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Every now and then a work shines through with absolute clarity.
The video below, sent to me by a former colleague, provides such clarity regarding the fifth great media shift in the last 500 years - the internet.
It may be very useful for public servants in educating their colleagues about the changes occurring around the world.
Thursday, June 25, 2009
The fifth great media shift in the last 500 years | Tweet |
Monday, June 22, 2009
Australian government announces government 2.0 taskforce headed by Dr Nicholas Gruen | Tweet |
At the Government 2.0 Public Sphere Camp, Ministers Tanner and Ludwig have announced the creation of a Government 2.0 Taskforce.
Chaired by Dr Nicholas Gruen, the Taskforce is made up of fifteen policy and technical experts and entrepreneurs from government, business, academia, and cultural institutions.
The taskforce has two main streams,
- to increase the openness of government through making public sector information more widely available to promote transparency, innovation and value adding to government information.
- encouraging online engagement with the aim of drawing in the information, knowledge, perspectives, resources and even, where possible, the active collaboration of anyone wishing to contribute to public life.
More information is at the Taskforce's website, www.gov2.net.au.
During the announcement, Minister Tanner said that while today people are still largely passive consumers of online information this is changing. Web 2.0 has changed the internet from a platform for communication to be a platform for collaboration.
Through online tools like blogs and wikis government can keep citizens appraised and be involved with what government is doing.
The Taskforce will advise the government on how to develop a pro-disclosure and innovative culture.
Minister Ludwig spoke about changing the Freedom of Information approach in Australia from being request-based to being pro-disclosure.
He also commented that making vast amounts of data available is not the endpoint, data must be appropriately formatted to allow it to be effectively used.
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Government 2.0 Public Sphere Camp liveblog | Tweet |
Below is the liveblog for the Government 2.0 Public Sphere Camp being run at Parliament House Canberra on Monday 22 June 2009.
This is a jointly published liveblog in co-operation with Des Walsh and Nathanael Boehm.
You can pre-register for email notification when the liveblog begins below.
Please join in with your comments and questions through the day.
Friday, June 19, 2009
How the White House's new Media Office sizes the potential and pitfalls of opening up to citizens online | Tweet |
In an interesting and very frank article in NextGov, named The Public Eye, Bev Godwin of the White House's new media office has provided her views of the challenges and opportunities for government in engaging online.
Utah 2.0 | Tweet |
The US state of Utah has been a very active implementer of government 2.0 initiatives for several years now, and is known as one of the most progressive early adopters (for government) in the space.
They recently released a new website which uses many web 2.0 features to improve the experience for uses and also aggregates many of the government 2.0 activities the state undertakes.
According to Federal Computer Week's article, Utah goes Web 2.0, the site includes,
the aggregation of 27 state blogs and more than 100 Twitter accounts, according to state officials.
The new site has geographical detection technology that estimates the location of visitors and displays relevant location specific information, including local meetings, government Web sites, school and library information, park information, and available online services, Utah officials said.
A data portal provides access to public data sets from local, state and federal government sources.
It also offers 24/7 live chat as well as many other web 2.0 features.
The new site is online at www.utah.govegov
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