It provides an interesting perspective on which major companies provide which services and collect various types of data.
Take a look over at the Web 2.0 Summit map (the movements view is very cool – click on the service icons above the menu).
Thanks @dasharp for bringing it to my attention.
Uganda has become the latest nation to announce that it is following a centralised government portal strategy, launching a statewide web portal managed by their Ministry of ICT. This reflects the approach taken in many other nations, including Australia (www.australia.gov.au and www.business.gov.au) to provide a central face to government online, to a greater or lessor…
I’m off to London for a few weeks on Tuesday and will be catching up and speaking with some Gov 2.0 people there to find out what’s happening in the UK. if you have any suggestions on contacts I should catch up with, please drop me a Tweet or email.
The French government has introduced a Web 2.0 portal featuring a forum, wikis and video to support debate on their digital strategy and encourage ideas outside traditional ‘government-think’ limits. As discussed in The Connected Republic, the French site is at http://assisesdunumerique.fr/forum/.
Yesterday AGIMO announced that the Australian Government Information Management Office was adopting a number of the recommendations of the Williams review. In particular the Williams review identified that AGIMO had moved away from the IT policy and analysis role recommended by the 2008 Gershon review to take on a range of whole-of-government IT implementation functions….
Yesterday’s announcement of the Australian Government’s plans to build a national broadband network has created a huge amount of buzz online. If you’ve not seen the news, yesterday morning the government announced that they have terminated the tender process due to cost concerns and shortcomings in all tender proposals. Instead the government will invest up…
The fifth annual global Intranet Innovation Awards have just opened and you have until Tuesday 31 May to submit your entry. What I particularly like about these awards is that the judges aren’t simply looking for the best Intranet, you can simply submit the best functionality or feature in your Intranet. This means that if…
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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