Talk given at the Office of the Australian Information Commisioner (OAIC) Information Contact Officer Network (ICON) meeting http://www.oaic.gov.au/about-us/working-with-others/information-contact-officer-network/icon-meeting-friday-6-december-2013

1. Open Government and
Right to Know
OAIC Information Contact
Officer Network
Matthew Landauer
Director & Founder
OpenAustralia Foundation
www.oaf.org.au

2. OpenAustralia
Planning Alerts
Election Leaflets
Right To Know

17. A SUGGESTION
• Include
the text of the decision letters directly in the email and
please avoid sending PDFs
• If
the document requested originally was in an electronic form
then send that. Please don’t print it out, scan it and send the
PDF of that.

18. AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT
WEB GUIDE
http://webguide.gov.au/
“PDF does not yet have approved Sufficient Techniques to
claim WCAG 2.0 conformance, so it cannot be ‘relied upon’ in
the provision of government information. At least one other
format must be provided with all PDF documents.”

27. •
Cohort 1 Countries - Brazil, Indonesia, Mexico, Norway, the Philippines, South Africa, United
Kingdom, United States
•
Cohort 2 Countries - Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Croatia,
Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Estonia, Georgia, Greece, Guatemala,
Honduras, Italy, Israel, Jordan, Kenya, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Montenegro,
Netherlands, Paraguay, Peru, Romania, Slovak Republic, Spain, South Korea, Sweden, Tanzania, Turkey,
Ukraine and Uruguay
•
Cohort 3 Countries - Argentina, Costa Rica, Finland, Ghana, Hungary, Liberia and Panama
•
Cohort 4 Countries - Australia, Ireland, Malawi, Mongolia, New Zealand, Sierra Leone, Serbia, and
Trinidad and Tobago
•
See more at: http://www.opengovpartnership.org/how-it-works/dates-and-deadlines

29. Civil Society Day - Regional discussion Asia

35. •
Open Contracting
•
Transparency and Healthcare
•
Safeguarding Civic Space
•
Fiscal Openness
•
Extractive Industries
Transparency
•
•
Transparency of Political
Finance
•
Tax Transparency
•
Whistleblower Protection
•
Aid Transparency
•
Opening Parliaments
•
Company Ownership
Transparency
•
Privacy and Mass Surveillance
Open Data
•
Legislative Openness
•
Land Transparency

36. Opening Parliaments - Strengthening Democracy

37. Government Open and Shut: Transparency,
Privacy and Mass Surveillance

38. AUSTRALIA
• 18 August
2011 - US Secretary of State invites Australia to
join in a letter to the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade*
• 22
May 2013 - Australian Government announces its intention
to join
• October
2013 - Responsibility for OGP moves from AG to
Finance (not official)
• By
31 December 2013 - Australia to send official letter of
intent to join
* https://www.righttoknow.org.au/request/the_open_government_partnership

39. ACTION PLAN

40. PARTNERSHIP

41. CO-CREATION

42. INDEPENDENT REVIEW
MECHANISM

43. PHOTO & VIDEO CREDITS
• Katherine
• UK
Szuminska
Cabinet Office
• Open
Government Partnership

44. QUESTIONS PLEASE!
(if we have time)