Launching the Open Technology Foundation with Dr Terry Cutler

On Wednesday the 14th September, we launched the Open Technology Foundation with the organisation’s new Chair, Dr Terry Cutler.

The Open Technology Foundation has been a couple of years in the making, and is an initiative about supporting the use of open technologies, methods and standards across governments. They have participation at federal and state level in Australia, as well as interest from governments overseas.

I think the OTF could be a really useful resource for Australian Governments at a federal, state and local level, not only with their use of ICT, but for the sort of cross-jurisdictional collaboration that will be vital in implementing the Gov 2.0 and open government agenda.

Andrew Mills, the CIO of the South Australian Government should be congratulated on his work in the early phases of  this initative, and Carnegie Mellon University (Australia) have shown leadership by taken a strong role in the implementation.

Open technologies, methods and standards all play an important role in the development of sustainable implementation strategies for open data, citizen-centric services and online public engagement.

I wish the OTF the best of luck and look forward to following their progress.

Further information about the Open Technology Foundation is available at http://otf.org.au

Kate Lundy

A few news articles and media releases about the initiative below:

• Open Technology Foundation and Carnegie Mellon University media release, including quotes from government participants
  http://www.cmu.edu.au/pdf/otf/OTF_PressRelease_August24_Final.pdf
• Terry Cutler to chair Open Technology Foundation (ITNews)
  http://www.itnews.com.au/News/267945,terry-cutler-to-chair-open-technology-foundation.aspx