Open Government for Australia

Greetings from the opening of GovCamp 2012 in Canberra, where the Australian Information Commissioner is outlining the developments he sees:

1. Declaration of Open Government
2. Freedom of Information Reforms: Government information is a national resource for public purposes
3. Add "open and accountable" to public service principles:
4. Open Access Data list from AGIMO. This will include the FOI statistics.
5. AGIMO Guidelines for web pages

The commissioner noted that an application that uses open access data to show open government spending (OpenBudget) won a GovHack award on the weekend.

There is a live GovCamp webcast on the GovCamp home page.

GovHack in Canberra and Sydney Starting 1 June

GovHack is a free event in Canberra and Sydney, 1 to 3 June 2012, were web and application developers design and build open government applications.

1. Register
2. Locations
3. Schedule
4. Data & Competitions
5. Media

GovCamp Canberra 2012

GovCamp Canberra 2012 is a free one day event for the public sector, industry and academic, on innovation in government, 5 June 2012. The event will be opened by Professor John McMillan, Australian Information Commissioner.

1. About GovCamp?
2. Schedule
3. Who should attend?
4. Register Now
   
5. What to expect?
6. How will it work?
7. Some Reading on Innovation

GovCamp is one of a series of events, there is also:

• GovHack, 1 to 3 June 2012: Run in Canberra and Sydney, over 48 hours to create mashups, apps and data visualisations. This will be more technical and hands on than GovCamp, and is intended for public and private sectors and academia.
  
• GovJam, 6-7 June: For public servants on new ways to do service delivery and innovate in government. At multiple locations around Australia and the world.
  

ps: I am helping with the academic panel for GovCamp. For my own take on innovation, see: Building Arcadia: Emulating Cambridge's High Technology Success, Designing for Democratic Dialogue and Internet in Government.