Lots of talk of late on Government 2.0, good friend Nick Cowie has a blog searching for examples of it, Stephen Collins is trying to rile it up, Matthew Hodgson muses over it and John Allsopp wonders if the future is now for some, there are blog posts all over the shop, lots of conference sessions even.
Now the Federal agency - Australian Communications and Media Authority has released a paper on the top six trends in technology, applications and services trends for the next five to 10 years. Now they suggest that Social Networking Sites (the core of Gov 2.0) :
I don’t usually get political on this blog. But an issue was been sneaked by the Australia public by the Federal Telecommunications Minister Stephen Conroy. Nice timing new year’s eve, when most people are not media focused.
Today it was reported on the ABC - Conroy announces mandatory internet filters to protect children. This is from the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy.
Senator Conroy says it will be mandatory for all internet service providers to provide clean feeds, or ISP filtering, to houses and schools that are free of pornography and inappropriate material.
