I blogged today from the Government as a Social Machine forum hosted by ANZSOG and featuring Professor Dame Wendy Hall from the University of Southampton in the UK. The discussion involved a diverse group of stakeholders from public and private sector organisations and covered the history of the internet and the challenges organisations, particularly governments,…
On a regular basis, around the world, governments rise and fall. We see this most commonly at local levels – with councils merging and demerging, however it also occurs at a slower rate at state and national levels, with new nations created out of the ruins of older states on a regular basis. I’ve been…
Yesterday I received the following message from a Linkedin contact: Dear LinkedIn FriendI hope you may be able to help me…Over the coming weeks the Joondalup community will decide who will lead their City for the next four years when Local Government elections are held via postal vote. All electors residing within the City of…
It is rare but not unheard off for Mayors (or other Councillors) to ask council officials to run their Facebook, Twitter or other social media accounts – or for State or Federal Ministers to ask agencies to run their social accounts for them. This can raise challenges for council staff and public servants – where…
As I’ve blogged previously, when state governments in Australia have changed ruling parties there’s often been a temporary hiatus in Government 2.0 and open data activity, if not a series of backsteps – however in almost every case the trend towards greater digitalisation, engagement and openness has resumes. With the transition from a Labor to…
We hear a great deal about the number of people in Australia that are of voting age, but haven’t registered to vote, however we don’t hear a lot about how Australia compares to the rest of the world in this regard. I sought out some data from the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA) to…
Whether we call today the information age, the digital age or the internet age, it is very true that society today has changed radically from the society we saw fifty years ago. Massive personal access to information, entertainment and communication means this is the crowded age – every person has a plethora of choices and…
Now that Australia has finally sent a letter of intent to join the Open Government Partnership, I’ve been reading examples of how other jurisdictions went about developing their National Action Plans (a requirement of OGP membership) to foster and support government openness. It is clear that one of the key attributes of the most meaningful…
I’m going to do a full post on my visit to the UK Government Digital Service (the GDS), but thought I’d lead with the presentation I gave to them regarding the state of Government 2.0 and open government in Australia, and how we’ve reached the point we’re at. Note this is purely my view of…
A month ago (20 May) I sent an email to Malcolm Turnbull, Shadow Minister for Communications and Broadband, in my capacity as a Government 2.0 commentator, asking a range of questions about how a Coalition Government, if elected later this year, would approach Government 2.0 and federal agency use of social media in official engagement…
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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