Category Archives: Activities

A small win…

2008-05-30 – 21:15:14

Whew … a small win in more effective use of IT by the government so people can be informed efficiently by Kim Carr. See this over at Balneus.

By Dave Bath | Also posted in Editorial, minister.industry.gov.au | Comments (0)

Survey about Vic Parl Website

2008-05-22 – 14:16:22

The Victorian Parliament Website has a current survey about how good it is.
Personally, I think the Victorian site is far inferior to the federal parliament, the survey is in a particularly closed format, and, what is surprising, is that the survey is not even hosted by government, but by surveymonkey.com.
Anyway, have a look around the […]

By Dave Bath | Also posted in Announcement, Editorial, Vic | Comments (0)

Prodding better RSS from industry.gov.au

2008-05-19 – 12:53:21

As noted elsewhere, the RSS feeds for the minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research via the Australian Government Media Announcements feed are particularly useless, so I used the feedback page to express my disappointment and hope that it might leed to improvements.
Text of my feedback to ministry.industry.gov.au is over the fold.

By Dave Bath | Also posted in industry.gov.au, minister.industry.gov.au | Comments (0)

A glimmer of hope - help if you can

2008-05-19 – 12:33:48

There is some encouraging feedback I received, within 24 hours (and only 3 working hours), from a public servant at egov.vic.gov.au, which has the task of improving "citizen access and transformation" to/of government.  My letter and the response are detailed over the fold.
My note to webmaster@egov.vic.gov.au was prompted by trying to search for an easy […]

By Dave Bath | Also posted in Agency Feedback, Editorial, Vic, egov.vic.gov.au | Comments (1)