Open data: OAIC publishes Freedom of Information stats
The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner has made Freedom of Information statistics available in a machine-readable format, the federal agency revealed today.
The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner has made Freedom of Information statistics available in a machine-readable format, the federal agency revealed today.
Open data and the market-driven uptake of advanced meters will help foster innovation in the sunshine state's electricity sector under a 30-year strategy released today by the Queensland government.
Advocacy group Choice has called on the federal government to introduce measures that would allow consumers to access that data that businesses hold about them in order to drive competition between service providers.
The New South Wales government has launched a new strategy to encourage the use by the public and private sectors of geospatial datasets created by government agencies.
The government’s push for more open data and transparency no doubt opens the doors for private sector organisations to be more innovative, but it doesn’t come without its challenges.
The Victorian government will spend $10,000 on a competition to spur creative use of the state government’s data.
Releasing more government data to the public is one way to spur growth in Australia’s startup sector, according to Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull.
State agencies will operate under a regime of "open by default" for data sets under a policy issued by the New South Wales government this morning.