The Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC) has launched an online forum allowing Australians to provide their views and ask questions about human rights in Australia. Hosted by Open Forum, the discussion forum is open until Friday 26 June 2009. 29/05/09CORRECTION: Per the comment from Leon below, this discussion forum is not being operated…
The title of this post is derived from the question the US government is currently asking American citizens in the Open Government Brainstorm. The site allows individuals to suggest ideas for open government, and rate those of other – providing a prioritisation list that the US Federal government can then choose to act on. Other…
In an example of how the public is pushing government towards embracing the online channel, the TweetMP site has been launched to encourage tweeting by Australian politicians. The site features a method to invite Australian Federal parliamentarians to set up a Twitter account, includes a full list of publicly tweeting MPs and their latest tweets….
The US government has taken the first step towards meeting President Obama’s pledge to make US taxpayer funded information freely available online in reusable formats late last week with the launch of the Data.gov website. At launch the site featured dozens of datasets from around 20 Federal agencies ready to be used by the public,…
The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has launched a blog that allows the public to comment on ongoing development of the ABS website. Named ABS βetaWorks, the site is to my knowledge the first of its kind in the world for the public arena. It features a number of improvements that the ABS is working…
eGovernment, or government 2.0, is often discussed as a means to create greater transparency in government. However has there been a clear definition of what transparency really means for government in Australia? At the furthest extreme transparency would be like living in a glass house with glass furniture – everyone could see in and view…
The W3C has published an excellent paper named Improving Access to Government through Better Use of the Web. I commend it to anyone developing egovernment policy. As stated in the foreword, This document is an attempt to describe, but not yet solve, the variety of issues and challenges faced by governments in their efforts to…
Mosman council has published information and guidelines for how their organisation will engage citizens via Twitter. It’s very clear and well-constructed, providing a model for how other government agencies can represent a Twitter channel publicly, building on my post on Getting started with Twitter in Australian government. By the way, if you were wondering how…
Earlier this week Us Now film Ltd announced that Us Now, its documentary on how the Internet is changing how citizens engage with and what they expect of government, was available online for free viewing, download and distribution. What is the film about? In the words of its creators in the UK, In a world…
The European Union’s annual egovernment awards are now accepting submissions (online only naturally) at www.epractice.eu/awards. I find the various egovernment awards around the world a great source of inspiration as to different ways the online world can be used by governments to save money, improve access to services and information and involve citizens in the…
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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