Innovation (new posts)

Creating Innovative Councils: Re: Creating Innovative Councils

Mon, 17 Sep 2012 00:21:07 +0000

Thanks for the post Peter, and welcome to the site.

I mentioned Tristop on the Vertical Footpath Joint Displacement page eariler this year.

Looking forward to seeing the photos.

Regards,

Wayne Eddy

Creating Innovative Councils: Re: Creating Innovative Councils

Sat, 15 Sep 2012 23:24:25 +0000

I have just joined this site and make my 1st forum post. I will post some footpath photos with TripStop installed soon. We have been selling our product TripStop see www.tripstop.net since 2003 to Councils who are Innovative in that they wanted a viable and long term solution to displaced footpaths. To date we have not recorded a single failure at any TripStop joint where TripStop was installed correctly as per our Installation guide. Installing TripStop is easy and similar to installing Key joints except easier. Our longest known site backed with a testimonial [on our website] from the City of Bayside, Victoria was installed in 2003 and continues to protect today Sept 2012. The short version is Bayside used to replace 3 panels of concrete every 13 months at this site. 9 years in all have elapsed with zero maintenance saving ar 7 life cycles that 3 slabs x 7 cycles = 21 slabs at ar $200 a pop = $4200 for a cost of ar $80 for the TripStop. We have another site in the city of Knox which was built in the early 1980s and had some TripStops installed in 2005 which we will publish a real life case study very soon. Bottom line on this is ar 10% of the original slabs are still there after only 32 years. Knox asset life is 50 years. If the site had TripStop installed [i.e. Knox specified it at no cost to Knox they would have inherited a maintenance free footpath. ar 90% replaced early at a cost of ar $180 a pop. TripStop wasn’t invented until 2000 so Knox couldn’t have done it but they can now and so can every Council. For example the city of Sutherland NSW specify TripStop for all new sub-divisions.

Local Open Government Innovation Summit: Re: Local Open Government Innovation Summit

Mon, 19 Sep 2011 10:50:35 +0000

Ashish
Sorry for the delay but delve into the site and look at;
Presentations and you will see what went on.
I was there coordinating, so can give you more information if required.
Darron Passlow

Local Open Government Innovation Summit: Re: Local Open Government Innovation Summit

Wed, 15 Jun 2011 01:19:54 +0000

Hi,

Would one of those who attended this share the briefing notes or meeting minutes ?

Regards,
Ashish

Local Open Government Innovation Summit: Local Open Government Innovation Summit

Tue, 03 May 2011 10:53:18 +0000

Local Open Government Innovation Summit

The first Australian Local Open Government Summit is now scheduled for the 18th May 2011.
Shoalhaven City Council has shown the initiative and drive to get this meeting (summit) together.
It is primarily a local event to education council employees and the community on the benefits of Open Government. However, other surrounding councils have been invited to join in this entrepreneurial activity.
The organisers are happy to have any interested person attend this Australian first. The more the merrier.
You can see what is planned at;
http://opengovinitiative.wikidot.com/summit-agenda
You can attend by registering at the site or the address in the Nowra Summit flier
OR
Follow what happens and the outcomes at the above site.

Creating Innovative Councils: Re: Creating Innovative Councils

Sun, 30 Jan 2011 23:48:38 +0000

Wayne
Have reviewed the Taskforce list and 2 comments;
1 Now aging information (Taskforce closed down). Most post 1 year old.
2 Very few ideas at local government level (but did see LGAM got a guernsey)

Perhaps we need something newer and more relevant.

Take the Local Open Government Initiative (out of the US).
This is worth our thoughts and deliberations.

Local Open Government Directive

Creating Innovative Councils: Re: Creating Innovative Councils

Wed, 03 Nov 2010 20:34:19 +0000

A list of positive suggestions about how to make Local Government better would be an excellent resource.

I think it would be a good idea to seed the list with a few existing ideas before asking the public to contribute new ones.

Perhaps reviewing the Gov 2.0 Taskforce Ideascale page to try and identify ideas relevant to Local Government might be worthwhile.

http://gov2taskforce.ideascale.com/

Creating Innovative Councils: Creating Innovative Councils

Tue, 02 Nov 2010 22:57:44 +0000

Creating Innovative Councils

Councils (and council employees) are facing an ever increasing number of demands.
Councils are being asked to do more with less.
There are more requests for increased services (increased expenditure), while the income stream is under pressure.
There is acknowledgement now in local government that adequate funding is not available to refurbish aging infrastructure.
A new model is required.
We need to get our heads together with our communities and come up with "good ideas" to address the issues.
We then need to move the "best" ideas into practical solutions that benefit councils and their communities.

This is what "innovation" is about.
Councils need to become more innovative.
A wiki has been set up to gather comments, ideas and thoughts on Councils moving forward with Innovation.

Go to the site and have a look, make a comment or add an idea. We need your help.

http://innovativecouncil.wikidot.com/