Showing posts with label mashup. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mashup. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 08, 2014

The importance for government of respecting open source and open data copyrights

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An interesting situation has arisen in Italy, with the country's Agenzia delle Entrate, the Italian revenue service and taxation author...
Thursday, October 11, 2012

Don't forget to register for October's Canberra Gov 2.0 lunchtime thingy

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On the 18th of October is the next Canberra Gov 2.0 lunchtime thingy, with a focus on open data, data visualisation and new approaches to p...
Monday, May 28, 2012

Modelling open data - new visualisation from recently released BOM data

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The Bureau of Meteorology has released new data for reuse under Creative Commons licensing, ahead of the upcoming GovHack in Canberra ne...
Friday, March 11, 2011

Australian Government launches data.gov.au

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Joining the US, Canada, the UK, New Zealand and a host of other jurisdictions already leading the way around the world, the Australian Gover...
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Thursday, December 16, 2010

ABS launches CodePlay competition for tertiary students

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The ABS has launched the CodePlay initiative as a Gov 2.0 approach to help drive collaboration between students, developers and national and...
Wednesday, December 08, 2010

What Australian government data would you like to see online under an open reuse license?

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The NSW government has introduced a new service where people can provide suggestions on what government information they would like to acces...
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Wednesday, October 06, 2010

GovHack returns - as part of Amped

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Last year Australia's Gov 2.0 Taskforce initiated the GovHack event , produced by Web Directions , to showcase what could be done with o...
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Tuesday, September 28, 2010

LobbyLens seeking funding - open government outside the public sector

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I believe that one of the major shortcomings in Australia is the lack of financial support outside the public sector for open government ini...
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Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Disaster management using open source and social media

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Some of you may be aware of the Mercury 10 national counter-terrorism exercise currently being held in Australia, involving a variety of go...
Thursday, August 12, 2010

Targeting Gov 2.0 apps development - US government combating child obesity with Apps for Healthy Kids

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The mash-up (or Apps) competitions we've seen in Australia thus far have been broad and largely untargeted. Governments have released a...
Monday, August 09, 2010

New Zealand government moves to encourage use of Creative Commons licensing for public sector data

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New Zealand's government has just launched a Creative Commons-based approach for the standardisation of the licensing of government copy...
Friday, July 23, 2010

Engaging with and trusting citizens to participate in the democratic process leads to great rewards for the state

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The title of this post reflects the key statement that stood out for me in the London.gov.uk blog's post Economic benefits of data relea...
Thursday, July 15, 2010

What's been the impact of Victoria and NSW's Gov 2.0 Apps competitions?

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On 21 June Victoria announced the winners of its App My State competition , with prizes being given out by the Premier. A list of the winner...
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Thursday, July 08, 2010

100 Ideas to Help Engage your Community Online - the book and the wiki

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Bang the Table has released a fantastic little handbook for online community engagement. Titled 100 Ideas to Help Engage your Community On...
Saturday, May 22, 2010

App My State a major Victorian Gov 2.0 success

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Victoria's App My State competition has now closed to entries, and has already been an enormous success for the Gov 2.0 efforts in that...
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Thursday, April 22, 2010

Open government winners and losers

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One of the trends with Government 2.0 is for jurisdictions to make more of their information available online in more readily accessible, ma...
Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Australian public servants told three times - open (reusable) government data is important.

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The Australian Public Service (APS) has now been told three times by three different reports in the last year about the importance of releas...
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Friday, March 19, 2010

Vote for your favourite NSW Apps - closes 22 March

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Public voting is now open for Apps4NSW , but only until Monday 22 March. So if you wanted to check out and vote for applications submitted...
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Saturday, February 27, 2010

Victoria launches App my State competition with $100,000 in prizes

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The Gov 2.0 genie is well and truly out of its bottle in Victoria, with the Victorian Government recently advocating that the majority of Vi...
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Thursday, February 18, 2010

What does the White Pages ruling mean for Australian government data?

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There is a trend towards greater openness in the licensing of Australian government data. Queensland's government a few years ago put in...
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