Information & Ethics committee  My apologies. I am not very tech-savvy, as you can see.

Information & Ethics committee  I'd love for you to look at the Australian government's Government 2.0 task force, and look at the recommendations they made and the way they tackled the problem. Actually, a fairly short and concise document that makes ten very clear recommendations would be very powerful. One o

Information & Ethics committee  If you want to do an e-consultation, that's great. My only advice to you, if you do an e-consultation, is to make sure that the input of the people you contact gets used in any document you create. The British did a big e-consultation about how to make government better. Hundre

Information & Ethics committee  I have a couple of thoughts. First, around open information and the division between the two, I think what the British have done is incredibly interesting. The British are now contemplating setting up a public data corporation that will house the regularly collected data that the

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you so much. I thank the committee for inviting me to come and speak with you today. I want to break down what I'm going to do to be as helpful as possible. I have three big chunks that I think I want to dive into. The first is that I want to just talk a little bit about

Information & Ethics committee  Sorry about that. That's a regular problem with me. I'd like to start by talking about the terms “open government” and “open data”, because I think there's a fair amount of confusion. I have noticed that this committee itself has been using those two terms almost interchangeabl