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What's New Newsletter - December 22, 2011

New items added to the eGovernment Resource Centre week ending December 22, 2011. (This newsletter is also available in RSS format.)

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Victoria

Mobile Government

Heritage goes mobile, Media Release, From the Minister for Planning, Wednesday, 14 December 2011.

New iPhone app to combat litter. Media Release, From the Minister for Environment and Climate Change, Thursday, 15 December 2011.

Vic Heritage iPhone app, By the Victorian Government's Department of Planning and Community Development. iTunes.

Smart Meters

Coalition announces major changes to smart meter program, Media Release, From the Minister for Energy and Resources, Wednesday, 14 December 2011.

Vic smart-meter roll-out to resume, By Luke Hopewell, ZDNet Australia, December 14th, 2011.

Australia

Broadband

ACCC commences public consultation on NBN Co Special Access Undertaking. Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, Release # NR 251/11, Issued: 20th December 2011.

Federal Government supports high-speed digital Australia. Senator the Hon Stephen Conroy, Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Media Release, 15 December 2011.

Government to invest $20m in 'NBN-ready' education portal, by Stuart Corner. IT Wire, Thursday, 15 December 2011.

Nearly three-quarters of Australian households now have broadband. Australian Bureau of Statistics, 15 December 2011 - 162/2011.

Fire Prevention

Govt launches new website to extinguish bushfire arson - Bushfire Arson Prevention website to educate the community about arson, by Computerworld Staff - Computerworld, 21 December, 2011.

Information Technology

Information and Communications Technology Security: Management of Portable Storage Devices. Australian National Audit Office, Report 18, Tabled Tuesday 20th December 2011.

Libraries

50 million reasons to engage in Gov 2.0 co-creation and collaboration - eGov AU - Craig Thomler's professional blog - eGovernment and Gov 2.0 thoughts and speculations from an Australian perspective, Wednesday, December 21, 2011.

State and Territory Government

New South Wales

Australian State Releases Transport Info App, By Rahul Joshi. FutureGov, 16 December 2011.

NSW Health pushed to modernise invoices, By Michael Lee, ZDNet Australia, December 14th, 2011.

South Australia

Adelaide Airport GIS takes flight - Geographic Information System (GIS) used to prevent bird strikes, by Hamish Barwick, Computerworld, 16 December, 2011.

SA govt kicks off $408m e-health roll-out, By Suzanne Tindal, ZDNet Australia, December 14th, 2011.

Government Use of Social Media and Best Practice

Agencies question value of social media, By Alice Lipowicz. Federal Computer Week, December 20, 2011.

Shunning social media is outdated and a road to oblivion, By Rory Medcalf. The Canberra Times, 16 December 2011.

Government 2.0 and Government Data

Data storm: Making government data pay, By Michael Cross. BBC News, 16 December 2011.

Renovating the Government Portal, by Despina Babbage, Information Victoria, Department of Business and Innovation, 19 December 2011.

Taking open data up a level - Nigel Shadbolt says it's time to accelerate the use of government data in generating innovation. Posted by Nigel Shadbolt, Guardian - Transparency Hub, Friday 16 December 2011.

Why Governments Have Failed at Crowdsourcing, Posted by Robert Singleton. GovLoop, December 20, 2011.

Information Technology

Emergency Alerts

SOS app for mobile released, by Peter Dinham. IT Wire, Monday, 19 December 2011.

Innovation

Internet guru: Digital self-organisation will spur growth. EurActiv, 8 December 2011.

Website Practice

Accessibility

Abbreviations: accessibility for web writers, part 14, Written by Dey Alexander. 4 Syllables, November 10, 2011.

Melbourne Accessibility Week - February 2012 - The Victorian Government has set a December 2012 deadline for all Government websites to be Level A WCAG2 compliant. AccessibilityOz is launching Melbourne Accessibility Week. Register now!

Browsers

Australia the guinea pig in Internet Explorer upgrade pilot, by Stephen Withers. ITWire, Friday, 16 December 2011.

Mozilla launches Firefox 9, speeds up JavaScript - Mozilla on Tuesday shipped Firefox 9, claiming that the new browser processes JavaScript up to 36% faster than its predecessor, By Gregg Keizer - Framingham. Computerworld, Thursday, 22 December, 2011.

Domain Names

FTC Warns That Rapid Expansion of Internet Domain Name System Could Leave Consumers More Vulnerable to Online Fraud - Letter Urges ICANN to Implement Pilot Program, Take New Steps to Protect Consumers. Federal Trade Commission, 16 December 2011.

ICANN's Top-Level Domain Name Program - Archived Webcast. House Energy and Commerce Committee, December 14, 2011.

OECD Council Recommendation on Principles for Internet Policy Making. OECD, 13 December 2011.

Outcomes of the Independent Review into the Governance of .au. auDA, Media Release, 15 December 2011.

Plenty of .protections for the Web domain expansion, by Rod Beckstrom, Marina del Ray, California. The writer is president and chief executive of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. Letter to the editor, The Washington Post, Published: December 18, 2011.

Typosquatting - what happens when you mistype a website name? by Paul Ducklin. Sophos, 2011.

Email Newsletters

5 Reasons Subscriber Preferences Should Be Top Priority, By Crystal Gouldey, Business 2 Community, Published December 15, 2011.

Internet Statistics

Texting, Social Networking Popular Worldwide. Pew Research Center, December 20, 2011.

Mobile Web

Keep Your App Relevant After Download, by Andy Lynn. Marketing Daily, Tuesday, December 20, 2011.

Online Video

Is Your Web Site Sticky Enough? by Olga Slavkina, Business 2 Community, December 15, 2011.

Search Engines

Introducing smartphone Googlebot-Mobile, Posted by Yoshikiyo Kato, Software Engineer. Google Webmaster Central Blog, Thursday, December 15, 2011.

One-Word Searches: Search Engines Doing More With Less, by Paul Burani, Search Engine Watch, December 19, 2011.

SEO: A Hierarchy of Needs [infographic], written by Ben Acheson. Digivate, Monday, December 19th, 2011.

Web Analytics and Analysis Tools

45 Awesome Posts on A/B, Multivariate, and Usability Testing, By Kristi Hines, Unbounce, December 7, 2011.

The Online Marketer's Toolbox - Provided by Bryan Eisenberg.

Focus on Countries

Canada

Channel choice and public service delivery in Canada: Comparing e-government to traditional service delivery, by Christopher G. Reddick and Michael Turner. Government Information Quarterly, Volume 29, Issue 1, January 2012, Pages 1-11.

Clement tweets his way into Canadian history with Twitter town hall, by Elizabeth Thompson. iPolitics, Posted on December 15, 2011.

Highway Hotline Now on Twitter and Facebook. Government of Saskatchewan, News Release - December 14, 2011.

How open data is leading the way to Project Calgary, Posted by Tom Babin. Calgary Herald, December 20, 2011.

More Ontarians Turning To Ontario.ca - Fast, Convenient Services Available Online. Ontario Newsroom, December 17, 2011.

New Study Shows Client Engagement Drives Growth - Advisors who aren't engaging their clients will miss their biggest opportunity for growth. Toronto, Canada NewsWire, December 15, 2011.

Europe

Improving the Evidence Base - The Quality of Information Status Report and Recommendations of the EURIM Sub-group on the Quality of Information. EURIM, June 2011.

Internet guru: Digital self-organisation will spur growth. EurActiv, 8 December 2011.

Public sector needs to improve quality of information, warns Eurim - Parliamentary group gives cautious welcome to the EU's plans to open up more public sector data, by Sade Laja. Guardian Professional, Monday 19 December 2011.

New Zealand

Commerce Commission releases issues paper on high speed broadband demand-side study. New Zealand Commerce Commission, Media Release, 19 December 2011.

National Aquarium Leads The Way In Digital Innovation, Press Release: National Aquarium of New Zealand, Friday, 16 December 2011.

United Kingdom

Children

Childhood obesity in England: find out how your area compares - Over a third of children aged 11 are considered to be overweight or obese. What are the figures for your area? Posted by Neha-Tamara Patel and Tom Farmery. Guardian Datablog, Monday 19 December 2011.

Citizen Centric Service

The benefits of Tell Us Once - Programme manager Matt Briggs says the service to notify births and deaths has begun to show its value to the public, by Matt Briggs. Guardian Professional, Friday 16 December 2011.

Tell us once - Case study. Improvement and Development Agency, Local government Asssociation, April 2009.

Eduation

Primary school league tables: download the full data - The primary school tables are out. Here's how you get the full data. Posted by Simon Rogers and Ami Sedghi, Guardian DataBlog, Thursday 15 December 2011.

Information Technology

Government ICT Strategy needs better measure of progress - National Audit Office welcomes good start for technology strategy but calls for improvements, by Gill Hitchcock. Guardian Professional, Wednesday 21 December 2011.

Implementing the Government ICT Strategy: six-month review of progress, National Audit Office, 21 December 2011. HC: 1594, 2010-2012.

Justice

Ministry of Justice plans for mega IT framework - Pre-tender points towards department taking its own path with business worth more than £1bn, by Mark Say. Guardian Professional, Tuesday 20 December 2011.

United States

Broadband

After the Stimulus: Broadband and Economic Development - Community Broadband Snapshot Report. National survey report prepared by: Craig Settles, October 2011.

8 Surprising Findings About the Broadband Economy (Opinion), By Craig Settles. Government Technology, December 15, 2011.

Community Engagement

VanRoekel: Citizens expect more digital interaction with government, By Camille Tuutti. Federal Computer Week, December 16, 2011.

Data Centres

Expanding our Efforts on Data Centers, Posted by Steven VanRoekel. Office of Management and Budget, December 20, 2011.

Defense

Pentagon Unveils Enterprise IT Strategy - Department of Defense looks to save up to $5.2 billion through IT consolidation and enterprise-wide adoption of shared platforms and services, By John Foley. Information Week, December 15, 2011.

e-Government

Appropriations bill hikes e-government fund, By Joseph Marks. Next Gov, 15 December 2011.

Is E-Gov Back? Approps Bill's Partial Funding Fix for 2012, by Daniel Schuman. The Sunlight Foundation, December 15, 2011.

Will A Breath of Fresh Air Rescue Open Government from Life Support? by Andrea Di Maio. Gartner, December 16, 2011.

Government

Public sector in America a 'Petri dish' of innovation, by Paul Macmillan and Howard Yeung. Special to Globe and Mail Update, Published Wednesday, December 14, 2011.

Government Websites

Dot-Gov Reform Effort Making Progress, By Joseph Marks. TechInsider - NextGov, 15 December 2011.

Federal website survey paints a messy picture, By Alice Lipowicz. Federal Computer Week, December 19, 2011.

Only half of dot-gov sites are active, GSA reports, By Joseph Marks. NextGov, 19 December 2011.

State of the Federal Web Report, Produced by the .gov Reform Task Force, December 16, 2011.

State Government

Massachusetts

Massachusetts Puts User-Friendly Checkbook Online, By Sarah Rich. Government Technology, December 15, 2011.

Veterans

Survey finds VA patients favor sharing health information, By Sophie Quinton, National Journal. NextGov, 19 December 2011.

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