One of the major impacts of the internet on society has been the reduction on barriers to communication. Suddenly people didn’t need to be a trained journalist, media license holder, a wealthy individual or company or to be in the right place at the right time (often just luck) to have a significant public voice.Read… Read more »

I’m currently in Singapore, having just finished running a two-day masterclass for Singaporean public servants on how to use social media in emergency management. It is a very interesting topic and one I don’t think is high enough on the radar in Australia or many other countries, although there’s now plenty of case studies onRead… Read more »

Several of Twitter’s US staff are in Australia next week and Pia has managed to lasso them into providing a special presentation to Canberra’s Gov 2.0 community. If you’re in Canberra on Tuesday 12 March, I strongly recommend that you head along to this special Gov 2.0 lunchtime event – just make sure you RSVPRead… Read more »

Hacking is child’s play – or so it seems as young people, some aged only 11, are beginning to use various tools and instructions online to hack into online games (as reported by Mashable). The rise of state-based hacking (whether for political or commercial reasons) has profoundly changed challenges facing government agencies, both in termsRead… Read more »

I’ve mapped the 222 local government Twitter accounts I track to their geographic locations around Australia (excluding NT), and it forms an interesting picture. UPDATE: I’ve updated the map data to include NT data, thanks to the help of @Maxious, who found an ABS dataset which includes them. Local government use of Twitter in AustraliaRead… Read more »

Gavin Tapp has done his magic and so, with the assistance of the ACT Government, I’m happy to present both videos from the Gov 2.0 event I ran in Canberra on the 14th. I’ve embedded both videos in order below with the bios of the speakers. Darren Cutrupi Darren Cutrupi has been the Manager, MediaRead… Read more »

I’ve mapped the 222 local government Twitter accounts I track to their geographic locations around Australia (excluding NT), and it forms an interesting picture. Local government use of Twitter in Australia by tweets (excluding NT) – zoom for detail There was a direct correlation between population density and the propensity of councils to tweet. ThisRead… Read more »

Tourism Australia has released a fascinating study of their success in using social media to raise awareness of Australia as a travel destination, including a guide to how other organisations can use similar approaches to build engagement online, espousing principles such as: Create platforms that your fans can build on Make your advocates the heroesRead… Read more »

Last Friday the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner released a major report on the release of public sector information by Australian Government agencies. The report, Open public sector information: from principles to practice, is available online and is a relative straightforward read. The OAIC also released the aggregated data for the report into data.gov.auRead… Read more »

Gavin Tapp has been doing his magic so, with the support of the ACT Government, Ben Fowkes’ presentation on open policy in the UK from February’s Canberra Gov 2.0 event is now available for your viewing pleasure. eGov AU Craig Thomler’s personal Gov 2.0 and eGovernment thoughts and speculations from an Australian perspective Original post