Excellence in e-Government Award finalists announced
It's pretty exciting that these innovations are happening in government.... Here are the 10 finalists:
CDATA Online (Australian Bureau of Statistics)
Pre-filling of Income Tax Returns (Australian Tax Office)
Tax Office eLibrary (Australian Tax Office) - Intranet application only
Child Support Estimator (Child Support Agency)
Parliamentary Document Management System (Department of Employment, Education and Workplace Relations) - Intranet application only
Visa Wizard and the Citizenship Wizard (Department of Immigration and Citizenship)
eVisitor (Department of Immigration and Citizenship)
AusPat (IP Australia)
Northern Queensland Wildfire Mitigation Project (Tablelands Regional Council)
youthcentral (Victorian Department of Planning and Community Development)
I have only come into contact with a few of these, but they are great examples of how to streamline processes using new technologies.
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Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Monday, March 2, 2009
Executive renumeration Australia
I noted recently that Barack Obama was considering legislative action against company directors who are still taking huge executive salaries even while the government is bailing the business world out of trouble and employees are losing their jobs. I was wondering if Australia would follow and it appears that Kevin Rudd and Lindsay Tanner are considering something similar. Public opinion on this topic is pretty clear at the moment with the news that Sol Trujillo will leave Telstra and Australia $40million (untaxed), richer, as if he needed the money.
Mallensons Stephen Jaques has released Executive Remuneration: Guidelines and Developments - 19 February 2009.
Mallensons Stephen Jaques has released Executive Remuneration: Guidelines and Developments - 19 February 2009.
Friday, February 6, 2009
Executive salaries
How great is this?
President Obama wants to cap executive salaries at $500,000 for companies who take a bail out.
"We don't disparage wealth. We don't begrudge anybody for achieving success. And we believe that success should be rewarded," Obama said. "But what gets people upset — and rightfully so — are executives being rewarded for failure, especially when those rewards are subsidized by U.S. taxpayers."
Anyway you look at it, it just doesn't make sense paying an individual such outrageous salaries, regardless of the results they achieve. How can anyone in their right mind morally accept millions of dollars a year to run an organisation, especially in light of government bail outs and redundancies? If politicians are earning only hundreds of thousands to run our countries what is so special about corporations that they have to pay executives millions or billions?
Maybe the Australian government could follow his example.
I found this story on the Simple Justice blog and the comments made me smile, especially this one.
If the ostentatious show of wealth was a badge of honor before, the threadbare suit will be the indicia of fiscally-sensitive importance over the next few years.
I really hope so......
President Obama wants to cap executive salaries at $500,000 for companies who take a bail out.
"We don't disparage wealth. We don't begrudge anybody for achieving success. And we believe that success should be rewarded," Obama said. "But what gets people upset — and rightfully so — are executives being rewarded for failure, especially when those rewards are subsidized by U.S. taxpayers."
Anyway you look at it, it just doesn't make sense paying an individual such outrageous salaries, regardless of the results they achieve. How can anyone in their right mind morally accept millions of dollars a year to run an organisation, especially in light of government bail outs and redundancies? If politicians are earning only hundreds of thousands to run our countries what is so special about corporations that they have to pay executives millions or billions?
Maybe the Australian government could follow his example.
I found this story on the Simple Justice blog and the comments made me smile, especially this one.
If the ostentatious show of wealth was a badge of honor before, the threadbare suit will be the indicia of fiscally-sensitive importance over the next few years.
I really hope so......
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Power to the people?
Evidently there are high hopes for social networking in the future. I have recently come across two blogs discussing whether social networking may replace (respectively) lawyers and 'some government functions'.
1. This topic has also been raised by the Gartner group, releasing a press release stating, Gartner Says Citizen Social Networks Will Complement, and May Replace, Some Government Functions.
From eGov
2. Legal futurist Richard Susskind's sequel to his 1996 best-seller The Future of Law: Facing the Challenges of Information Technology (Oxford UP) will be published in December. The End of Lawyers? Rethinking the Nature of Legal Services (Oxford UP, December 2008) continues the author's focus on the effect of advances in information technology upon the law and legal practice, providing fresh perspectives and analysis of anticipated developments in the decade to come. In particular, he aims to explore the extent to which the role of the traditional lawyer can be sustained, in the face of the challenging trends in the legal marketplace and the new techniques and technologies for the delivery of legal services.
Among Suskind's predictions: (1) legal advice will be recycled by clients in social networking communities just like knowledge management recycles attorney work product internally and (2) client communities will push law firms to come together and form their own social networks to hold down costs by not reinventing the wheel.
From Law Librarian Blog
1. This topic has also been raised by the Gartner group, releasing a press release stating, Gartner Says Citizen Social Networks Will Complement, and May Replace, Some Government Functions.
From eGov
2. Legal futurist Richard Susskind's sequel to his 1996 best-seller The Future of Law: Facing the Challenges of Information Technology (Oxford UP) will be published in December. The End of Lawyers? Rethinking the Nature of Legal Services (Oxford UP, December 2008) continues the author's focus on the effect of advances in information technology upon the law and legal practice, providing fresh perspectives and analysis of anticipated developments in the decade to come. In particular, he aims to explore the extent to which the role of the traditional lawyer can be sustained, in the face of the challenging trends in the legal marketplace and the new techniques and technologies for the delivery of legal services.
Among Suskind's predictions: (1) legal advice will be recycled by clients in social networking communities just like knowledge management recycles attorney work product internally and (2) client communities will push law firms to come together and form their own social networks to hold down costs by not reinventing the wheel.
From Law Librarian Blog
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