Gov 2.0 in Australia? Maybe in 5 years says ACMA

ACMA, the Australian Communications and Media Authority, have released a paper on the top six trends in technology, applications and services trends for the next five to 10 years:

  1. Accelerating pace of change
  2. Diversity in physical infrastruture
  3. Distributed connectivity
  4. Emerging content and network management technologies
  5. Web-based services and the emerging ’social web’
  6. Continuing scientific and technological innovation

ACMA suggests that social networking sites (SNS) “may evolve over the next 5 years to become integrated hubs for individuals, organisations and their extended networks to connect, communicate, access and share tailored news, information and entertainment”.

Is it the Australian government’s perception that social computing is 5 years away? It is a limiting perception that reflects the lack of of adoption of these tools for effective communication within and without the majority of government organisations.

John Allsopp comments that this forecast “roughly approximate[s] to what folks like those who attend our [Web Directions] conferences are doing right now“. Similarly, I wanted to throw something at ACMA crying to the heavens, “may evolve??!“.

As William Gibson said, “the future is already here, it’s just unevenly distributed.” [1]

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1. Wikipedia. http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Gibson#Attributed

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2 Responses to “Gov 2.0 in Australia? Maybe in 5 years says ACMA”

  1. westciv Says:
    27 May, 2008 at 2:39 pm | Reply

    As Mark Pesce has recently recounted, 5 years ago much of what we take for granted on the web didn’t even exist!

    http://blog.futurestreetconsulting.com/

    youtube, flickr and so on started less than 5 years ago. Not sure exactly when Facebook, Myspace and so on started, but virtually no one had heard of these then – in fact, the very first generation of Online Social Networks, like Friendster and Orkut were just starting to make waves.

    Goodness knows where we’ll be in 2013 – but there’ll be no “may” in it ;-)

  2. Man with no blog » Gov 2.0 or circa 1980 Says:
    29 May, 2008 at 12:39 am | Reply

    [...] 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 [...]

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