From the United Nations Public Administration Network (UNPAN) comes a blog called e-Government Assessment http://egovernments.wordpress.com/

Going by the tag cloud, the site seems to be quite big on assessing government website accessibility.

This recent post points to a book providing a Global Web Accessibility Analysis of National Government Portals and Ministry Web…

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Of late I have been increasingly perplexed about the so very 1.0 approach taken over the proposed carbon tax. Overwhelmingly what we have is a very more like a monologue with government largely really on traditional media approaches.

 

There is nigh on no use of social media to engage the community in a debate over something that impacts every person in this country. Go to the Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities web site and what you see…

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Do a search for the term "industrial relations 2.0" and you get 491 search results. Call it 490 as one of them was yours truly on Twitter.

 

With Australian Public Service agency agreement negotiations underway it is timely to be raising a few questions of an industrial relation nature.

 

One of the things I have observed on both sides of the IR equation (Unions and employers), is that the parties seem to be locked into some very traditional ways of doing things.…

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Jury Konga a friend of ours from Govloop made an interesting comment about the Ahead of the Game Report.



"Bringing any "blueprint to life" is usually a daunting task and much of the reason for this lies with the degree of leadership support for truly changing the culture (not just tinkering around the edges). One of the phrases that captured my imagination some time ago was from the British film "Us Now", about… Continue

Wouldn't it be great to have something like this here? With the addition of a dashboard for measuring progress within agencie/departments. For example, use of social media to enable collaboration between public servants, frequency of robust discussion etc


http://www.whitehouse.gov/open/around

Data Store - World Government Data



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When I checked this out by looking at the data posted by country the results were: UK=1,699, U.S = 1042, New Zealand = 245 and Australia = 69. So on the face of it Australia is lagging behind.



When I started to look at what is actually provided in Australia I noticed that some data was old (Crime stats from 2003!) and some of the file formats were… Continue

John Ross kindly acquired a research article on the impact of Open Plan Offices on people.

It is very interesting and well worth pondering. In particular the impact on open interaction and dialogue.

Read and enjoy!

Thanks to John and have a great day everyone.

Steve D