Government 2.0 - Best Practices Wiki / Australian Government Tweeple. Public sector employees and Government consultants in Australia using Twitter.
Please note, this does not imply that their Twitter feeds are representative of the organisations that they work for. Feel free to add yourself to this list.
SA. Done - Designing social media policy for government: Eight essential elements. Government agencies are increasingly looking to leverage social media to improve the quality of government services and enable greater citizen engagement.
Publicly available social media sites, such as Facebook or Twitter, are providing governments with attractive options for meeting these new objectives. These sites are widely available to government employees and citizens with Internet access; they have established communities and networks; and they provide a wide range of audio, video, and interactive capabilities without substantial costs. While there are many high profile examples of government agencies engaging social media tools, for the vast majority of governments across the US, these tools are still fairly new and relatively unexplored. Done - Local Gov2.0: Transforming Local Government With Social Media and Web 2.0. Done - web2.0-use.pdf (application/pdf Object) Done Web 2.0: The New Tools for Democratic Conversations – A snapshot of Initiatives in Government. Done - Deloitte.pdf (application/pdf Object)
VIC. NAA. NSW. QLD. ManagingOnlineResources&ServicesPolicyGuide.pdf (application/pdf Object) Examples. AGIMO Blog. Government 2.0 Taskforce. The Government 2.0 Taskforce is being formed against a backdrop of increased interest by governments worldwide in the potential uses of public sector information and online engagement.
President Obama made online engagement a theme of his election campaign and has indicated his desire to take a simular approach to government itself. In the United Kingdom the Brown Government’s Power of Information Taskforce has recommended sweeping reforms to how the civil service publishes, manages and engages with information.