What are Australia’s most transparent companies? Who is at the forefront of open dialogue with their customers?

This is an open post to call for nominations of companies, brands, organisations that are investing in an open culture to acknowledge them and try to learn from them.

Transparency will be rated on the following:
* transparent communications between customers and staff
* corporate governance and shareholder transparency
* collaborative projects with a community
* open source product or service
* sharing of intellectual assets under creative commons or other copyright agreements.

I will update this post on the fly, so please post your suggestions at the bottom of the post and I will then add them to the official post.

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Alternative sources of funding for start up business

29 March 2009

Alternative sources of venture capital for start up businesses such as P2P Banking, crowd sourced funding and industry sponsored prizes.

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Wikimedia Australia submission to the DBCDE Future Directions consultation paper

28 February 2009

The main points put forward by WMAU in the paper are:
* open access to public sector information
* developing Australia’s knowledge and skills base, and
* ensuring Australia’s regulatory framework enables the digital economy.

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How elastic are iPhone applications?

25 February 2009

Time for some economics (don’t all cheer at once, yes I’m talking to you lot at the back wearing tweed sport coats).

Using price elasticity of demand (PED) we can calculate the likelihood of change in demand for iPhone application downloads as a result of a change in price for that download. Why should we do [...]

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ABC starts opening up content under creative commons

17 February 2009

I received an email this evening from a member of WikiMedia Australia with some exciting news about where content on the ABC is beginning to head.
In a first for the ABC, their collaborative Pool project will be releasing content under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial license. Why is this exciting? Why should you care?

Creative Commons [...]

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Rudd Government fails to reform Freedom of Information

10 February 2009

A disappointing annual report on the Freedom of Information Act 1982 (FOI Act) was released with little fanfare last week by Special Minister of State Senator John Faulkner for the 2007-2008 financial year. This report accounts for two-thirds of the Rudd Government and one-third of the Howard Government.
Prior to the 2007 Federal Election the ALP [...]

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Facebook Connect - Sharing content behaviour with your network

8 February 2009

This morning I added Facebook Connect plugin to this blog in a quest to make OpenPolitik more accessble and open to more users and networks.
I am using a plugin built by Spanish social media developers Socialable and is likely to take some tweaks to get right.
My main priorities for adding this plugin are:
1. [...]

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Google Trends analysis of the Federal Government versus Global Financial Crisis

5 February 2009

Google Trends (which measures internet activity, searches, news, etc that goes through its network) is a useful free tool for looking at changing or trending topics and events through time. Today I ran a query in Australia to compare the Rudd-led Federal Government and the Global Financial Crisis.
The results, shown above, at first glance [...]

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Editorial Verdict On Rudd’s Economic Stimulus Package

3 February 2009

To save you the time of having to read through all the papers and websites for some hard-hitting and rational arguments for and against the Australian Government’s proposed AUD$42 billion economic stimulus plan - I have summarised four important editorial sources to give you an overview.
In summary:
> The Wall Street Journal - negative
> The Australian [...]

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Davos 09 - Open Banking

3 February 2009

A good deal of political rhetoric and market confusion from the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) has recently culminated overseas at the annual world-leader-talkfestWorld Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland.
You know the drill: Bono, Gordon Brown, Important Central Bankers and members of the IMF, WTO, USA and any other organisation with an acronym that could [...]

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