The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) may only have opened for business yesterday, but already the commissioner, Professor John McMillan, is showing political nous.
Government 2.0 Taskforce
Government 2.0 #fail — spending $43b on an NBN in secret
Senator Stephen Conroy is unable to release the NBN implementation report. Further evidence that truly participative Government 2.0 is still a long, long way off. What happened to open government, Rudd?
Brave new world for ACMA as it launches into social media
Former SMH executive editor Tom Burton has been appointed to the new ACMA social media authority, with a brief to use social media to transform the way ACMA engages with industry and the public.
Click the vote: politics 2.0
Can an open source government work? An electorate in NSW has $300,000 and an online public vote system for choosing which local programs get funded. Want a new oval? Get voting.
Government 2.0 Taskforce: seeding a cultural revolution
Last night’s Government 2.0 Taskforce Road Show in Sydney didn’t look like the start of a revolution. Yet the Taskforce has indeed been charged with fomenting a cultural revolution.
Government 2.0 Taskforce: first a logo design contest
Online collaboration is old hat not just for geeks but for any 14-year-old user of Bebo or MySpace. Only governments are behind the pace.
