At Govhack a small team of folks started working on the idea of visualising all the activities of the (Australian) federal government, so that as citizens we are better positioned to identify where we’d like to intervene in government processes. This post documents the progress we made.
Our work focussed on a single data file from [...]
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What the federal government does – first steps
Posted in People-power, Picturing, tagged gov2.0, gov2au, government, visualisation, wtfgd on 2 November 2009 | 3 Comments »
Going to the govhack fest
Posted in Ingenuity, People-power, Picturing, tagged collaboration, gov2au, government, tool, visual thinking, wtfgd on 23 October 2009 | Leave a Comment »
With some trepidation due to my lack of geek credentials, I have registered to attend Govhack. Keen to find out how I can contribute.
I’ve also added a project idea to the wiki, based on this idea. As a conceptual taster for how useful it might be to have a browseable overview of government activities (which [...]
Seeing how to get things done
Posted in Ingenuity, Picturing, tagged doodle, drawing, effectiveness, graffle, GTD, indesign, productivity, visualisation on 17 September 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This week I’ve invested some time in thinking about time and how to spend it well. I was prompted by someone dear to me, who is currently challenged by a peculiar combination of:
a disruptive schedule – teaching 9 classes a week in 8 venues
a natural aversion to administrative work
a hankering to play music and [...]
A Government 2.0 idea – first, make all the functions visible
Posted in Ingenuity, People-power, Picturing, tagged collaboration, gov2au, government, innovation, visualisation, wtfgd on 28 June 2009 | 11 Comments »
Senator Kate Lundy’s Public Sphere forum this week was exciting, not least because amongst all the compelling presentations, the Government 2.0 Taskforce was announced. Its role is not only to help the government navigate into the future of greater transparency and collaboration, but also to fund projects to the same end. So what might the [...]
Seeing the whole archive
Posted in Ingenuity, Picturing, tagged archival records, archives, art, inspiration, technology, tool, visual thinking on 17 June 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday I went to Dr Mitchell Whitelaw’s impressive presentation at the National Archives, about his Visible Archive project.
First, he gave a great introduction to why visualisations are important and how they can help you get a handle on a collection. In brief, search excels when you know which small piece you’re looking for. But if [...]
A tool I want
Posted in Picturing, tagged technology, tool, visual thinking on 13 May 2009 | Leave a Comment »
For some time now an idea has been simmering in the back of my mind. It comes from a gap I’ve noticed in the flourishing world of online tools. What I’d like is to be able to assemble data – images, text passages, PDFs, audio, video, whatever, and whether I’ve found them on the internet [...]
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