[OSGeo-Discuss] Looking for information about Open Data practices and how it help to foster collaboration. [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

[Bruce Bannerman]

IMO:

The Australian Federal Government's efforts currently appear to be focused on an initiative called 'Government 2.0'. See the blog at [1].


If you scroll down a bit you'll see a link to the final Taskforce Report.


Bruce Bannerman


[1] http://gov2.net.au/ 





 

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> [mailto:discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Bob Basques
> Sent: Saturday, 16 January 2010 8:12 AM
> To: discuss at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Looking for information about Open 
> Data practices and how it help to foster collaboration.
> 
> All, 
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> I'm putting together a proposal here at the City to open up 
> more of our datasets to the public.  We currently have about 
> 30 GIS data layers available to the public, <http://,>  with 
> ~170 layers that are not public.  While there are some layers 
> that won't be made available for security or licensing 
> issues, there are many that the owners of simply don't want 
> to make available. 
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> I'm looking for information to include in a short proposal 
> that might sway some of the folks sitting on datasets 
> internally to get them to publish the data to the masses and 
> need points of reasoning to point them at. 
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> 
> I already have some info related to general practices moving 
> towards this type of data availability, and some of the 
> recent threads on the OSGEO lists about data licensing would 
> likely come into play as well.   
> 
> 
> Thanks for any pointers on this. 
> 
> 
> bobb 
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