On 04/05/16 17:00, Marghanita da Cruz wrote:
... I welcome this:

... private and research sectors to share valuable public data
for the benefit of the Australian public ...

Angus Taylor MP, Assistant Minister to the Prime Minister for Cities and Digital Transformation, emphasized the importance of government releasing raw data for the research and private sector to use in his talk Wednesday night at Parliament House.

I was supposed to be on a panel after, but the Minister was so entertaining that we just kept asking him questions instead. He is the author of "The Promise of Digital Government", published 1 April 2016 (but is not a spoof). This is, ironically, is not available free on-line, but there is an Amazon preview: http://blog.tomw.net.au/2016/05/promise-of-digital-government.html

ps: More on the budget and IT: http://blog.tomw.net.au/2016/05/it-matters-of-interest-in-20162017.html


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