The release earlier this week of the draft report of the Government 2.0 Taskforce has the potential to be a watershed moment in the management and delivery of government and its services to the people of Australia.
I find it more than a little interesting that after not much more than passing interest in the Taskforce’s [...]
NOTE: The article below is my contribution to the Centre for Policy Development’s Insight: Upgrading Democracy, which consists of several pieces from well-known thinkers and doers in the Government 2.0 sector and was CPD’s submission to the Government 2.0 Taskforce. It is republished here because I like to keep everything in one place.
‘There is nothing [...]
On 21 May 2009, APSC Commissioner, Lynelle Briggs gave a speech to the John Curtin Institute of Public Policy. Entitled All those who stand and wait—putting citizens at the centre, the speech raises some vitally important issues on open government and engagement with the public. I’d like to recommend you read the speech in full.
Commissioner [...]
My keynote from GOVIS 2009 – User Centred Government: More than meets the eye.
Public engagement. Public empowerment.
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The GOVIS tag line is “Connect. Share. Learn.”
So my first question is where is the conference wifi network for all of us to connect? It’s a must have for every conference these days.
Why are [...]
The slides and transcript won’t go live until Thursday morning, but here’s a sneak peek of my GOVIS keynote.
It’s a Wordle of the full text, limited to the 50 most frequent words.
Today, Telstra have publicly published their social media guardrails for staff. While these aren’t the first (sorry, Dan Oakes at the SMH, you got that one wrong) corporate guidelines on social media for an Australian company (I’ve helped with a few), they are certainly the biggest company to make them public.
Telstra Group Managing Director Public [...]