Happy birthday govspace
Image by Will Clayton, released under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic licence.
Govspace is the home of the blog you’re reading right now. It’s a WordPress-based blog and website hosting service we run for agencies at all levels of government, designed to make it quick and easy for them to get online, launch new websites and, hopefully, start engaging with the public.
I’m pleased to say that govspace started life a year ago today, with the launch of the Treasury’s Standard Business Reporting blog. Mike T from my team has posted a great post about govspace’s one-year anniversary over at the govspace homepage – it’s well worth the read. Read more
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2011 Government ICT Awards – record number of nominations received!
The Excellence in eGovernment Awards, Government 2.0 Innovator Award and the ICT Professional of the Year Award closed on Tuesday. We received a flood of nominations in the last couple of days.
At last count we had over 60 nominations – up from 41 last year. It has been great to see the quality and diversity of the nominations. Once the registration process is finished, the nominations will be passed to our judging panels to do their jobs. Just in case nominees are wondering, we will let everyone know on 2 May whether they have made it through to the second round of judging. Read more
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Consultation: Guide to Open Source Software
In January 2011, the Australian Government released its policy on open source software. Agencies are now required to consider open source software for all software procurements. Details on this revised policy are available on the Finance website.
To complement the Open Source Software Policy, we’ve also updated the Guide to Open Source Software for Australian Government Agencies. The original version was released in 2005. We’ve updated this Guide to bring it in line with the increased maturity of open source software, as well as the recent shift in the Australian Government’s policy on open source software. Read more
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Government 2.0 Steering Group update: March 2011
The Government 2.0 Steering Group has met twice since our last update in December 2010. For the benefit of new readers to this blog, the Steering Group is the body formed to oversee the implementation of the Australian Government’s response to the Government 2.0 Taskforce. Membership of the Steering Group includes senior public servants from agencies which have been assigned tasks as part of that response. Read more
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Tweeting for your Country: a personal view of some principles for social networking
Last Saturday, I attended BarCamp Canberra 2011, which AGIMO co-sponsored. An eclectic gathering of individuals, it covered a wide range of subjects with 20 minute presentations covering matters such as Gov 2.0, social media, robots, agile programming and lots more. There were about 150 attendees from Canberra and further afield including Wollongong and Sydney, and a very active Twitter stream during the day.
I presented on ‘Tweeting for your Country’, a further development of the principles of social networking, in and for the Australian Public Service, that I spoke about a week or so ago at the TransTasman CIO conference and later tweeted. I have had several requests to blog about these principles. It has been our practice to post presentations we provide so that they are freely available to all those interested. In that spirit, I have decided to post this. Please note, they are not official policy, just my observations developed in the 18 odd months during which I have had some responsibility in this area. Read more
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ICT Awards – nominations close on Tuesday 29 March
Hi everyone
The 2011 ICT Awards will close next Tuesday so there’s still time to nominate.
Why not take the opportunity to showcase your IT initiatives? Don’t let the great work we do in Government go unrecognised. Let us know what you’re doing. Read more
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Reducing public security risks during online transactions with government agencies
We all recognise that online services offer a convenient, efficient and accessible means to access government services. Unfortunately, as the demand for online government services continues to grow, so too does the scale, sophistication and perpetration of cyber crime. Read more
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Shed services: a data centres presentation
Here is the presentation about the government’s data centre strategy that John Sheridan gave today at Gartner’s Infrastructure Operations and Data Centre summit, in PDF (1.18MB) and DOC (2.84MB) formats. My team is also doing up responses to the questions asked during and after the presentation, and we should post those soon.
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Release of data.gov.au
The new data.gov.au site has now been released and I invite you to explore, access and reuse the data available on the site. The release of public sector information in the form of datasets allows the commercial, research and community sectors to add value to government data in new, innovative and exciting ways. Read more
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Finance comments on draft open licensing guidelines
A few weeks ago, the Attorney-General’s Department (AGD) used a guest post on this blog to seek feedback on draft public sector information(PSI) licensing guidelines for Australian Government agencies. The new guidelines will play an important role in helping agencies adopt open licences to encourage reuse of PSI. Read more
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