Lundy and Government 2.0 – Qld Big Picture Seminar

I’ve been off air and on leave (minimal internet, limited phone use and heaps of book reading instead,) so apologies for posting a speech that is over 5 weeks old but, it has to be here because it’s apt and rather good. So please have a look at Senator Lundy’s presentation of 30 October on co-designing for a better democracy.

http://www.katelundy.com.au/2009/11/25/nicta-speech-government-2-0-co-designing-a-better-democracy/

Blogging As a Public Servant

Points rather germane to this exercise!
http://psnetwork.org.nz/blog/2007/02/16/blogging-as-a-public-servant/

The Three Pillars to Open Government

The Australian government is increasingly open to citizen centric services, open and transparent government and innovation facilitated by digital dialogue and inclusion.

http://www.katelundy.com.au/2009/06/20/three-pillars-of-open-government/

W3C Improving Access to Government

A fabulously rich resource on e-participation, re-use of government data, open government and heaps more.

http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/NOTE-egov-improving-20090512/

Public Data to become truly Public?

UK Government moves towards freeing up public data for citizen use. Are we on the road to a more creative unbundling and reconstituting of government itself? Will it lead to greater transparency and heightened performance accountability? Will it open up new business opportunities through a value-add by citizens to the data that sits in isolation in silos? Watch this space.

http://www.epsiplus.net/news/public_data_to_be_more_freely_available

Community and Government as Partners

This blog explores the logical next step to open government whereby we leverage engagement already happening outside of government to co-create programs and services. This step acknowledges an equal and active participation of government and non-governmental players in the process of program and service creation. It cedes power by sharing it and in this why helps to revitalise the democratic contract!

gartner.com/mark_mcdonald/2009/05/10/social-computing-and-how-it-should-lead-to-co-creating-public-sector-programs-and-services/#comment-137

Acceleration of New Media in Government

Because the President likes it the bureaucracy follows… uptake of social networking tools is now rapidly expanding across the websites of government agencies in the US. See report from Time magazine.

http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1896482,00.html

Innovation Nation

From the UK Department of Innovation, Universities and Skills a white paper on Innovation. Lots of ideas and worth a good look.

http://www.dius.gov.uk/~/media/publications/innovation_nation_exec_summary

The Couch: Online polling website that listens to families

Check out this great site created by the NZ Families Commission. It conducts online polls and questionaires to support government policy making. Since its launch in 2006, The Couch has signed up over 3000 members capturing rich qualitative data from families in NZ. It is a good example of governments listening to the citizen’s voice.

http://www.thecouch.org.nz/member/report/11

Public Internet Channel

Look at this fantastic innovation in government to citizen communications!  It uses instructional videos to get the message out to the community and doesn’t just rely on the written word (and let’s face it, some of our words tend to inadvertently exclude those most in need of guidance).

http://www.pic.tv/shows