[open-government] Open RFPs

Sat Jul 23 04:13:17 UTC 2011

An excellent tool for supporting decent RFPs is Richard Best's
RFPMIX[0]. Richard is a lawyer at NZ's Dept of Internal Affairs who is
heavily involved with the drafting of NZ GOAL and has also build
http://opendatastories.org

[0] http://rfpmix.info/

On 23 July 2011 09:10, Neil McEvoy <neil at mcevoy.biz> wrote:
>
> Hello folks
>
> I'm looking to understand how to best help government CIO's make other
> parts of their information open source, specifically their RFPs.
>
> It's not data or an API, it's simply the legalese text of contracts, but
> it's still a taxpayer-funded asset, so how might they achieve the same
> thing? Ie. enable it to be freely distributed and reused?
>
> Would they need to tie it to an open data type licence before they could
> do so? Could they reuse some of these?
>
> Any thoughts on how best to achieve this much appreciated,
>
> Cheers,
>
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> Neil McEvoy
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> Cloud Best Practices Network
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