2012 Australian Government ICT Awards open for nominations
It is again my pleasure to open the Excellence in eGovernment Awards, Government 2.0 Innovator Award and the ICT Professional of the Year Award for 2012.
It is now seven years since the government first introduced an Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Awards program. In that time, every nomination we have received has been an acknowledgement of the excellent work that Government does. Read more
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Publishing Public Sector Information: new advice released
AGIMO has released new advice on publishing public sector information (PSI) on the Web Guide. The new advice, prepared in consultation with the Government 2.0 Steering Group, provides agencies with a practical guide to making information available online for public access and reuse (subject to privacy, security and other relevant concerns). Read more
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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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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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Hello Campers!
On 10 September, AGIMO supported the first Australian GovCamp event. Organised by Pia Waugh and a team of keen volunteers and also supported by NICTA, the event saw some 100 or so participants, largely from all levels of government, gather for a discussion of open government and related topics. Read more
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Taming Twitter Terrorism: Combating the Asymmetry of Social Media
This morning I am presenting at a conference entitled “Integrating Online Services with your existing Community Engagement Strategy”. It’s quite a mouthful and not necessarily the sort of thing that might readily attract the attention of Gov 2.0 aficionados. My keynote is described as “Reaching the people: Where are they?” The sub-titled questions are “The untapped potential of the online sphere” and “Social media as the new frontier of citizen”. They’re a bit of a mouthful too. While paying appropriate respect to the conference organisers, I’ve tried to use a title that might provoke a bit more interest. In the attached speech and presentation, I compare social media to counter-insurgency warfare. This isn’t intended to trivialise either subject but, rather, to indicate that things in our past experience can often provide pointers as to how to deal with things we might encounter in the future. Read more
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Government 2.0 Register
At the previous meeting of the Government 2.0 Steering Group, one of the points of discussion involved creating a more effective register of Australian Government Gov 2.0 activity. Such a register could include agency use of social media or other Web 2.0 tools, greater release of data online, or other innovative uses of online technology to support greater government engagement and transparency. Read more
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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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