It is hard for me to believe that I’ve reached 1,000 posts on eGovAU – all talking about Government 2.0 and related topics. That’s well over half a million words I’ve written on the topic in around three years – around 5 decent-sized novels. Now I’m here I’m indulging in the opportunity to look back…
The UK government last week launched alpha.gov.uk, an experimental site that explores different ways of presenting government information online to better support citizens. Designed based on recommendations from the 2010 Review Report led by Martha Lane Fox, which was intended to revolutionise the UK Government’s online services, the site provides a glimpse into a citizen-centric…
The Secretary of Prime Minister and Cabinet, Terry Moran, gave a speech last week to the Graduate School of Government, University of Sydney. Titled Surfing the next wave of reform, his speech discussed the public service’s critical role in supporting and enabling government reform and good governance, and what would be expected of the APS…
Today telecommuting often refers to people who work from home, logging into computer networks to prepare documents and exchange information remotely. However across the world we’re starting to see examples of much broader and more intense forms of telecommuting. Warfare Take for example the RQ-1 Predator, an unmanned aerial vehicle that has been used since…
I’ve been tracking the discussion on the outing of Greg Jericho as author of the Grog’s Gamut blog by The Australian journalist James Massola. In the last seven days there have been over 100 posts, articles and interviews and nearly 2,000 tweets on the topic – discussing freedom of speech, anonymity, media power and public…
The Guardian reported in July that the UK government has released details on the costs of developing, staffing and hosting their major government websites. The data includes web traffic, accessibility and user opinions on the websites. This type of data is very useful when modeling the costs of developing and operating government sites, allowing agencies…
Last month I gave a presentation to around 100 people at the Department of Innovation regarding the use of social media in Australian government, alongside Todd Wright of Threesides. With permission Innovation have published the presentations and video over at their Innovation Blog to share the seminar with others across the public service. I’d love…
AGIMO’s latest blog post, Welcome to the WCAG 2.0 Community of Expertise (CoE), has invited those with an interest or involvement with accessibility matters to join a new Community of Expertise or provide guest posts to the AGIMO blog. Related to the endorsement of WCAG 2.0 (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0) by the Australian government…
New Zealand’s government has just launched a Creative Commons-based approach for the standardisation of the licensing of government copyright works for re-use. Named the New Zealand Government Open Access and Licensing framework (NZGOAL), the approach outlines the licensing government agencies should use when releasing copyright works and non-copyright material for re-use by third parties (preferablt…
According to a report in FutureGov, Australia’s GCIO talks tough at FutureGov Forum, Ann Steward has urged public servants to actively embrace Government 2.0 in their agencies. The article stated that, Steward said that although a lot of good work was being done, agencies needed to identify the internal barriers to embracing Gov 2.0, and…
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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