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Taking money from AGIMO doesn’t help

18x18 acidlabs   2010-08-06
Andrea Di Maio of Gartner has written a pointed post with respect to the government taking $440M out of innovation funding to reduce our already tiny by global standards deficit. The AFR has identi...

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Announcing Government 2.0 workshops from acidlabs

18x18 acidlabs   2010-08-05
As a result of some recent work and a number of conversations, I’ve made a decision to put together some workshops that there seems to be a demand for. As of today, acidlabs is offering three works...

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Cranky

18x18 acidlabs   2010-08-03
Too right, Annabel. Turnbull (and as mentioned elsewhere, John Hewson) have been the exemplars of conduct in this election. Labor has been an unmitigated disaster – their infighting coupled with th...

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Gov 2.0 culture needs nurture (and a catalyst) – and we’re not there yet

18x18 acidlabs   2010-07-29
Earlier this week, I attended the FutureGov Forum Australia. It was an interesting event, not least because the talking head component was kept to a reasonable minimum, with the model focussed on r...

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Not the social media election you were looking for

18x18 acidlabs   2010-07-29
Ever since Barack Obama came to the US Presidency on the back of a grassroots campaign, a good proportion of which was activated via a thorough and well-executed social media campaign, various pund...

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Open Government declaration – don’t conflate it with something else

18x18 acidlabs   2010-07-18
Fulfilling one of the recommendations of the Government 2.0 Taskforce Report, the government released its Declaration of Open Government last week. This is an extremely good thing and bodes well fo...

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Walls come tumbling down

18x18 acidlabs   2010-07-06
Leigh Blackall has published an interesting post on the increasing elite participation in discussion around the subject matter of Government 2.0 in Australia. He sees a noticeable spike in “politic...

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Government 2.0…it can be a reality

18x18 acidlabs   2010-06-18
Australian public policy blog, Unleashed, published by our national broadcaster, the ABC, has a new piece by me entitled Government 2.0…it can be a reality on what it would take to transform govern...

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Is there value in live conference blogging?

18x18 acidlabs   2010-06-17
Like Stilgherrian, I’ve been invited by the organisers of X|Media|Lab Sydney to attend their event tomorrow and talk about their event online. I appreciate the gesture. And attend I will. And write...

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The prosaic politics of the tweet

18x18 acidlabs   2010-06-07
Bernard Keane has an especially interesting piece in Crikey today entitled Twitter and the prosaic reality of Digital Democracy (registration required). It’s an insightful look at the emergence of ...

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Curiosity and #telstradesire

18x18 acidlabs   2010-05-19
Like Mark Pesce and Chris Rowland, I think I should make abundantly clear my reasons for getting involved in Telstra’s Social Review program, not least because of some of the bile that’s being spra...

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I Desire more memory

18x18 acidlabs   2010-05-18
It looks like I’ve found the first big Achilles Heel of this thing, and for me, it might just be a deal breaker. The Telstra edition of the Desire does not have enough memory. The specs say it has ...