The Gov 2.0 Taskforce this afternoon announced the launch of data.australia.gov.au featuring 59 datasets from Australian Federal, State and Territory governments released under licenses that permit reuse. Alongside the launch the Taskforce announced on their blog the launch of a Mash-up competition challenging Australian developers to use one of more of the datasets to create…
OpenAustralia is holding its second HackFest in Melbourne on Saturday 26 September and is inviting programmers, designers and interested people to attend. Details of the event are over at Anyvite. If you’re interested in going along, RSVP by 23 September as they are limited to 30 spots.
Hopefully many of you are aware of the Gov 2.0 Summit that is being held in Washington at the moment. As part of the pre-event, the inaugural Gov 2.0 Expo included presentations in five categories, demonstrating examples of the best Gov 2.0 organisations and initiatives – not only from the United States. There was a…
Thanks to the eGovernment Resource Centre, I’ve become aware of the New Zealand Draft Open Access and Licensing Framework that was release late last month. Structured as a discussion paper, it sets out guidelines for the use of ‘no copyright’ and Creative Commons use across the NZ government to support the release and appropriate re-use…
Launched by the NSW Premier at NSWSphere on Friday, Apps4NSW is the first Australian public competition for reusing online NSW government data to create useful applications for the public. Quoting the new site, In the competition, individuals and groups will compete for cash prizes by creating ideas and software application prototypes that can be used…
The NSW government has announced the launch of data.nsw.gov.au, a site that will shortly begin providing access to NSW government data feeds available for reuse online. It even has a Twitter stream at dataNSW that will provide notifications as data feeds are released. Announced at NSWSphere last Friday, alongside the release of the Apps4NSW public…
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.
I highlighted the online Netflix prize quite some time ago as an example of how an organisation could work with its community to drive innovation. Netflix has a longstanding prize of US$1,000,000 on offer for the group who could improve their online movie/TV recommendations engine by at least 10%. The goal is to substantially improve…
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….
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