The document discusses improving access to and reuse of public sector information through removing barriers to information flow. It advocates for open access, open standards, open licensing and open business models to share knowledge. Several case studies are provided that highlight challenges around access to geospatial and transport data in Australia. The document argues for adopting open licensing frameworks like Creative Commons to enable greater reuse of public sector information.
Nigel Shadbolt- The challenges and transformational benefits of opening up data in a new world of transparency and future government policy.
Beyond 2010 Conference Keynote Address.
Hawke's Bay Open Data Conference - 2 May 2019enotsluap
Hawke's Bay Open Data Conference - 2 May 2019. Presentation on open data Policy, data available and innovative ways it is being reused. Also why the private sector could/should release data.
Canada’s Information Commissioners have adopted a resolution toward Open Government and part of the open government process is open access to public administrative, census, map and research data. A number of Canadian Cities, innovative government programs such as GeoConnections, forward thinking research funding such as International Polar Year have become OpenData cities, implemented data sharing infrastructures and fund data sharing science. Access to data are one part of the open government conversation, and it is argued that opendata bring us closer to more informed democratic deliberations on public policy.
A presentation given in the Finnish institute in London in "Digital Approaches to widening civic participation - cases Open Knwoledge and Digital Humanities"
Nigel Shadbolt- The challenges and transformational benefits of opening up data in a new world of transparency and future government policy.
Beyond 2010 Conference Keynote Address.
Hawke's Bay Open Data Conference - 2 May 2019enotsluap
Hawke's Bay Open Data Conference - 2 May 2019. Presentation on open data Policy, data available and innovative ways it is being reused. Also why the private sector could/should release data.
Canada’s Information Commissioners have adopted a resolution toward Open Government and part of the open government process is open access to public administrative, census, map and research data. A number of Canadian Cities, innovative government programs such as GeoConnections, forward thinking research funding such as International Polar Year have become OpenData cities, implemented data sharing infrastructures and fund data sharing science. Access to data are one part of the open government conversation, and it is argued that opendata bring us closer to more informed democratic deliberations on public policy.
A presentation given in the Finnish institute in London in "Digital Approaches to widening civic participation - cases Open Knwoledge and Digital Humanities"
CC and Government in Australia: Melbourne, 24 October 2013ccAustralia
"CC and Government in Australia", presented by Neale Hooper (Creative Commons Australia) in Melbourne on 24 October 2013. Slides prepared by Professor Anne Fitzgerald, QUT Law Faculty.
Online Public Consultation and Civic Engagementcherylh
Paper presented at: To blog or not blog? Government and Citizen e-Participation May 2009 - Learnings from Federal Government trials and international experiences, by Jim Macnamara, Professor of Public Communication and Director Australian Centre for Public Communication, University of Technology, Sydney. May 2009
Open Government has little meaning if not related to the citizens and businesses it serves. An Open Gov 101 is provided together with a current state summary of Open Gov. The core elements of Open Gov are discussed in terms of Citizen Engagement, Open Data, Collaboration and Innovation.
Municipal Open Gov Framework - Work in ProgressJury Konga
Introduces concept of OpenData.CA in the cloud and emphasized the need to Collaborate Now!. Presentation provides a current state of Gov 2.0 and describes considerations related to the components of a framework: Collaboration, Open Data, Organizational culture, policies and standards and technology.
Government 2.0 / Open Government Introductory Keynote at Pan European ePartic...Anke Domscheit-Berg
This is a presentation I held as keynote on Open Government / Government 2.0 at the Pan European eParticipation Summit (PepNet) at 23. Sept 2010 in Hamburg, Germany. The presentation is in English. The event hashtag was #pepsum.
Internet Governance and Open Government Data ccAustralia
Internet Governance of Open Government Data
Workshop 303
Internet Governance Forum
22 October 2013
Bali, Indonesia
22nd October 2013, Bali, Indonesia
Professor Anne Fitzgerald
Queensland University of Technology
Australia
Gov 2.0 and Open Data are gaining momentum around the world and there's a need to plan for it coming to your organization. With many opportunities for efficiencies and client engagement comes a number of challenges - including the need to plan for sustainability. A review of current state with numerous examples is also provided.
Using web platforms to promote transparency and strengthen land rightsIIED
Online databases are proving a useful tool for communities facing large-scale agricultural investments and associated conflicts, as a IIED webinar that took place in July 2016 discovered.
The webinar saw Wai Wai Lwin, founder of Open Data Myanmar, discuss how ODM uses web technology to share unbiased and verified data on land conflict to improve governance.
And Sam Szoke-Burke, legal researcher, Columbia Center for Sustainable Investment, discusses the Open Land Contracts database, containing publicly available investment contracts for large-scale projects.
For more information, visit: http://www.iied.org/using-online-technology-empower-communities-facing-land-deals
For more information on the Legal Tools for Citizen Empowerment initiative, visit: http://www.legal-tools.info
Digital transformation in the Spanish Government Miguel A. Amutio
Digital transformation in the Spanish Government. Understanding:
• Environment
• Digital Transformation
• Legal framework
• Cooperation and Governance
• Services
• Funding
• And Challenges Ahead
CC and Government in Australia: Melbourne, 24 October 2013ccAustralia
"CC and Government in Australia", presented by Neale Hooper (Creative Commons Australia) in Melbourne on 24 October 2013. Slides prepared by Professor Anne Fitzgerald, QUT Law Faculty.
Online Public Consultation and Civic Engagementcherylh
Paper presented at: To blog or not blog? Government and Citizen e-Participation May 2009 - Learnings from Federal Government trials and international experiences, by Jim Macnamara, Professor of Public Communication and Director Australian Centre for Public Communication, University of Technology, Sydney. May 2009
Open Government has little meaning if not related to the citizens and businesses it serves. An Open Gov 101 is provided together with a current state summary of Open Gov. The core elements of Open Gov are discussed in terms of Citizen Engagement, Open Data, Collaboration and Innovation.
Municipal Open Gov Framework - Work in ProgressJury Konga
Introduces concept of OpenData.CA in the cloud and emphasized the need to Collaborate Now!. Presentation provides a current state of Gov 2.0 and describes considerations related to the components of a framework: Collaboration, Open Data, Organizational culture, policies and standards and technology.
Government 2.0 / Open Government Introductory Keynote at Pan European ePartic...Anke Domscheit-Berg
This is a presentation I held as keynote on Open Government / Government 2.0 at the Pan European eParticipation Summit (PepNet) at 23. Sept 2010 in Hamburg, Germany. The presentation is in English. The event hashtag was #pepsum.
Internet Governance and Open Government Data ccAustralia
Internet Governance of Open Government Data
Workshop 303
Internet Governance Forum
22 October 2013
Bali, Indonesia
22nd October 2013, Bali, Indonesia
Professor Anne Fitzgerald
Queensland University of Technology
Australia
Gov 2.0 and Open Data are gaining momentum around the world and there's a need to plan for it coming to your organization. With many opportunities for efficiencies and client engagement comes a number of challenges - including the need to plan for sustainability. A review of current state with numerous examples is also provided.
Using web platforms to promote transparency and strengthen land rightsIIED
Online databases are proving a useful tool for communities facing large-scale agricultural investments and associated conflicts, as a IIED webinar that took place in July 2016 discovered.
The webinar saw Wai Wai Lwin, founder of Open Data Myanmar, discuss how ODM uses web technology to share unbiased and verified data on land conflict to improve governance.
And Sam Szoke-Burke, legal researcher, Columbia Center for Sustainable Investment, discusses the Open Land Contracts database, containing publicly available investment contracts for large-scale projects.
For more information, visit: http://www.iied.org/using-online-technology-empower-communities-facing-land-deals
For more information on the Legal Tools for Citizen Empowerment initiative, visit: http://www.legal-tools.info
Digital transformation in the Spanish Government Miguel A. Amutio
Digital transformation in the Spanish Government. Understanding:
• Environment
• Digital Transformation
• Legal framework
• Cooperation and Governance
• Services
• Funding
• And Challenges Ahead
Going Digital seminar, Hobart, Tasmania, 27 June 2014 - Dr Anne Fitzgerald: "...Anne Fitzgerald
Presentation "Challenges and Opportunities in the Digital Economy" by Dr Anne Fitzgerald at the "Going Digital - Law for the Digital Economy" seminar, in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia on 27 June 2014, covering legal challenges and opportunities in the digital economy.
Presentation on Open Data delivered by Paul Wilkinson at the COMIT Community Day held on September 8th at Hemel Hempstead, hosted by Sir Robert McAlpine
Creative Commons and Government in AustraliaccAustralia
"Creative Commons and Government in Australia", presented by Professor Anne Fitzgerald, seminar 4 of 4 in the Creative Commons and the Digital Economy series, 2012. For full details see event page at http://creativecommons.org.au/events/digitaleconomy
This talk reviews the foundations of Open Data and provides insight into the implementation and economic benefits by reviewing existing initiatives and lessons learned, as well as emerging models.
Creative Commons use by Government in Australia 2012ccAustralia
"Creative Commons use by Government in Australia (2012)", presented by Professor Anne Fitzgerald, at the Creative Commons Asia Pacific conference in Jakarta, Indonesia, 11 November 2012
Decarbonising Transport by 2050 – the view from governmentDecarboN8
DecarboN8 Future Transport Fuels Webinar Series
The second of a series of webinars brought to you by DecarboN8's Future Transport Fuels research theme. Intended for academics, students, policymakers, businesses, civil society and anyone interested in the decarbonisation of transport in the UK.
Decarbonising Transport by 2050 – the view from government
Professor Phil Blythe (Newcastle University) discusses the DfT’s activities on transport decarbonisation including the Transport Decarbonisation Plan, the Science Plan and the R&D required to deliver on the net-zero target, including the challenge in the context of the coronavirus outbreak.
About the speaker:
Professor Phil Blythe CEng FIET is Chief Scientific Adviser for the Department for Transport and Professor of Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) at Newcastle University. Prior to joining the Department for Transport he was Director of the Transport Operations Research Group for 13 years.
Phil’s academic focus has been the development of ITS – the use of information, communications and computing technology applied to transport. His research portfolio covers a wide range of areas where ITS has been applied to transport including: road to vehicle communications; road user charging systems; ITS for assistive mobility, smartcards and radio frequency identification (RFID), wireless / smartdust technologies, electromobility and future intelligent infrastructure.
His research is also forward-looking and attempts to bridge the technology-policy gap in terms of what technologies may evolve to meet future policy objectives or influence future policy thinking to meet the challenges.
Phil is Vice-President of the Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET), is a member of their Lectures Committee and supports the IET in the UK and abroad in areas such intelligent transport, connected and autonomous vehicles, electro-mobility and smart cities and on the Big Data / Internet of Things agendas. In March 2012 Phil was awarded the Reece-Hills Medal for a lifetime personal contribution to ITS.
Open Data and Transparency may be the most powerful levers of 21st century public policy. They present multiple opportunities offering benefit to the public sector, individuals, businesses and the UK as a whole. Open Data enables accountability; it improves outcomes and productivity in key services through informed comparison; it transforms social relationships – empowering individuals and communities; and it drives dynamic economic growth.
One story indicates how open data and transparency can help to transform a service: Five years ago, Sir Bruce Keogh, then a cardiac surgeon in Birmingham, convinced his fellow cardiac surgeons to publish their individual patient mortality rates. Five years later, death rates have fallen. Sir Keogh’s work demonstrates how transparency compliments the work of our public service professionals, improves public service quality and performance, and saves lives.
But making data open is not enough, we will also establish mechanisms to promote and collate feedback from those actually using the data. And we will use this feedback to improve our services and ensure they respond to real needs.
The UK Government new Transparency Strategy: “Making Open Data Real” was published on 4th August and is open for public consultation until 27 October 2011 at www.data.gov.uk/openda.... This, together with the UK’s existing strong record on Transparency and Open Data, means that our focus will fall on the Open Government Partnership grand challenges of:
* Improving Public Services; and
* More Effectively Managing Public Resources.
We will consult publicly on this country action plan primarily via existing fora, including the Public Sector Transparency Board; the Local Public Data Panel and the Transparency Sector Boards that are currently being established. These bodies already advise the Government on wider transparency and Open Data issues. In addition, we will also convene and consult with a wider group of stakeholders to consider the country plan specifically.
http://www.opengovpartnership.org/countries/united-kingdom
http://www.data.gov.uk/opendataconsultation
This paper describes the NHS National Innovation Centre's Linked Data initiative. A discussion on the OHIO (Open Health Innovation Ontology) is also provided.
Presentation given at the conference "open data for impact"
Erasmus+ project "Public Makers"
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/wide-luxembourg_opendata-publicmakers-activity-6818166878473596928-7ImU/
linux.conf.au 2017 keynote - choose your own adventure pleasePia Waugh
This speech was about understanding and addressing paradigm shifts in society and how we need to choose our own adventure, or risk recreating the past with shiny new things. Full speech is at http://pipka.org/2017/02/18/choose-your-own-adventure-keynote/
My slides for the talk I was giving for the leadership seminar that I ended up not being able to attend. The video is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5kVk0wLfL0&feature=youtu.be
Just a couple of supplementary slides I did for a conference on open data to support open cities. Was used alongside http://www.slideshare.net/greebo/australian-open-data-presentation-v20
Open data presentation on tools and automationPia Waugh
This is a short presentation about how to make your data lovely, including how to prioritise, clean, extract, transform and automate data publishing in your organisation.
Some slides about the state of open data in Australia. These are updated regularly so please keep an eye on this slideshare account for the latest slides.
State of the nation talk - opengov miniconf 2014Pia Waugh
These slides are meant as a resource for people to see a bit of information about the state of open government and data in Australia at the moment. It intentionally has a lot of words and is not my usual style for slides, but hopefully this makes it more useful for people given the rapid pace I speak at :)
role of women and girls in various terror groupssadiakorobi2
Women have three distinct types of involvement: direct involvement in terrorist acts; enabling of others to commit such acts; and facilitating the disengagement of others from violent or extremist groups.
‘वोटर्स विल मस्ट प्रीवेल’ (मतदाताओं को जीतना होगा) अभियान द्वारा जारी हेल्पलाइन नंबर, 4 जून को सुबह 7 बजे से दोपहर 12 बजे तक मतगणना प्रक्रिया में कहीं भी किसी भी तरह के उल्लंघन की रिपोर्ट करने के लिए खुला रहेगा।
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In a May 9, 2024 paper, Juri Opitz from the University of Zurich, along with Shira Wein and Nathan Schneider form Georgetown University, discussed the importance of linguistic expertise in natural language processing (NLP) in an era dominated by large language models (LLMs).
The authors explained that while machine translation (MT) previously relied heavily on linguists, the landscape has shifted. “Linguistics is no longer front and center in the way we build NLP systems,” they said. With the emergence of LLMs, which can generate fluent text without the need for specialized modules to handle grammar or semantic coherence, the need for linguistic expertise in NLP is being questioned.
हम आग्रह करते हैं कि जो भी सत्ता में आए, वह संविधान का पालन करे, उसकी रक्षा करे और उसे बनाए रखे।" प्रस्ताव में कुल तीन प्रमुख हस्तक्षेप और उनके तंत्र भी प्रस्तुत किए गए। पहला हस्तक्षेप स्वतंत्र मीडिया को प्रोत्साहित करके, वास्तविकता पर आधारित काउंटर नैरेटिव का निर्माण करके और सत्तारूढ़ सरकार द्वारा नियोजित मनोवैज्ञानिक हेरफेर की रणनीति का मुकाबला करके लोगों द्वारा निर्धारित कथा को बनाए रखना और उस पर कार्यकरना था।
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5. Implement- Key Elements
• Open Access - Administrative
• Open Standards (Code?) – Technical
• Open Licensing - Legal
• Open Innovation/Business Models -
Pricing
6. Technical Layer
“Today, government bodies consider their own Web sites to be a higher priority
than technical infrastructures that open up their data for others to use. We
argue that this understanding is a mistake. It would be preferable for
government to understand providing reusable data, rather than providing
Web sites, as the core of its online publishing responsibility…
…In order for public data to benefit from the same innovation and dynamism
that characterize private parties’ use of the Internet, the federal government
must reimagine its role as an information provider. Rather than struggling,
as it currently does, to design sites that meet each end-user need, it should
focus on creating a simple, reliable and publicly accessible infrastructure
that “exposes” the underlying data.”
(“Government Data and the Invisible Hand”, Robinson et al available from SSRN:
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1138083)
7. Economic Approach
• Price as close to zero as possible
Professor David Newbery et al, Models of Public Sector
Information Provision via Trading Funds, Cambridge
University, February 26, 2008;
8. OECD PSI Principles 2008
• Pricing. When public sector information is
not provided free of charge, pricing public
sector information transparently and
consistently ... Where possible, costs
charged to any user should not exceed
marginal costs of maintenance and
distribution ...
• www.oecd.org/dataoecd/0/27/40826024.pdf
9. Legal Solutions
Recommendation 7.8
Australian governments
should adopt international
standards of open
publishing as far as
possible. Material released
for public information by
Australian governments
should be released under a
creative commons licence.
10. Right to Information Act 2009 (Qld)
Preamble—
Parliament’s reasons for enacting this Act are—
1 Parliament recognises that in a free and democratic society—
[…]
(b) information under the government’s control is a public resource; and
[…]
(d) openness in government enhances the accountability of
government; and
(e) openness in government potentially increases the participation of
members of the community in democratic processes leading to
better informed decision making; and
[…]
(h) right to information legislation is only 1 of a number of measures
that should be adopted by government to increase the flow of
information that the government controls to the community.
11. Kim Carr, Speech launching the Review of the
National Innovation System Report (9/9/2008)
“Creative commons
The last big idea in the report I want to touch on is open access.
It is embodied in a series of recommendations aimed at unlocking public
information and content, including the results of publicly funded research.
The review panel recommends making this material available under a creative
commons licence through machine searchable repositories, especially for
scientific papers and data cultural agencies, collections and institutions,
which would be funded to reflect their role in innovation and the internet,
where it would be freely available to the world….
…Australia takes justifiable pride in the fact that it produces 3 per cent of the
world’s research papers with just 0.3 per cent of the world’s population, but
that still means 97 per cent of research papers are produced elsewhere.
We are and will remain a net importer of knowledge, so it is in our interest to
promote the freest possible flow of information domestically and globally.
The arguments for stepping out first on open access are the same as the
arguments for stepping out first on emissions trading – the more willing we
are to show leadership on this, we more chance we have of persuading
other countries to reciprocate.
And if we want the rest of the world to act, we have to do our bit at home.”
http://www.melbourne.org.au/media-centre/in-the-news/post/speech-by-senator-the-hon-kim-carr-review-of-the-
national-innovation-system-report-venturous-australia
12. CC Licensing
• The Ministry of Justice in the Government of Catalonia in Spain has explained their
adoption of CC in the following way:
“Nowadays the Internet is about sharing, co-producing, transforming and
personalizing to create new products and services. To create, it is necessary to be
able to make use of knowledge that already exists, without limits, and to share it
afterwards. This is the philosophy of innovation that is now all-pervasive thanks to the
democratization of technology. Creative Commons (CC) licenses are legal texts that
allow authors to hand over some rights of their work for the uses they deem
appropriate. So, these licences are an alternative for managing the author's copyright
in a more flexible way. As a public Administration, the Ministry of Justice has decided
to use CC licenses with the idea of turning over the knowledge created by the
organization to the public so that it can be re-used. In this regard, CC licenses have
been essential for this opening-up of knowledge. Thus, for each item of material or
work, the most suitable license is chosen and applied to both digital and paper
formats. The Ministry of Justice played a leading role by publishing in June 2007 the
Administration’s first general-content work to be subject to a CC license. From the
beginning, the Ministry has ensured that external authors of a work sign a cession of
rights contract in favour of the Ministry of Justice in order to allow the Ministry to
manage the author's copyright of the work appropriately through CC licenses.”[i]
[i] http://communia-project.eu/node/111
13. Australian Bureau of Statistics
In December 2008, the ABS
released all content on the ABS
website (other than logos and
other trade marked content) -
including all census data,
economy data, fact sheets,
analysis, press releases etc. - for
re-use under a Creative
Commons Attribution 2.5
Australia licence.
14. From the ABS website:
Creative Commons licensing is here!
The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has introduced Creative Commons (CC)
licensing for the bulk of the content on this website. This will lessen the restrictions on
the use of free data from the website considerably by changing the copyright from "all
rights reserved" to "some rights reserved". In effect, what the ABS is asking is only
that it be acknowledged as the source of the data. People are free to re-use, build
upon and distribute our data, even commercially. This makes a wealth of data readily
available to the community, researchers and business, facilitating innovative research
and development projects based on quality statistics, and promoting the wider use of
statistics in the community, which is one of our core objectives.
This step has followed a process of investigation and consultation with various
stakeholders including Commonwealth Government Agencies and the Creative
Commons community of interest. The change was achieved through the release of a
new copyright statement on 18 December 2008, and the addition of CC metadata to
the footer of each page of the website on 19 December 2008. A document entitled
Attributing material sourced from the ABS website is also provided.
http://www.abs.gov.au/websitedbs/D3310114.nsf/4a256353001af3ed4b2562bb00121564/8b2bdb
c1d45a10b1ca25751d000d9b03?opendocument?
15. Government Information Licensing
Framework (GILF) (Qld)
Stage 2 Report recommendations:
2.1 That the Queensland Government establish a policy position that, while ensuring that
confidential, security classified and private information collected and held by
government continues to be appropriately protected, enables greater use and re-use
of other publicly available government data and facilitates data-sharing
arrangements.
2.2 That the CC open content licensing model be adopted by the Queensland
Government to enable greater use of publicly available government data and to
support data-sharing arrangements.
2.5 That the Draft Government Information Licensing Framework toolkit, which
incorporates the six iCommons (Creative Commons Australia) licences, be endorsed
for use in pilot projects proposed for Stage 3, which involves Information Queensland,
the Department of Natural Resources and Water, the Environmental Protection
Agency, the Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries, the Office of Economic
and Statistical Research of Queensland Treasury and the Queensland Spatial
Information Council, enabling testing of the CC licences for multi-agency and whole-
of-Government arrangements.
http://www.gilf.gov.au/
16. Australia – Challenges
• Geospatial information
• Recent examples include:
– Access to Victorian fire data
– Use of NSW train timetables
17. Access to Victorian Fire Data
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/02/bushfires_in_victoria_australi.html
18. Google Maps
• Google was working with Country Fire Authority (which manages
fires on private lands) to overlay the Authority’s data onto Google
Maps to produce a real-time map of the locations of the Victorian
fires
• Google also wanted to plot fires on public lands
• This data was owned and controlled by the Victorian Department
of Sustainability and Environment
• Data is covered by Crown Copyright and permission is required
from the government before the data can be used
• Google was denied permission to the data and so could not plot
this data onto their fire map
“Vic Govt limited Google's bushfire map” David Braue, ZDNet.com.au
20. Subsequent collaboration
The Victorian Government and Google Australia came together to
develop the Victorian Bushfires Events map. This was not a map
tracking the actual bushfires, but rather gave Victorian citizens
information about where they could find events and fundraisers
supporting victims of the fires.
From the Google Australia Blog (posted 18/2/09):
You may have read the Victorian Premier's announcement - we're pleased to have developed the
Victorian Bushfire Events map for the Victorian Government. We worked with the Premier's staff to
get this up and running and hope that it's useful.
Any organisation can upload a bushfires-related event to this map - such as a fundraiser, gathering
or memorial service - by clicking on "Add a New Event". Anyone can see upcoming events in map
view, or in calendar view.
To embed this map on your website (as the Premier of Victoria has done), just copy this HTML code
and paste it on your site:
<iframe src="http://vicbushfireevents.appspot.com/" border="1"
align="left" frameborder="0" height="900" scrolling="no"
width="950"></iframe>
21.
22. 2009 Victorian Bushfires Royal Commission
From the Terms of Reference:
“AND WE direct you to make such recommendations arising out of your
enquiry as you consider appropriate, including recommendations
for governments, emergency services, other entities and the
community on:
[…]
10. Public communication and community advice systems and
strategies.”
(http://www.royalcommission.vic.gov.au/Assets/Royal_Commission_2009_Terms_of_Reference)
24. Use of NSW train timetable data
• Alvin Singh developed a popular iPhone app called “Transit Sydney”
(sold for $2.49)
• Transit Sydney provides a display like the one on the TV monitors in
train stations that shows the next trains coming past the platform. It
pulls timetable data from CityRail for display to people on the move.
• Singh received a cease and desist notice from Rail Corporation
NSW, the government body that administers Sydney's CityRail
network.
• RailCorp claimed that:
“RailCorp's primary concern is that our customers receive
accurate, up-to-date timetable information.
[…]
This includes details of service interruptions, special event
services, trackwork and other changes. Third-party RailCorp
timetable applications may contain inaccuracies and have the
potential to mislead our customers.”
25. Use of NSW train timetable data
On 9 March 2009, Asher Moses reported in the Sydney
Morning Herald that the NSW Premier, Nathan Rees, had
“indicated he would override RailCorp's decision and
force the bureaucracy to meet the mobile software
developers and work out a way they can use the
timetable data.
"I've asked [Transport] Minister [David] Campbell to
speak to RailCorp. They will meet with the app
developers to negotiate how to use the info accurately,"
Rees wrote.
Campbell this morning confirmed he had "asked
RailCorp to meet with these developers and see if they
can work together on a way forward".”
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2009/03/09/1236447097082.html
26. Finance Minister Lindsay Tanner
"The rise of internet-enabled peer production as a social force
necessitates a rethink about how policy and politics is done in
Australia," he said.
"In the longer term, governments will have to adapt to information's
new online centre of gravity.”
"This is not an undesirable thing; there are significant opportunities
for government to use peer production to consult, develop policy and
make closer connections with the citizens it serves."
Mr Tanner said the Government not only had to adapt to a world
moving online, but would have to do so at an ever-increasing pace.
"As a huge creator and manager of information with an obligation to
be open and transparent, we have little choice," he said.
http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,27574,24601440-15306,00.html
27. Access to PSI
• A key conclusion that emerges from much of the literature – and is
succinctly stated in the OECD PSI principles - is that, as a default
rule, public sector information should be made available through
technical formats and licences that promote access and reuse under
transparent and sensible pricing mechanisms
• PSI should be:
1) (subject to legal and any other appropriate considerations) made
public
2) priced as close as possible to zero
3) (copyright) licensed under generic/standard and Internet enabled
open content licences such as Creative Commons and
4) accessible in raw form and presented in reusable (and open)
technical formats
28. Policies and Principles on Access To and Reuse of Public
Sector Information: a review of the literature in Australia and
selected jurisdictions
Professor Anne Fitzgerald (2008)
The full economic, cultural and environmental value of information produced or
funded by the public sector can be realised through enabling greater access to
and reuse of the information. To do this effectively it is necessary to describe and
establish a policy framework that supports greater access and reuse among a
distributed, online network of information suppliers and users. The objective of the
literature review is to identify materials published in Australia and elsewhere
dealing with policies, principles and practices relating to access to and reuse of
public sector information.
http://www.aupsi.org/publications/reports.jsp
29. References
• B. Fitzgerald, A Fitzgerald et al Internet and E
Commerce Law (2007) – Chapter 4 – especially 260-269
• B Fitzgerald et al (eds) Open Content Licensing:
Cultivating the Creative Commons, (2007) Sydney
University Press, Sydney
• B Fitzgerald “Structuring Knowledge Through Open
Access: The Creative Commons Story” in C Kapitzke
and B Bruce (eds.) New Libraries and Knowledge
Spaces: Critical Perspectives on Information Education
(2005) Lawrence Erlbaum and Assoc. 271
• B Fitzgerald “The Role of Open Content Licences in
Building Open Communities: Creative Commons, GFDL
and Other Licences” (with N Suzor) in C Kapitzke (ed)
Rethinking Intellectual Property (2007) Sense Publishing
30. References
• 2005-2006 - Stage 2 Report of GILF Project – Access to
Government Information and OCL – An Access and Use Strategy
http://www.qsic.qld.gov.au/
• November 2006 – “Unlocking the Potential” E Bledsoe, J. Coates
and B Fitzgerald Unlocking the Potential Through Creative
Commons: an industry engagement and action agenda, August
2007
<http://creativecommons.org.au/unlockingthepotential>
• July 2007 – First National Summit – Qld Parliament House –
Conference Report on the Australian National Summit on OA to PSI
- http://www.qsic.qld.gov.au/
• March 2008 - Second National Summit
http://datasmart.oesr.qld.gov.au/Events/datasmart.nsf/0/D5A62A2C8FAA54
754A2573D40018342A?OpenDocument
http://www.osdm.gov.au/Events/182.aspx
31. References
• B Fitzgerald, F Goa, D O’Brien and S Shi (eds), Copyright, Digital
Content and the Internet in the Asia Pacific (2008) Sydney
University Press http://eprints.qut.edu.au
• B. Fitzgerald, “It’s vital to sort out the ownership of ideas” February
27, 2008, The Australian (Higher Education Supplement)
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23280526-
25192,00.html
• J Coates, N Suzor and A Fitzgerald Legal Aspects of Web 2.0
Activities (2007) http://creativecommons.org.au
• B Fitzgerald, “Copyright 2010: The Future of Copyright” [2008]
European Intellectual Property Review 43
http://eprints.qut.edu.au/archive/00013305
• B Fitzgerald (ed.) Legal Framework for e-Research: Realising the
Potential (2008) Sydney University Press http://eprints.qut.edu.au
• M Perry and B Fitzgerald (eds.) Knowledge Policy for the 21st
Century (2009) Irwin Law Canada (forthcoming)
32. Biography – Professor Brian Fitzgerald
BA (Griff) LLB (Hons) (QUT) BCL (Oxon.) LLM (Harv.) PhD (Griff) ,
Barrister of the High Court of AustraliaWebsite at:
http://www.law.qut.edu.au/staff/lsstaff/fitzgerald.jsp
Brian Fitzgerald is an internationally recognised scholar specialising
in Intellectual Property and Cyberlaw. He holds postgraduate degrees
in law from Oxford University and Harvard University and his recent
publications include Cyberlaw: Cases and Materials on the Internet,
Digital Intellectual Property and E Commerce (2002); Jurisdiction and
the Internet (2004); Intellectual Property in Principle (2004) and Internet
and Ecommerce Law (2007). From 1998-2002 Brian was Head of the
School of Law and Justice at Southern Cross University in New South
Wales, Australia and from January 2002 – January 2007 was Head of
the School of Law at QUT in Brisbane. He is currently a specialist
Research Professor in Intellectual Property and Innovation at QUT. He
is also a Barrister of the High Court of Australia.