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NZGOAL Software Extension: Open sourcing the open source policy
Open Government Information and Data Programme
Introductions
Paul Stone Cam Findlay
Overview
Paul will cover:
NZGOAL framework Why add software into the mix? Why do things differently? Policy outcome and result
Cam will cover:
Open source tools we used Open sourcing public consultation What’s in the policy? Where we're at and what's next?
NZ Government Open Access and Licensing (NZGOAL) Framework
Guidance to publicly funded agencies on how to apply Creative Commons licences
to publicly funded information, data and content.
NZGOAL Software Extension
Guidance to publicly funded agencies on how to apply free and open source licences
to publicly funded software development
Why?
Ensure consistent best practice Potential for accelerated innovation Efficient improvement to government digital services Increase value from public investment in software
Walking the talk…
Open Source and Open Government
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Walking Open Government
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Walking Open Source
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Public participation and policy revision
Robust discussion Consensus building Transparent changes to policy Superior policy result
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Open sourcing policy creation
Open source tools
Loomio - Online consensus building discussion tool GitHub - Social coding platform Jekyll - Static website server and documentation generator Atom - Used to edit the policy wording Pandoc - Document conversion tool (command line) LibreOffice - Final document editing and PDF generation
Open source as a process
Robust collaboration process used in practice Code is computer instructions, policy is people instructions Can we apply open source process to public policy writing? Open Government Partnership & D5 Charter - transparency &
participation
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Set time frame for consultation
Calendar* by Dafne Cholet, CC-BY 2.0, https://www.flickr.com/photos/dafnecholet/5374200948
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2-way dialogue with participants
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Decision making and visible action
Dragon Con 2006 - Dice Wallpaper by Hillary, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://www.flickr.com/photos/lamenta3/2532597735
Policy co-creation
By the numbers
37 participants 16 topics 10 decisions
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In contrast
1 email submission
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What’s the 4 key policy sections?
Section 1 - Purpose, scope, definitions, licences Section 2 - Legal and policy context Section 3 - Policy principles Section 4 - Review and release process
Some interesting policy points
Helps licence if an agency choses to open source Adapted open source, use same licence (if possible) Balanced GPL/MIT for new open source Options for other licences Suggests version control and existing repos for release Contributions
Where we are at and what’s next?
Awaiting sign off Once approved will be published for use on ict.govt.nz Looking at further guidance notes to help agencies We end up with a single framework (NZGOAL) covering
information, content, data and software
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