We’re beginning to see the early shape of 21st Century statecraft, through how the UK and US have begun adopting social media approaches in their international relations. Both nations have recognised the need to engage their own citizens, and the citizens of other nations, in ongoing conversations – tapping broad bases of expertise and improving…
The Digital Policy Council at Digital Daya has released a thought-provoking report on the incidence of social media use by government leadership around the world, characterised through the use of Twitter, entitled Real Leaders Tweet (PDF) Considering the 163 countries recognised by the United Nations, the report indicates that 24 (15%) already have leaders or…
Every years there are many conferences, forums and other publicly orientated events where public servants speak – providing views on their activities, successes and learnings across a wide-range of professional disciples. The conference I have been at the last two days, FutureGov Hong Kong, is one example of these – where three Australian public servants…
Most people have heard that Facebook has around 8 million active Australian accounts, and MySpace has around 2.9 million, but yesterday I was sent an email that took me a little by surprise. Apparently LinkedIn, a professional social network, has just reached a million Australian members. Now I can’t verify the truth of this, however…
Governments regularly hold consultations with their public – asking them for their views on matters as widespread as tax reform, copyright, health, culture and city planning. Whether these consultations are held through public events, print notices, online via email or social media engagement there’s one constant that governments rely on – that people are willing…
I’m a big fan for the use of gameplay to encourage people to explore concepts, test ideas, build skills and model behaviours while generating awareness – however it is a tool that I have not seen exploited anywhere near to the extent it could be in government or most commercial organisations in Australia (and yes…
The Gov 2.0 genie is well and truly out of its bottle in Victoria, with the Victorian Government recently advocating that the majority of Victorian public sector information be released for reuse under Creative Commons licensing. Their latest initiative is the App my State competition, which builds on the (currently running) Apps4NSW competition and last…
I was checking my Department’s week-old Drinking Nightmare Facebook Page from home the other day and noticed that besides it up popped an ad for ASIO, inviting me to learn more about being a Survelliance Officer. This was the first time I’d seen ASIO advertising on Facebook – or for that matter any Australian government…
I’m beginning to see more and more organisations and their various advertising and PR agencies look seriously at social media as a core communications channel for their campaigns and other customer, client and citizen engagement activities. This is beginning to make me wonder how communications professionals who know little or nothing about social media will…
I am speaking next Tuesday at the National Public Sector Communications Officers’ Forum, giving a Gov 2.0 case study about yourHealth and discussing citizen engagement on behalf of my employer. If anyone attending the Forum has any questions they’d particularly like me to answer about these topics, please let me know in the comments below…
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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