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.
Some departments block them totally, others just monitor usage, is there a case for allowing or even supporting public social network use in government offices?The other day the Sydney Morning Herald published an article on The pain and potential of Facebook in the office where Nick Abrahams, a Deacons law firm partner provided his personal view…
Chris Anderson, the owner of Wired, recently wrote a very thought-provoking article about the need for organisations to consider how to operate within an abundance mindset rather than a scarcity-based one in his article, Tech Is Too Cheap to Meter: It’s Time to Manage for Abundance, Not Scarcity. Chris uses one example of how Wired…
Andrea Di Maio’s article, 5 necessary truths about Gov 2.0, over at Federal Computer week has just been brought to my attention, and I commend it to everyone involve or interested in Government 2.0. It makes some excellent points which I feel are often not understood or appreciated by governments, that Government 2.0 isn’t all…
The other week I was in Wellington, New Zealand for the international Linked up, Loud and Literate: Libraries enabling digital citizenship conference. Below is my presentation from the day, including the story of a recent customer experience with an Australian government agency. For other presentations from the day visit nsla.org.au/digital-citizenship-2015.
If you’re seeking to communicate with Australians it is wise to step beyond traditional media channels and investigate how to engage through Australia’s blossoming blogosphere. The Australian blogosphere is the collective term for the entire ecosystem of Australian blogs – how they interconnect, how ideas (memes) spread and how links allow audiences to flow between…
Augmented Reality, or AR, involves the projection of information onto our physical landscape through some form of assistive device, such as the heads-up displays (HUDs) used in many aircraft, the use of a mobile device with a camera to photograph a location and add information or the upcoming Google Goggles, which promise a wearable AR…
This archive mirrors the original eGov AU blog — Craig’s professional commentary on AI, digital government and technology in public life, running since 2006.
'; loop.parentNode.insertBefore(w,loop); })();