Some quick questions and answers on open government for a general audience. Delivered at Sydney's Customs House Library on 16 May 2012.

1. Six basic questions on
open government...
... and hopefully, a few quick answers
Stephen Collins

2. Who?

3. All of us.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/joeshlabotnik/305410323/

4. The participant map.

5. What?

6. But wouldn’t this be
better?

7. And wouldn’t this be even
better?

8. And wouldn’t this be
better still?

9. When?

10. When they want to talk to
you.

11. Not this way.

12. Or this way.

13. Where?

14. Where they are.

15. That could be here.

16. Or here.

17. Just not this.

18. Why?

19. What government looks like from the outside

20. Not just to tick a box.

21. Build better evidence-
based policy

22. To create a social good.

23. How?

24. It looks like mistakes
could be made.

25. Seriously, just be human.

26. Nobody likes a faceless
bureaucrat.

27. Spectrum of participation.
Government 2.0 Taskforce Report, www.finance.gov.au/publications/gov20taskforcereport/

28. Take the brickbats. And
the bouquets.

29. The possibilities are
limitless.

30. License
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31. Stephen Collins
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