Tag Archives: Gov 2.0
“engage” with ACMA
The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has recently launched “engage” – a website dedicated to informing the public about the ACMA’s work in the converging fields of radio-communications, telecommunications, broadcasting and the internet.
Weekly Bits of Interest – 8 August 2011
Developments and articles of interest from the last week: A good piece by Tim Kastelle on why innovation must create value and not just novelty The Queensland police have released a report on the use of social media in managing disaster situations. Craig Thomler makes the bold statement that “It may […]
Weekly bits of interest – 14 June 2011
Developments and articles of interest from the last week: The Australian Government Information Management Office (AGIMO) has put together a publicly available Government 2.0 Register of initiatives. John Sheridan from AGIMO writes about the Register and how to contribute to it. Collaboration is a key contributor to effective innovation. Based on […]
Weekly bits of interest – 16 May 2011
Developments and articles of interest from the last week: The UK Government launched a prototype site last week called Alpha.gov.uk, testing a new approach to a new single website for central government (H/t to Craig Thomler). The site has two overarching objectives: “To test, in public, a prototype of a new, single UK Government […]
Weekly bits of interest – 9 May 2011
Developments and articles of interest from the last two weeks: The Finalists of the 2011 Australian Excellence in eGovernment Awards have been announced. Jorge Barba looks at whether you can innovate if you do not love what you do. “What I will argue is that you can become passionate about just […]
Weekly bits of interest – 18 April 2011
Developments and articles of interest from the last week: Last week I posted about how the public service can learn from its innovation ‘failures’ – Joshua Gans writes that a focus on failure is not enough, and that there are other considerations in innovation. “But it’s really very hard to learn […]
Weekly bits of interest – 10 January 2011
Developments and articles of interest from the past couple of weeks: Late last year the US Congress passed the America COMPETES Act to provide federal agencies with the authority to conduct prize competitions. ”By giving agencies a simple and clear legal path, the America COMPETES Act will make it dramatically easier for agencies […]
Weekly bits of interest – 13 December 2010
Developments and articles of interest from the past week: Craig Thomler is compiling some data on which Commonwealth agencies use which forms of social media and has asked for help in completing the spreadsheet. “When you’re defending an idea, my research of what works in the real world suggests that […]
Weekly bits of interest – 6 December 2010
Developments and articles of interest from the past week: The Australian Government Information Management Office (AGIMO) have released a Gov 2.0 Primer. The Primer describes common scenarios when agencies can use Government 2.0 approaches and an overview of common interactive online tools such as blogs and wikis. The innovation expert […]
Weekly bits of interest – 11 October 2010
Developments and articles of interest from the last week: The Attorney-General’s Department has amended released an amended Statement of Intellectual Property Principles for Australian Government Agencies, including that agencies should license their public sector information under Creative Commons BY license (the same license that this blog site uses). In its post about this, […]