Posts Tagged ‘new zealand’
I don’t care as as long as we beat New Zealand
Andrew Denton brought us that ironic song in 1992 to satirise one of the more depressing aspects of our occasional cringe factor as a nation. Having returned from there on my most recent trip, there are many reasons to feel envious of our cousins across the ditch but I’ll mention a nonprofit sector one here. While we as a nation have mucked around for years playing ‘will we-won’t we’ on some sort of industry regulator/support mechanism, the Kiwis have just got on and done it with their Charities Commission - Komihana Kaupapa Atawhai . Yes, it lacks perfection, like most things in life, and its progress has been slower than many had hoped. However, now they’ve broken the back of the major registration phase they are looking to do some very progressive things with that data and look at how they can support the sector more effectively. I know our Productivity Commission people have been over for a chat. Let’s hope they were listening well. After all, gee, if we can’t beat New Zealand ….
Me and you and Gov 2.0
There’s some potentially great work emanating from the Gov 2.0 Task Force .
According to its website:
“The Taskforce is made up of policy and technical experts and entrepreneurs from government, business, academia, and cultural institutions. Its work falls into two streams. The first relates to increasing the openness of government through making public sector information more widely available to promote transparency, innovation and value adding to government information. The second stream is concerned with encouraging online engagement with the aim of drawing in the information, knowledge, perspectives, resources and even, where possible, the active collaboration of anyone wishing to contribute to public life.Importantly, the Taskforce will not just provide advice. It will be able to fund initiatives and incentives which may achieve or demonstrate how to accomplish government 2.0 objectives.”
Disclosure statement: My organisation, Connecting Up Australia, may bid for projects within the fund initiatives and one of the Task Force members, Lisa Harvey, is a member of our Board.
