Tag Archives: Gov 2.0
Weekly bits of interest – 13 September 2010
Developments and articles of interest from the last week: Last week the US Government launched Challenge.gov, a platform for US Government agencies to issue challenges and collaborate with the public in finding solutions. GovLoop provides some detail about the platform, the context for it, and what it will be used […]
Social Media in Government Seminar – August 2010
Each year in the Department of Innovation, members of our Graduate Development Program are responsible for a major project on which they report to our Departmental Executive. This year one of the graduate groups has been tasked with looking at Government 2.0 and associated possible opportunities for the Department. Recently, as part of their project, […]
Weekly bits of interest – 30 August 2010
Developments and articles of interest from the last week: The public service is often accused of being too risk averse when it comes to innovation. With any innovation or new approach there needs to be a consideration of the benefits as well as the risks. In this post Craig Thomler looks […]
Weekly bits of interest – 2 August 2010
Developments and articles of interest from the past week: This piece from John Steen at the University of Queensland looks at the recent mega-trends work of the CSIRO and the value of scenario thinking for innovation. In this post, Dr Nicholas Gruen (who was Chair of last year’s Gov 2.0 Taskforce) urges […]
Weekly bits of interest – 5 July 2010
Some interesting articles from the past week. Dr John Steen wrote a piece about the challenge of idea selection being a universal problem for the public sector. John also discusses the report Empowering Change: Fostering Innovation in the Australian Public Service. In this article, John D. Donahue argues that in the […]
Weekly bits of interest – 21 June 2010
Some interesting articles from the past week: In this post Dr Tim Kastelle looks at why it is usually better to test ideas at an earlier stage rather than perfecting them. Dr Kastelle notes that “Version 2.0 will nearly always be better than the original. The lesson is this – don’t search […]