[Aust-NZ] What Open Government can learn from us Open Source folks

Wed Mar 21 16:12:31 PDT 2018

Agreed Martin.

I have participated within the OGC Technical Committee as a voting member for many years, and have attended a number of TC meetings.

I’m well aware that there are a number of Australian organisations that are members of the OGC.

However, the most active Australian organisations that I’ve seen within the standards and domain working groups have been the Bureau, GA and CSIRO.

The comment was intended to be a concise statement showing that Australia is and has been participating within international fora developing data frameworks.

The comment was not intended to be a detailed description of the number of Australian organisations that are members of the OGC.

Kind regards,

Bruce

> On 22 Mar 2018, at 09:29, Martin Tomko <tomkom at unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
> 
> Just a quick comment:
> The OGC involvement is way broader than the one singled out in the article below.
> See the OGC membership ( search for Australia and Asia Pacific)
> Many of these have active participation in different aspects of the OGC.
> 
> Thanks,
> Martin
> ---
> 
>    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.
> 
>    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. 
> 
>    Australia is also continuing the research work into SDI through the activities of the Cooperative Research Centre - Spatial Information [1].
> 
>    Work is also progressing to renovate the ASDI through initiatives such as: 
> 
>    - ANZLIC's 'Foundation Spatial Data Framework’ [2]
> 
>    - '2026 Spatial Industry Transformation and Growth Agenda’ [3]
> 
>    - National Environmental Infrastructure [4] and notably their National Principles for Environmental Information.
> 
>    These activities will have a transformative affect on the availability of and access to Australian data and should be supported and funded appropriately.
> 
> 
> 
>    [1] http://www.crcsi.com.au/research/3-spatial-infrastructures/ 
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>    [2] http://www.anzlic.gov.au/foundation-spatial-data-framework 
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>    [3] https://2026agenda.com/ 
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>    [4] http://www.neii.gov.au/about
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>    [5] http://www.bom.gov.au/environment/doc/national-principles-for-environmental-information.pdf 
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> 
>    Kind regards,
> 
>    Bruce
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> On 19 Mar 2018, at 22:24, Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Folks,
>> 
>> An update on our suggestions for the next Open Government National Action Plan:
>> 
>> * We've included review feedback from scores of people, and a concise introduction, which starts:
>> 
>> 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. 
>> 
>> ... https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jNdh4_A_cIpaHqLRFOgpvAY3JSo0Ueraam39UHFOGHs/edit# <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jNdh4_A_cIpaHqLRFOgpvAY3JSo0Ueraam39UHFOGHs/edit#>
>> * 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.
>> * 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.
>> All the best,
>> 
>> Cameron Shorter
>> On 5/3/18 8:27 am, Cameron Shorter wrote:
>>> Folks, 
>>> 
>>> 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). 
>>> 
>>> 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? 
>>> 
>>> A status update: 
>>> 
>>> * 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). 
>>> 
>>> * 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. 
>>> 
>>> * I'm hoping to collate all preliminary feedback within the next 2 weeks (by ~ 16 March). 
>>> 
>>> * Deadline for delivery of our response is 30 March. 
>>> 
>>> Document is here: 
>>> 
>>> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jNdh4_A_cIpaHqLRFOgpvAY3JSo0Ueraam39UHFOGHs/edit# <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jNdh4_A_cIpaHqLRFOgpvAY3JSo0Ueraam39UHFOGHs/edit#> 
>>> 
>>> Warm regards, Cameron 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 27/2/18 8:52 am, Cameron Shorter wrote: 
>>>> 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. 
>>>> 
>>>> If you have a chance to read and provide review comments, I'd be very grateful. Email me directly to get review access. 
>>>> 
>>>> (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.) 
>>>> 
>>>> 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> 
>>>> 
>>> 
>> 
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