The Future of Gov 2.0: iGov2s?
Last week, I spoke at CeBIT’s annual Gov 2 conference, held here in Canberra. The conference was opened by Senator Kate Lundy and featured an international key note address from NASA’s Nicholas Skytland. Nicholas’ presentation contained details of NASA’s impressive efforts in the social media sphere. His stories of tweeting astronauts, citizen science and other innovations certainly made for interesting listening. I recommend a visit to www.open.nasa.gov or www.data.nasa.gov to see what this level of investment can drive. Read more
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Industry consultation: Data Centre as a Service (DCaaS)
Hi everyone,
The purpose of this post is to alert you to our upcoming industry consultation on Data Centre as a Service (DCaaS). This is one of the projects under the Australian Government Data Centre Strategy 2010-25 (Strategy). Earlier this year, in an update on the Data Centre Program, I noted that we would engage industry this calendar year regarding DCaaS. Read more
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IPv6 Transition – Progress of Australian Government
Yesterday John Hillier and I presented at the Australian IPv6 Summit in Melbourne. We provided an update on the progress being made by Australian Government agencies in line with our IPv6 transition strategy. The transition strategy runs over five years, from January 2008 to December 2012, so we are almost three quarters of the way through. Agencies continue to make good progress towards the final milestone of December 2012. The slides we used are attached. We’d welcome comments on this post.
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Innovation
On behalf of all of us here at AGIMO, I’d like to acknowledge the significance of Steve Jobs’ contribution to technology. Like many people around the world, we are saddened by his death.
His leadership and vision profoundly contributed to how we view and use technology today.
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Open Government Data Camp – Australian Satellite Event in Canberra, 21 October 2011
Update: unfortunately, due to low numbers of reservations this event has been cancelled.
AGIMO is hosting an Australian satellite event in support of the Open Government Data Camp 2011. This event will provide discussion about open data best practices and a case study of an agency’s experiences publishing data on data.gov.au. Attendance is open to public servants and other interested individuals. Read more
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Guest Post: Registrations now open for the 2011 Information Policy Conference
Professor John McMillan is the Australian Information Commissioner. This post originally appeared on the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner Blog.
The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) was established in November 2010 to spearhead open government reform in Australia. Our work rests on a simple statement: government information is a national resource of immense power and potential. Read more
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Hammers and Beer
Maintaining the AGIMO policy of posting our public presentations on our blog, this post contains the details of two presentations that I gave last week. The first was to a Citizen Centric service delivery conference and the second was a speech to the 2011 Annual Conference of the Australian Law Librarians Association. You might reasonably ask what this has to do with hammers and beer. I’ll explain shortly. Read more
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