I’ve just become aware of the ACT Government’s consultation for a new license plate slogan. Hosted at Your Say, the government is asking for ideas for a 30-character or less slogan, with the best ideas to be put to a public vote later this year. I support this type of consultation approach – it provides…
I’ve been reading about a new entrant in the government online consultation market – Balancing Act, a simulation tool for involving the public in government budget consultations. It joins a range of other tools for this type of ‘trade-off’ consulting online – including Budget Allocator from Bang The Table and, my favourite, Budget Simulator from…
Earlier this month the Department of Communication, in conjunction with New York University’s GovLab team, launched the Open Data 500 research project as the first comprehensive study of Australian companies and non-profit organisations that use open government data to generate new business, develop new products and services, improve business operations or create social value. The…
The national e-Snapshot 2013 is the first in a rolling series to capture current thinking and practice around technology-enabled innovation for government and the public sphere including such areas as e-Government, Gov 2.0, digital government, mobile gov and open government. Organised by Cofluence, an organisation who has worked extensively in the Gov 2.0 field globally…
Quiip and Delib Australia have launched the second annual online community management survey for Australia and New Zealand. The survey aims to help local organisations and individuals better understand the skills required to work in these professions, help uncover role challenges, training and support needs and the actual work and salaries that online community management…
Deloitte recently released a paper entitled ‘Scaling Edges – A pragmatic pathway to board internal change’, which provided strategies on how organisations in the private sector could best achieve innovation at the institutional level. The paper promotes the following approach: Focus on the edges rather than the core functioning of an organisation Identify projects which…
This is the final week to participate in the Online Community / Social Media Management survey for Australia and New Zealand, which closes on 19 May. If you’re an online community or social media manager or advisor, please complete the survey using the button at right. To provide some quick background… The survey aims to…
The NSW State Archives has been holding a survey on social media use by NSW government organisations to inform the development of an online training course on social media recordkeeping. Your feedback will also help the NSW State Archives to “recommend some specific recordkeeping strategies that will work with both the social media tools that…
I’m still collecting responses to my FOI request, however felt it worth providing some interim data on what Australian Government agencies are telling me that they are using social media to achieve. Of the 166 FOI requests I sent out, I have, so far, received 59 legitimate responses in survey format (35%), another 10-20 in…
The Victorian government has launched a blog asking users for their ideas on how to improve the vic.gov.au website as it goes through a redevelopment. The /blog states that the aim of the redevelopment is to provide: an appealing new branding and identity for the www.vic.gov.au website a new and usable look and feel a…
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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