Guest Post: Registrations now open for the 2011 Information Policy Conference
Professor John McMillan is the Australian Information Commissioner. This post originally appeared on the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner Blog.
The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) was established in November 2010 to spearhead open government reform in Australia. Our work rests on a simple statement: government information is a national resource of immense power and potential. Read more
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Guest post: Comment sought on draft public sector information licensing guidelines
Helen Daniels is Assistant Secretary of the Business Law Branch of the Attorney-General’s Department (AGD).
Following the Australian Government’s response to the Government 2.0 Taskforce in May 2010, AGD and other agencies have undertaken a range of work to encourage greater open access to public sector information (PSI) owned or generated by Government agencies. Read more
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Guest Post: Get ready for 1 May 2011 – the FOI Information Publication Scheme
This post is from the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC). The OAIC is working with AGIMO to develop accessibility advice for agencies for the Information Publication Scheme (IPS).
We hope this post will contribute to agencies’ understanding of how to comply with the accessibility requirements in the context of the IPS, and to help agencies get ready for 1 May 2011. Read more
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Guest post: Small agency mentoring — a mentee’s journey
Ewan Perrin is the chief information officer of the Australian Maritime Safety Authority. He participated in the Small Agency Mentoring Program, as discussed by Glenn Archer in a previous post.
Late last year a band of small agency CIOs commenced the second AGIMO-sponsored Small Agency Mentoring (SAM) program. This program pairs us up with experienced large agency CIOs and senior IT leaders as mentors. SAM wrapped up recently. This is the story of my journey. Read more
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Guest Post: IT Applications Service Provider Panel – Performance Framework
I’m Tania Walsh, IT Application Services Panel Project Manager for the Enterprise Applications Branch of the Australian Taxation Office (ATO). AGIMO has invited me to post as a guest blogger to seek your views and input on our ATO IT Apps Panel – Performance Framework.
We are seeking a broad range of Application professional IT Services across the ATO standard Operating Environment. These services particularly relate to development and support of applications. Read more
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Guest Post: Common Accessibility Fails
This post from Kim Chatterjee is the first in a series of Invited Guest Posts from our CoE members. We encourage everyone to get involved in the Community, so if you want to participate by writing a Guest Post and sharing your advice or views on accessibility, please let us know.
Accessibility in the online space is not just about whether a blind user with a screen reader can understand your website. It is about providing universal access and an effective user experience. This caters for the needs of people with hearing impairments, cognitive and motor impairments, but also caters for a much broader audience. It includes the guy who forgot to pack the mouse in his laptop bag and is keyboard-dependent, the lady who broke her glasses and squints an inch from the screen, the tourist who checks his online booking on his mobile, the potential international student trying to understand your instructions, and the kid who lives in rural Australia still waiting for your page to finish loading. Good accessibility = good usability. Read more
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Guest Post: Now for the main event – you!
Photo by Limbic used under Creative Commons
Dr Nicholas Gruen was chair of the Government 2.0 Taskforce.
Well, ladies and gentlemen, that’s about it from us. We laboured hard, but less long than some similar exercises and came up with a report of which I think we were all proud. Now, at least if I can speak for myself, I think the government response has shown that it was worthwhile. Very significant progress has been made in the government’s response to our report.
Though I must confess as an outsider, it seemed just plain commonsense, when we started the Taskforce almost no government documents had been licensed ‘creative commons’ (CC). Now the government has accepted our recommendation that CC be the default, and indeed that the default be one of the most permissive licences CC-BY which allows complete freedom to reproduce, and remix subject only to the acknowledgement of the original source. Read more
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