From Bob Crawshaw at Maine Consulting: Australia has around 6500 government websites and these account for 2.4% of all Australian online visits – higher than the US (1.7%) and the UK (0.9%).       Federal Government websites account for 60% of all visits, State Government websites accounted for 29.7% visits while 6.2% of visits went to Local Government sites.  In March 2009, the top [...]

This is the question I get asked all the time, and it is hard to give a succinct answer to why Australian businesses should be lagging behind their US and Western European catalogues. There are, however, a range of possible explanations which may all be contributing to the adoption gap: It may simply be the [...]

It worked so well in the campaign, why stop now: Transition officials call it Obama 2.0 — an ambitious effort to transform the president-elect’s vast Web operation and database of supporters into a modern new tool to accomplish his goals in the White House. If it works, the new president could have an unprecedented ability to appeal [...]

I missed this in the great excitement of the US election yesterday, luckily Net Traveller picked it up: In May 2008 the Minister for Finance and Deregulation, Lindsay Tanner, talked about applying Web 2.0 to government processes in a “Keynote Address to the e-Government Forum“. He is more recently reported to have said the government [...]