There’s plenty of good examples of how government is using social well – for policy development, service delivery, engagement and more.
We often talk about the professional values of the public service – honesty, integrity, respect, courtesy, care and responsibility. These professional values comprise a major part of the Australian Public Service’s (APS) Code of Conduct, and similarly are prominent in many public service codes and charters in Australia and around the world. They aim to…
Humans love news. While the channels we use to find out the news continue to change, most of us still need our daily news fix – details on what is happening in our organisation, our country and our world. When I first became involved with the online space in 1995, an ‘about us’, ‘communications’, ‘PR’,…
VicHealth has just announced the start of the VicHealth Seed Challenge, where the agency is asking people from across the nutrition sector, fruit and vegetable industries, researchers, social innovators/entrepreneurs and the digital world to collaborate and seek solutions to the wicked problem: “How do we improve fruit and vegetable supply and access, as well as…
1) Our traditional ad agency tells us so – and as radio, print and television advertising is more profitable for them, they must be right! 2) It’s easier to simply build a bells and whistles website, promote it via traditional means for a month and then ignore it. Our audience will find it, really. 3)…
The Queensland Government is currently running their first Premier’s Award for Open Data, a competition designed to encourage and support the use of data released by the government and raise awareness of how it can add value to the community. Open data competitions are no longer new for Australia, however it is great to see…
Public sector blogging is becoming established in the UK, US and even New Zealand – although there is still very little being written by Australian public servants (‘government’ isn’t even a category in Australian blog indexes such as The Australia Index). Situations such as Civil Serf in the UK and Washingtonienne in the US raised…
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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