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Microsoft recently provided sponsorship support for the inaugural Gov 2.0 Summit & Expo Showcase in Washington DC . Given the Australian Government’s 2.0 Taskforce’s focus on citizen engagement and empowerment, the Summit and showcase were an interesting
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For those interested in how Government policy can impact the lives of ordinary citizens this recent post from the Chair of the Government’s Web 2.0 taskforce is worth reflection. There is a significant temptation to believe that if governments at all
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Lindsay Tanner’s Taskforce 2.0 are getting down to the hard yards of working through how to democratically engage Australia’s public in the cause of more open government. In the way of all collective activity I can imagine they will have a few teething
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Let me be honest – I titled this blog ‘Digital Democracy ” not because I wanted to discuss that subject particularly but rather to get more attention on the web through the search engines. My digital media friends have a few tricks. Such is the reality
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Yesterday’s announcement by Finance Minister Lindsay Tanner and Special Minister of State, Senator Joe Ludwig, of a taskforce to investigate how the Australian Government can use new ‘Web 2.0’ approaches to expand the uses of Commonwealth information
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There are times when it may seem that a glacier moves faster than change in the public service. I declare an interest – I spent six years in the Federal Department of Finance in the late 80s and early 1990s at a time when ‘significant’ changes were made
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