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The term “Government 2.0″ (Gov 2.0 for short) has been around for a few years now and grew out of the Web 2.0 movement which is all about amplifying the Web’s inherent capacity for openness, participation, self-organisation, decentralisation, group-forming and network-enabled collaboration. Gov 2.0 is about applying these Web 2.0 principles to the planning, management and delivery of government services by utilising blogs, wikis and social media to catalyse more participatory forms of democracy that can in turn facilitate stakeholder [...]

Collabforge senior consultant Darren Sharp recently returned from a trip to Canberra as an invited speaker to the National Library of Australia’s Innovative Ideas Forum 2009 (IIF). The topic for this year’s IIF was ‘The value and significance of social networking for cultural institutions’ with a particular emphasis on social networking innovations through which online services engage with their users in the development of their content. The line up included Marcus Gillezeau (Firelight Productions); Anne Summers (author & journalist); Mark [...]

The Future Melbourne Community Plan has won the Planning Institute of Australia’s prestigious President’s Award! From the press release: “Future Melbourne has been the most ambitious community consultation project ever undertaken by the City of Melbourne and, indeed, by a local government organisation. The plan outlines the key goals and challenges for the city’s future. The extensive community engagement undertaken in the development process has ensured that it is a rich and robust plan that really represents the community’s vision [...]