian article, Chinese parents turn to microblogging in hunt for missing children,…
Today telecommuting often refers to people who work from home, logging into computer networks to prepare documents and exchange information remotely. However across the world we’re starting to see examples of much broader and more intense forms of telecommuting. Warfare Take for example the RQ-1 Predator, an unmanned aerial vehicle that has been used since…
The National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) in the US has released an excellent report, NASCIO: Friends, Followers, and Feeds (PDF), which looks at social media adoption by US states, identifying best practice and sharing knowledge on how tools are being deployed. To quote the report, The survey examined adoption trends, current applications…
There’s still people who believe the internet and social media are flash-in-the-pan technologies – or simply aren’t relevant to their role. This group doesn’t include most senior executives at organisations around the world, as this McKinsey report indicates. The rise of the networked enterprise: Web 2.0 finds its payday (PDF) provides insights from 3,200 executives,…
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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