In July the US Department of Defense launched a new blog, the Web 2.0 Guidance Forum, for the purpose of sourcing input from the public to be used as they develop a social media policy for the armed forces and their families. Reported in Nextgov, Defense asks the public for help forming social media policy,…
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When I wrote my first online community engagement strategy for Telstra’s Wireplay service in 1997, one of the factors I considered was how to ‘complete the loop’ – integrate inbound and outbound online channels to reach, engage and promote interaction across the widest possible audience. In those days we used mass media, product sponsorship and…
The Sunlight Foundation has announced the three finalists for the Apps for America 2 competition. These finalists represent the best online social innovation sites developed by Americans to make the US government more transparent. I’m hoping that we’ll soon see a similar competition held here in Australia.
Jeff Bullas has written a fantastic post, 28 Reasons Why The CEO Is Afraid Of Social Media, which lists many of the reasons given by organisations when resisting getting involved with online social media. While he’s followed up with another great post addressing many of these concerns, 9 Ways To Convince The CEO To Use…
Government by nature is risk-averse. There’s very good reasons for this, as many decisions made by the government are life-influencing for large numbers of citizens. For example, a simple policy change can have widespread, even catastrophic effects on certain groups in the community. Equally, bold sweeping changes can have significant political impacts, not always to…
Google, Facebook, Twitter, Wikipedia, Google Maps, WordPress. What do all these online services have in common? They are all part of the world’s virtual infrastructure, providing collective public goods that many people, including many Australians, use on a daily basis – whether for the storage, organisation, distribution or discovery of information. They are also all…
I found an interesting post on Govloop the other day by Martha McLean, Bureaucracy 2.0 – make sure your team is ready to stand and deliver. This identified a challenge that is facing public servants – do we prepare our teams to engage in Gov 2.0 activities (possibly preempting the need), or do we wait…
The UK has moved forward from its recent Digital Britain report to release an Implementation Plan. This details how the government proposes to turn the actions within Digital Britain into reality. A very interesting, and not overly long, document, the plan lays out clear governance structures, responsibilities and accountabilities for rolling out Digital Britain. It’s…
The Government 2.0 Taskforce has been requesting submission in response to their recently released, Towards Government 2.0: An Issues Paper. So far there are four submissions listed on the Taskforce’s website. Now while these may not represent all the submissions received to-date (as it may take time to process and put them online), it does…
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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