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On Hackfest Brisbane and Open Data Competitions

By David Eade | Published: December 2, 2011
Last weekend saw the official launch of the hack::brisbane competition by the Lord Mayor of Brisbane, Graham Quirk during the one day Hackfest Brisbane mini competition. Both competitions are based on usage of the 50 recently released data sets from Brisbane City Council under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 (CC BY 3.0) open license.
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Two weeks. Three fabulous events.

By David Eade | Published: November 24, 2011
It’s been a big year for the Government 2.0 in Queensland Community of Practice (or gov2qld as we prefer to call it!). And we’re not done yet! It’s so exciting to see our community involved in three big events in Brisbane over the next two weeks. Whatever your particular interest area under the “Government 2.0″ [...]
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On Driving People to Online Consultations

By David Eade | Published: September 2, 2011
The trend in recent years towards online consultation with communities is clearly beneficial to the overall process of engaging communities for a number of reasons. it provides the potential for a wider range of opinions, experiences and ideas to be garnered It provides a platform for more efficient management of large scale consultation activities Its [...]
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On Beth Noveck’s Visit to Brisbane

By David Eade | Published: June 27, 2011
UPDATE: Unfortunately Beth Noveck has had to cancel this visit due to health reasons. We wish her a speedy recovery and look forward to seeing her here in Brisbane in the near future. Exciting to see that Professor Beth Noveck is visiting Brisbane on Monday 25th July and will be speaking at a free event [...]
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On a Single Web presence for Government

By David Eade | Published: May 24, 2011
After a great panel discussion on the legal aspects of Government 2.0 last month, this month we will focus our 'Government 2.0 Intensive Care' session on another hotly requested topic, that of a 'Single Web Experience for Government'. Once again we will have a facilitated panel discussion with plenty of opportunity to ask questions.
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On building a local Government 2.0 Community of Practice

By David Eade | Published: May 18, 2011
This month, the 'Government 2.0 in Queensland' (@gov2qld) community of practice will welcome its 300th member. Not a bad achievement since we only began this little venture six months or so ago. An idea spawned from a conversation between Amelia (@Emotivate) and I (@DavidJEade) lamenting the lack of a community for people in our State keen to share ideas, experiences and tools relating to this emerging trend.
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