Vics embrace Creative Commons for Gov 2.0

James Riley
Friday, 05 February 2010 13:38

IT Policy - Government Tech Policy

Victoria is set to become the first Australian state to make open access to public sector information (PSI) its default position as it moves to implement new Government 2.0 procedures throughout the public service.

Government expects that eventually about 85 per cent of State-generated information will be automatically available through Creative Commons licenses once the policy has been promulgated.

Innovation Minister Gavin Jennings said government had endorsed a committee's over-arching recommendations that the default position for the management of PSI should be open access.

The state would now start work on developing a whole of government 'Information Management Framework' by which public sector information is automatically licensed under Creative Commons licensing, with a more tailored set of licences to be developed for the more restricted materials.

Development of the information management framework would start this year.

The plans are similar to those of the Commonwealth's Gov 2.0 Taskforce, whose December report is currently being considered by Finance Minister Lindsay Tanner.