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Obama caught adrift in the media, lobbyist circus

October 10, 2009 – 6:28 am

Awarding Obama the Nobel peace prize seems emblematic of the triumph of celebrity over substance. I’m an Obama fan, but the reality is that his achievements lie ahead of him not behind him, and you can’t help thinking that the Nobel judges were more than a little ‘previous’ in awarding the prize to a guy [...]

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Australia’s most popular Government websites

May 10, 2009 – 6:18 pm

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 Commonwealth sites:

 Bureau of [...]

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Resources for Government 2.0

October 15, 2008 – 8:21 am

We haven’t seen much effort in Australia yet to use web 2.0 technologies to empower citizens and re-invigorate our sagging democracies. Of course, it’s not going to happen in NSW under the Rees Government because they’re only interested in spin not participation. Federally, Rudd has said he is committed to open government so maybe he [...]

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