Last week, as part of the World Internet Project, Auckland University published The Internet in New Zealand 2007, a survey of 1430 New Zealanders’ use of and attitude towards the Internet. It has some interesting findings, particularly for public sector communicators.
The topline results of our usage habits are fairly unremarkable: 78% of Kiwis use the [...]
Colin McKay posted earlier this week about a fascinating piece of research published by the Canadian government. The paper, New Technologies and GC Communications [Word], is the first phase (the qualitative) of a survey into Canadians views on their government’s use of Web 2.0 technologies.
There are a couple of points that the survey throws up [...]
In April last year, I published a post on what I considered to be the 5 principles for Govt 2.0, one of which was open source government. This week, some academics form Princeton University have published a paper, still in draft, with the wonderful – if only slightly melodramatic – title, Government Data and the [...]
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Tagged crowdsourcing, data, govt2.0, information, mashup, open source, princeton, rss, visualization, web
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For the last couple of months I have been focusing on (what I hope has been) a less technical and more strategic approach to public sector communications; with a particular emphasis on using change management as the context for understanding what social media and govt 2.0 mean for our agencies.
This has been motivated partly by [...]
Reading and responding to the comments left on the last couple of posts had me returning to a question that I have wrestled with periodically over the last year or two: how do you convince senior management of the need to begin planning for online engagement? One tactic that occurred to me is to use [...]
April 25, 2008 – 10:07 am
ANZAC day is the one public holiday that, for me, conjures a sense of what could almost pass for reverence.
I can’t think of anything more eloquent, or more appropriate, than this poem by the late John Forbes.
Anzac Day
A certain cast to their features marked
the English going into battle, & then, that
glint in the Frenchman’s eye [...]
