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In addition to generating some high quality entries for MashupAustralia, GovHack also gave developers
the opportunity to interact with some of the public servants who manage the datasets, and it was clear
that there was much that these two communities can learn from each other.
In total over 82 entries were submitted for MashupAustralia, which is fantastic in a five-week timeframe
and well on par with other mashup contests globally.
7.4.3 Creative Commons
The taskforce licensed its blog and the comments it elicited, its issues paper, draft and final
reports under Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Australia (CC BY) licenses allowing free
distribution, reuse and transformation of our work.
7.5 Other forms of public consultation
A total of eight open public forums were held around Australia in August and September 2009.
The Open Forums were attended by over 250 people, with each event attended by the taskforce
Chair and at least one other Taskforce member.
In conjunction with the Open Forum events, the taskforce ran a series of roundtable events in
each capital city (with two held in Canberra). At each roundtable event individuals from the
public and private sectors were invited to meet with the taskforce Chair and other Taskforce
members to share their views on the issues and challenges of Government 2.0.
Additionally the taskforce invited other, more traditional submissions to the taskforce through
letters from the taskforce Chair to senior bureaucrats, government committees and Ministers
across Australian governments.
7.5.1 International Reference Group
The taskforce drew on the expertise of Web 2.0 practitioners who have successfully undertaken
similar work internationally by inviting key people to participate in an International Reference
Group (IRG).
IRG members were drawn from a range of sectors including government — from CIOs to
archivists, academia, private and not-for-profit sectors as well as bloggers and people making
innovative use of Web 2.0 platforms, coming from the UK, Europe, Canada, Singapore, the US
and New Zealand.
A list of the IRG members is available online. 311
7.5.2 Government 2.0 seed projects
The terms of reference stated that the taskforce should work with the public, private, cultural
and not-for-profit sectors to fund and develop seed projects that demonstrate the potential of
proactive information disclosure and digital engagement for government.
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