Will Open Government make Canada's health agencies more transparent?

Will Open Government make Canada's health agencies more transparent?

Open data adoption in Australian government agencies: an exploratory study

Australia is among the leading countries that envisaged releasing unclassified public data under open license and reusable format with no further restriction on re/use. But, according to the Australian Information Commissioner John McMillan, Australia’s progress on open data is ‘patchy’ and ‘transitional’. He also evidenced that although a few agencies are proactive and have embraced the moveme...

A Model to Assess Open Government Data in Public Agencies

In this article a maturity model is proposed, named OD-MM (Open Data Maturity Model) to assess the commitment and capabilities of public agencies in pursuing the principles and practices of open data. The OD-MM model has a three level hierarchical structure, called domains, sub-domains and critical variables. Four capacity levels are defined for each of the 33 critical variables distributed in ...

Issues of Open Source Software Uptake in Australian Government Agencies

Software generally used by individuals and organizations is proprietary software. This kind of software is closed, available at a cost, and its copyright is owned by the organization that develops it. This means that the end user does not have access to source code, cannot make changes to the software to suit individual needs, and the software cannot be redistributed. Open source software, on t...

Get the content right: following reporting guidelines will make your research paper more complete, transparent and usable.

Substantial evidence demonstrates widespread shortcomings in the reporting of health research publications. Reporting guidelines represent an effective tool to help improve the completeness and transparency of published papers that are much needed for their future use. Examples of key reporting guidelines (CONSORT, STROBE, COREQ, ENTREQ, PRISMA, STARD, and SQUIRE) are introduced here together w...