About a month ago I blogged about the Victorian Parliament’s Inquiry into Improving Access to Public Sector Information and Data.
Submissions to the Inquiry are now available online.
I’m reasonably pleased with the Melbourne University document (PDF 1.2 Mb). M’colleague Sally and I were able to gather some useful input from well-informed people on very short notice — observe, if you will, the lengthy list of acknowledgements at the back of the document.
More than one of the contributors raised a wry grin when I told them we couldn’t publish the University’s submission on the University’s web site — we were obliged by the Inquiry’s terms of reference to wait until the official version was published on the Parliament web site. (This was an inquiry about access to *public* information, after all!)
Tags: public data, governance, open access, public sector information, yes minister, public policy