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  • From: Stephanie <stephanie.pietkiewicz AT xtra.co.nz>
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  • Subject: Re: [Cc-nz] cc-nz Digest, Vol 67, Issue 4
  • Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 07:28:57 +1200

Good Morning all,

You know that when Seth Godin blogs about open data and the freeflow of ideas the idea itself is going to become viral... thank you to all who helped New Zealand embrace a commons wealth of ideas:

When ideas become powerful

Why are we surprised that governments and organizations are lining up to control ideas and the way they spread?

When power resided in property, governments and corporations became focused on the ownership, regulation and control of property.

When power shifted to machines and interstate commerce, no surprise, the attention shifted as well.

Now, we see that the predictions have come true, and it's ideas and connections and permission and data that truly matter.

So gifted inventors shift gears and become patent trolls, suing instead of merely creating. So government agencies rush to turn off cell phone towers. So corporations work to extend and reinvent the very notion of copyright protection.

Here's what we ought to demand:

Are copyright rules being played with as a way to encourage creation of art (which was the original intent) or are they now a tool for maximizing corporate profit?

Are patents (particularly software patents) being used to encourage new inventions, or have they turned into a tax that all of us have to pay whenever we use a computer or a phone? (Hint: if you can draw your patent on an index card, it's an idea, not a patentable process worthy of protection).

Is disconnecting a cell phone or a social network any different from trashing a printing press?

When organizations seek to control widgets and hammers and land, it seems right--that property is clearly private, and sharing it doesn't scale. When two people both try to eat a marshmallow, there's less for both.

Controlling ideas and connections and data... that's a fundamentally different deal, partly because it's so personal (that idea in your head might or might not have been inspired by the idea I wrote down, but it feels wrong for me to tell you that you can't have your idea) and partly because in fact, shared ideas do scale, they don't usually diminish.

Ideas are going to continue to become more valuable, which means that the urge to control and patrol them is going to get greater.

  • Ideas that spread, win
  • Networks in which ideas flow are worth more than networks without
  • Great ideas are amplified when others build on them
  • Just because an idea spreads doesn't mean it's good for us
  • Locking down ideas makes them worth less
  • Those in power will try to keep outsiders from bringing new ideas forward
 

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  1. Re: Declaration on Open and Transparent Government (Brian Opie)

From: Brian Opie <Brian.Opie AT vuw.ac.nz>
Date: 18 August 2011 2:43:59 PM NZST
To: Creative Commons Aotearoa New Zealand discussion <cc-nz AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [Cc-nz] Declaration on Open and Transparent Government
Reply-To: Creative Commons Aotearoa New Zealand discussion <cc-nz AT lists.ibiblio.org>


Hi Jane

Congratulations on your role in this magnificent accomplishment.
Best wishes

Brian
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From: cc-nz-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org [cc-nz-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] on behalf of Jane Hornibrook [janehornibrook AT gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2011 8:23 PM
To: cc-nz
Subject: [Cc-nz] Declaration on Open and Transparent Government

Hi everyone

I've pasted a press release from the New Zealand Ministers of Finance and Internal Affairs below which introduces NZ's newly approved 'Declaration on Open and Transparent Government'. This is very exciting news for Creative Commons in NZ, since it's a strong top-down mandate for the uptake of the licences by government (with CC BY as the recommended default position when releasing content and data for re-use).

A enormous thanks and congratulations from CC New Zealand goes out to those within government and our open data communities who worked on the declaration and the principals (particularly Keitha Booth and Julian Carver), and to those who developed the NZGOAL framework which provides guidance for agencies in this area (particularly Richard Best).

Direct link to this work is at http://www.e.govt.nz/programme/opening-government-data-and-information/open-and-transparent-government

Best
- Jane


BEGINS

15 August 2011, by Hon Bill English<http://www.national.org.nz/MP.aspx?Id=22>, Hon Nathan Guy<http://www.national.org.nz/MP.aspx?Id=60>, Finance, Internal Affairs

The Government is encouraging state sector agencies to release more of their data online that has a high potential value to the public and the economy.

"Today the Government is releasing a declaration that clearly sets out our expectation that agencies should release all non-personal and unclassified data with high potential value for re-use," Finance Minister Bill English says.

"Improving online access to government data has many potential benefits. These include creating business opportunities and new services, increasing government accountability and improving policy development by encouraging greater external analysis and community engagement.

"Allowing research communities to reuse existing data for new purposes will also increase the value gained from state-funded research," Mr English says.

Examples of data being re-used include New Zealand Transport Agency data in third party websites and iPhone applications, and the use of land and geospatial information for a variety of third-party commercial applications.

"Over the past decade new technology has meant government data has gradually become more open," Internal Affairs Minister Nathan Guy says.

"However the release of data has been ad hoc and there has been no clear set of expectations. These steps build on New Zealand's long history of openness and recognise that this data effectively belongs to the public."

The Government has also updated principles for managing government-held data and information to include:

• Government data should be released proactively in accessible formats and licensed for re-use unless there are good reasons not to.
• Information should be well managed, trusted and authoritative.
• Data should be free, or where fees are necessary, reasonably priced.
• Personal and classified data or information will remain protected.

People can submit a request for currently unavailable high-value data they want to use at www.data.govt.nz<http://www.data.govt.nz/>. The site already holds about 1400 publicly available government data sets.

The declaration, principles and Cabinet paper are available at www.ict.govt.nz<http://www.ict.govt.nz/>.

ENDS



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