Governments collect and distribute a massive amount of public data each year. It is a continual challenge to make this data accessible and usable for citizens, commercial organisations, researchers, scientists and policy makers. This challenge isn’t limited to a few dedicated statistical organisations, such as the ABS. Many other government departments collect, collate and publish…
Beth Noveck, formerly the White House Deputy CTO, has published a fantastic paper on why it is so important to evolve democratic systems for the 21st century, and providing details of how a range of governments around the world are doing so. The paper is titled “Evolving democracy for the 21st Century” and is available…
We are now starting to see government departments advertising social media roles – although the titles vary, including ‘New Media Adviser’, ‘Community Manager’ and even ‘Online Media Coordinator’. In Australia it is difficult to recruit people with substantial experience for these roles. I am seeing many filled by media specialists or website managers, who are…
Catherine Grenfell of Step Two Designs has written an excellent article on how intranet teams should spend their time, divided between day-to-day maintenance, new projects and initiatives and relationship management with internal stakeholders. She left out one small area – networking with peers for fresh ideas and approaches to common issues. For this, the Intranet…
We’ve often seen contrary positions taken by western democratic governments on the value of the internet – whether it can be used for good, or is a pit of evil. The US government, for instance, has promoted freedom of speech on the internet internationally, supporting the use of Tor and other tools to allow bloggers…
I was privileged to attend CSIRO’s On Innovation Bootcamp on Wednesday and Thursday this week, a two day intensive for CSIRO, university and other government teams transitioning concepts from government scientific research towards becoming startup companies. This was the third round for the ON programme, with approximately 80 teams having now gone through the process…
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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