The title of this post reflects the key statement that stood out for me in the London.gov.uk blog’s post Economic benefits of data release This article puts some solid numbers behind the value of open data initiatives in government, from the US’s Apps for Democracy mash-up competition (50 entries in 30 days, valued at $2.5m…
Vanessa Paech has written a post on a topic I was considering writing about recently – online identity and what can happen when an organisation decides to force users to use their real identity online. As Vanessa’s post is so good, rather than trying to do the topic justice, I shall take the lazy way…
Bang the Table has released a fantastic little handbook for online community engagement. Titled 100 Ideas to Help Engage your Community Online the book provides 10 ideas in each of 10 topics. The book has been released under Creative Commons (BY) – allowing organisations to reuse, share and mash it up for their own needs…
I’ve been looking over my posts for the last year and thinking about how many people may have missed some because they didn’t notice them for the few days they were on the front page. So I thought I should highlight some of the most read posts in my blog over the last year. How…
When I started this blog the level of online discussion in Australia around Government 2.0 was almost nil. I didn’t set out to be one of the leaders in the Gov 2.0 space, I simply wanted to have good conversations with my peers, to share expertise and knowledge and thereby improve our collective professional skills….
Gov 2.0 conferences have become very popular in Australia in the last year, however many are still focused on introducing the concepts of Gov 2.0, rather than exploring some of the aspects, and challenges, of the topic in depth. Geoff Mason is currently working towards a series of more advanced events, covered in his blog…
To kick-off this week, I thought it might be useful to link to an excellent video from the US’s Sunlight Foundation providing a glimpse into why there’s growing interest in making public information collected and managed by governments public. It doubles as an introduction to the Public = Online campaign, which is being used in…
I was reading an article at Mashable today about What Facebook gets right and it got me thinking. Facebook, despite its many failings, does some things very well. Things that if governments also did well would help them be successful in the 21st Century. Consider if Facebook was a country, with 500 million citizens –…
Late last year the Australian and international media was full of stories about the demise of Twitter. Articles talked about how the service’s growth had slowed – perhaps even reversed – and that there were clear signs that people were tired and looking for the next big thing. Six months later and Twitter has released…
GovFresh celebrates Gov 2.0 Heroes Day every year on 15 June. Gov 2.0 Heroes Day celebrates, in the words of GovFresh, …citizens inside and outside government who go above and beyond the call of duty and creatively leverage technology to build a more open, transparent and collaborative democracy. The ‘usual suspects’ of social media are…
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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