http://wiki.katelundy.com.au/PublicSphere2

Not all data integrated yet, however a good starting point, and we’ll finish integrating all the Twitter feed, liveblogging and external blog ideas likely tomorrow. In the meantime, participants, speakers and the general public are encouraged to check it out, add their 2c, add links for evidence, case studies and blog posts, and generally help make this briefing paper a significant contribution to the new Government 2.0 Taskforce.

Related to Tim’s comment above, an obvious first step on the path toward Government 2.0 is to create a visualisation of what the government (in all its forms does).

Cheerio,
Cath

The City of Melbourne’s decision to use a wiki was initially driven by the desire to engage more closely with the residents and users of the city and to also utilise wider knowledge networks than ever before. The Future Melbourne model involved a wide array of authors from both within and outside the City of Melbourne who could each provide unique knowledge and ideas. The possibilities of the wiki technology allowed these authors to collaboratively develop the draft plan.

The decision to enable public editing flowed naturally after settling on the wiki platform. Directly and creatively engaging the city’s residents, workers, students and visitors in the plan’s development was an essential requirement driving the project’s success.

You can learn more about the project here: http://www.futuremelbourne.com.au

http://www.slideshare.net/purserj/ooog

And I’ve posted two posts about the Public Sphere here:

http://collaborynth.com.au/blog/A_Public_Sphere_Summary

and

http://collaborynth.com.au/blog/Further_Musings_On_Public_Sphere_2

I have posted my sides and a blog post about my presentation here:

http://tinyurl.com/lwx5e2

Cheers,

Michael.

In addition to this, the Task Force can ensure that when Australian Government funds are used to support activities including data collection by the states and territory’s as well as by non government agencies that the data is described in a standard way and also is provided back to the Australian Government. This is not always the case at present and much of this data could potentially be released to the community.