Author Archives: oliver

In support of Privacy Awareness Week

This coming week is Privacy Awareness Week, an annual event that is supported in New Zealand by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner in partnership with a number of other privacy agencies around the region including Australia (federal), New South … Continue reading

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BBC’s Tom Scott to present at Meta2011

… and now for the second speaker announcement for the upcoming Meta2011 conference that the IMM will be holding in Canberra on 25th May. The second speaker that IMM is announcing is Tom Scott from the BBC. From the press … Continue reading

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Australian Information Commissioner will speak at Meta2011

The agenda for IMM’s Meta2011 conference is coming together well, and over the coming weeks we will be announcing the line up of speakers who will be joining the conversation. This morning we published a press release confirming that Prof. … Continue reading

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Call for Presentations and Case Studies – “Meta2011 – Business Realities and Implications”

Contact us via our website:  http://www.metalounge.org/Home.htm or at info@metalounge.org to submit your ideas The fourth Australian conference on Metadata Management (hosted by the Institute of Metadata Management), themed “Business Realities and Implications”, will be held at University House, ANU, Canberra … Continue reading

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Microsoft Word add-in for Mediawiki

I meant to mention this when we released it back in November but somehow forgot. With the help of Intergen here in Wellington, and with support from a small team of other folks in New Zealand we have released an … Continue reading

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governance vs. management

From dictionary.com; gov·ern·ance government; exercise of authority; control. a method or system of government or management. man·age·ment the act or manner of managing; handling, direction, or control. skill in managing; executive ability: great management and tact. the person or persons … Continue reading

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Gartner’s Open Government Maturity Model

I see from Andrea Di Maio’s blog that Gartner have published their “Open Government Maturity Model”. A similar piece of work that Gartner did around eGovernment a decade ago was often seen as the gold standard for measuring progress that various … Continue reading

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Semantics and gov20

Lessons of the last two weeks; Open Government != gov20 gov20 != Open Government Open Data != gov20 Open Data != Open Government gov20 != open data Open Government != Open Data eGovernment != Open Data gov20 != eGovernment blah … Continue reading

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Understanding gov20 adoption, Citizens / Consumers

The final post in my series of none scientific reviews of gov20 adoption will focus on citizens and consumers. It is worth asking friends and family what they think gov20 means to them, and how they think some of the … Continue reading

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Understanding gov20 adoption, Politicians / Civil Servants

For the second of my none scientific posts about the adoption of gov20 I thought I would look at the progress that has been made by elected officials and government employees. This is a little harder to take a single … Continue reading

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