[LINK] Tanner eyes web 2.0 tools

[Tom Worthington]

At 08:53 AM 5/11/2008, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote:
>Tanner eyes web 2.0 tools Karen Dearne November 04, 2008 The 
>Australian IT 
>http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,24601440-15306,00.html

Minister Tanner's Australian Government Information Management Office 
released a carefully researched report on using the web for public 
consultation in June 2008: "Consulting with Government - online" 
<http://finance.gov.au/publications/consulting-with-government-online/>.

The report got it right: "... overwhelming support for the concept of 
a Government consultation blog and discussion forum. ... However, 
when it came to actually participating in a Government forum, there 
was evidence to suggest that people who are not already engaged in 
online and political discussions would not actually participate.  ...".

Unfortunately AGIMO released the report as 2.3 MB PDF and 138 KB RTF 
files, which does not help participation. There is no easy to read 
web version, thus reducing the credibility of much of what the report 
said. Making the public download megabytes of PDF is not a way to 
foster consultation.



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