Recently Luke Fretwell over at Govfresh asked the question Time for government to plug into one platform? While I am a big fan of Luke’s and agree with his view that transferring government websites to Facebook, granting partial control over them to a foreign-jurisdiction company, is not a good idea, I find it harder to…
Fresh from my session (which was tweeted and filmed – will be up in a few days and Ross Dawson published a great article on James Kleimt’s talk “The fabulous case study of Queensland Police on Facebook“ and James Dellow has published his slides), I’m in the third session for the IPAA conference, in the…
I am spending the day at the Institute of Public Administration Australia’s (IPAA) NSW State Conference, which is themed “The future course of modern government”. There’s a packed room and a great speaker lineup, featuring commentators such as Ross Dawson and Martin Stewart-Weeks, leading (past) public servants such as Peter Shergold and the Premier of…
I founded a number of innovative companies during the 1990 and 2000s (and even at school in the 1980s), so have a deep and abiding interest in inspiring and promoting innovation in public sector workplaces. As such, with the release of the Public Sector Innovation Toolkit, I thought I’d share an approach to managing innovation…
Ovum has published an interesting article by Steve Hodgkinson on Co-production: the new face of public services. In the article Hodgkinson concludes that, Agencies now need to nurture and embrace co-production by design, or risk either failing to harness this new resource or being left behind like old-style monopolists in an increasingly dynamic and competitive…
If you’re not watching the #gov2au hashtag, you might be interested in the latest support information from Twitter – how to use the service effectively for newsrooms. Twitter for Newsrooms provides information on using Twitter to search for news sources and breaking news, how to tweet effectively and engage an audience, branding, publishing via Twitter…
It can be difficult to get a perspective on the Government 2.0 activities in non-English speaking countries. However thanks to Francis Irving, who posted an account in the My Society email list in the UK, forwarded to the OpenAustralia Community list in Australia, here’s a very interesting mini case-study on one initiative in Latvia. In…
Possibly the hottest topic for Australian government web managers this year is ‘accessibility’, following on from the release of the Web Accessibility National Transition Strategy by AGIMO (the Australian Government Information Management Office). The strategy confirmed the Australian Government’s adoption of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2 (WCAG 2.0) from the World-Wide Web Consortium…
For May’s Gov 2.0 Canberra lunch we’re joined by Allison Hornery, co-founder of CivicTEC and co-host of Gov 2.0 radio Allison will be speaking about the Government 2.0 trends and activities that she’s observed around the world in recent travels and projects. Note that due to issues caused by no-shows at previous lunches, I am…
The Secretary of Prime Minister and Cabinet, Terry Moran, gave a speech last week to the Graduate School of Government, University of Sydney. Titled Surfing the next wave of reform, his speech discussed the public service’s critical role in supporting and enabling government reform and good governance, and what would be expected of the APS…
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