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Australian Government 2.0 Taskforce Draft Report

The Taskforce has released its draft report. Comments are due by 16 December 2009. The report is very detailed. A snapshot from the report states:

The invitation to "engage" is both a call to action and affirmation of the vision towards which that action leads. This is the promise of Government 2.0. "Engagement" is what Government 2.0 is all about:

• Easy to find re-useable public information is, at heart, an invitation to the wider community to engage innovate and create new public value with public sector information (PSI), which often sits underused or simply ignored in government agencies and data banks. As we have seen during our work, as people engage, possibilities – foreseeable and otherwise – are unlocked through the invention, creativity and hard work of citizens, business and community organisations. The government’s job is to liberate much more of its information as a key national asset.
• Public agencies and professional public servants are also invited to engage more energetically with the tools and capabilities of ‘collaborative web’ or Web 2.0. Everything, from enabling data to be re-used, to forming and participating in online communities in their areas of interest will help build a public service that is smarter, more responsive, more strategic and personally rewarding.
• Public agencies and their public servants increasingly associate good practice with deeper engagement with those outside the public service. As the new Australian Public Service Commission (APSC) guidelines make clear, Web 2.0 tools like blogs and wikis now provide unprecedented opportunities to take this much further. In the transition from traditional consultation towards true community collaboration engaging the community and the public service alike is key.  In this more open, connected and instinctively adaptive and innovative process, the motivation, interest and skills of all involved contributes to it success.
• Engagement between those in and outside the public service is constrained by the need for public servants to continue to be professional and apolitical. Creating the culture and practices that can seize the new opportunities but yet stay true to enduring public service values will not be easy.

We have little to lose, and much to gain from moving boldly in this direction. Ultimately, the invitation to engage is an invitation to get involved and get things done. This requires us to accelerate the policy, organisational and cultural changes needed so we can reap the rewards of Government 2.0

Engage: getting on with Government 2.0: Draft Report of the Government 2.0 Taskforce is available in pdf format (1138kb). (This document requires the use of Adobe Acrobat Reader). .

The report is also available in html format.

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