It is also being livestreamed via the website, tedxcanberra.org and can be followed on Twitter at the hashtag #TEDxCanberra.
What’s TEDx? A global phenomenon that you can learn more about here.
Pia Waugh is organising the next Gov 2.0 event in Canberra, which will be hosted by DEEWR in their Theatre at 50 Marcus Clarke Rd from 12:30-1:30pm on Tuesday 14 August. This time the event features two fantastic speakers, and has a much larger limit due to the large size of the venue. The speakers…
I see a lot of examples of Gov 1.0 and Gov 2.0 these days, but one I saw recently struck me an an object example of the differences between these approaches – how far Australian government has come, and how far there is left to go. In May the Victorian government quietly launched its ICT…
I was chatting with friends on Twitter the other day regarding how useful it would be for Australian government to see positive and practical examples of online government engagement initiatives. With fortunately timing, Crispin of Bang the Table recently posted about a new report from the US based Public Agenda’s Centre for Advancement in Public…
Coming hot on the heels of the VicHealth Physical Activity Innovation Challenge, the South Australian Office for the Ageing in the South Australian Department of Health has partnered with TACSI (The Australian Centre for Social Innovation) to launch an Innovation in Ageing Challenge. The Challenge invites teams to review two briefs and come up with…
If you, like me, missed Garr Reynold‘s sold-out presentation in Sydney on Friday, kindly hosted by StepTwo (or if you’d like a second dose) listen to Radio National from 9am this morning. Garr will be on for 15 minutes speaking about design – from a Presentation Zen perspective. The piece will be repeated next Wednesday,…
Community-based budgeting is an approach that involves a government allowing its constituents to nominate how some or all of the government’s budget is spent in either a binding or non-binding manner. It’s not a new approach – in fact it’s been used for thousands of years in different forms around the world. What is reasonably…
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