Showing posts with label whole-of-government. Show all posts
Showing posts with label whole-of-government. Show all posts
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 ...
Tuesday, June 10, 2014

It's nice to see government agencies share with each other

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One of the most frustrating and, I think, silliest things I found when working in Australian government agencies was how almost every depar...
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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Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Has government found its feet in social media?

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Earlier today I gave a presentation to the IABC's Canberra chapter on the use of social media within the Australian Government. The s...
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Friday, August 23, 2013

Is it possible to deliver a government agency's standard IT systems on a single USB?

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CSIR Mk 1 with Hollerith equipment, Sydney 1952 Source: Museum Victoria The Australian government was one of the earliest adopters of c...
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Tuesday, December 18, 2012

AGIMO restructure offers promise of improved whole-of-government IT efficiency

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Yesterday AGIMO announced that the Australian Government Information Management Office was adopting a number of the recommendations of the...
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Saturday, March 03, 2012

GovCamp Queensland 2012 liveblog

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I am in Brisbane all day today at GovCamp Queensland  with roughly 200 Queensland public servants and will be liveblogging the event as far...
Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Join the global Service Delivery JAM in Canberra (hosted by the Department of Innovation)

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The Department of Industry, Innovation, Science, Research and Tertiary Education is holding the Canberra component of the Global Service ...
Wednesday, February 01, 2012

One week left to comment on the Information Commissioner's issue paper on public sector information

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The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner has extended the deadline for commenting on their Information Policy Issue Paper 2: U...
Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Pfft - who needs to understand social media to be a social media advisor

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Over the last year I've observed a couple of good and bad trends in governments around Australia. The first - the good trend - is towar...
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Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Should Australia's political parties have open government and Gov 2.0 policies? (NZ Labour does)

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The New Zealand Labour Party have  released an Open Government policy , proudly claiming it as first in New Zealand. The policy focuses o...
Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Social media is now normal - so why do government agencies persist in treating it as an edge case?

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As this article in Fast Company illustrates, social media is now normal, an integrated set of tools for ongoing human interaction. We'...
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Wednesday, October 05, 2011

RightClick presentation

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I've been a little busy this week, what with my wedding on Saturday, however here, belatedly, is my presentation from last Friday at Ri...
Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Identifying the existence and impact of transformational leadership in the Australian public sector

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Steve Davies over at OzLoop has just published a thesis by Dr Derek Ambrose that looks at the topic of leadership in the Australian public ...
Friday, September 23, 2011

46 countries commit to the international Open Government Partnership

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The Open Government Partnership is " a global effort to make governments better ", led by Brazil and the USA. The concept was a...
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What are the top things we can do to improve government websites?

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The US has launched an interesting discussion asking citizens how they think the Federal government can improve government websites. Run u...
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Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Do we really need a common look and feel for government websites?

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Recently Luke Fretwell over at Govfresh asked the question Time for government to plug into one platform? While I am a big fan of Luke&#...
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Friday, July 01, 2011

UK central government spending data released on data.gov.uk

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data.gov.uk has dramatically revised its layout (for the better!) and recently released 557 datasets (1.8 million entries) representing all...
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Tuesday, June 28, 2011

European Union requires websites to make users 'opt-in' to website cookies

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The EU Government's 2009 Directive banning "unnecessary" cookies in websites (if the site doesn't ask users to accept the ...
Thursday, June 23, 2011

Empowering citizens to lead public governance reforms in developing and developed nations

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One of the assumptions often applied to government funding for aid and governance reform programs is that the funding must be granted to est...