Showing posts with label consultation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label consultation. Show all posts
Thursday, December 15, 2016

Australian Public Servants want the right to comment respectfully on political and policy matters online

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I've been monitoring the Australian Public Service Commission (APSC)  public consultation on the current social media guidelines for Au...
Monday, November 28, 2016

Guest post from Henry Sherrell on access to open data for effective policy development

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Henry Sherrell is a former Australian Public Servant who now works in policy research at the Australian National University. As a researc...
Wednesday, September 07, 2016

Don't ask for more information than you need (and make it clear why you're asking what you're asking)

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I've just become aware of the ACT Government's consultation for a new license plate slogan. Hosted at Your Say , the government i...
Tuesday, March 29, 2016

Australian governments need to stop treating citizens as free consultants

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Across April I'm spending a week participating in government-run sessions to contribute to the democratic life of our nation. I...
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Monday, February 15, 2016

How can we benchmark and judge whether government decision-making is improving, or getting worse?

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I've had an interesting day today, with a number of meetings with different businesses to discuss various projects and activities they...
Friday, January 08, 2016

Contribute now to Australia's Open Government Partnership National Action Plan

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Now that Australians are heading out of holiday mode, it's a good time for a reminder about the Australian Government's process to ...
Thursday, December 17, 2015

What does membership of the Open Government Partnership mean for Australia?

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On 24 November Prime Minister Turnbull sent a letter to the global Open Government Partnership (OGP) Secretariat confirming that Australi...
Friday, October 30, 2015

Come along to IAP2's November Canberra session on 'Introducing collaboration into the process of planning online participation'

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I will be presenting at November's IAP2 session in Canberra from 6-8pm on   'Introducing   collaboration   into the process of   p...
Wednesday, August 05, 2015

Governments are still very backwards in most of their online engagement - and it's not due to a shortage of tools

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I've been reading about a new entrant in the government online consultation market - Balancing Act , a simulation tool for involving th...
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Monday, July 27, 2015

Have Australian governments & councils considered the impact of disruptive tech like driverless cars?

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Last week it was announced that the first driverless car trials would begin in Australia in Adelaide. Supported by the South Australian go...
Thursday, February 19, 2015

WA government launches open data consultation

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The Western Australian Department of Premier and Cabinet has launched a consultation regarding their proposed whole of government Open Data...
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...
Monday, February 24, 2014

A good community engagement professional understands their tools - and picks the right ones to meet their goals

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I had an interesting conversation via Twitter with @hughstephens of Dialogue Consulting  on Friday regarding how and when different consul...
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Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Why Australian councils and other governments need to be very careful using SurveyMonkey & other US-owned online engagement tools

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I've had an interesting and robust conversation online in the last day regarding how Australian councils and governments are using over...
Thursday, October 24, 2013

What's the digital communication capability of Australian governments?

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On the back of the UK Government's second whole-of-government communications plan , the UK Government has been undertaking a Digital Co...
Wednesday, October 09, 2013

Online challenges arrive in Australian government

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With psychedelic splendour, the ACT government has become the first Australian jurisdiction to launch a serious whole-of-government online ...
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Friday, September 27, 2013

Watch ABC 7:30 ACT tonight for a piece on Social Media and the APS

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There should be an interesting piece on ABC 7:30 tonight in the ACT looking at the relationship between the Australian Public Service and ...
Thursday, September 19, 2013

Can government policy, reports and consultation documents be communicated through animated infographics?

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Government reports are often dry - really, really, really dry. They are also often wordy, complex, long and, due to these properties, lar...
Wednesday, September 18, 2013

Opening up information and creating connections triggers ideas and innovation

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I wanted to bring attention to a fantastic post in Wired today, which looks at how the explosion in writing is changing how humans think an...