The Australian 2.0 Taskforce’s draft report, ‘Engage: getting on with Government 2.0′, makes bold recommendations aimed at making “government not just more open and democratic, not just more consultative, but also a truer collaboration between the apparatus of the state and its citizens”.
It suggests that the USA, UK and NZ are leading the ‘transition towards Government 2.0′ [...]
Today the State Services Commission is releasing the draft New Zealand Government Open Access and Licensing framework (NZGOAL) (HTML with comments). This document provides guidance for State Services agencies on:
open access to non-copyright information; and
open licensing of copyright works,
in both cases with a view to allowing their re-use by others. (It does not apply to [...]
As many readers of this blog will know, SSC has been pursuing various work-streams under the rubric of the Open Government Information and Data Re-use work Project. It is continuing to do so in collaboration with, among others, the ICT Group at the Department of Internal Affairs (DIA).
One of the many issues we’ve encountered along [...]
Way back in April I wrote about how I’d been involved in user-testing for NZ On Screen. The site is now live, so you can go and experience it for yourself (although I’m pretty sure that watching entire episodes of Eating Media Lunch while at work might be stretching the idea of blogging (and interacting [...]
One of the issues raised during the development of this blog was whether to have Staff Contribution Guidelines. Without the need for any protracted discussion, we decided that having such Guidelines in place prior to launch was desirable. Accordingly, draft Guidelines were prepared by the SSC legal team with reference to:
the Standards of Integrity and [...]
