Just in case you missed this the other week, on 21 January the UK launched the data.gov.uk website with 2,500 government datasets available for access and reuse by the public. This leapfrogged the US’s data.gov, which now has around 1,000 datasets available. The UK site also extends the government open data space in several other…
Mark Scott, the Managing Director of ABC, has written a very interesting piece in Unleashed about the future of ‘old media’ empires entitled, Media after Empire. While it’s not specifically about Government, I thought it had some very interesting comments about ’empires’ which resonate with some of the challenges that the public sector faces in…
Thanks to the eGovernment Resource Centre, I’ve become aware of the New Zealand Draft Open Access and Licensing Framework that was release late last month. Structured as a discussion paper, it sets out guidelines for the use of ‘no copyright’ and Creative Commons use across the NZ government to support the release and appropriate re-use…
Jeff Bullas has written a fantastic post, 28 Reasons Why The CEO Is Afraid Of Social Media, which lists many of the reasons given by organisations when resisting getting involved with online social media. While he’s followed up with another great post addressing many of these concerns, 9 Ways To Convince The CEO To Use…
It appears that the the Clerk of Queensland’s Parliament has barred OpenAustralia from republishing the state’s Hansard on a series of grounds, in a blow to OpenAustralia’s goal of making all of Australia’s parliamentary Hansard records available online in a searchable format. OpenAustralia has blogged about the matter, in the post, Queensland bars OpenAustralia from…
EDITED: Monday 9 June, 2009: The Open Government Public Sphere Camp has been renamed ‘Government 2.0 Public Sphere Camp’. This more effectively communicates the content and purpose of the event. Other details have not changed. The second of Senator Kate Lundy’s Public Sphere series has been combined with the Canberra BarCamp unorganisers’ Gov 2.0 concept…
NSW has been the scene of an interesting series of events over the last week regarding the right of iPhone developers to republish NSW Rail timetables in their applications. Covered in the Sydney Morning Herald articles, CityRail puts brakes on iPhone timetable app and How RailCorp’s derailing commuter ‘apps’, last week it emerged that NSW…
In a first for an Australian Commonwealth government agency, the ABS is set to release most of its website data under Creative Commons licensing on 18-19 December. Announced in their Website changes coming soon page, the ABS states, Creative Commons provides a spectrum of licensing for the use of intellectual property between full copyright and…
It has always struck me as a little contradictory that while one of the government’s primary goals is to build citizen awareness of various services, issues, initiatives and opportunities, at the same time many government communications and publications (than need to be) are protected under rigid copyright disclaimers. I’ve even seen situations where government agencies…
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