Living in Australia we are fortunate to be able to often look overseas to view the trends that will shape our lives and our workplaces already beginning to unfold. While Australians often consider our country an innovative leader in many areas, my fifteen years in the online sector have suggested that, for the most part,…
Victoria’s App My State competition has now closed to entries, and has already been an enormous success for the Gov 2.0 efforts in that state. The competition attracted 171 entries, 75 applications and 96 ideas, over 12 weeks. Judging has now commenced – with the public able to vote for the ‘popular choice’ award and…
Many people consider Google as a search engine, or maybe as a search and email system, with a few extra frills like maps. However with over 1 billion searches a day, Google is not only aggregating the world’s knowledge, it is learning about the world’s citizens, what interests them, how they think and feel –…
Now that the UK general election has been called, it will be interesting to see the role social media will play in a Westminster election, compared to the US’s last Presidential election. One of the first examples of how this election will use social media has been demonstrated by the UK’s ruling Labour party, who…
Social media commentator Laurel Papworth published a list last week of the top Australian Facebook pages (by number of fans). She’s just updated it to include more identified through a crowd sourcing process in her blog. The post, Fanpages: List of top 100+ Australian Facebook Fan Pages, provides the first glimpse of which organisations and…
In the last 24 hours, over 30 US Federal agencies have released their Open Government plans in a strategic outpouring that demonstrates some of the best whole-of-government Gove 2.0 leadership in the world. Govloop has published a complete list of these Open Government plans via the free online public database service Socrata (a 3rd party…
The Department of Finance and Deregulation has announced on its Web Publishing Guide blog that it has opened its internal network to Facebook, Twitter and other social network tools and released a guide for staff, Social Media 101: A beginner’s guide for Finance employees. Social Media 101 includes guidance for staff use of social media…
Cheryl from the Victorian eGovernment Resource Centre recently brought to my attention the launch of the BrandKarma website. The website aggregates information about top brands and allows the public to indicate whether they love, hate or want to watch them. It also allows comments and, in the best social networking style, the creation of personal…
This video reflects some of the sentiments I hear from time to time about young people – and provides an alternate view. Thanks to Crikey for making me aware of it:
Public voting is now open for Apps4NSW, but only until Monday 22 March. So if you wanted to check out and vote for applications submitted to the competition, go to the Apps4NSW public voting site. EDIT: Note that it was entries that closed 22 March. Public voting remains open until 9 April.
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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