Showing posts with label edemocracy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label edemocracy. Show all posts
Monday, April 09, 2018

How modern democracies face destruction if they can't stop building digital Maginot Lines

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The recent revelations in the media about the collection of personal information from up to 87 million Facebook users by Cambridge Analytic...
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 ...
Thursday, January 19, 2017

90% of digital disruption is still to come (podcast)

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A few months ago I interviewed with Andrew Ramsden of AlphaTransform , who has spent the last year capturing the thoughts of digital leade...
Friday, September 30, 2016

Australian government ePetitions compared to international models

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Australians might be surprised to learn that the Australian parliament only agreed to formally accept ePetitions in July 2015 . That wa...
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Tuesday, June 07, 2016

Turnbull announces Australia's first live Facebook debate

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Last year Justin Trudeau, now Prime Minister of Canada, broadcast the launch of his campaign using Facebook Live, and livestreamed his part...
Friday, January 22, 2016

How much will Australians pay for the openness and transparency we expect from our governments?

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In business if no-one will pay for a product it ceases being made, or never gets off the drawing board. Government doesn't quite work...
Monday, November 30, 2015

Register now for an OGP Australia information session

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The Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet have just announced a series of information sessions regarding the Open Government Partnership...
Friday, September 19, 2014

Designing the sharing state - an interview with Steve Schmid of the Open Technology Foundation

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This is the fourth in a series of interviews I'm doing as part of Delib Australia's media partnership with CeBIT in support of  Gov...
Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Will Gov 2.0 initiatives be created by individuals or organisations for profit or illegal goals?

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As an advocate for Gov 2.0 and open data I frequently encourage government agencies to work more closely with communities, tapping their ex...
Friday, July 05, 2013

My presentation to the UK Government Digital Service

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I'm going to do a full post on my visit to the UK Government Digital Service (the GDS), but thought I'd lead with the presentation ...
Thursday, December 13, 2012

Solving the problems of cities via crowdsourcing - LLGA Cities pilot the future program

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As cities are become more complex, so are their strategic challenges and the need to find innovative solutions to best serve their citizens...
Monday, December 10, 2012

Australian government's opportunity to rethink the role of Government CIO

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A few weeks ago Ann Steward , the Australian Government Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Deputy Secretary leading AGIMO (the Australian ...
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Tuesday, December 04, 2012

Is social media blurring the non-partisan status of appointed public servants?

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A separation that is widely understood within governments, but often less well understood in the rest of the community, is the separation b...
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Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Open Australia launches 'Right to Know' FOI request site

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The process of requesting documents from the government, though enshrined in Australian law, can be difficult for many people - taking sign...
Thursday, November 22, 2012

Hindsight: Government by the people, for the people but not yet OF the people -

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This is a great video regarding innovations in participation, citizen engagement and deliberative democracy, with a panel discussion involv...
Monday, November 19, 2012

But we're the experts! Why the 'internal expert' democratic governance model is gradually failing and what can be done about it.

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Most public sector agencies are designed as centres of expertise on policy and service delivery. By gathering, or training, experts in a...