Engage: Getting on with Government 2.0

Die australische Government 2.0 Taskforce hat einen Report für die Regierung veröffentlicht: Engage: Getting on with Government 2.0. In den Kernpunkten werden Vorteile und Potentiale einer offenen und transparenten Regierung gelungen zusammengefasst. Die öffentliche Verwaltung soll verantwortlich, effizient und innovativ sein und mehr Interaktion, Partizipation und Kolaboration für die Bürger ermöglichen. Besonders erfreulich finde ich die Forderung nach einem Paradigmenwandel im Umgang mit den Daten der öffentlichen Verwaltung:

Informationen die von oder für die öffentliche Verwaltung zusammengestellt werden – sind eine nationale Ressource, die zum Wohle der Allgemeinheit verwaltet werden sollte. Das bedeutet, dass wir die derzeitige Annahme, dass diese Daten geheim sind, solange es keine guten Gründe für deren Freigabe gibt ändern müssen und stattdessen davon Ausgehen sollten, dass sie für jedermann frei verfügbar sein müssen, es sei denn, es gibt überzeugende Gründe, wie Privatsphäre, Vertraulichkeit oder Sicherheitsüberlegungen, die dafür sprechen sie geheim zu halten.

Den gesamten Report gibt es hier als PDF Dokument

Key points

• Government 2.0 or the use of the new collaborative tools and approaches of Web 2.0 offers an unprecedented opportunity to achieve more open, accountable, responsive and efficient government.
• Though it involves new technology, Government 2.0 is really about a new approach to organising and governing. It will draw people into a closer and more collaborative relationship with their government. Australia has an opportunity to resume its leadership in seizing these opportunities and capturing the resulting social and economic benefits.
• Leadership, and policy and governance changes are needed to shift public sector culture and practice to make government information more accessible and usable, make government more consultative, participatory and transparent, build a culture of online innovation within Government, and to promote collaboration across agencies.
• Government pervades some of the most important aspects of our lives.  Government 2.0 can harness the wealth of local and expert knowledge, ideas and enthusiasm of Australians to improve schools, hospitals, workplaces, to enrich our democracy and to improve its own policies, regulation and service delivery.
• Government 2.0 is a key means for renewing the public sector; offering new tools for public servants to engage and respond to the community; empower the enthusiastic, share ideas and further develop their expertise through networks of knowledge with fellow professionals and others. Together, public servants and interested communities can work to address complex policy and service delivery challenges.
• Information collected by or for the public sector — is a national resource which should be managed for public purposes. That means that we should reverse the current presumption that it is secret unless there are good reasons for release and presume instead that it should be freely available for anyone to use and transform unless there are compelling privacy, confidentially or security considerations.
• Government 2.0 will not be easy for it directly challenges some aspects of established policy and practice within government. Yet the changes to culture, practice and policy we envisage will ultimately advance the traditions of modern democratic government. Hence, there is a requirement for co-ordinated leadership, policy and culture change.
• Government 2.0 is central to the delivery of government reforms like promoting innovation; and making our public service the world’s best.

Government 2.0 Taskforce’s report and associated material is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Australia licence