New South Wales (NSW) Government to legislate to open up data for scrutiny

[1] The NSW Government has signaled its plans to bring in strong legislation to require government agencies to share real-time data with its new, whole-of-government Data Analytics Centre (DAC).

[2] The revelations were made by the NSW Minister for Innovation, Victor Dominello, while presenting his keynote Address on ‘Data Driven Innovation’ at the IFIP World Computer Congress 2015 in Korea on Tuesday.

[3] Dominello said that he is determined to leverage open data to “drive transparency, improve decision-making and accelerate positive change”.

Visual concept of an internet connected laptop with server rack background doing virtually sophisticated data processing calculation.

 

[Source] Australian Information Technology News – New South Wales (NSW) Government to legislate to open up data for scrutiny