IMO: The Australian Federal Government's efforts currently appear to be focused on an initiative called 'Government 2.0'. See the blog at [1].
If you scroll down a bit you'll see a link to the final Taskforce Report. Bruce Bannerman [1] http://gov2.net.au/ > -----Original Message----- > From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org > [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Bob Basques > Sent: Saturday, 16 January 2010 8:12 AM > To: discuss@lists.osgeo.org > Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Looking for information about Open > Data practices and how it help to foster collaboration. > > All, > > > I'm putting together a proposal here at the City to open up > more of our datasets to the public. We currently have about > 30 GIS data layers available to the public, <http://,> with > ~170 layers that are not public. While there are some layers > that won't be made available for security or licensing > issues, there are many that the owners of simply don't want > to make available. > > > I'm looking for information to include in a short proposal > that might sway some of the folks sitting on datasets > internally to get them to publish the data to the masses and > need points of reasoning to point them at. > > > I already have some info related to general practices moving > towards this type of data availability, and some of the > recent threads on the OSGEO lists about data licensing would > likely come into play as well. > > > Thanks for any pointers on this. > > > bobb > > > > > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss