Dear Slawer-friends –
The Ottawa Citizen (main newspaper of Canada’s National Capital Region) featured today a full two page story [1] in the tech weekly section, written by Peter Hum, on Government 2.0 Think Tank [2] (“G2TT”), a private association dedicated to open source government. This marks the official launch of G2TT. More information on the association can be found in the G2TT Charter [3].
Aside from the interesting aspects of implementing web 2.0 in governments, I suspect that Slawers may be interested by one of the challenges identified in the first G2TT project – Project Eureka [4]: Uninformed Copyright. By uninformed copyright, I mean the automatic “all rights reservered” that comes with information created by public servants (except in the US [5]). By promoting awareness to the fact that licensing alternatives are possible, such as licensing through creative commons licenses [6], information created by governments ought to flow back more easily back to taxpayers, whenever needed.