What is the Knope of the Week? It’s ELGL’s way of recognizing an individual or group of individuals who have excelled in promoting the public sector. Recipients may come from the public or private sector and are nominated by ELGL members. Recipients receive an incredible amount of recognition and prizes that we are not atRead… Read more »
By ChrisScott The recently released summary of the Air-Sea Battle: Service Collaboration to Address Anti-Access and Area Denial Challenges provides interesting reading on how DoD is preparing to meet evolving threats. It’s a direct challenge to DoD components to work together and collaborate – more than they ever have before. DoD has traditionally been aRead… Read more »
Gadi Ben-Yehuda This week: Nationals. On Her Majesty’s [Digital] Service. The BBC takes readers “Inside the UK Government Digital Service“ Crowdsourcing Canada. There’s still time to join a meetup to help “connect and build the open data community in Canada.” Excel-lent Aussies. The Financial Review reports that the Australian Treasury “will release budget papers inRead… Read more »
Originally published to cpsrenewal.ca Last week I leaned heavily on a speech made by Allan Gregg to try to position authenticity as the antidote to the problem of facelessness (see: The Solution to Facelessness is Authenticity); a problem that I argued the week before that was not some abstract thing out there but rather oneRead… Read more »
I’ve almost completed a course on Preparing to Teach in the Lifelong Learning Sector, or PTLLS. It’s partly to help me improve the work I do in training and running workshops, but also as the first step in the journey to becoming a qualified teacher. I’m increasingly interested in the way that learning and educationRead… Read more »
I find this stuff so you don’t have to: hackpad – neat collaboration / wiki / collaborative editing thingy The BBC’s hi-tech failure: Don’t Mention It Catch up with Doug Belshaw’s Open Badges Learning Hour – Learning Pool Geneva E-Participation Day: Open Data and International Organisations | Tim’s Blog Heidegger on technology, and technodeterminism Review:Read… Read more »
This month the Gov 2.0 event in Canberra has been organised at the last minute to take advantage of a rare visit to Canberra by Facebook’s Manager of Public Policy, Katie Harbath. All the details are on the Eventbrite page at: http://www.eventbrite.com.au/event/6670292023 You can also find out more about Katie from her Facebook page: www.facebook.com/katieharbathRead… Read more »
As followers of this site know I am very interested in encouraging and applying creative ideas in government. There are many creative individuals working in government jobs but bureaucracy and poor leadership does not allow them to contribute their creativity. Hats off to the folks that came up with the interesting idea described below thatRead… Read more »
#betaNYC, Code for America’s Brigade in New York City, the Coalition for Queens, Museum of the Moving Image, Partnership for New York, Startup Box: South Bronx, BLIP: Brooklyn Law Incubator Project, NY Tech Meetup, and Queens County Young Democrats have teamed up to ask one question: What does the next NYC Mayor think of theRead… Read more »
I appreciated the opportunity to comment on this important national security issue – Civil Rights Group Challenges NSA Phone Surveillance Program