An overdue, but interesting, development announced yesterday by Special Minister of State, Gary Nairn:
BLOGGING is likely in future to become a valuable tool for government, federal Special Minister of State, Gary Nairn, told the CeBIT Australia event.
Speaking at CeBIT's e-government forum, Mr Nairn said Australians were becoming increasingly comfortable with accessing public services online, with more than 500,000 citizens accessing australia.gov.au per month."We think it will be about one in three Australians that access it within a couple of years," he said.
Mr Nairn flagged a future role for government services to make more use of community and interactive internet services features commonly known as Web 2.0.
In particularly, he said, blogging, could play a future role in citizen interaction with government.
"Blogs offer an area to get feedback from citizens and to debate issues in reasonable detail," Mr Nairn said.
"They can also lead to a new area of citizen interaction.
"For example, Australians in the city can learn more about life and challenges facing people in rural areas and the bush, and rural people can get more of an idea of the issues facing people in the cities."
Read more here (from Australian IT).
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