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.Read… Read more »
Erik Qualman of Socialnomics has released the 2013 annual Social Media video, chock full of awe-inspiring statistics on the continuing rise of social media and its increasing influence on the world today. In a new twist, it’s available with two different music tracks (for those of you tired of an annual dose of FatBoy Slim).Read… Read more »
Yesterday the Sydney Morning Herald reported that the Liberal Party had ‘slapped a social media gag on MPs’. While the article didn’t live up to the sensation of the headline, it did touch on an area I had provided a media comment on last week. As such I thought I would publish my full notes,Read… Read more »
A few weeks ago Ann Steward, the Australian Government Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Deputy Secretary leading AGIMO (the Australian Government Information Management Office) announced she was retiring from the public service after seven years in her current role. Her announcement was widely covered in the media, and there’s been a number of public and,Read… Read more »
A few weeks ago Ann Stewart, the Australian Government Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Deputy Secretary leading AGIMO (the Australian Government Information Management Office) announced she was retiring from the public service after seven years in her current role. Her announcement was widely covered in the media, and there’s been a number of public and,Read… Read more »
A separation that is widely understood within governments, but often less well understood in the rest of the community, is the separation between politics and public service. Elected public servants, politicians, ascribe to specific political ideologies and policy positions which form the basis of how people select which politicians and parties to support and castRead… Read more »
It is approaching the end of the year, so for the final formal Gov 2.0 event in Canberra, there’s a picnic being held on Saturday 8 December from midday. There will be a couple of speakers – starting with Julian Carver from New Zealand, who has had a long involvement with the open government movement,Read… Read more »
The process of requesting documents from the government, though enshrined in Australian law, can be difficult for many people – taking significant time, causing significant frustration and resulting in inconsistent and substandard outcomes – as I found when asking government agencies some simple question about which public social media channels they operated and which webRead… Read more »
The Twitter infographic below has been brought to my attention by The Wall and I thought it worth reflecting here. As you’ll see below, Australia is rated the third most active nation on Twitter, behind the US and UK and just ahead of Brazil, Canada and India. There’s some useful general demographics on Twitter’s globalRead… Read more »
This is a great video regarding innovations in participation, citizen engagement and deliberative democracy, with a panel discussion involving, Professor Archon Fung, Harvard Kennedy School Mr. Richard Dobson, Founder of Asiye Etafuleni, South Africa Mr. Robert Miller, Director of the Minneapolis Neighborhood Revitalization Program, USA Dr. Henry Tam, Deputy Director of Community Empowerment Delivery, UKRead… Read more »