Category Archives: Government 2.0

An invitation to Edit > Remix > Improve Project 8

In what felt like a blink of an eye, the Federal Government’s Gov 2.0 Taskforce appeared in June last year, made its investigations and then had wrapped up by December just as quickly as it had started. From a local government perspective, you might well have ignored the whole process – particularly if you focus [...]
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Our future on the web

I was asked at a conference recently “is print dead?”. My answer was no, not yet. Ten years ago when I was working in the printing industry there was concern that print wouldn’t be around in five years time, that everything would be on the web.
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OpenAustralia

OpenAustralia – or, “how two people who don’t know anything about building websites or the Australian Government came to build a website giving the community Hansard and Australian Government data”.
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OOOG! Uh what is it good for?

Let’s start out by defining what OOOG is shall we? OOOG stands for Open source, Open standards, Open Government. It started out as a personal standard that I used when judging the suitability of a project or solution for use with Gov2.0/LocGov2.0 work.
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Digital communication – ignore it at our own peril

The days when Local Government could rely on their local newspaper and radio station to get their message to their community are long gone. Recent events in Iran and China have highlighted the power of electronic media and social networking as a communications tool.
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