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Welcome to my blog. It goes back a while and has my thoughts on all things technology, open government, FOSS and freedom. May contain traces of silliness and martial arts.
Check out my Gov 2.0 (open government) posts. They represent the bulk of my thinking and work at the moment.
These thoughts are my own.
Important posts & links
- Choose Your Own Adventure, Please
- Online Culture: Unicorns and Doom
- Gov 2.0: Where to begin
- Creating Open Government (for a Digital Society)
- Internet, government and society: reframing #ozlog & #openinternet
- Speech from Nethui on Open Government and Gov 2.0
- Public engagement: more customer service than comms
- Cloud computing: finding the silver lining
- Vivek Kundra and some lessons learnt about tech in gov
- Society 5 project
- OKFestival 2012: Open Data, Open Gov & Open Science
- Privacy and Internet Policy at Internet Governance Forum Australia
- Distributed Democracy project
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Recent Posts
Recent Comments
- Tom Worthington on Where next: Spring starts when a heartbeat’s pounding…
- Andrew Jensen on Where next: Spring starts when a heartbeat’s pounding…
- Alun Probert on Sadly leaving the NSW Government
- Elise on Exploring change and how to scale it
- Bruce the Chaos Monkey on Chapter 1.2: Many hands make light work, for a while
Archive – blogging since 2003
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Lessons from Canada and France: FWD50 2018 and SIIViM
A couple of weeks ago I had a whirlwind trip to Canada, France and back again, in 6 days! I spoke at the FWD50 conference in Ottawa, Canada, which is an optimistic and inspiring event focused on the next 50 days, weeks … Continue reading
Posted in Choose Your Own Adventure, gov20, Government, society5, Tech
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My Canadian adventure exploring FWD50
I recently went to Ottawa for the FWD50 conference run by Rebecca and Alistair Croll. It was my first time in Canada, and it combined a number of my favourite things. I was at an incredible conference with a visionary … Continue reading
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Tagged digitalgov, FWD50, GaaP
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FWD50 Keynote: The Tipping Point
I was invited to an incredible and inaugural conference in Canada called FWD50 which was looking at the next 50 days, months and years for society. It had a digital government flavour to it but had participants and content from various international, … Continue reading
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Where next: Spring starts when a heartbeat’s pounding…
Today I’m delighted to announce the next big adventure for my little family and I. For my part, I will be joining the inspirational, aspirational and world leading Service Canada to help drive the Benefits Delivery Modernization program with Benoit … Continue reading
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