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The ACT has launched a Fix My Street service providing ACT residents with methods for reporting and tracking "municipal service requests" online.
According to the site, ACT residents can submit service requests using a menu of topics and even create an account to track the progress of their own requests.
While a major step forward, unlike the popular UK service of the same name, the ACT's version of Fix My Street may only be used by ACT residents rather than by local governments across the country.
The ACT version also does not include photos, allow residents to view the service requests submitted by others or provide details on the number of service requests received or addressed.
A service similar to the UK's site was developed during one of the Gov 2.0 Taskforce's mash-up events last year, named It's Buggered, Mate.
The OpenAustralia Foundation is also working towards introducing a version of the UK's Fix My Street in Australia.
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
ACT launches Fix My Street - but not like the UK Gov 2.0 service | Tweet |
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
iPhones dominate Australian mobile internet access | Tweet |
Tiphereth Gloria has posted on Digital Tip a very interesting post regarding how iPhones dominate mobile internet access in Australia.
Quoting June 2010 figures, her post iPhones dominate Australian mobile internet says that iPhones account for 93% of mobile access, with Android, Blackberries, Symbian and other operating systems combined only accounting for 7% of the market.
Overseas iPhones account for 60% of mobile internet access - still a huge share, but significantly less than the Australian experience.
Of course these figures were provided by Apple - I've not seen independent statistics - but they are still striking.
If your agency websites are not customised for access via iPhones you're potentially less accessible to a large proportion of the mobile internet market.
media140 OzPolitics: How the real-time web is transforming politics - Canberra 29 July | Tweet |
media140 #OzPolitics is a one-day Canberra coming up at the end of July that will explore how social media - the real time web - is transforming politics in Australia.
Featuring a range of speakers including politicians; political journalists; bloggers; public relations experts; academics; and lobbyists, this will be the first event of its type in Australia and will look at how recent new media innovations are transforming how Australian democracy and government operate.
If you can't attend, keep an eye out for the event online by following the #OzPolitics hashtag on Twitter.
Monday, June 28, 2010
Gov 2 and social media events calendar for Australia | Tweet |
I am not aware of a central calendar for all of the Gov 2.0 and social media events run in Australia, so I've created one.
I welcome submissions to the calendar and will also be trying to keep it up to-date with the events I learn about.
To add an event please email me: craig[dot]thomler[at]gmail[dot]com
The public URL is: http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=g67v5rd3hgi5867oosei76u4v0%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=Australia/Sydney
For feeds use the XML: http://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/g67v5rd3hgi5867oosei76u4v0%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic
Why public data should be public - a US view | Tweet |
To kick-off this week, I thought it might be useful to link to an excellent video from the US's Sunlight Foundation providing a glimpse into why there's growing interest in making public information collected and managed by governments public.
It doubles as an introduction to the Public = Online campaign, which is being used in the US to bring greater awareness to the need to make public data public, in real-time online.
Bor those with a deeper interest, below is the campaign launch, filmed at Google's DC offices. Be warned it is over an hour long.
