There is considerable international discussion at the moment over whether internet access should be recognised as a fundamental human right. The ability of the internet to allow people to communicate, access education, jobs, participate in democratic processes and to create businesses makes it a powerful force for opportunity. It helps the poor to help themselves…
Inventorspot has compiled a list of ten of the top branded social media nightmares. These are situations where organisations or their staff have been caught behaving badly, where social media campaigns went past the line of good taste or where organisations failed to get onto social media and were not able to become part of…
There is a trend towards greater openness in the licensing of Australian government data. Queensland’s government a few years ago put in place a framework (GILF) for Creative Commons licensing and Victoria’s government recently committing to using Creative Commons as its default copyright licensing system. Some steps have taken place at a federal level, with…
There’s been a very active and engaging discussion in the Gov 2.0 Australia group regarding safe and effective social media use by government agencies. I thought it was a topic worth discussing in this blog. One of the challenges government agencies face is whether or not to get involved with the discussions already occurring about…
As a follow-up from my post yesterday,South Australia bans anonymous election comments online, South Australia Premier Mike Rann has twittered that the South Australian government has decided to repeal the January 6 amendment to the state’s Electoral Act which made it illegal to publish anonymous comments online during an election campaign. Reported in a post…
I’ve been alerted by CloCkWeRX in a comment in my post, Australian Labor Party launches social media website, that the South Australian government has passed a law banning anonymous online comments about the South Australian election. According to the article South Australian Government gags internet debate in News.com.au, The new law, which came into force…
One of the long established principles in government and big business is that only designated staff are allowed to represent their organisations when speaking to the media. This is an extremely well-intentioned principle, designed to protect both the organisation and individual staff. The media is frequently more interested in sensation than truth and can twist…
I’ve written this post based on my comments in response to the post at the Gov 2.0 Taskforce site, If I could start with a blank piece of paper… (part 2). In that comment I made a point that it is relatively easy for government agencies to technically adopt Gov 2.0 approaches. The technology, legal…
Mark Scott, the Managing Director of ABC, has written a very interesting piece in Unleashed about the future of ‘old media’ empires entitled, Media after Empire. While it’s not specifically about Government, I thought it had some very interesting comments about ’empires’ which resonate with some of the challenges that the public sector faces in…
Social Media Governance recently released a list of 106 social media policies that can be drawn on, including nearly thirty from government (including the APSC’s Circular 2008/8: Interim protocols for online media participation). A lot of Australians now use social media – including staff in your Department, your customers and clients and many of your…
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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