Showing posts with label data. Show all posts
Showing posts with label data. Show all posts
Monday, March 06, 2023

Artificial Intelligence isn't the silver bullet for bias. We have to keep working on ourselves.

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There's been a lot of attention paid to AI ethics over the last few years due to concerns that use of artificial intelligence may furthe...
Thursday, February 02, 2023

It's time for Australian government to take artificial intelligence (AI) seriously

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Over the last two and a half years I've been deep in a startup using generative artificial intelligence (AI that writes text) to help so...
Monday, May 06, 2019

Mapping Canberra's startup ecosystem

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I've had a continuing interest in start-up ecosystems across Australia, having been a member of several of these ecosystems & help...
Monday, November 12, 2018

The #GovHack 2018 National Awards by the numbers

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I shared this via a Twitter thread , but wanted to include it here for longevity. To learn more about GovHack and the National Red Carpet...
Tuesday, August 01, 2017

Roundup from GovHack 2017

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Starting in a single Canberra venue in 2009, GovHack is now the largest open data hacking competition for government worldwide, with over ...
Wednesday, July 26, 2017

Get revved for GovHack across Australia & New Zealand (28-30 July)

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As the world’s largest hackathon, GovHack   is on at over 25 locations across Australia and New Zealand again this year from Friday 6pm thi...
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...
Monday, November 09, 2015

Can an AI understand your online personality? How about your agency's online persona?

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I've been having a play with IBM Watson's Personality Insights Service . The service uses "linguistic analytics to extract ...
Tuesday, July 21, 2015

How does government manage the consequences of an imbalance in speed of transparency & speed of accountability?

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One of the emerging challenges for governments in the online age is managing the discrepancy between the speed of transparency and the spee...
Wednesday, July 08, 2015

No it's a not appropriate to load test on your citizens in production - particularly when it's a critical service

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The last week has seen a range of major issues for the Australian Government's new MyTax service. As reported across both traditional...
Wednesday, October 08, 2014

How current events play out in search requests - terrorism & related terms in Google trends

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While agencies often invest significant money into tools for tracking trends on social media, one of the simplest ways to detect and monito...
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Monday, September 01, 2014

92% of Australia's federal politicians now use Facebook and/or Twitter

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I've been tracking the number of Australian Federal politicians using Australia's leading social channels for two years now, seeing...
Tuesday, July 08, 2014

The importance for government of respecting open source and open data copyrights

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An interesting situation has arisen in Italy, with the country's Agenzia delle Entrate, the Italian revenue service and taxation author...
Monday, May 26, 2014

My Speech at the Sir Rupert Hamer Record Management Awards

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On 22nd May 2014 the Public Records Office of Victoria hosted the 16th annual  Sir Rupert Hamer Record Management Awards . While Records ...