The Society for Digital Agencies (SODA) has released its Digital Outlook for 2010. This is a great read and provides insight into the thinking and activity around the digital space from a global perspective. Note that they are having an event in Sydney this Friday (Media 2010, Introducing the next media decade), which I am…
This year I’ve started holding events to help bring together Gov 2.0 practitioners and interested parties to encourage discussion and information sharing. After a successful Gov 2.0 dinner in January, the next event is a lunch at Parliament House with Edmonton’s CIO, Chris Moore. Chris is well-known internationally for the work he’s done to open…
Minister Tanner has been making statements in conference speeches about having public servants use social media to engage the community for at least a year now. Yesterday he took this a step further and wrote an article, published in the Sydney Morning Herald, entitled The government wants to blog. Given that the Australian Government has…
I was alerted to the release of VisualPlace at the start of this week, and have spent the last few days playing with the site to get a feel for its potential. From the site, VisualPlace’s purpose is to, …show the value of an interactive GIS-enabled service for the visualisation of location-based government information. The…
In a first for a major political party in Australia, the Australian Labor Party (ALP) has embedded blogging, tweeting and video in the heart of its website, relaunching www.alp.org.au as a Politics 2.0 website. Termed ‘Labor Connect’ the redeveloped site aims to foster active policy debates, stating that, We know we won’t always agree about…
Other than at AGIMO, I’m unaware of any other senior public sector managers directly responsible and tasked with driving Gov 2.0 and new media initiatives. That changes next Monday when Tom Burton, formerly General Manager and Managing Editor of smh.com.au, arrives at the Australian Communications and Media Authority to drive their Gov2.0 and engagement strategy….
AGIMO’s Excellence in e-Government Awards are on again for 2010, with nominations opening on 1 February (and closing 1 March). This year the categories have been revised. There are now five project specific Awards plus a team or individual Award for outstanding achievement in an Information Technology area within the Australian Federal Public Service. Details…
The organisers of the US-based ‘Apps for Democracy’ competition have released a guide for other governments and organisations on how to run their own similar contests. The Guide to Creating Your Own Apps for Democracy contains many useful tips based on how to setup a content and what worked and didn’t work in the contests…
January 21 was the one year anniversary of the US Government’s open government initiative, measured from when President Obama released his first memorandum in office, committing the US government to an approach involving openness, transparency and collaboration. In recognition of this anniversary, Delib, a UK Open Government consultancy, has released a short documentary about the…
A recent report from talent management companies Human Capital Institute and Saba indicates that a majority of US government agencies are using social media. The report estimates that 66% of US government agencies use social media tools, with 65% using more than one tool. A graph from the report (see below) indicates that the US…
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