As mentioned in the previous CDCC post on this blog, the ACT Government Information Office is leading the Canberra Digital Community Connect project. This post is an update on how the project is going — but first, some background. The ACT Government has received three grants from The Department of Broadband, Communication and Digital Economy [continue reading…]
Hi there. I’m Pascal, and I am currently focusing on accessibility and document publishing with the GIO for the ACT government. I’ve been working on bringing a number of lengthier Word documents across to the Web, and I wanted to share with you some of my experiences in refining this process. A brief warning: this might be a bit of [continue reading…]
The governments in the ACT are blessed with superb optical fibre connectivity between the many government locations. I have described the ACT Government’s ACTGOV network as our own private NBN with virtually every school, clinic, government office and arboretum on a world class optical fibre network. There have been some excellent outcomes for the investment over the [continue reading…]
The ACT Government has been successful in acquiring approximately $1.3m funding from the Federal Government for a number of interrelated projects associated with the rollout of the NBN. In particular about a third of this funding is for the Canberra Digital Community Connect project. This will enable us to experiment with interactive community video forums online using [continue reading…]
Welcome to the new ACT GIO blog. I have launched this blog to coincide with and announce a couple of exciting new initiatives for the ACT Government, dataACT and Mobile Canberra. The purpose of this blog on an ongoing basis will be to report on progress and activities around open data and information management in the ACT [continue reading…]
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