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News and thinking about digital democracy

Australian privacy laws to be tightened in reforms

Posted on May 4, 2012 by Craig Thomler

The Attorney-General of Australia, Nicola Roxon, has announced that Australia’s privacy laws are to be strengthened to “better protect people’s personal information, simplify credit reporting arrangements and give new enforcement powers to the Privacy Commissioner.” From the Attorney-General’s media release, … Continue reading →

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Good news on IE6: government usage plummets in 2012

Posted on May 3, 2012 by JessN

Almost a year ago, we published some interesting browser statistics based on the logs from one of our Central Government Citizen Space servers.  We ran the logs through a piece of open source analysis software called Visitors, and this gave … Continue reading →

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Delib Australia Managing Director the guest on #GovChat this week

Posted on May 3, 2012 by Craig Thomler

This week Delib’s own Craig Thomler is the special guest on #GovChat, a Canadian operated weekly Twitter chat through PSLeader, featuring high profile public service and thought leaders from around the world. The chat starts at 8:00PM Eastern time on … Continue reading →

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Adventures in Victoria – Gov 2.0 presentation to WebNetwork

Posted on May 1, 2012 by Craig Thomler

While Chris was enjoying his afternoon on the Mornington Peninsula, I was finalising my slides for a presentation to the Victorian WebNetwork in Melbourne for the next day. The talk was held at the Municipal Association of Victoria’s offices in … Continue reading →

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Adventures in Victoria – Mornington Peninsula

Posted on April 30, 2012 by ChrisQ

When I’m travelling around the world on one of our Delib Tours I’m like a dog, obediently following the directions of my colleagues and going wherever I’m told. What this means is that I normally don’t know where I’m going, … Continue reading →

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Testing Delib’s new Perth office(s)

Posted on April 21, 2012 by ChrisQ

Technically Delib Australia’s head office is in Canberra – as this is where Craig, our new Delib Australia MD is based.   However, as a software company with clients across the country our *HQ* is pretty much wherever does a … Continue reading →

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A mini unconference – some thoughts from the first BlueLightCamp

Posted on April 20, 2012 by RowenaF

Having attended my first ‘unconference‘ back in January, in the form of UK GovCamp, the prospect of attending a smaller, emergency services focused event seemed exciting and timely. The day proved interesting and varied, with 5 different sessions and a … Continue reading →

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Social Media in the Public Sector: Who’s Using it and How?

Posted on April 13, 2012 by JoannaH

A couple of interesting stories caught my eye today relating to the use of social media in the public sector, which I thought I’d share: How Local Authorities in England Are Using Social Media Dean Spurrell from Ashford Borough Council … Continue reading →

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Complete Streets – 2 Weeks of Canadian Crowd-Sourcing

Posted on April 3, 2012 by BenF

At Delib we love a good planning project, especially one from from across the pond.  It’s often the case that US and Canadian government are enthused to try something slightly different when consulting their stakeholders.  It was with interest therefore … Continue reading →

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