The National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) in the US has released an excellent report, NASCIO: Friends, Followers, and Feeds (PDF), which looks at social media adoption by US states, identifying best practice and sharing knowledge on how tools are being deployed. To quote the report, The survey examined adoption trends, current applications…
There’s still people who believe the internet and social media are flash-in-the-pan technologies – or simply aren’t relevant to their role. This group doesn’t include most senior executives at organisations around the world, as this McKinsey report indicates. The rise of the networked enterprise: Web 2.0 finds its payday (PDF) provides insights from 3,200 executives,…
There’s still talk, from time to time, about the digital divide between internet users and those without internet access. It is said that the divide will produce a long-term group of privileged people with ready access to the world, while leaving those in remote areas, with low literacy or low incomes, trapped in a cycle…
There’s a fantastic series of articles being published over at FutureGov Asia-Pacific at the moment, introducing some very interesting perspectives on social media and government. One asks, Should policy be debated in social media?, providing perspectives from senior leaders in different jurisdictions across the region. There is a fair amount of diversity in the viewpoints,…
It has been a big year for Government 2.0 in Australia, both at the federal and state levels. The Victorian Government in particular has committed to releasing the majority of public sector information under an open copyright license, continued to improve its whole-of-government intranet and released the Government 2.0 Action plan: a comprehensive strategy for…
What do you think Australia’s Government 2.0 future will look like? Today Kate Carruthers and I have launched a new project; one we’d like you to be part of. Government 2.0 is gaining momentum around the world. Not a fad management approach or minor adjustment to policy and processes, Government 2.0 is underpinned by one…
It used to be said that no-one ever got fired for buying IBM products. More recently much the same sentiment has been expressed about Microsoft. However that perception now appears to be under challenge. ReadWriteWeb reports in its article Google Sues US Government Agency Over Using Microsoft Only that, Google has filed a lawsuit against…
In this post-industrial society many of us are knowledge workers, using information as a key input to create new products, services and ideas. Particularly in government knowledge is critical. That’s why government departments invest a great deal of resources into research, stakeholder engagement and community consultation. Without a reliable and diverse flow of information government…
Last Monday (4 October) one of the US’s most loved brands tried to introduce its new logo. The company went about it in the traditional, time-honoured way. Marketing staff had consulted internal stakeholders (who thought after twenty years the logo looked a little tired), considered the research and wrote a brief. Working with a creative…
Yesterday was a historic day for Australian intellectual property rights. Ann Steward, the Australian Government CIO, announced that the Australian Attorney-General’s Department had released an amended Statement of Intellectual Property Principles for Australian Government Agencies. The amended version endorsed one of the Gov 2.0 Taskforce’s recommendations – that the default copyright position for public sector…
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