This post is republished from LinkedIn with the permission of the author, Anne-Marie Elias, who attended PolicyHack as Champion and Facilitator for the Incentives To Develop Social Enterprises stream. PolicyHack happened – just like that! It was the courage of a newly appointed Assistant Minister for Innovation the Hon. Wyatt Roy MP and his bold vision to hack for change that led to one…
Last week it was announced that the first driverless car trials would begin in Australia in Adelaide. Supported by the South Australian government and the Australian Road Research Board (ARRB), the two-day trial involves Volvo’s XC90, Bosch’s driverfree technology and Telstra’s network. I’m a big fan of self-drive cars and have followed Google’s US self…
The Canberra GovCamp dialogue was held on Wednesday, one of a series of events across Australia, both part of Public Sector Innovation Month and a lead-in to a full GovCamp in November. Attendees included both current and former public servants, academics and private sector interested parties – all interested in discussing how to foster and…
Canberra is full of large buildings full of public servants, all working together on a daily basis to serve the needs of government and the community. While some can work remotely, from their home or on the road, there’s still significant barriers to teleworking in the public service. Whether it’s the need to install a…
Australian internet usage has just reached a tipping point, with more Aussies accessing the internet via their smartphones and tablets than via laptops and desktop computers. This has been reflected in web usage statistics, with several agencies I talk to reporting that they now receive more of their website traffic from mobile devices than from…
This is the first in a series of interviews I’m doing as part of Delib Australia’s media partnership with CeBIT in support of GovInnovate. I’ll also be livetweeting and blogging the conference on 25-27 November. View other posts in this series. Marie Johnson, Managing Director of the Centre for Digital Business A few weeks ago I…
Having centralised systems for voting is the standard approach for countries around the world. In most places it is simply accepted that the government funds the system for election and referendum voting – funding the polling places, ballot boxes, officials and vote counting systems, whether this be directly or at arms length via a body…
Eileen Culleton, the Founder and CEO of the Emergency 2.0 Wiki has been offered a speaking slot at the 5th International Disaster and Risk Conference (#IDRC2014) and is crowdfunding the money she needs to get there. The International Disaster and Risk Conference from IDRC is one of the world’s premier risk management conferences, attracting over 1,000 delegates…
VicHealth appears to be one of only a few agencies across Australian state and federal governments that has made a solid attempt at introducing public challenges as an adjunct to traditional policy approaches. While most governments in Australia still use the same techniques for policy creation that they’ve used for 80 or more years, after…
I’ve been reflecting on the number of comments and decisions I’ve witnessed lately where people have decided that a particular online approach, website design, engagement channel, interface design, fact sheet or other design or content is no good as it didn’t appeal personally to them. There’s definitely a tendency in our society for individuals to…
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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