Showing posts with label geospatial. Show all posts
Showing posts with label geospatial. Show all posts
Friday, June 29, 2012

ACT Government planning to release a data portal and real-time bus information in reusable formats

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Brought to my attention by @maxious , the ACT government has said in response to their Estimates process that they are building a data port...
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Monday, September 26, 2011

Are Australia's emergency services ready to engage with social media? BushfireConnect unsuccessful in government grant bid

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It's come to my attention that the BushfireConnect team were unsuccessful in securing a small grant under the  National Disaster Resil...
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Thursday, January 27, 2011

NSW electoral commission asking citizens to geolocate their own addresses

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In a initiative to improve electoral records, the NSW electoral commission is asking citizens to geocode their own location . The initiati...
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Friday, November 12, 2010

Getting creative with visualisations in Government sites and documents

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Government is the master of the written word. Across Australian governments we probably produce billions of them each year, carefully organi...
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Tuesday, September 14, 2010

NSW launches live traffic monitoring online

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The NSW Roads and Traffic Authority (RTA) has launched RTA Live . This new website provides live updates on road conditions across NSW, incl...
Friday, April 30, 2010

The street as a platform, what's government's role?

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An extremely thought-provoking post about The street as platform written by Dan Hill in February 2008 has been brought to my attention by D...
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Thursday, March 25, 2010

Innovative government use of Twitter highlighted in case study

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The GovTwit blog has put me on to the latest case study in Twitter 101 (where they showcase how organisations are using Twitter in innovati...
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Monday, February 01, 2010

UK launches data.gov.uk (and how Australia could top it)

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Just in case you missed this the other week, on 21 January the UK launched the data.gov.uk website with 2,500 government datasets available...
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Last chance to vote on MashupAustralia's peoples' choice - 81 entries to choose from

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MashUpAustralia had 81 entries into Australia's first competitive event for mashing up data from Australian governments. Now that entr...
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Thursday, May 07, 2009

High speed broadband for Australia - the unexplored country

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This morning I am presenting at Public Sphere #1 - High bandwidth for Australia in a personal capacity. The event will discuss what high sp...
Friday, May 01, 2009

Victoria police launches local crime stats online in MyPlace

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I applaud Victoria Police for their latest foray into online engagement, MyPlace . As highlighted in Victoria's eGovernment Resource Cen...
Wednesday, April 01, 2009

Google maps talk in Sydney by creator

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Google maps were originally developed in Australia and one of the founders of the original company, Dr Lars Rasmussen, now a Google employee...
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Monday, March 16, 2009

What does the future look like?

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Microsoft have developed a Future Visions series to provide some insight into where technology is headed, and how it will help people. If yo...
Monday, December 29, 2008

Is traffic the wedge into effective Australian egovernment data mashups?

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Dave Fletcher has published a post on his Government and Technology Weblog about how the community is making use of Utah government traffic...
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Wednesday, November 05, 2008

Should the government provide online services where competitive commercial sector services exist?

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In the past it has been the practice for many governments around the world to avoid playing in the centre of commercial spaces, where compet...
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Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Summary of take-aways from the Driving Interoperability and Collaboration in eGovernment conference

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A frantic day catching up yesterday, so I did not get to write this post until this morning. On Monday I presented at Ark Group's Drivin...
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Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Mapping the social media landscape - a guide for understanding

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It can be very daunting for communications professionals to build an understanding of the social media landscape, grasping its scope and div...
Thursday, August 07, 2008

The strategic benefits and risks of permeable boundaries for government websites

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In the 'old days' before the internet, the boundaries of government reports, brochures, fact sheets, policy statements and other dis...
Monday, July 21, 2008

Why do some local councils in the UK have better websites than some Commonwealth agencies in Australia?

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The question in my title is of course a little provocative - who is to say whether a website is better or worse? The answer, in my view, is ...
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Saturday, July 05, 2008

UK government drops its pants to encourage online innovation

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Since the release of the report, The power of information (which I'm planning to blog about next week), the UK government has taken eno...