Open Source Developers Conference
Last Friday I presented a key note address at the Open Source Developers Conference at the Australian National University in Canberra. My talk covered the Australian Government Open Source Policy, and also provided some background on other AGIMO programs, and a brief overview of the international landscape in regard to Open Source. The slides from the presentation are attached. 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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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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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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e-Publication accessibility
Recently the Australian Security Research Centre hosted an information sharing session on “i-documents & other e-publications”. It included information on a range of e-publishing trends including the use of EPUB and various other formats and their application in the government context. I spoke about accessibility and e-publications, and how the principles of accessible information apply to all e-publications. Read more
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Science or Fiction: ICT in the future of government service delivery
Last week, I spoke to the FutureGov conference in Canberra about government service delivery, in particular, the role in that delivery of ICT. Rightly, much is made of the advantages ICT can bring to this and other aspects of modern government. However, as Dr Francis Collins of the Human Genome project observed, we tend to overestimate the short term impact of technology and underestimate the long term impact. Some things about the future are quite sure (and, foolishly as it turns out, at this stage I made a prediction about the Rugby World Cup). Others are not. My presentation touched on several of these: mobility, simplicity, security, privacy, social media, ubiquity and accessibility. 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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Social Media and the ANGST of Accessibility
In the “Integrating Online Services with your existing Community Engagement Strategy” conference last week, along with John Sheridan’s Taming Twitter Terrorism, I presented some insights and the top five tips when using social media to engage with people.
Accessibility needs frequently confound people. This can result in inaction. Through inaction, we create exclusion. To avoid this, I offer some ideas to ensure accessibility needs can be met, thus promoting inclusion. 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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Implementing the strategic vision for government’s use of ICT
Earlier this week I spoke at the Technology in Government & Public Sector Summit in Canberra about the Government’s use of IT. Read more
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