Hitwise has provided a great piece of insight into what activities Australians are actually doing online in their February monthly newsletter.
If you don’t subscribe to Hitwise’s service – which is not cheap – their newsletter is a great free way to keep an eye on some of the key trends in Australian online traffic.
The ABS has launched the CodePlay initiative as a Gov 2.0 approach to help drive collaboration between students, developers and national and international statistical agencies. The competition challenges Australian tertiary students to help the ABS design the next generation of open-data tools to help people access, view and use statistical information. While I’m not sure…
I’ve previously blogged about the impact of the online channel on Barack Obama’s campaign and how it contributed significantly to his nomination as the Democrat presidential candidate. There have also been broader implications for the US government scene, as captured in a Pew report released last week. Pew has been one of my favourite commentators…
MIT have developed an interesting visualisation tool which can be used to map various online statements about an individual and present a chart which provides a view on what is known or believed about them. While it’s really a toy at this stage, it shows the potential for mapping the view of the public towards…
In the last two weeks before the Government 2.0 Public Sphere Camp in Canberra on 22 June, I’ll be posting a series of articles on government 2.0. This will cover areas such as, what does ‘open government’ mean in the context of the internet, how is government 2.0 being introduced around the world, what is…
I don’t think this has been widely noticed in government yet, but Australia achieved an interesting Gov 2.0 first this week on the back of the Myers disability scandal. The backstory: after the Prime Minister announced that DisabilityCare, the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), would be partially funded through an increase of 0.5% in the…
media140 #OzPolitics is a one-day Canberra coming up at the end of July that will explore how social media – the real time web – is transforming politics in Australia. Featuring a range of speakers including politicians; political journalists; bloggers; public relations experts; academics; and lobbyists, this will be the first event of its type…
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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