Blue Sky Session


        Matthew Landauer
 www.OpenAustraliaFoundation.org.au

        @matthewlandauer
matthew@openaustraliafoundation.org.au
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country with problems
      like that?
The solutions we come
 up with are shaped by
the technology we have
     available to us
But things change...
The last 250 years
The last 250 years
What kind of democracy
 is possible with these
   new technologies?
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Opening government data
Federal
 NSW
Victoria
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Questions

Editor's Notes

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  • #3 We’re a charity (non-profit company limited by guarantee) - Deductibe Gift Recipient Status\n
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  • #8 1675 First road map of UK - London to Lands End made by John Ogilby (500 km)\nStage coaches (invented 1640) - over 1 week to travel - 1 week on horseback\n\n \n
  • #9 And I haven’t even mentioned that most people aren’t well educated or even literate\n
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  • #14 Of course the most important communication revolution. It’s the newest so we’re bound to think it’s the most important\n
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  • #16 These volumes are called the Hansard - the official record of the proceedings of parliament\n\n \n
  • #17 Started working on it in November 2007. Launched to the public in June 2008. Steadily adding new things since then.\n
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  • #22 We’d like to crowd-source the transcription of these documents. Some work has been done on that in our first Hackfest\n
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  • #25 You can also see one of the comments on this speech on the side\n
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  • #34 How to do it?\n\n \n
  • #35 The Federal government and NSW and Victorian government have run competitions to promote and make use of the data they have said to be opening up\nThis is how South Australia could do it better\n
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