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Govt 2.0 Briefing Paper

last updated over 3 years ago, 1 Comment

This is the report from Public Sphere #2, convened by Australian Senator Kate Lundy and her office in Canberra at which the Ministerial Task Force on Government 2.0 was launched (www.gov2.net.au).  The report is one of the best compendiums I've seen of the issues and ideas that are now crowding onto the Govt 2.0 agenda.  Some nice 'mind map' summaries too of the issues and main topics covered during the day. The report was itself crowdsourced ...35 speakers on the day, 170 people ...

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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 ...

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