Showing posts with label FOI. Show all posts
Showing posts with label FOI. Show all posts
Friday, April 15, 2016

Senior public servants need counselling, not coddling if they fear to provide frank and fearless advice under the public's gaze

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This week several of Australia’s highest ranking public servants, including the Secretary of Prime Minister and Cabinet and the head of th...
Tuesday, July 28, 2015

The uneasy relationship between Freedom of Information and open data

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 Freedom of Information (FOI) has always been a tricky area for governments, a delicate balance between accountability and exposure, with s...
Friday, July 12, 2013

Will the Australian Government take an open government approach to developing its Open Government National Action Plan?

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Now that Australia has finally sent a letter of intent to join the Open Government Partnership , I've been reading examples of how othe...
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Freedom of information advocacy: a global snapshot, from Open & Shut

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I've had no time to blog this week due to family commitments, however thought it worth drawing attention to Peter Timmins' fascinat...
Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Open Australia launches 'Right to Know' FOI request site

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The process of requesting documents from the government, though enshrined in Australian law, can be difficult for many people - taking sign...
Monday, November 19, 2012

But we're the experts! Why the 'internal expert' democratic governance model is gradually failing and what can be done about it.

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Most public sector agencies are designed as centres of expertise on policy and service delivery. By gathering, or training, experts in a...
Tuesday, November 06, 2012

OpenAustralia Hack(s)fest on FOI - for hackers, media, activists & FOI gurus

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The OpenAustralia Foundation will be holding the first Australian Hack(s)fest as part of the countdown to the launch of their new FOI assis...
Monday, October 29, 2012

Why do agencies struggle with FOI and open data so much?

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The linked email conversation (in a blog post), Freedom of Information Request for Classification Data , provides an interesting insight in...
Monday, August 06, 2012

Is the Australian Government really slow to update staff to modern web browsers?

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One of the concerns I faced when working in government, and that I know many other people faced as well, was the currency of the web ...
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Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Standardising content across government (or why does every agency have a different privacy policy?)

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Every government website serves a different purpose and a different audience, however there are also standard content every site must have ...
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Friday, March 09, 2012

The challenge of using Freedom of Information for good

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I'm a big supporter of Freedom of Information (FOI) laws and the rights of citizens to access information from their government to bett...
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Wednesday, March 07, 2012

The elephant in the room

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In case you've not read it yet, Steve Davies wrote an interesting piece on the government's grapple to adapt to and adopt Gov 2.0 th...
Saturday, February 04, 2012

How easy is it really to source information from Australian governments?

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On behalf of a friend I've been looking into the contact information for Freedom of Information (FOI) requests across Australia's C...
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