The Office of Australian Information Commissioner is hosting a blog from 8 February to discuss draft principles and issues concerning open government information. Before leaving Australia I said the Commissioner's issues paper setting out ten draft principles sounded pretty good to me. But not only should every agency have a senior information champion, the agency should have a plan on what it will do to promote and achieve more open access to information. And the Commissioner should establish how performance will be measured.
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Tuesday, February 08, 2011
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Hi Peter, thanks for the mention.
ReplyDeleteWe’ve recently put up a post on our blog about the potential role of the Information Publication Scheme in achieving open Public Sector Information, which relates to your comment on the need for agencies to plan how they’ll publish their information. We’d welcome your input if you’d like to add comments directly on our blog.