Yes, this newspaper article (it was also in the Sydney Morning Herald and probably other Fairfax outlets) is actually in response to this draft report: http://gov2.net.au/blog/2009/12/07/draftreport/ Several of the "friends of the family" of Wikimedia Australia are on the "government 2.0 taskforce" and their draft recommendations are very positive from the Free-culture point of view. For example, it advocates that all Public Sector Information (PSI) should be by default CreativeCommons-Attribution.
Another thing that is of interest (and something that Brianna has already blogged about here<http://brianna.modernthings.org/article/244/information-philanthropy>) is a section about "information philanthropy". It says that providers of such information (and I would count the Wikimedia community as such a service) should be given greater attention in the digital information economy and there should be a category in the charity legislation to account for these kinds of organisations. That recommendation does bode well for Wikimedia Australia. -Liam [[witty lama]] wittylama.com/blog Peace, love & metadata On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 5:04 AM, Andrew <orderinchao...@gmail.com> wrote: > > http://www.theage.com.au/technology/technology-news/yes-minister-tweeting-could-be-the-new-way-of-working-20091208-kfk3.html > > While I disagree with the premise of the article, there's a very > interesting side story, starting from the fifth paragraph, in there about > copyright over government information which should be of interest to > Wikimedia members and volunteers. > > cheers > Andrew > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaau-l mailing list > Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l > >
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