This guest post is from Scott Johnson, a social media adviser at the Department of Human Services.
Have you ever used social media to engage with the government? Many departments are setting up official accounts to have conversations with the public or bring their service delivery into the 21st Century.
The Australian Government Department of Human Services [...]
Category Archives: Gov 2.0
Guest Post: The Department of Human Services Seeks your Feedback
- 05
- Jun
Australia Joins the Open Government Partnership
- 22
- May
Today the Australian Government Attorney General and Special Minister of State, the Hon Mark Dreyfus QC, has announced that Australia is joining the Open Government Partnership. This historic announcement brings Australia into a consortia of over 60 countries that are committed to:
“more transparent, effective and accountable governments — with institutions that empower citizens and are [...]
Verifying the APS on Twitter
- 08
- May
Over the last couple of months we have been diligently compiling data on Australian Government Twitter accounts so that we could update the canonical list of Australian Public Service (APS) Twitter usage. Using the list available on Australia.gov.au as our starting point, we asked Government CIOs to list the accounts used in their organisation. As [...]
Response to Big Data Strategy – Issues Paper
- 18
- Apr
On Friday 15 March 2013 the Big Data Strategy – Issues Paper was released onto the AGIMO blog for public comment. The aim of the paper was to promote a conversation about the use of big data analytics by government, with a particular focus on the opportunities it may provide in terms of developing [...]
Draft Roadmap for data.gov.au
- 10
- Apr
As part of my role as Director for Gov 2.0 in the Technology and Procurement Division of Finance (under John Sheridan), I have responsibility for enhancing data.gov.au. This is quite exciting and an excellent opportunity to contribute to opening government data in Australia. We plan to make some significant progress in this area and would [...]
SOCIAL(MEDIA)ISM at the International Public Sector Convention
- 13
- Mar
This is a presentation I made at CPA Australia’s International Public Sector Convention on 22 February 2013. My message was that the time is right for Australian Government agencies to utilise social media and other online tools to bolster and expand their communication strategies. The costs of doing so in a targeted manner are not that [...]
Proposed online engagement courses for the APS
- 07
- Mar
Finance is considering conducting a series of practical 3 hour courses on social media for the Australian Public Service and we want to gauge interest from our APS stakeholders. Below are some course outlines we are considering. Please feel free to leave your comments below, or register your interest by emailing Pia Waugh on pia.waugh [...]
Opening Up – SME Report 2009
- 18
- Feb
In his seminal report on the use of ICT in the Australian Government, Sir Peter Gershon considered a range of improvements that could be made to ICT use. Several of these concerned the relationship with small to medium enterprises. In its acceptance of the report and agreement to the recommendations, the Australian Government undertook a [...]
2013 Australian Government ICT Awards open for nominations
- 04
- Feb
I am delighted that one of my first jobs as the new Australian Government Chief Information Officer is to announce that the 2013 Excellence in eGovernment Awards, the Government 2.0 Innovator Award and the ICT Professional of the Year Award (the Awards) open for nominations from today.
Technology continues to transform the way we do business, [...]
Mobile version of the Government Online Directory launched today
- 30
- Nov
Special Minister of State Gary Gray today released the mobile version of the Australian Government Online Directory website. The Directory website provides a guide to the structure, organisations and key people in the Australian Government.
AGIMO’s Online Services Branch runs directory.gov.au and we’ve been thinking about ways we can make this information more available. So, we’ve developed [...]
