I’ve been engaged in an interesting discussion in GovLoop regarding the definition of Government 2.0 and Web 2.0. Initiated by Jeffrey Levy, who managed the official blog of the EPA, the discussion is around the proposition that Gov’t 2.0 is a set of ideals. Web 2.0 is a set of tools. Jeffrey contends that, Gov’t…
I was recently alerted to the Queensland government’s Share My Story website, which invites individuals to share their stories of road tragedies in order to help others rethink their conduct on the road and avoid future traffic injuries and deaths. In my opinion Share My Story is an amazingly good website and a model for…
I’ve been reading an interesting article about Vivek Kundra, the CIO for Washington District and an advocate for using new technology to cut government costs. The Washington Post article, D.C.’s Kinetic Tech Czar, talks about how Kundra has re-energised Washington’s government IT approach. As described in the article, Kundra has introduced popular consumer tools to…
The US Federal Web Managers Council have developed a white paper recommending strategies for revolutionising the US Government’s provision of online services for citizens. The paper, Putting Citizens First: Transforming Online Government, contains some very practical ideas that are also worth considering under Australian conditions, including, Establish Web Communications as a core government business function…
Paul Johnston has posted in the Connected Republic a blog post, Web 2.0 and the Public Sector, discussing Cisco’s draft paper on Government 2.0, Realizing the Potential of the Connected Republic (PDF) from the US Public Services Summit in December. The paper provides many examples of practical uses of Web 2.0 tools and techniques by…
While speaking to a colleague earlier in the week about the rush on access to government support in some areas of Australia due to the current economic conditions, I realised that it is a very good time for the public sector to build capacity and skills. The IT skills crunch has affected Australian government for…
In one of the more misguided approaches to internet regulation, the UK government banned the majority of UK citizens from editing Wikipedia earlier this week. This was done, according to the SMH article, Wikipedia added to child pornography blacklist, due to the identification of a photo in one article (of the more than 2.6 million…
About this time last year Laurel Papworth reported that Facebook listed over 2 million Australians as members in a post in her blog titled, Australia has over 2 million Facebook members. I’ve just rechecked this figure, using the same approach as Laurel (via Facebook’s ad tool), and found that Facebook now lists 4,252,860 Australian members…
Reading the Connected Republic this morning, Paul Johnston has written an interesting post, Us Now: On the Road to Self-Organised Government?, about the new documentary, US Now, which explores the power of self-organising groups and what they might mean for society and the public sector. The film has just previewed in London, however clips, a…
Ari Herzog has begun a series on social media best practice in his blog, AriWriter. Kicking it off is a fascinating interview with Utah’s Chief Information Officer, David Fletcher, providing an insight into how Utah has implemented its online strategy, taking it to win the Best of the Web award for US state governments twice…
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