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New Zealand government moves to encourage use of Creative Commons licensing for public sector data
Bycraigthomler 9 August 2010

New Zealand’s government has just launched a Creative Commons-based approach for the standardisation of the licensing of government copyright works for re-use. Named the New Zealand Government Open Access and Licensing framework (NZGOAL), the approach outlines the licensing government agencies should use when releasing copyright works and non-copyright material for re-use by third parties (preferablt…

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Engaging with and trusting citizens to participate in the democratic process leads to great rewards for the state
Bycraigthomler 22 July 2010

The title of this post reflects the key statement that stood out for me in the London.gov.uk blog’s post Economic benefits of data release This article puts some solid numbers behind the value of open data initiatives in government, from the US’s Apps for Democracy mash-up competition (50 entries in 30 days, valued at $2.5m…

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What’s been the impact of Victoria and NSW’s Gov 2.0 Apps competitions?
Bycraigthomler 14 July 2010

On 21 June Victoria announced the winners of its App My State competition, with prizes being given out by the Premier. A list of the winners and a video of the presentation is here. A few days later on 24 June NSW announced the winners of the Apps4NSW competition, with their own video. Most competitions…

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100 Ideas to Help Engage your Community Online – the book and the wiki
Bycraigthomler 7 July 2010

Bang the Table has released a fantastic little handbook for online community engagement. Titled 100 Ideas to Help Engage your Community Online the book provides 10 ideas in each of 10 topics. The book has been released under Creative Commons (BY) – allowing organisations to reuse, share and mash it up for their own needs…

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App My State a major Victorian Gov 2.0 success
Bycraigthomler 21 May 2010

Victoria’s App My State competition has now closed to entries, and has already been an enormous success for the Gov 2.0 efforts in that state. The competition attracted 171 entries, 75 applications and 96 ideas, over 12 weeks. Judging has now commenced – with the public able to vote for the ‘popular choice’ award and…

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Open government winners and losers
Bycraigthomler 22 April 2010

One of the trends with Government 2.0 is for jurisdictions to make more of their information available online in more readily accessible, machine readable and useful forms. We’ve seen the rise of data.gov, data.gov.uk and a host of open data sites for nations and states around the world. The latest addition has been the World…

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Australian public servants told three times – open (reusable) government data is important.
Bycraigthomler 29 March 2010

The Australian Public Service (APS) has now been told three times by three different reports in the last year about the importance of releasing much of its information openly to the community. This began with reforms to Freedom of Information which, once passed, will encourage a pro-disclosure environment within the APS and make it easier…

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Vote for your favourite NSW Apps – closes 22 March
Bycraigthomler 18 March 2010

Public voting is now open for Apps4NSW, but only until Monday 22 March. So if you wanted to check out and vote for applications submitted to the competition, go to the Apps4NSW public voting site. EDIT: Note that it was entries that closed 22 March. Public voting remains open until 9 April.

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Victoria launches App my State competition with $100,000 in prizes
Bycraigthomler 27 February 2010

The Gov 2.0 genie is well and truly out of its bottle in Victoria, with the Victorian Government recently advocating that the majority of Victorian public sector information be released for reuse under Creative Commons licensing. Their latest initiative is the App my State competition, which builds on the (currently running) Apps4NSW competition and last…

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What does the White Pages ruling mean for Australian government data?
Bycraigthomler 17 February 2010

There is a trend towards greater openness in the licensing of Australian government data. Queensland’s government a few years ago put in place a framework (GILF) for Creative Commons licensing and Victoria’s government recently committing to using Creative Commons as its default copyright licensing system. Some steps have taken place at a federal level, with…

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