Gov 2.0 culture needs nurture (and a catalyst) – and we’re not there yet

July 30, 2010

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Earlier this week, I attended the FutureGov Forum Australia. It was an interesting event, not least because the talking head component was kept to a reasonable minimum, with the model focussed on rotating tables with each new table hosting a discussion with attendees on a particular topic associated with the future of government. It worked [...]

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Not the social media election you were looking for

July 30, 2010

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Ever since Barack Obama came to the US Presidency on the back of a grassroots campaign, a good proportion of which was activated via a thorough and well-executed social media campaign, various pundits have been breathlessly predicting that, in Australia, the election campaign currently underway would be the social media election. Not least of all, [...]

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Open Government declaration – don’t conflate it with something else

July 19, 2010

Fulfilling one of the recommendations of the Government 2.0 Taskforce Report, the government released its Declaration of Open Government last week. This is an extremely good thing and bodes well for the progress of Government 2.0 in Australia. Personally, I had hoped to see this declaration made in the Parliament, backed by new legislation or [...]

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Walls come tumbling down

July 7, 2010

Leigh Blackall has published an interesting post on the increasing elite participation in discussion around the subject matter of Government 2.0 in Australia. He sees a noticeable spike in “politicians, public servant bosses and big business” as the principal participants in the public (or near-public) discourse on the subject matter. It’s an interesting view that [...]

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Government 2.0…it can be a reality

June 19, 2010

Australian public policy blog, Unleashed, published by our national broadcaster, the ABC, has a new piece by me entitled Government 2.0…it can be a reality on what it would take to transform government to really get Government 2.0 right. At around 800 words, it doesn’t go deep. It’s just the first of several pieces I intend writing [...]

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Is there value in live conference blogging?

June 17, 2010

Like Stilgherrian, I’ve been invited by the organisers of X|Media|Lab Sydney to attend their event tomorrow and talk about their event online. I appreciate the gesture. And attend I will. And write I will. But like Stil, I attend very many of these sorts of events, and am of the mind that liveblogging them, or [...]

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The prosaic politics of the tweet

June 7, 2010

Bernard Keane has an especially interesting piece in Crikey today entitled Twitter and the prosaic reality of Digital Democracy (registration required). It’s an insightful look at the emergence of Australian politicians into the world of social media and just how well (or not) they are doing. Of particular note is Keane’s observation that: It’s now well-established [...]

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Curiosity and #telstradesire

May 19, 2010

Like Mark Pesce and Chris Rowland, I think I should make abundantly clear my reasons for getting involved in Telstra’s Social Review program, not least because of some of the bile that’s being sprayed about on Twitter. Like the others, it’s not a ridiculous purchase for me to go out and spend between $700-$1200 on [...]

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I Desire more memory

May 18, 2010

It looks like I’ve found the first big Achilles Heel of this thing, and for me, it might just be a deal breaker. The Telstra edition of the Desire does not have enough memory. The specs say it has 512Mb ROM, which is where I’m assuming the apps are stored and run from. That doesn’t [...]

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Six hours with the HTC Desire

May 17, 2010

The postie delivered the HTC Desire that I’ve been given by Telstra as a part of their Social Reviewer program at 3:30PM this afternoon. I’ve been poking at and tweaking it since then, so the thoughts below represent a very initial and fairly random set of responses. Android is still something of a geek’s phone OS. [...]

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