<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Hi Cameron,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I’ve read through the latest draft. It is looking good. Congratulations on your initiative.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">There are two aspects that are missing, that is:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">- supporting the governance frameworks that enable open data to work, particularly within the spatial data context (i.e. SDI). I’ve added relevant text below; and</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">- acknowledgement that by governments making data open for use by others, they are actually trying to collaborate. However, in the </div><div class=""> ever increasing search for efficiency dividends in government it is very hard to maintain the funding, skills and infrastructure to </div><div class=""> facilitate the provision of that open data. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I’m happy to sign the document. I’ll send you my details offline.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Page 2, Background Reasoning, 2017 Productivity Report’s claim that "<font face="Arial" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Australia, to its detriment, is not yet participating</span><span style="font-size: 14.666666984558105px; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">”</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">:</span></font></div><div class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><comment-BB></span></div><div class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">This is not true.</span></div><div class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Australia has been participating in international data framework initiatives and helping to define.</span></div><div class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">For many years, Australia has been a global leader, particularly in the development of a data framework that facilitated and encouraged the collaboration and sharing of data. This was the Australian Spatial Data Infrastructure (ASDI) that was developed by a collaboration of many State and Federal government departments and facilitated by the Australia New Zealand Land Information Council (ANZLIC).</span></div><div class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">This led to the creation of the federal Office of Spatial Data Policy (OSDP) (I think it was called) to act as a coordinating body.</span></div><div class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">The ASDI was developed concurrently with other international developments in Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDI) such as the European INSPIRE initiative and the US Federal </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Government Data Committee. For the decade up until about 2006, the ASDI was well regarded internationally as a leader in SDI concepts. You’ll see it cited in relevant SDI related research from around that time.</span></div><div class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Since then, funding for spatial data coordination has been wound back by successive governments, with the eventual dissolution of the OSDP.</span></div><div class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">There is currently an initiative under the proposed </span></div><div class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">SDI’s typically have a governance regime that facilitates open data and access to this data via the use of open spatial standards.</span></div><div class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">In the absence of strong policy support from government, various Australian Government departments have been continuing the open data and open access approaches established with the ASDI. However this is proving to be quite difficult in the absence of suitable funding to support coordination activities.</span></div><div class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Notable examples are Geoscience Australia and the Bureau of Meteorology. Both have also been working internationally to facilitate improved data interoperability within open standards bodies such as the Open Geospatial Consortium, the World Wide Web Consortium and the World Meteorological Organisation and the United Nations.</span></div><div class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">The results are a range of spatial data services that are used widely by many Federal and State Government departments and also widely in industry. </span></div><div class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Australia is also continuing the research work into SDI through the activities of the Cooperative Research Centre - Spatial Information [1].</span></div><div class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Work is also progressing to renovate the ASDI through initiatives such as: </span></div><div class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">- ANZLIC's 'Foundation Spatial Data Framework’ [2]</span></div><div class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">- '2026 Spatial Industry Transformation and Growth Agenda’ [3]</span></div><div class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">- National Environmental Infrastructure [4] and notably their National Principles for Environmental Information.</span></div><div class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">These activities will have a transformative affect on the availability of and access to Australian data and should be supported and funded appropriately.</span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">[1] <a href="http://www.crcsi.com.au/research/3-spatial-infrastructures/" class="">http://www.crcsi.com.au/research/3-spatial-infrastructures/</a> </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">[2] <a href="http://www.anzlic.gov.au/foundation-spatial-data-framework" class="">http://www.anzlic.gov.au/foundation-spatial-data-framework</a> </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">[3] <a href="https://2026agenda.com/" class="">https://2026agenda.com/</a> </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">[4] <a href="http://www.neii.gov.au/about" class="">http://www.neii.gov.au/about</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">[5] <a href="http://www.bom.gov.au/environment/doc/national-principles-for-environmental-information.pdf" class="">http://www.bom.gov.au/environment/doc/national-principles-for-environmental-information.pdf</a> </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""></comment-BB></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Kind regards,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Bruce</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 19 Mar 2018, at 22:24, Cameron Shorter <<a href="mailto:cameron.shorter@gmail.com" class="">cameron.shorter@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
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<div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" class=""><p class="">Folks,</p><p class="">An update on our suggestions for the next Open Government
National Action Plan:</p><p class="">* We've included review feedback from scores of people, and a
concise introduction, which starts:</p><p class=""><i class="">Government bodies are continually duplicating effort. Why? Old
acquisition processes have emphasised "value for money" and
"mitigation of risk". However, in the digital economy, success
indicators additionally include “effectiveness of
collaboration”, “sustainability in the face of rapid innovation”
and “resilience to monopolistic behaviours”. We need to consider
these new indicators in our future purchasing guidelines. <br class="">
</i></p><p class=""><i class="">...
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jNdh4_A_cIpaHqLRFOgpvAY3JSo0Ueraam39UHFOGHs/edit#">https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jNdh4_A_cIpaHqLRFOgpvAY3JSo0Ueraam39UHFOGHs/edit#</a></i><br class="">
</p><p class="">* We've incorporated feedback from ~ 20 people so far. If you
want review access, and to see review comments, please email me to
request it.<br class="">
</p><p class="">* We're looking for technically savvy people who understand and
believe that open government can collaborate better, to add their
signatures to add gravity to the letter. Ask me for document
access, or email me your name and big title for me to add for you.<br class="">
</p>
All the best,<br class="">
<br class="">
Cameron Shorter<br class="">
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 5/3/18 8:27 am, Cameron Shorter
wrote:<br class="">
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<blockquote type="cite" cite="mid:339ecfbb-402b-2498-c3e3-637099f7101d@gmail.com" class="">Folks,
<br class="">
<br class="">
Thanks to those of you who have reviewed the response to the
proposed Open Government National Action Plan. And I know a number
of you are planning to add more feedback this week. (In a
nutshell: The response explains Open Government needs to learn how
to collaborate as effectively as Open Source communities, and what
government needs to change to make this happen).
<br class="">
<br class="">
OSIA folks and Linux Australia Council, I'm formally requesting
that this letter be presented jointly by Open Source Industry
Australia (OSIA) and Linux Australia. What is involved in getting
this permission?
<br class="">
<br class="">
A status update:
<br class="">
<br class="">
* The Linux Journal has offered to publish a piece on this. I'll
be reaching out to other publications in the next couple of weeks
to invite them to publish too. (Suggestions of publications
welcomed).
<br class="">
<br class="">
* I've incorporated most changes suggested so far. I've had a
couple of people suggest a better introduction / exec summary -
which I'll be working on.
<br class="">
<br class="">
* I'm hoping to collate all preliminary feedback within the next 2
weeks (by ~ 16 March).
<br class="">
<br class="">
* Deadline for delivery of our response is 30 March.
<br class="">
<br class="">
Document is here:
<br class="">
<br class="">
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jNdh4_A_cIpaHqLRFOgpvAY3JSo0Ueraam39UHFOGHs/edit#">https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jNdh4_A_cIpaHqLRFOgpvAY3JSo0Ueraam39UHFOGHs/edit#</a>
<br class="">
<br class="">
Warm regards, Cameron
<br class="">
<br class="">
<br class="">
On 27/2/18 8:52 am, Cameron Shorter wrote:
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<blockquote type="cite" class="">The Australian Government has asked for
feedback on how they are going at Open Government, and I've
started a draft response. I'm really keen to make sure that this
response is well constructed because I think that if listened
to, understood, and acted upon, then we can make a huge
difference to the effectiveness of Open Government worldwide -
and by extension, to Open Source as well.
<br class="">
<br class="">
If you have a chance to read and provide review comments, I'd be
very grateful. Email me directly to get review access.
<br class="">
<br class="">
(It will take ~ 10 minutes to read. Longer if you take time to
think about how things should be reworded and consider what is
missing and should be included.)
<br class="">
<br class="">
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jNdh4_A_cIpaHqLRFOgpvAY3JSo0Ueraam39UHFOGHs/edit#heading=h.5zu4u4o3l7zi">https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jNdh4_A_cIpaHqLRFOgpvAY3JSo0Ueraam39UHFOGHs/edit#heading=h.5zu4u4o3l7zi</a>
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</blockquote>
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Cameron Shorter
Technology Demystifier, Learnosity
Open Technologies Consultant
M +61 (0) 419 142 254</pre>
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