Showing posts with label participation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label participation. Show all posts
Thursday, April 14, 2016

Building an Open Government Partnership plan in Australia from the edges to the centre

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On Monday this week I participated in the cocreation workshop for Australia's Open Government Partnership (OGP) National Action Plan (N...
Friday, January 08, 2016

Contribute now to Australia's Open Government Partnership National Action Plan

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Now that Australians are heading out of holiday mode, it's a good time for a reminder about the Australian Government's process to ...
Friday, October 30, 2015

Come along to IAP2's November Canberra session on 'Introducing collaboration into the process of planning online participation'

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I will be presenting at November's IAP2 session in Canberra from 6-8pm on   'Introducing   collaboration   into the process of   p...
Wednesday, June 04, 2014

For a truly open parliament, look to the UK

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The UK Government has just released the alpha version of data.parliament.uk - - a site designed to host open data on the UK Parliament and ...
Wednesday, December 04, 2013

Partial participation for partial residents?

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A challenge for governments today (particularly local ones) is how to consider the views of non-residents, people who travel into their jur...
Monday, May 06, 2013

City of Sydney commissions open data art to communicate progress towards Sustainable Sydney 2030

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Information is beautiful , as others have said, and the City of Sydney, working with  Carbon Arts , is now seeking proposals for a temporar...
Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Mapping social media channels to engagement levels (based on IAP2 spectrum)

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I developed the Online Engagement Spectrum around three three years ago, based on the IAP2 Spectrum  of Public Participation (PDF) and som...
Wednesday, July 04, 2012

Great new site - The Digital Engagement Guide

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Over in the UK, Helpful Technology has released ' The Digital Engagement Guide ', which aims to become one of the best sources of...
Monday, June 25, 2012

Liveblogging GovCamp NSW (focus on innovation)

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I'm in Sydney at GovCamp NSW today, where the program is focusing on developing an innovation program for the state. There's abo...
Tuesday, June 19, 2012

How nine year olds can now reform governments, one bite at a time

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With the tools available today, influence over government policy is no longer the preserve of the wealthy, the well-connected or those peop...
Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Ten tips for social media engagement by government (from the UK Cabinet Office)

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The UK Cabinet Office recently released Social Media Guidance for civil servants . The guidance goes far beyond the level and sophisticat...
Friday, June 01, 2012

Global public engagement awards for 2012 open for entry

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If you've been involved in public engagement or public participation over the last twelve months, it is worth checking out the Internat...
Thursday, May 24, 2012

Mapping Australian Twitter discussions

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Associate Professor Axel Bruns, who has previously done marvelous work mapping Australian blogs and tracking social media activity around t...
Thursday, May 17, 2012

Can social media make a genuine impact on the democratic process?

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While in the UK last week I was involved in a number of discussions about whether social media can make a genuine impact on the democratic...
Saturday, March 31, 2012

Australia goes mobile - 47% of net connections via mobile devices

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It's long been reported that the majority of internet connections in Japan are via mobile devices - since 2006 in fact. It now seems...
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Monday, March 26, 2012

Is online influence measurable or meaningful?

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Online influence is a hot topic right now, with companies such as Klout, PeerIndex, Empire Avenue and Kred all building online services th...
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Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Look for the Australian premier screening of Twittamentary at GovCamp QLD

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A few weeks ago I became aware of a very interesting documentary project, Twittamentary , a movie that  explores the intersection and inter...
Wednesday, December 07, 2011

Are you allowing others to steal your agency's oxygen online?

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A favored term amongst political operatives and advisors is 'oxygen,, the share of the public discussion a politician, government or is...
Monday, November 28, 2011

ACT government Virtual Community Cabinet on again today at 12.30pm - follow the liveblog

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The ACT Government has scheduled its next Virtual Community Cabinet (VCC) meeting for 12.30 today. This is the third VCC held by the ACT ...
Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Don't forget to register for the Gov 2.0 lunch in Canberra on Friday

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If you've not yet registered, there are still a few tickets left for the Gov 2.0 lunch in Canberra on Friday 25 November. The event w...