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113_1356_medium Paul Johnston

How do you like it - too wide or too narrow?

last updated over 4 years ago, 0 Comments

Steven Clift flagged up the Australian consultation on Future Directions for the digital economy which took the form of a blog. My initial reaction was that this was a great thing to do, but my second reaction was to worry about how they were going to handle the response - what do you do with hundreds of responses on broad strategic issues? how can you respond to them or take them on board? And of course the flip side of this is that it actually discourages responses - why should I as a citiz...

posted in Australia Consultation

Martin_medium msweeks

Australia 2020

last updated over 3 years ago, 3 Comments

I've put in some links for the recent Australia 2020 exercise, which saw 1000 people selected to join the new Australian Prime Minister and some of his senior Ministers for a 2-day ideas and strategies session in Parliament House in Canberra last weekend.   In many ways, the whole process can be seen as a powerful experiment in open innovation, a real attempt to throw open the traditionally impenetrable process of policy and decision making to a much wider influence.  The event was streamed ...

posted in Government_2.0 Australia