[open-government] Government procurement (was Re: We've reached 500 members - what next?)

[Tim McNamara]

Ruairí-

I thought that this may be of interest to you. NetHui*, a large technology
conference being held in New Zealand at the same time as OKCon will be
spending some time discussing procurement[0]. If you would like to suggest
any background material for people attending the event, please add it to the
session's discussion forum[1]

NetHui will be quite a big event, with Lawrence Lessig and some other local
big hitters keynoting. We have a Parliament of 120 MPs, and 3 will be in
attendance including the Deputy PM.

Tim McNamara
Professional \\  paperlessprojects.com
Personal \\  @timClicks <http://twitter.com/timClicks>  |  timmcnamara.co.nz

* Hui is the Maori word for meeting.

[0]
http://nethui.org.nz/session-outlines/government-and-openness#government-procurement
[1]
http://nethui.org.nz/forum/government-and-openness/discuss-government-procurement


2011/6/3 Ruairí Macdonald <ruairi at luxred.com>

> Please don't forget government procurement data as an area of focus or
> subgroup.
> -Ruairi Macdonald
>
> 2011/6/2 Uhlir, Paul <PUhlir at nas.edu>
>
>>   This is good to know, Tim. Given the large list of no doubt
>> knowledgeable participants, I think that solicitation of ideas for goals,
>> activities and subgroups is a potentially useful exercise, if there is
>> enough time to manage new ones. Some obvious examples of possible topics
>> would be focusing on types of info (text, databases, statistics,
>> images/visualizations, audio, etc), info functions (e.g.,
>> citations/metadata/rights management, etc), sectors (e.g.,
>> geospatial/health/human rights, etc), or geographic (e.g.,
>> regions/countries). There may be problems with some (many) of these topics
>> and redundancies with other specialized groups, but it's worth exploring.
>>
>> Paul
>>
>>
>>
>> *Paul F. Uhlir, J.D.*
>>
>> Director, NRC Board on Research Data and Information, and
>>
>>   IAP Program on Digital Knowledge Resources and Infrastructure in
>> Developing Countries
>>
>> National Academy of Sciences, Keck-511
>>
>> 500 Fifth Street NW
>>
>> Washington, DC 20001
>>
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>>
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>> *From:* open-government-bounces at lists.okfn.org [
>> open-government-bounces at lists.okfn.org] On Behalf Of Tim McNamara [
>> paperless at timmcnamara.co.nz]
>> *Sent:* Wednesday, June 01, 2011 10:12 PM
>> *To:* open-government at lists.okfn.org
>> *Subject:* [open-government] We've reached 500 members - what next?
>>
>>   I've just checked this list's administration page, and the group's
>> membership count has reached 508. Amazing.
>>
>> I would like to make sure that we're ensuring people have options to
>> participate in activities other than communicating amongst each other.
>> Noting that we're the open government working group, let's make sure that if
>> there are people who would like jobs to do that they have an opportunity to
>> do so.
>>
>> Does anyone have any views on:
>>
>>  - what the goals of this community are or should be?
>>  - what kinds of activities we could or should undertake?
>>  - whether a smaller group should be formed from within this community to
>> do activities, and allow the mailing list to be for broader communication?
>>
>> I am very keen to host a teleconference over Skype for anyone interested.
>>
>>
>>
>> Tim McNamara
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>> timmcnamara.co.nz
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