Tweetbits from FutureGov Congress Australia 2011

By Xinghui Guo | 13 September 2011 | Permanent link | 0 comments

If you’re sore about missing out on the presentations and interactive discussion tables (IDTs) happening at FutureGov Congress Australia 2011 in Canberra right now, fret not for Twitter is here with interesting snippets.

Day one of the conference opened well, with each IDT filled with 12 delegates to a table, and the newly introduced voting system proved to be an engaging feature.

As David Eade, Product Manager of Objective, tweeted early this morning: “Looking forward to hearing from @KateLundy and @DirDigEng at #FGCAus11 today…and then three more IDTs—exciting!”

While sitting in the Singapore office, I get real-time updates of what is happening at the conference to the minute. Thanks to Pia Waugh, Tech Advisor to Senator Kate Lundy, I know that two hours ago, Andrew Stott from the UK Transparency Board gave case studies on open data efforts and that one of them included savings in government procurement.

Waugh has also kindly shared an image of a graph Stott presented, showing the number of data sets UK has opened up to date; and I’ve already seen pictures of this morning’s panel discussion—no need to wait for the professional shots to arrive!

@davidjeade: panel discussion image - members from US, AU, UK and Austria. Great insight.

Apart from being a tool for information dissemination, Twitter at FutureGov Congress Australia 2011 also let delegates network and collaborate better. Like how Chris Moore, Chief Information Officer at the City of Edmonton, US, caught up with Waugh after Lundy’s talk this morning.

FutureGov has also managed to take in feedback—that Moore has met “incredible global Gov 2.0 leaders here in Australia at FutureGov Australia Congress”, that Lundy seemed “impressed with @FutureGovMag’s room layout”, and that Australia’s Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy (DBCDE) found the speaker line-up interesting.

While praise is always nice to hear, we’ve also taken in the negative feedback. Starting with the next FutureGov event, we’ll be setting a common hashtag so the bytes of information floating on Twitter can be aggregated for everyone’s ease.

For FutureGov Congress Australia, please use #FGCAus11.

Other interesting tweets include:
@Chrisj_moore: “‘Australia is at the forefront of Global Trends in Gov 2.0 @katelundy @futuregovmag’ I agree - they are leaders in our world #GOC”

@davidjeade: “Brenda Cooper—shared services pain has been business change management not technology. Required more people than thought.”

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