Australian Government 2.0 Taskforce Final Report

The Australian Federal Government released the final report of the Government 2.0 Taskforce on 22 December 2009.

Australia - Online Availability of Government Entities' Documents Tabled in the Australian Parliament

The Australian Auditor-General has published a report examining the online availability of tabled documents to the Australian Parliament and has provided three recommendations.

Australians' use and satisfaction with e-government services - 2011

This is the sixth and final study of Australians’ use and satisfaction with e‑government services under the 2006 e‑Government Strategy. It shows that Australians continue to embrace the internet as a way of interacting with government. The internet has now become commonplace and a natural means for citizens dealing with government and is the preferred means of accessing government services.

'Telework Forum: Bringing home the benefits of teleworking using the NBN' outcomes report

The Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy and the Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA) held a Telework Forum in Sydney on 3 August 2011 to highlight the benefits of increased working from home arrangements. The consensus among the 275 participants from industry, government and academia was that the NBN would give effect to the idea that 'work is what you do, not where you do it'.

Australia - 2007 Excellence in e-Government Award winners announced

The Australian Special Minister of State, the Hon. Gary Nairn MP announced the winners of the e-Award for Excellence in e-Government on 2 May 2007 at an Information and Communications Technology Celebration Dinner which was held after the e-Government Forum at CeBIT Australia in Sydney.

Australia.gov launches Government Service Locator

The government service locator is a new feature on the Australian Government's portal - australia.gov.au - and is currently in trial status.

Australian Broadcasting Corporation Embracing Mobile

Paper presented by Manuela Davidson, Mobile Executive Producer, ABC Innovation, at CeBIT, Sydney, 22-24 May 2012. ABC trends: 15 to 20% of all visits to www.abc.net.au are from mobile devices.

Australian Government 2.0 Taskforce Draft Report

The Taskforce has released its draft report. Comments are due by 16 December 2009. The invitation to "engage" is both a call to action and affirmation of the vision towards which that action leads. This is the promise of Government 2.0. "Engagement" is what Government 2.0 is all about.

Australian Government Guide for Public Servants Participating Online

The Australian Public Service Commission has updated its APS Values and Code of Conduct in practice to assist public servants who wish to participate online. Guidance is available under Chapter 3 - Managing official information, and Chapter 15 - APS employees as citizens.

Australian Human Rights Commission position on WCAG 2.0

The Australian Human Rights Commission is engaging in a process of broad-based consultation, and at this stage they have not finalised a view on any specific aspect of WCAG2.0.

Broadband Articles - Australia - Archive

Archived articles and resources about trends and issues relating to broadband access in Australia.

Broadband Reports - Australia - Archive

Archived reports about trends and issues relating to broadband in Australia.

Delivering Health Services remotely using broadband technologies

Paper presented by David Hansen - CEO, Australian E-Health Research Centre (AEHRC), CSIRO ICT Centre, at CeBIT, Sydney, 22-24 May 2012.

Government 2.0 Report Card

Presentation by Darren Whitelaw - Smart Government Australia 2011 conference, Tuesday 6 September 2011. There's been plenty of open government initiatives in Australia in the six years since the phrase Government 2.0 was first coined. This presentation looks at the importance of Gov2.0, scores performance within Australia, and identifies some great examples and ideas.

Government Data Websites in Australia - who uses them and what are they looking at?

Source: Experian Hitwise - Data updated monthly. Sites currently available are from the Federal, Victorian, New South Wales, Queensland and Australian Capital Territory Governments.

Government websites win in the Inaugural AMBER Awards

The 70 AMBER finalists were selected from a comprehensive field of online businesses that receive the most traffic by Australian visitors. The winners of the AMBERs are established using the combined results of an independent nationwide customer satisfaction survey and expert analysis from an independent online services lab testing facility.

Interacting with Government: Australians’ use and satisfaction with e-government services

This study is the fifth in a series exploring Australians’ use and satisfaction with e government services (provided through the internet and telephone). It investigates: how people contact government (internet, telephone, in person or mail); satisfaction with these means of contacting government, including reasons for satisfaction and dissatisfaction; reasons why people choose to use or not use egovernment services; and preferences for future delivery of government services.

Kate Lundy - The Path to Open Government: The Pillars of Gov 2.0

Paper presented by Australian Senator Kate Lundy at the Gov 2.0 Expo in Washington DC on Wednesday 26 May 2010 which discusses the three pillars of Gov 2.0: democratising data, citizen-centric services and participatory democracy.

Last chance for accessibility certification before the National Transition Strategy (NTS) deadline

Registrations are filling up fast for the last intake for 2012 of The Professional Certificate in Web Accessibility, running 8 October – 16 November. Registrations close 25 September.

More Convenient Access to Online Government Services

The Government will provide $29.7 million over four years to develop a multi-agency Information and Communications Technology (ICT) framework that gives customers more convenient access to online Commonwealth services.

National Digital Economy Strategy

Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy. "The National Digital Economy Strategy (NDES) sets out a vision for Australia to realise the benefits of the National Broadband Network (NBN) and position Australia as a leading digital economy by 2020. To achieve this vision, the Strategy outlines eight Digital Economy Goals, the Way Forward, Government Initiatives and Industry Initiatives. Senator Stephen Conroy launched the Strategy at CeBIT in Sydney on 31 May 2011..."

National Broadband Network Implementation Study

Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, 2010. "On 6 May 2010 the Australian Government released the National Broadband Network Implementation Study. The Implementation Study examines the Governmet's coverage, commerciality and competition objectives as well as the detailed operating arrangements of NBN Co Limited, its ownership and structure, ways to attract private sector investment and longer term privatisation. The Government is currently considering the Implementation Study and its recommendations. Interested parties are invited to provide comments or submissions on the Implementation Study and its recommendations. Please provide comments via the NBN Implementation Study wiki, via email to NBNImplementationStudy@dbcde.gov.au or by post to NBN Implementation Study, GPO Box 2154, Canberra ACT, 2601. It may not be possible to consider comments received after 27 May 2010..."

My School - profile 10,000 Australian Schools

Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA). "My School enables you to search the profiles of almost 10,000 Australian schools. You can quickly locate statistical and contextual information about schools in your community and compare them with statistically similar schools across the country..."

Engage: Getting on with Government 2.0: Report of the Government 2.0 Taskforce

Government 2.0 Taskforce, December 2009. "Government 2.0 or the use of the new collaborative tools and approaches of Web 2.0 offers an unprecedented opportunity to achieve more open, accountable, responsive and efficient government. Though it involves new technology, Government 2.0 is really about a new approach to organising and governing. It will draw people into a closer and more collaborative relationship with their government. Australia has an opportunity to resume its leadership in seizing these opportunities and capturing the resulting social and economic benefits..."

Australia's Digital Economy: Future Directions

Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, 14 July 2009. "... The Australian Government released the Australia's Digital Economy: Future Directions paper on 14 July 2009 which outlines: why the digital economy is important for Australia; the current state of digital economy engagement in Australia and why current metrics point to a need for strategic action; the elements of a successful digital economy; the role for the Government in developing Australia's digital economy; and case studies of Australians who have successfully engaged with the digital economy from a diversity of industries including content, e-health, maps, banking, education, smart technology and citizen journalism..."

Australians' use and satisfaction with e-government services - 2008

Department of Finance and Deregulation, Australian Government Information Management Office, 2008. "Interacting with Government explores Australians' use and satisfaction with e‑government services provided through the internet and telephone. It investigates: how people contact government by internet, telephone, in-person or mail; satisfaction with these means of contacting government, including reasons for satisfaction and dissatisfaction; reasons why people choose to use or not use e‑government services; preferences for future delivery of government services..."

Tax Office tests e-tax for Mac

By Liz Tay. IT News, May 16, 2013. "To launch in late June. The Australian Taxation Office is weeks away from releasing the first version of its individual tax return software, e-tax, for Mac users. The ATO has offered e-tax as a free download to Windows users since 1999 and planned to develop a version for Apple’s Mac operating system since 2007.."

Parliament backs crime data sharing overhaul

By Ry Crozier. IT news, May 16, 2013. "IT challenges being scoped. A Parliamentary Joint Committee is putting its weight behind the creation of a new national repository for criminal intelligence that would allow unprecedented data sharing among law enforcement agencies. The committee tabled its report on the gathering and use of criminal intelligence in Australia early yesterday..."

IT a support act in federal budget

by Trevor Clarke, The Age, May 15, 2013. "The federal budget 2013-14 has generated mixed reactions from ICT industry analysts and consultants with a conspicuous absence of funding for new big ticket projects. While the budget highlights an already announced $350 million innovation investment fund, Deloitte Consulting technology agenda managing partner Robert Hillard said it did not go far enough in encouraging agencies to deliver government services through digital channels, which is a "truly substantial cost-saving opportunity"..."

Social Media Statistics Australia – April 2013

by David Cowling. Social Media News, May 1, 2013. "Another month has flown by and it is now time to report our Australian Social Media statistics for April 2013. As I have mentioned in the past, social media growth in Australia has slowed right up. The larger networks are now reaching saturation point and not growing like we saw in 2010 and 2011. In Australia both Facebook and LinkedIn are happy to speak with members of the press about Australian user numbers. For some reason Twitter has never been so willing..."

Gov invests $10m in another eHealth initiative

End of life plans will provide doctors and carers with information on how people wish to be cared for at the end of their life, by Stephanie McDonald, Computerworld, 10 May, 2013. "The Federal Government will invest $10 million in an eHealth initiative which will enable people to provide information on the health care they wish to receive at the end of their life. The Advance Care Directives will be stored on the controversial Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record (PCEHR) system..."

GovHack to encourage agencies on open data

By Charis Palmer. IT News, May 10, 2013. "500 developers to participate. The organisers of this year’s annual GovHack will hold a roadshow after the event to encourage industry, VCs and startups to connect with the winners. GovHack brings together programmers and data scientists annually to build mashups, data visualisations and apps with government data..."

Verifying the APS on Twitter

by Pia Waugh. AGIMO Blog, 8 May 2013. "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 a result we have added another 40 to our list of known government Twitter accounts. Armed with this new list, we approached Twitter to have these accounts verified, as the blue tick will not only add authority to existing accounts but will also allow them to more easily escalate any problems directly with Twitter. To our knowledge, only 3 accounts had been verified when we begin the process. Now, at last count, there are over 100 and the number will increase. We have just sent our final list to Twitter and will soon be updating the list on australia.gov.au to include the new accounts..."

Finalists for the 2013 Excellence in eGovernment Award and ICT Professional of the Year Award announced

Australian Government Information Management Office, May 1, 2013. AGIMO received 46 nominations in total – 36 for the Excellence in eGovernment Award and a record of 10 nominations for the ICT Professional of the Year Award. Finalists from Victoria included: Towong Shire Council, Alpine Shire Council, and Brimbank City Council.

ABS embraces mobility with apps, responsive Web design

The statistics organisation's mobility strategy to engage the community in using data has made it a finalist for the 2013 Excellence in eGovernment Awards, by Rebecca Merrett (Techworld Australia). Computerworld, 8 May, 2013. "The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) is jumping on board with mobility, with plans to roll out another app this year in addition to its existing ABS Stats iOS offering. The organisation also plans to employ responsive design principles to make its website more mobile-friendly. The Run This Town app for iOS, to be released around June this year, will target school children and encourages them to interact with census data through playing a numbers game with a fictional town..."