Australia’s Government 2.0 taskforce | Web Directions

• In: Blog
• By: John
• June 22, 2009

Via Slattery’s Watch, news of the just launched Australian Federal Government’s “Government 2.0 Taskforce”, which (a wordpress blog no less!). From the site:

Its work falls into two streams. The first relates to increasing the openness of government through making public sector information more widely available to promote transparency, innovation and value adding to government information.

The second stream is concerned with encouraging online engagement with the aim of drawing in the information, knowledge, perspectives, resources and even, where possible, the active collaboration of anyone wishing to contribute to public life.

Importantly, the Taskforce will not just provide advice. It will be able to fund initiatives and incentives which may achieve or demonstrate how to accomplish government 2.0 objectives.

We are hugely excited to see Web Directions speaker Seb Chan from the fantastic PowerHouse Museum as one of their advisors.

I do think we really all ought to retire the 2.0 addition to just about anything, it is beginning to sound a tad noughties, but this will be an interesting development to follow.

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