Jonathan Zittrain’s new book, The future of the internet – and how to stop it, presents a compelling picture of how the internet has evolved from the ‘sterile’ and unchangeable computer systems of the 1960s and 70s into a ‘generative’ environment, enabling individuals around the world to freely develop applications and services and distribute them…
Online voting has already become reality in some parts of the world, with the Estonian online election heralding the possibility of using the speed of online to expand citizen franchise from electing representatives every three to eight years, to voting on major legislative changes on a far more regular basis.As reported in a Sign On…
The Google Chrome beta is now available at www.google.com/chrome. I’m taking a look, and will provide impressions, as I did for Internet Explorer 8, later today. Other information is available from ZDNet, who liveblogged the Google press conference, and from the Google Chrome media kit, which includes screenshots and videos.
As a law-maker, governments are often more attuned to making the laws and being in the position of controlling and defining the terms of engagement with communities. Agencies and departments often consult external stakeholders, but on their own terms – choosing the place, the medium and the scope of discussions. There’s good reasons for this,…
I installed the public beta of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 8 on my personal laptop last week to look at how well my agency’s sites were reflected in the browser, and to get more of a feel for the new features it adds to the mix.I’m pleased to say that just about all the sites I…
Border control is really only a recent development in the evolution of nations. For thousands of years we can distinguish nations by their common language, culture, cuisine and other shared characteristics. However, with a few exceptions, it is only in the last few hundred years that the physical borders solidified into boundaries that delineated the…
I’d like to thank Kate Carruthers, a formidable change agent and renaissance woman, for prompting this post through a presentation she’s published on SlideShare, Enterprise 2.0 and stakeholder resistance. One of my key roles and, I believe, a key role for many in the online arena, is to be a change agent for digital channels….
I believe that one of the keys to successful projects is to maximise time spent on the project goals and minimise time spent dealing with project tools. In the past I’ve seen projects fail or delayed due to the difficulty in managing project teams across different areas of a single organisation or, worse yet, across…
With the vast array of online social media tools now out there, it’s inevitable that a few individuals will use them in a malicious way to discredit organisations. Where organisations are not keeping an eye on these online channels, there is the possibility that the impact of comments – made in public to large groups…
In the good old days (around 1995), choosing a display resolution for a website was easy. Everyone had 640×480 monitors, so that’s what we designed for. By 1998 it was a little harder – many, but not all, people had upgraded to 800×600 screens. So if you wanted to target early adopters you could aim…
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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