Not Just Nonsense
Last week, I gave a presentation to members of the Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy on the use of social networking tools in government. In accordance with our developing...
View ArticleNominations for the 2012 ICT Awards are about to close
Nominations for the Excellence in eGovernment Awards, Government 2.0 Innovator Award and the ICT Professional of the Year Award close at 6:00pm (AEDT) on Thursday 1 March 2012 – so you still have time...
View Article2012 Australian Government ICT Awards finalists announced
This is the second year that I have had the pleasure of announcing the finalists in the 2012 Excellence in eGovernment Awards, ICT Professional of the Year Award and the Government 2.0 Innovator Award....
View ArticleProgress on Government 2.0
The Government 2.0 Taskforce was established in June 2009 to investigate new Web 2.0 approaches to government information and government engagement with the public. A Government 2.0 Steering Group was...
View ArticleToo good to ignore – helpful advice from NZ
Craig Thomler has alerted us to some good advice from across the ditch. The NZ Government has published a very useful web tool kit. While some of it contains information already available in our own...
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Mobile version of the Government Online Directory launched today
Special Minister of State Gary Gray today released the mobile version of the Australian Government Online Directory website. The Directory website provides a guide to the structure, organisations and...
View Article2013 Australian Government ICT Awards open for nominations
I am delighted that one of my first jobs as the new Australian Government Chief Information Officer is to announce that the 2013 Excellence in eGovernment Awards, the Government 2.0 Innovator Award and...
View ArticleOpening Up – SME Report 2009
In his seminal report on the use of ICT in the Australian Government, Sir Peter Gershon considered a range of improvements that could be made to ICT use. Several of these concerned the relationship...
View ArticleProposed online engagement courses for the APS
Finance is considering conducting a series of practical 3 hour courses on social media for the Australian Public Service and we want to gauge interest from our APS stakeholders. Below are some course...
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SOCIAL(MEDIA)ISM at the International Public Sector Convention
This is a presentation I made at CPA Australia’s International Public Sector Convention on 22 February 2013. My message was that the time is right for Australian Government agencies to utilise social...
View ArticleDraft Roadmap for data.gov.au
As part of my role as Director for Gov 2.0 in the Technology and Procurement Division of Finance (under John Sheridan), I have responsibility for enhancing data.gov.au. This is quite exciting and an...
View ArticleResponse to Big Data Strategy – Issues Paper
On Friday 15 March 2013 the Big Data Strategy – Issues Paper was released onto the AGIMO blog for public comment. The aim of the paper was to promote a conversation about the use of big data analytics...
View ArticleVerifying the APS on Twitter
Over the last couple of months we have been diligently compiling data on Australian Government Twitter accounts so that we could update the canonical list of Australian Public Service (APS) Twitter...
View ArticleAustralia Joins the Open Government Partnership
Today the Australian Government Attorney General and Special Minister of State, the Hon Mark Dreyfus QC, has announced that Australia is joining the Open Government Partnership. This historic...
View ArticleGuest Post: The Department of Human Services Seeks your Feedback
This guest post is from Scott Johnson, a social media adviser at the Department of Human Services. Have you ever used social media to engage with the government? Many departments are setting up...
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Online Engagement Courses – Final Report
In May and June Finance ran some pilot sessions of two online engagement courses for the Australian Public Service (APS), one focused on individual public servants using social media, and one for...
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eGovernment: Learning the Rules of Engagement
This is a presentation I gave at the 2013 eGovernment Global Exchange in Singapore on 17 June 2013 where I was a guest of the Singapore Ministry of Finance and the Infocomm Development Authority (the...
View ArticleNew data.gov.au – now live on CKAN
A couple of months ago in the data.gov.au Roadmap we announced we were moving to the CKAN platform. It took a little longer than expected, but today we are proud to launch the new improved data.gov.au!...
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