eGov AU

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

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...

For the last Gov 2.0 monthly event in Canberra for 2013 Pia and I have been able to arrange three prestigious international speakers - who ...

A few days ago LinkedIn launched its latest IOS app, Intro . The app promises to integrate LinkedIn profile content directly into emails,...

Martin Stewart-Weeks , Senior Director, Public Sector, Cisco Consulting Services, has written a fantastic article on the potential for tech...

I was chatting with Paul Davis on Twitter recently about the The State Decoded , an open source US-developed platform for accessibly and o...

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

Something I've had on the backburner for awhile has been the development of a better way to share and compare political party policies....

Would you mandate that all your staff must use social media, at least to give it a try? That's what one company in the US, Domo (a bu...

I'm still collecting responses to my FOI request, however felt it worth providing some interim data on what Australian Government agenc...

In any job it is easy to get caught up in the details - the what and how of what we need to do, day in and day out, to deliver the outputs ...

This post was inspired by a comment by John Sheridan on Twitter, @ craigthomler  what I'd like for  # gov2au   # NY ? egs of use of ...

Beth Noveck, formerly the White House Deputy CTO, has published a fantastic paper on why it is so important to evolve democratic systems fo...

With the release of News Ltd's Future of journalism 'discussion' I've submitted a 'Your view' to the site which may...

I've just read the latest speech by Annabel Crabbe on the changing face of the media and politics and thought it worth highlighting as, ...

John Sheridan posted a link on Twitter to a very interesting analysis of the impact of social media on the revolutions across the Arab worl...

In the run-up to the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, the organisers have developed an animated infographic showing the points of control...

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

I've been a bit behind on blogging in the last two weeks due to my new job , however expect to get back into the flow next week. In th...

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...