In 2008 the Victorian eGovernment Resource Centre was one of the ten finalists for PoliticsOnline and World eDemocracy Forum‘s international award ‘The 10 Who Are Changing the World of Internet and Politics’. Prior to that GetUp was in the Top 10 twice, in 2006 (David Madden & Jeremy Heimans) and 2007 (Brett Solomon). The ACTU…
I’ve been known to say, from time to time, that what you cannot measure you cannot manage. This is especially true in IT-based projects, which often involve significant investments and where deadlines and budgets can easily slide. Given it has been estimated that 68% of IT projects fail to realise the benefits or outcomes they…
The New York State Senate has launched its Open Senate initiative with an API (Application Programming Interface) allowing the public direct access to its data. The NY Senate is also making the code freely available as open source, stating that, As a user of Open-Source software the New York Senate wants to help give back…
As an outcome of the Government 2.0 Public Sphere Camp last Monday, the points raised by speakers have been aggregated into a wiki for public comment prior to being submitted to the Australian Government as a briefing paper for the new Government 2.0 Taskforce. If you attended Public Sphere and wish to contribute your perspectives,…
In 2007 a combined SMS and online electoral monitoring system went into action in Nigeria to report electoral fraud. Based on increasing mobile use (as fixed infrastructure is very limited in the country), mobile phones were able to provide voters with a voice when ballots were not conducted fairly. Similar systems are now being used…
The Victorian Government’s Economic Development and Infrastructure Committee recently released the final report (PDF) for its Inquiry into Improving Access to Victorian Public Sector Information and Data. The Inquiry was designed to look at and report back to the Victorian Parliament on the potential application of open content and open source licensing to Victorian Government…
Every now and then a work shines through with absolute clarity. The video below, sent to me by a former colleague, provides such clarity regarding the fifth great media shift in the last 500 years – the internet. It may be very useful for public servants in educating their colleagues about the changes occurring around…
Below is the liveblog for the Government 2.0 Public Sphere Camp being run at Parliament House Canberra on Monday 22 June 2009. This is a jointly published liveblog in co-operation with Des Walsh and Nathanael Boehm. You can pre-register for email notification when the liveblog begins below. Please join in with your comments and questions…
In an interesting and very frank article in NextGov, named The Public Eye, Bev Godwin of the White House’s new media office has provided her views of the challenges and opportunities for government in engaging online.
The US state of Utah has been a very active implementer of government 2.0 initiatives for several years now, and is known as one of the most progressive early adopters (for government) in the space. They recently released a new website which uses many web 2.0 features to improve the experience for uses and also…
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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