The Archives
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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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07.25.08Is this among the final nails?Wow what a picture. Originally uploaded by scriptingnews I'd argue it's possibly one of the most important pics of the campaign. Click through to Dave Winer's post about it, and then onto the flickr page and look at the full size version. It's quite the image. Germany is a longstanding, important, strategic US ally in central Europe and Obama gets out his biggest crowd yet - news reports are saying 200,000! I wonder who moderate Europe wants as the next US President? Right now, after Obama's successful trip to the Middle East and now Europe, John McCain must be wondering what he's got to do ...
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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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06.10.08Enterprise 2.0 Conference - From the Bottom-Up: Building the 21st Century Intelligence CommunitySean Dennehy and Don Burke, both CIA intelligence analysts, openly discussed the work they are doing (without giving away the detail, obviously) on Intellipedia. Sean was a great, enthusiastic presenter, who was definitely a great choice for the conference - a great walking ad for the intel community. Built as a multilayered collaborative platform, Intellipedia consists of several tools and layers, from Unclassified that can be accessed via dial-in (and presumably VPN) through to the Top Secret JWICS. They have a number of tools, including internal blogs, TagConnect (a del.icio.us equivalent) and video (the "CIA's YouTube"). Shared across the US Intelligence Community, ...
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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 ...
