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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...

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

Yesterday the Liberal-National Coalition released its broadband policy for Australia, in front of a high-tech set at Sky News, in contrast ...

Last Friday the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner released a major report on the release of public sector information by Au...

As the world changes, so must our institutions - particularly government, including government agencies. Without getting into how hard or...

A couple of weeks ago I blogged about 21st Century society vs 19th Century laws and policing . My post discussed the interview and arrest o...

It has been an interesting experience working with advertising and digital agencies, web developers and printers while in government - parti...

After a fanfare opening around two years ago, the US government's proposed budget cuts may force data.gov and seven other Gov 2.0 and d...

I still encounter a large number of public servants - from a variety of agencies and at a range of government levels (local to federal) - wh...

Traditionally one of the roles of the 'free press' is to keep governments honest, to shine a light on inappropriate conduct, poor de...

At the next Gov 2.0 Canberra lunch we're taking a look at a topic rapidly growing in importance for government agencies - managing and m...

Many people I encounter consider social media as Twitter & Facebook - which is pretty much all that gets reported on via traditional med...

The Australian National Audit Office has just released a report ' The Protection and Security of Electronic Information Held by Australi...

I'm a big fan of opening up as much public sector information as possible in easily discoverable and reusable ways (taking into account ...

Facebook's active membership now exceeds 500 million users - that's 1 in 13 humans. If it were a country it would be the third large...

I remember the great demonstration of November 1997. A plea went out asking citizens to gather outside their leader's home to protest ab...

Joining the US, Canada, the UK, New Zealand and a host of other jurisdictions already leading the way around the world, the Australian Gover...

While diamonds may be forever, Department and agency names, communications campaigns and government programs are not. This poses an intere...

There's still many government online forms and consultation systems that don't make use of 'human recognition' tools such as...

Over the last two years we've seen a concerted effort by governments across Australia to increase the level of online engagement, debate...