1. Government’s uses YouTube by Mohammed Nasir Uddin khan U3043318

2. About YouTube You tube is a video sharing platform were users can upload and share video clips on www.YouTube.com Invented by three former PayPal employees Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed karim, in Menlo Park(California). later on sold to the most popular search engine called Google for 1.65 billion dollars (Jakubowicz 2009)

3. Videos Uploading Survey DescriptionRange The number of videos serve a day 1 Billion The number of videos viewed per month on YouTube in US (NOV 2009) 12.2 Billion The number of videos viewed in Hulu (US) 924 million The percentage shows the users view videos on YouTube 82% Market shares on YouTube 39.9% The percentage of uploaded videos on blogs on YouTube 81.9% (Pingdom 2010)

4. YouTube Statistics DescriptionRanges The one of the largest site on the world of Internet 4 The largest media or video site on the web 1 Number of visitors in a month 100 million Online video streaming a month 40% Worldwide visitors 5Billion /300 Million Average of videos uploaded every minute 15 Hours (Culture 2009)

5. Draw Backs of using online media (II 2010)The Online data storage is used as an short-term to purchasing local storage space, such as hard drives or removable media like CDs and DVDs. It looks easy Downloading information to a website, rather than installing a hard drive or constantly changing removable media, can seem more convenient, Cost Loss of Service

6. Platform Terms of use (TOU) (YouTube 2010)The platform users are essential go into a terms of use agreement with the platform provider. Every platforms has a Term of Use (TOU) governing between the platform provider and platform user. “ YouTube operates a clear copyright policy in relation to any Content alleged to infringe the copyright of a third party. Details of that policy can be found here.” The link below show that the terms of use: http://au.youtube.com/t/copyright_notice. (YouTube 2010)

7. Government’s involvement in social media (Agarwal 2007)The Government of India has launched an official youtube video channel. The Ministry of Tourism’s adopts a youTube channel to demonstrate the wonders of India to the entire world. This youTube channel is used to host videos to promoting Indian culture, tradition and documentaries celebrating the 150 years of Indian Freedom. (Press 2010)The British Columbia government also uses YouTube channel to share and distribute information among the residents. The British Columbia government has also posted the several videos from 2010 games events including Olympic torch festivals throughout the province

8. List of Different departments using YouTube channel Departments using YouTube Links US Environmental Protection Agency YouTube Channel http://www.youtube.com/USEPAgov White House government YouTube Channel http://www.youtube.com/whitehouse Federal Emergency Management Administration government http://www.youtube.com/FEMA U.S. Department of Education YouTube channel http://www.youtube.com/FederalStudentAid (Jamaica 2009)

9. The Department of Immigration and Citizenship’s (DIAC) uses online media sharing channel called Immitv (Australia 2010)“YouTube is proving a successful tool to reach asylum seekers’ families and friends in Australia to highlight the grim realities and risks in engaging with people smugglers ”.

10. What is ImmiTV (Tay 2010)The Department of Immigration and Citizenship’s (DIAC) ImmiTV channel focuses on the job carried out by staff and focus on the events celebrated around the Australia such as Harmony Day, Refugee Week, Volunteers Week.

11. Awards for excellence in ICT The Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC) won the award of excellence on the VISA and Citizenship. (moveforward 2010)

12. Types of videos shared on Immitv Types of videos sharedPositive/Negative/ Informative No of comments The people who intend to lodge their visa through the agent the applicant doesn’t know weather the agent is registered or not. Result loose of money, rejection on visa. Negative3 The video states that International Medical Graduates (IMG) provide a lot benefits to the Australian health system Informative4 This video states that the applicant can check the changes on Australia's Skilled Occupation List. Positive 0 These videos include important information for people should know about Australian visas. This includes information about applying for the right type. Informative8

14. Privacy rights Account Comments and Discussions (inQbation n.d)

15. Terms of Use Obtain legal review Use general information Sign-up using Government negotiated Terms of Use

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