The Department of Health broke the law when it published datasets containing a billion lines of historical health data relating to around three million Australians in 2016, says Australian Information Commissioner and Privacy Commissioner, Timothy Pilgrim.
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.
For the last year or so governments have increased efforts to become more transparent by making information available about their agency decisions and operations, have increased public participation in government, and initiated plans and deployed nascent endeavors to collaborate and cooperate across all levels of government to better serve their constituents.
The United States Government has open sourced the IT Dashboard project, a Web-based application designed to track IT spending used by CIOs of government agencies.
Outgoing Finance minister, Lindsay Tanner, has followed through on the Government 2.0 Taskforce’s recommendation to make a declaration of open government.