The dust has settled from Saturday’s event and it’s time to think about what happens next.
Three take out messages:
- Labour is serious about OpenLabourNZ. It may not be headline news. But it’s important to how we engage with citizens. We will take a policy of open and transparent government into the election. And we will deliver on it in government.
- Collaboration is important. With many different groups. And across parliament.
- There’s responsibility. By the elected representatives. By the public sector (culture change) and by NZ citizens. We can’t make our government more open and transparent without a commitment and a sense of responsibility across the board.
What happens next:
- If you haven’t already, go and visit the wiki and contribute to it. You need to register here
- You will have the opportunity to have input for one month. (end of September)
- The draft policy will then be submitted into the Labour Party policy process. All inputs will be taken seriously.
- The Labour Party conference in October will hold a workshop on open and transparent government
- The Labour Party Council will work with all MPs to develop our Manifesto commitments on Open Government policy
- What we promise in our Manifesto we will deliver
I’m not contributing to the wiki due to copyright issues
Looks like PR, talks like PR, walks like PR . . .
BLiP – can we give them the benefit of the doubt before branding this as PR?
Spud – can you send a link to the relevant information on the license used for the wiki? I have brought up this issue before. Twitter being used rather than identi.ca without the option to participate with Labour in a more Free and open way (despite efforts like these), Facebook being used rather than just about any other channel (this comes across as branding especially given that some of the banks have started popping up on there).
I would love for efforts like this to be done in an open, Free and transparent way without any legal issues (such as copyright, licenses, the use of proprietary services etc.)
Any chance of going the full-hog Clare?
Agreed Nevyn, I hope you don’t mind but I’m going to fish the info for you in the morning, insomia but hoping to sleep soon
Off the top of my head – people can take stuff you say on the wiki and make derivative works from it and distribute it etc. So you can be ripped off.
Which is why I won’t participate. As you said, Labour could do better and actually give us the same thing, but something of their own without the copyright issues, it’s only fair. Since they are getting free input and labour from people that those people don’t have their ideas ripped off because they are forced to use wiki. 
Facebook has the same problem
I’m not sure about twitter
Man, is anyone else worried that there will come a time where people will miss out on jobs because people can rip off stuff for free from wikis?
People have the right to own their own ideas 
I think I’ve already said months ago that some dude claims to have invented what is essentially the ipad, but someone who worked for him stole his ideas and then went to work for apple.
Too tired to know what I’m saying, goodnight,