The Archives
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09.24.08Free their mindsThe Australian today is running a story claiming that Innovation Minister, Kim Carr favors a regime whereby recipients of grants will be required to make their research findings publicly available. This represents a revolution in the Australian research space and something that has been sorely needed for a long time. In the address, to be given to the Open Access and Research Conference in Brisbane, Minister Carr will apparently announce: "Australia may want to consider making its own competitive research grants conditional on recipients sharing their research results through open-access repositories." Not fait accompli by any means, but certainly a strong ...
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08.26.08Speaking at GOVIS 2009: User-centred government - More than meets the eyeAs most of my readers will know, one of my passions is the potential for transformative government by leveraging the power of hyperconnectivity - social networks, engagement of constituents and citizens, connection of policy-makers to the people and connection of people to providers of government services. As such, I'm pleased to announce that I will be delivering one of the keynotes at GOVIS 2009: User-centred Government - More than meets the eye in Wellington on 20-22 May 2009. New Zealand's GOVIS conference is a leading light in the discussion of the power of transformative government. At the last GOVIS conference in 2007, ...
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07.02.082020 Summit fails Australia on connectednessMy friend, Stilgherrian, has posted a scathing analysis of the final report of the 2020 Summit. He's particularly disappointed with the Summit's failure to address and take advantage of the power of the Internet to build connections between disparate communities and between the government and its constituency. I couldn't agree more. My views on the ongoing failure of government at all levels in Australia to really engage online are public and published here. That said, the 2020 Summit was a real opportunity for the Rudd government to take positive steps in the way it connects people with service providers, policy-linked activity and ...
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05.21.08What a difference a week makesThe past two weeks, I've attended two one-day (well, one evening and an all-day) conferences that couldn't have been further apart in the reaction they drew from me. The first was Interesting South on 12 May and then on Monday this week, Web Directions South Government. Both conferences were run extremely professionally by great teams. The content at both was largely really well selected by the organisers and well presented by the speakers. But the audience and the "buzz" at each was worlds different. The good news first. Let's talk about Interesting South. Based on the London Interesting, Interesting South was an eclectic ...
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04.14.08KM should just beUPDATE - I've added some more thoughts. I couldn't help myself. There's a really interesting discussion on KM and 2.0 tools going on over at the FASTForward blog. I've managed to get myself involved and am probably preaching a little KM heresy. I personally think KM need not be an identified, explicit practice in organisations. It should just be. Now, I'm a realist. I know that many organisations don't yet operate this way. But they should. Here's my latest input to the thread. "I absolutely agree with you that anything 2.0 is not about the technology. Technology is and always has been ...
