Showing posts with label budget. Show all posts
Showing posts with label budget. Show all posts
Monday, May 11, 2015

Select your strategic approach carefully in social engagement - Treasury faltering at Census-like approach

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Imitation is often referred to as the sincerest form of flattery, however the attempt by the Treasury to mimic the success of Census Austra...
Thursday, August 14, 2014

NSW highlights open data as one of four focuses in the Premier's Innovation Initiative

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The NSW government today launched the NSW Premier's Innovation Initiative , a program seeking expressions of interest in projects that ...
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Tuesday, July 01, 2014

Guest post: Unlocking Budget Data in Australia: the BudgetAus Collaboration

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Republished with permission from the International Budget Partnership blog This post was written by Rosie Williams of InfoAus . Unloc...
Thursday, May 15, 2014

Giving the community an opportunity to understand and reshape the Australian Government budget for 2014-15

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While common practice in many countries overseas, there's still limited authentic consultation on government budgets undertaken in Aust...
Thursday, April 18, 2013

Why should governments be open and transparent in their budgets

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I'm speaking at the eGovernment Summit today on how Australia is performing in the open government stakes, and what are the benefits o...
Monday, February 13, 2012

What's the value of your social media followers?

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Social media followers and fans are not particularly good metric for judging the success or ROI of a social media campaign and I'd advi...
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Monday, January 09, 2012

Should governments be using popular VOIP tools for customer enquiries?

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In Australia about 10% of households don't have a landline phone any more. In some other countries the figure is higher - and it is g...
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Thursday, November 24, 2011

In traditional organisations, innovation often appears to happens at the wrong end of a gun

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When I think back over the most well known innovation successes over the last few years, and I am not specifically referring to the public s...
Thursday, September 15, 2011

"Last in first out" - is this a risk for social media expertise and channel use in government?

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I've seen (and spoken with colleagues about) a number of austerity measures taken in government agencies around Australia over the last ...
Tuesday, November 09, 2010

Participatory budgeting - big in Europe and South America, but not in Australia - why?

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One of the more curious things about Government 2.0 is how differently it is interpreted and delivered around the world. For example the m...
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Friday, May 07, 2010

Emergency management with Gov 2.0

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The internet has proven itself time and time again to be one of the fastest platforms of disseminating information during emergencies. The...
Saturday, April 24, 2010

Launching banknotes via online video

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In what I believe is a world first, the US Bureau of Engraving and Printing has launched its new US$100 note, featuring Benjamin Franklin, ...
Monday, April 12, 2010

What value should government place on online expertise?

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On Sunday I was made aware of a Seek advertisement for a 'web and social media expert' position in a 'VERY high-profile governme...
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Monday, November 09, 2009

Collaboration within organisations increases productivity - new report

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When I stepped into the public sector just over three years ago, in terms of workplace collaboration it was like stepping back twenty years....
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Wednesday, October 07, 2009

Heathcote community vote on stimulus spending now open

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NSW MP Paul Macleay has opened voting on projects to receive a portion of the economic stimulus package allocated to his electorate, Heathco...
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Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Community based budgeting being trialled by a NSW Local MP

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Community-based budgeting is an approach that involves a government allowing its constituents to nominate how some or all of the government...
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