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One of my biggest inspirations, Tom Steinberg, has a post up about governments trying to duplicate the fantastic services that mySociety built, but failing miserably. I'm of two minds about this. On the one hand, I'm really pleased to see government trying to build services that are useful to citizens. On the other, I'm disappointed that... [read more]
I’ve been looking around at quite a few emerging ideas and practise for public engagement recently. At the moment consultation processes in local government are generally still fairly archaic and ‘having your say’ might mean filling out a survey or attending a public meeting, exhibition or focus group. The Power of Information report... [read more]
Sometimes, it's nice to be small, the City of Nanaimo has been pushing the envelop on open data and open government for a number of years now. Recently, I was directed to their new Council Agendas and Minutes webpage. I recommend you check it out. Here's why. At first blush the site seems normal. There is the standard video of the... [read more]
Young Rewired State is now over. The good news: 16 applications/websites were developed enough for presentation (within a weekend, with roughly 12 real time hours of dedicated work) <- that is pretty impressive. The projects will be uploaded here: http://www.rewiredstate.org/projects (and most are, the apps developed by the 15 to 18... [read more]
We know that local government needs to have better access to data and needs to use it better. But perhaps key to making this happen is to look to ourselves first and begin to share data and make it accessible within the sector, with partners and most importantly to the public. I’ve met recently with Richard Stirling and Beth... [read more]
Over the past year I've been inspired by the fact that an increasing number of cities are thinking about how to more effectively share the data they generate with their citizens. As most readers of this blog are probably aware, I've been engrossed advising the Mayor's Office here in Vancouver on the subject and am excited about the... [read more]
The Department of Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts has become the first Australian Federal Government agency to my knowledge to appoint a New Media head.I've previously commented on the rising trend in governments overseas to acknowledge the importance of online and new media by appointing New Media and Social Media Directors,... [read more]
Has anybody visited LocalGovTV? It’s a really useful online TV channel where you can watch interviews/short films etc about government initiatives. If like us you are interested in high-speed broadband developments you should watch ‘Engaging communities through high-speed broadband - Interview with Richard Steel, President of Socitm... [read more]
eGovernment, or government 2.0, is often discussed as a means to create greater transparency in government.However has there been a clear definition of what transparency really means for government in Australia?At the furthest extreme transparency would be like living in a glass house with glass furniture - everyone could see in and view... [read more]
The W3C has published an excellent paper named Improving Access to Government through Better Use of the Web. I commend it to anyone developing egovernment policy.As stated in the foreword, This document is an attempt to describe, but not yet solve, the variety of issues and challenges faced by governments in their efforts to apply 21st... [read more]
Typically government and commercial media teams spend time identifying publications and journalists that have the most appropriate audiences for an organisation's products and services.They commit energy to building constructive relationships with those that have influence over the members of the public they are trying to engage,... [read more]
Dean Halstead is a Lead Associate with Booz Allen Hamilton and serves on the Advisory Board for the SmartBrief on Social Media. More »
John Kamensky is a Senior Fellow with the IBM Center for The Business of Government. More »
Steve Radick is a Lead Associate with Booz Allen Hamilton and serves on the Advisory Board for the SmartBrief on Social Media. More »
Maybe they'll get it right this year, they can't afford to fail again, the competition is too tight on the electric car market. Sure there's still room for breakthroughs, I read some interesting articles about it on www.partsgeek.com, we should expect some interesting electric car technologies in ...
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