Fwd: [cc-community] Oz Government 2.0 Taskforce final report
Everton Zanella Alvarenga
http://www.finance.gov.au/publications/gov20taskforcereport/index.html
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From: Jessica Coates <>
Date: 2010/1/7
Subject: [cc-community] Oz Government 2.0 Taskforce final report
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http://gov2.net.au/blog/2009/12/22/final-taskforce-report-released/
This is a bit belated, as it was released in 22 December – but I
thought people would be interested in the final report of the
Government 2.0 Taskforce established in June to advise the Australian
government on "increasing the openness of government through making
public sector information more widely available to promote
transparency, innovation and value adding to government information"
and "encouraging online engagement with the aim of drawing in the
information, knowledge, perspectives, resources and even, where
possible, the active collaboration of anyone wishing to contribute to
public life."
Key findings of the report - Engage: Getting on with Government 2.0 - include:
· “Government 2.0 or the use of the new collaborative tools
and approaches of Web 2.0 offers an unprecedented opportunity to
achieve more open, accountable, responsive and efficient government.
· Though it involves new technology, Government 2.0 is really
about a new approach to organising and governing. It will draw people
into a closer and more collaborative relationship with their
government. Australia has an opportunity to resume its leadership in
seizing these opportunities and capturing the resulting social and
economic benefits.
· Leadership, and policy and governance changes are needed to
shift public sector culture and practice to make government
information more accessible and usable, make government more
consultative, participatory and transparent, build a culture of online
innovation within Government, and to promote collaboration across
agencies.
…
· Information collected by or for the public sector — is a
national resource which should be managed for public purposes. That
means that we should reverse the current presumption that it is secret
unless there are good reasons for release and presume instead that it
should be freely available for anyone to use and transform unless
there are compelling privacy, confidentially or security
considerations.”
Most importantly from our point of view – the report (which is under a
BY licence) wholeheartedly endorses Creative Commons Attribution as
the default licence for government material.
Also of interest is the Appendix “Troubleshooting concerns about
Creative Commons licensing” which contains an excellent summary of,
and responses to, common concerns raised about using Creative Commons
in a government (and non-government) licensing context.
Hopefully this well researched and written report will lead to more
wholesale adoption of open government principles and Creative Commons
in Australia and internationally.
Jessica Coates
Project Manager
Creative Commons Clinic
Queensland University of Technology
ph: 07 3138 8301
fax: 07 3138 9395
email: j2.c...@qut.edu.au
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