Public voting is now open for Apps4NSW, but only until Monday 22 March.
So if you wanted to check out and vote for applications submitted to the competition, go to the Apps4NSW public voting site.
EDIT: Note that it was entries that closed 22 March. Public voting remains open until 9 April.
Whether or not you attended one of the events given in Australia by Sir Tim Berners-Lee in his TBLDownunder tour, it’s likely his visit will have an impact on how Australian governments and their agencies think about openness, digital channels and online engagement. During his visit Sir Tim, the inventor of the world wide web,…
It’s quite common for those of us on the pointy end of Government 2.0, innovation, agile and open source/open data and similar ‘progressive’ thinking to refer to people who seem reluctant and risk-averse as ‘dinosaurs’. The terminology crosses the government/corporate divide – indeed I’m hearing it now more often in reference to senior management in…
Tomorrow is BarCamp Canberra, a festival of ideas and experiences, where participants decide what to present and attend on the day. While it is hard to predict what people will talk about, I expect topics will range from technology and design to open data and social change, with a seasoning of personal experiences and interactive…
Just as electricity infrastructure is the lifeblood of an industrialised society, high-speed broadband is the lifeblood of a modern information society. There’s an enormous wealth gap between nations that took a first mover advantage in establishing appropriate infrastructure to facilitate economic development and those that did not place infrastructure as high on the agenda. We’re…
As reported by Peter Timmins in his Open & Shut blog, and as I have commented on Twitter, crowdfunding is beginning to become an interesting tool for fundraising the cash requested by government agencies for fulfilling FOI responses. Where governments are still using charging for FOI searches as a cost-recovery tool (and potentially occasionally as a barrier…
With the change in Australia’s Prime Minister last week, the resignation of a large handful of Ministers, and the announcement of new Ministers this week, we’ve seen some interesting approaches to shutting down Ministerial Twitter accounts. Senator Jacinta Collins closed her Ministerial account with two very-matter-of-fact tweets, redirecting people to the new Ministers: This account…
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What do you make of the standard of the ideas submitted, Craig? The likes of That's Camping! and Gluten Free NSW don't exactly set the pulse racing, and the most useful ones – to me, anyway – are things like crime stats and maps, which are hardly a very new idea.
I'm at an event in the UK this weekend doing a similar thing, and the public ideation process doesn't seem to have produced anything especially ground breaking there, either – see http://transformedbyyou.uservoice.com/
It will be interesting to compare the two processes, actually – will have a proper look tomorrow (Friday) and post something up on my blog.
I'm certainly not against this kind of crowdsourcing process – just wonder whether they work better in theory than practice!
Hi Craig,
Entries closed on the 22nd but public voting is open until April the 9th.
Cheers, Henare