If you weren’t able to attend or watch the event’s livestream, the video of the awards is now live at the GovHack site, and I’ve embedded it below for your convenience.
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…
According to the Sydney Morning Herald article, Twitter debate for NSW leaders Keneally, O’Farrell and Rhiannon, NSW’s political leaders will stage Australia’s first political leadership debate via Twitter this morning at 11.15am. Featuring NSW Premier Kristina Keneally from the Labor party, Opposition Leader Barry O’Farrell from the Liberal party and Greens party leader Lee Rhiannon…
On Tuesday morning I gave a brief talk about building a social media infrastructure at OPC IT’s Web Xchange event. I’ve included my presentation slides below as a reference for those who have asked for a copy.
On a regular basis, around the world, governments rise and fall. We see this most commonly at local levels – with councils merging and demerging, however it also occurs at a slower rate at state and national levels, with new nations created out of the ruins of older states on a regular basis. I’ve been…
As the world’s largest hackathon, GovHack is on at over 25 locations across Australia and New Zealand again this year from Friday 6pm this week until Sunday afternoon (28-30 July). With over 3,000 participants and 437 completed projects in 2016, GovHack is an opportunity to develop prototypes of new services, visualisations and mashups with government…
Given that a case study on Mosman council is being included in today’s Web 2.0 in Government seminar being run by AGIMO, I thought it was worth referring people to this article in Govtech by Bill Shrier, the CTO of Seattle. The article, per its title, discusses How Web 2.0 will transform local councils. Rightly…
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