The Government 2.0 Public Sphere briefing paper was finalised on the wiki a week ago, and now we have launched the prettified pdf version, complete with graphs, photos from the day, and a useful mind map!
The briefing paper has been sent to the Australian Gov 2.0 Taskforce, and in the coming weeks we’ll coordinate a Q&A event for the taskforce so people can discuss specifics of the report, as well as to hand over the findings from the report recommendations endorsements.
All recommendations from the report have been put into an online endorsement system, primarily to ensure one last public quality assurance of the reports findings, and also potentially to assist in the prioritisation of the recommendations.
The briefing paper references the talks from the Public Sphere Camp, comments from the original topic blog post, liveblogging (by Craig Thomler, Des Walsh and Nathanael Boehm), and the #publicsphere Twitter stream. The wiki draft of the paper was open for public contributions between 30th June and 22nd July 2009.
- Public Sphere 2: Government 2.0 report
The endorsement system requires a login for transparency and accountability purposes, and is a beta system for Australian priority setting. We support the efforts of Australia 2 BETA, the Australian not-for-profit behind it, and thank the volunteers for setting us up a category for our event recommendations.
3 Comments
Reply | Subscribe
Senator Lundy, How long do you predict until Bills will be introduced into the senate that address some of the issues raised? (particularly any legislation that will force government agencies to put public sector information, that has no good reason not too, into the public domain or at least licensed in a way that allows reuse.)
Hi Andrew, just answering on behalf of Kate (if that’s ok
.
What we’ve done is a process that provides basically a wrapup of ideas and recommendations that is put through to actual legislators. It is only part of the solution we know. Ultimately we’d love to see the actual legislation drafting process opened up in a similar way, but Public Sphere is a step towards that. We think the next step it having Departments use this kind of process so the recommendations they put to Ministers (as is their job description) is as well informed and collaborative as possible. Not sure how many nor how long until any of our recommendations are implemented, but we will be watching closely, as will all the people who participated. The transparency doesn’t just help with the drafting process, but with the community expectations and the followup process.
Thanks for your thoughts.
Pia Waugh
Office of Senator Lundy
This is just so amazing. I am delighted to have been able to participate in such a terrific day’s event and even more delighted now see this document, with so many great ideas and resources. Congratulations to all who obviously worked very hard to put together the briefing paper.