This is a guest post by Hadyn Green. Hadyn Green is a Senior Analyst in the Ministry of Education’s Research Division. His main area of work is student assessment and he works with data on a daily basis.
At the Open Govt BarCamp held recently, one group was asked to raise their hands if they believed [...]
Category Archives: Govt 2.0
Mouthwash vs Deathwash
October 1, 2009 – 11:58 am
Exposing non-personal data in new ways
August 3, 2009 – 5:39 pm
As many readers of this blog will know, SSC has been pursuing various work-streams under the rubric of the Open Government Information and Data Re-use work Project. It is continuing to do so in collaboration with, among others, the ICT Group at the Department of Internal Affairs (DIA).
One of the many issues we’ve encountered along [...]
An introduction and a goodbye
June 19, 2009 – 4:21 pm
I have two things to talk about in this blog post.
1. You’ve been waiting a long time since I first presented about government use of SMS , and now finally, I am very excited to be able to provide you with An Introduction to Government Use of SMS. You can read it in full at the [...]
Perspectives on Open Data: Workshop on the Re-use of Government-held Non-personal Data
March 9, 2009 – 10:06 am
On Wednesday 18 February 2009 the State Services Commission hosted a discussion on aspects of data re-use. Sponsored by GOVIS, with five expert panellists (Nat Torkington, Fiona Romeo, Toby Segaran, Adrian Holovaty and David Recordon) supplied by Webstock, this was a wide-ranging discussion covering policy questions and technical issues. Staff of the Strategy and Innovation [...]
Introducing an Introduction to Government Use of SMS
February 26, 2009 – 2:26 pm
I think it’s likely that you’ve sent and received at least one text message today. Maybe you texted your friend, your partner, your boss, or maybe you got a text message from your local pub telling you what band is playing tonight, or your bank sent you a message to say that someone has withdrawn [...]
Making sense of government data - crownsourcing or crowdsourcing?
February 16, 2009 – 9:31 am
I spent a fascinating weekend at Foocamp – an annual gathering of those at the frontier of technology change and innovation. The current economic environment and the implications for New Zealand was the backdrop to a lot of the discussion, and there were heated debates on a number of controversial areas, including section 92A of the [...]
When State servants use social media
December 16, 2008 – 1:45 pm
Over the last 3 years we have seen a steady increase in the use of social media by State servants:
sanctioned government agency blogs (like this one),
State servants blogging about their organisations in their spare time,
State servants responding to blog posts,
State servants writing guest posts on blogs,
sanctioned government agency wikis,
State servants editing articles relating to their [...]
Monty Python and Government
November 21, 2008 – 9:07 am
I was struck by the significance of a news article, that the Monty Python team have launched their own YouTube channel, saying they’re tired of being “ripped off” by YouTubers. Here you have a creative team that first start producing content in the 1970s, moving to adopt a new channel — YouTube.
On the same day, there was [...]
