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Articles and resources about egovernment activities within local government in Victoria, Australia.
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- Local Gov2.0: Transforming Local Government With Social Media and Web 2.0
- Presentation by Fergal Coleman, www.symphony3.com, at the FinPro Conference, March 2011. Profiles a case study from Kingston City Council - the Chelsea Community Renewal Project including Have Your Say Day.
Added: 18 May 2011
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- Local Government, Victoria - Archive
- Archived articles and resources about eGovernment in Victorian local government.
Added: 24 November 2005
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- Vic councils tender for VMware partner
- By Luke Hopewell, ZDNet Australia, May 21, 2012. "A 58-strong consortium of Victorian regional councils is looking for a new VMware partner to manage the councils' VMware Enterprise License Agreement..."
Added: 22 May 2012;
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- Melbourne council pulls parking cameras
- By Luke Hopewell, ZDNet Australia, May 14th, 2012. "Melbourne is no longer photographing number plates to determine those who are overstaying their welcome in the city's paid parking bays, after technology issues thwarted the system..."
Added: 16 May 2012;
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- WiFi in Central Geelong
- City of Greater Geelong, Media Release, Friday, 16 March 2012. "The City of Greater Geelong has commenced a free Wi-Fi service in Central Geelong in conjunction with ICT Geelong and is currently seeking state government funding to expand the service said Brownbill Ward Councillor Barbara Abley. Cr Abley who is a member of the Central Geelong Looking Forward Advocacy Group said the free community Wi-Fi Information service was launched in Johnstone Park to coincide with the UCI Road World Championships in September 2010 and had since been extended to include the bus interchange in Moorabool Street and Malop Street Central..."
Added: 23 April 2012;
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- Socialising local government media
- By Paul Hemsley. Government News, 6 March 2012. "Social media is an ever expanding medium on both individual and corporate levels, but justifying its use in local government has required plans and strategies to underline its interactive benefits. City of Kingston economic development officer, Angela Stubbs gave a talk at the Infor Public Sector User Forum in Melbourne in September 2011 regarding her local council’s policy on using social media for further reaching communications with constituents..."
Added: 22 March 2012;
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- Snap Send Solve
- Developed by Outware Mobile. "Snap Send Solve let's citizens report problems to your council conveniently and accurately, in under 30 seconds. Snap Send Solve is a free iPhone app that lets citizens report issues and provide feedback to your council in under 30 seconds. How Snap Send Solve Works Snap Send Solve determines the citizens location using GPS and sends back all relevant council details, including your council contact information, location, and email address. All reports from Snap Send Solve are sent from a citizens email address so that your council can communicate directly with the citizen to resolve the issue. We are working to develop deeper integration with council backend systems..."
Added: 20 June 2011;
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- iComplain app proves a hit for ratepayers
- by Mitchell Toy. Sunday Herald Sun, June 19, 2011. "Disgruntled ratepayers have been given a new hi-tech weapon to report vandalism and damage to slow-moving local councils. An iPhone application that allows users to take a photo of faulty infrastructure and automatically send it to the right council using GPS positioning is becoming a hit across the country. The free Snap Send Solve app, made by Melbourne tech developer Outware Mobile, has already been used to report thousands of problems including graffiti, broken parking ticket machines and potholes..."
Added: 20 June 2011;
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- Melbourne council in online mapping project
- By Luke Hopewell, ZDNet Australia, May 27, 2011. "The City of Melbourne has invited several small focus groups to test a new municipal mapping system that's currently in development. The new mapping system is designed to display community points of interest like parks and healthcare centres, for example, and has been in the works for the last 18 months according to the council..."
Added: 30 May 2011;
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- Macedon Ranges Council streamlines processes with Infor
- Suffering from multiple systems that weren't talking to one another, the council's IT manager found a system that could align its processes into one system, by Chloe Herrick. Computerworld, 27 April, 2011. "With a bunch of different internal systems struggling to speak the same language, the IT manager at Macedon Ranges Shire Council was forced to look for a product to align all of its required functions into one system..."
Added: 28 April 2011;
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- Yarra Consultation - have your say Yarra
- The City of Yarra's online engagement site. Designed so that you, your friends, neighbours and colleagues can contribute your ideas and comment on some of the issues being considered by Council.
Added: 20 April 2011;
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- MAV developing social media policy
- By Rob O'Brien. Government News, 31 March 2010. "Victorian councils are in the process of exploring a new social media policy to help them develop use of the technology. The Municipal Association of Victoria (MAV) has held workshops for local government representatives from nine participating councils, with a defining document the end goal on the 'dos' and 'don'ts' of using social networking sites to engage with communities..."
Added: 8 April 2010;
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- Telstra wins deal with Vic councils
- By Jacquelyn Holt, ZDNet Australia, April 6, 2010. "Telstra has won a multi-million dollar contract to provide Victorian Councils with telephony services until the end of 2012..."
Added: 8 April 2010;
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- Vic councils want $33m telco deal
- by Suzanne Tindal. ZDNet Australia, 12 June 2009. "in brief There are 38 Victorian councils and one library on the market for telecommunications services and hardware..."
Added: 15 June 2009;
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- The success of Future Melbourne - an online wiki-led consultation program
- by Craig Thomler. eGov AU - eGovernment thoughts and speculations from an Australian perspective, Wednesday, October 15, 2008. "I've been looking at the success of the Future Melbourne program, a wiki and blog based approach to shaping the future urban landscape of Australia's second largest city. The program allowed citizens to directly collaborate, edit and comment on the plans for the future development of the city. It attracted more than 30,000 visits by nearly 7,000 individuals and over 200 edits to the plans, ranging from spelling and grammatical corrections through to lengthy well-considered contributions (and not one instance of spam, off-topic or offensive content)..."
Added: 15 October 2008;
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- Melbourne divines future online
- Locals discuss 2020 plan on wiki, by Darren Pauli - Computerworld. CIO, 19 May, 2008. "The City of Melbourne has created a new online wiki to allow Melbournians to discuss the city's 2020 vision, including plans for city-wide wireless Internet, GPS traffic monitoring and a 3D Facebook. The wiki has been designed over the last 12 months to promote discussion over the city's ambitious Future Melbourne goals to be carbon-neutral, offer the world's best higher education and research, and reduce water consumption by 40 percent..."
Added: 22 May 2008;
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- Council enlists unified communications to kill 20 year bogie
- Video conferencing pilot underway, by Darren Pauli. Compterworld, 22 February 2008. "Strathbogie Shire Council has replaced a 20 year old PABX system with a state-of-the-art IP communications system for its staff and constituents..."
Added: 22 February 2008;
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