Government 2.0 has a number of challenges in Australia and around the world – developing the appropriate public sector culture, getting the right policies and technologies in place and, often overlooked, ensuring that our laws allow for the innovative use of online channels. The latter challenge is being faced right in the ability for Australians…
In one of his final acts before retirement, Minister Lindsay Tanner has released the Open Government Declaration – one of the recommendations of the Gov 2.0 Taskforce’s Final Report. Released at the AGIMO blog, the Declaration states that the Australian Government is: committed to open government based on a culture of engagement, built on better…
On 21 June Victoria announced the winners of its App My State competition, with prizes being given out by the Premier. A list of the winners and a video of the presentation is here. A few days later on 24 June NSW announced the winners of the Apps4NSW competition, with their own video. Most competitions…
A concern I often hear raised in the public sector is that they can’t release public data yet because it may not be 100% perfectly accurate, or it needs to be accessible to 100% of the population, or it needs approvals from all the involved areas first. The UK has taken a clear step to…
Microsoft has just released a beta version of Internet Explorer 9, however is still having to ask organisations to stop using Internet Explorer 6 (IE6). Despite lacking the ability to fully view the modern web IE6, released nine years ago, is still used by a number of Australian organisations, including some government agencies. The Sydney…
Four years ago Government 2.0 was a barely known concept in Australia and social media was regarded by many in Canberra as a youth fad. President Obama made social media ‘cool’ for politicians by using it as a key plank in his run for office. Since his election he has spearheaded a Gov 2.0 agenda…
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 –…
Traditionally, in my experience both in the private and public sector, the way to build a ‘perfect’ website has been considered to be; invest a large quantity of resources, personnel and time at the start of the development process, use this investment to build all the functionality that the developers can dream up, write all…
A matter I’ve been mulling over for some time has been whether Australian public servants should comment on the operations of other government departments – at whatever jurisdictional level. I am aware of several cases where individual public servants have commented on a difficult personal situation they experienced with another agency and received an informal…
I’m a little late starting, due to a late plane and sourcing power and wi-fi, but hope to liveblog the eGovernment Forum throughout today. Here’s the eGovernment Forum event program for today. I am starting a little late – Minister Tanner has already provided his keynote via video, stating that there he will be giving…
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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