Showing posts with label information management. Show all posts
Showing posts with label information management. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Rethinking government IT to support the changing needs of government

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We recently saw a change in the federal government in Australia, with a corresponding reorganisation of agency priorities and structures. ...
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Thursday, October 10, 2013

The road to public sector IT hell may not be paved with intentions at all

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Something that scares me enormously is the house of cards that many (if not most) governments have built with their IT systems. It can be...
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Thursday, July 25, 2013

Social media impacts on ICT teams - presentation from the Technology in Government conference

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Over the last two days I've been down at the Technology in Government conference - an event I thought went very well, with a great gro...
Wednesday, April 03, 2013

Opening the vault - Open data in Queensland - watch the livestream

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Today the 'Opening the vault' event is being held in Brisbane, discussing open data in the context of the state. Following from t...
Wednesday, March 27, 2013

The power of open data is often in serendipity

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I often hear talk from government agencies about their wish to release more of their data openly, but their concern over how they allocate ...
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Tuesday, March 26, 2013

South Australia consulting on ICT policy

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The South Australian government has released its draft ICT policy, SA Connected , for public consultation via the SA Plan consultation site...
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Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Infographics: How does Australia compare on government open data released?

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I've developed several infographics (below) comparing the open data performance of nations, looking at which have national open data si...
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Tuesday, November 06, 2012

OpenAustralia Hack(s)fest on FOI - for hackers, media, activists & FOI gurus

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The OpenAustralia Foundation will be holding the first Australian Hack(s)fest as part of the countdown to the launch of their new FOI assis...
Monday, October 29, 2012

Why do agencies struggle with FOI and open data so much?

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The linked email conversation (in a blog post), Freedom of Information Request for Classification Data , provides an interesting insight in...
Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Free our data - a great presentation from Pia Waugh

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Open Data advocate Pia Waugh spoke recently on the topic of freeing government data at Ignite Sydney 9 (an event where speakers get five m...
Tuesday, October 02, 2012

Making APIs for government data - should agencies do this or leave it to third parties?

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APIs ( Application Programming Interfaces ) are a technique for interacting with data (usually on the web) which liberates users from rely...
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Monday, October 01, 2012

Victorian Government launches consultation on draft 'digital by design' ICT strategy

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The Victorian Government has announced it is seeking public feedback on a proposed ICT strategy, Digital by design developed by the Victor...
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Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Mapping open data site generations

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Over the last three years we've seen an increasing level of sophistication and capabilities in successive generations of open data site...
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Tuesday, July 03, 2012

Automating online activities without IT intervention - using web tools to make jobs easier

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There's often lots of small - and not so small - activities that communications teams want to carry out online that would make their j...
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Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Standardising content across government (or why does every agency have a different privacy policy?)

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Every government website serves a different purpose and a different audience, however there are also standard content every site must have ...
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Tuesday, May 08, 2012

Participate in Melbourne Knowledge Week 2012

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The City of Melbourne was recognised in 2012 as ‘Most Admired Knowledge City’ in an award from the World Capital Institute and Teleos, an i...
Thursday, April 26, 2012

Patient Opinion launches in Australia

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One of the UK's social media success stories, Patient Opinion, has now launched an Australian website at www.patientopinion.org.au . ...
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Friday, March 23, 2012

Don’t dumb me down! (guest post)

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With the permission of Geoff Mason ( @grmsn) , I've republished his blog post Don’t dumb me down! from 21 March this year below. I t...
Monday, March 19, 2012

From open data to useful data

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At BarCamp Canberra on Saturday I led a discussion asking how we can help governments take the step from open data (releasing raw datasets ...
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Monday, March 05, 2012

Who is your Marketing or Communications CIO?

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I was struck by a comment from Dan Hoban (@dwhoban) at GovCamp Queensland on Saturday, which resonated with me, and with others in the audi...