I’ve just found the 2008 broadband rankings report (PDF) from the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation. The Foundation draws from OECD and other data to form a picture of how various countries are tracking in terms of broadband penetration, speed and cost. Australia doesn’t do too badly overall, ranking 12th out of 30 on the…
As reported in Friday’s Sydney Morning Herald in the article, Australian court serves documents via Facebook, Today in what appears to be a first in Australia and perhaps the world, Master Harper of the ACT Supreme Court ordered that a default judgement could be served on defendants by notification on Facebook. Previously both email and…
In a first for an Australian Commonwealth government agency, the ABS is set to release most of its website data under Creative Commons licensing on 18-19 December. Announced in their Website changes coming soon page, the ABS states, Creative Commons provides a spectrum of licensing for the use of intellectual property between full copyright and…
The eGovernment Resource Centre has tipped me off that the Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy has set up a consultative Future directions blog for two weeks with the purpose of soliciting public comments that will contribute to the development of a Future directions paper for the digital economy. It’s good to see…
It can be a challenge for government agencies to get the level of buyin required to build or buy the infrastructure required for online consultation. Questions get asked at senior levels around security and privacy, the risk of consultations being hijacked, the level of resourcing required, the concern about publicly getting few (relevant)responses or contrarywise…
Ari Herzog has begun a series on social media best practice in his blog, AriWriter. Kicking it off is a fascinating interview with Utah’s Chief Information Officer, David Fletcher, providing an insight into how Utah has implemented its online strategy, taking it to win the Best of the Web award for US state governments twice…
One of the promises Barack Obama made in the US was to release his weekly address to the nation via Youtube. This signaled how serious he was about transparent and open government, and flagged the incoming US government recognition of the power of Youtube’s large and growing audience – which publishes almost 10,000 hours of…
Commoncraft have made another fantastic video, this time focusing on Social Media. This (older) presentation is also a great Dummie’s Guide to social media: Social Media and Marketing: Evolution or Revolution?
I’ve never liked the term Web 2.0, but it’s become established as the ‘in term’ for websites involving more than flat pages and information. These days everyone wants to be seen to be doing Web 2.0 – even when they are not. But what really IS Web 2.0? What separates the sites that are really…
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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