Government 2.0 Taskforce » Project Fund http://gov2.net.au Design by Ben Crothers of Catch Media Tue, 04 May 2010 23:55:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Draft Project Fund Contract http://gov2.net.au/blog/2009/09/30/draft-project-fund-contract/ http://gov2.net.au/blog/2009/09/30/draft-project-fund-contract/#comments Wed, 30 Sep 2009 02:00:39 +0000 Peter Alexander [Taskforce Secretariat] http://gov2.net.au/?p=1109 For your information I am posting the contract with which successful Gov 2.0 Taskforce project proposals will be commissioned. 

This contract will be between Microsoft and the successful Gov 2.0 Taskforce project proposer.  This is necessary as the Project Fund  has been established in partnership with Microsoft from a fund established by Microsoft as a consequence of previous government sales. The contracts are supported by a Deed that between the Department of Finance and Deregulation and Microsoft that ensures the aims of the Taskforce are supported by the Fund.

]]> http://gov2.net.au/blog/2009/09/30/draft-project-fund-contract/feed/ 21 Submit a quote for our round two projects http://gov2.net.au/blog/2009/09/17/submit-a-quote-for-our-round-two-projects/ http://gov2.net.au/blog/2009/09/17/submit-a-quote-for-our-round-two-projects/#comments Thu, 17 Sep 2009 01:02:54 +0000 Nicholas Gruen http://gov2.net.au/?p=998 The Taskforce is currently considering the various quotes we received for our first round of projects and will get the ball rolling on those as soon as possible. But today we’re releasing briefs and asking for quotes on our second round of projects.

This set of projects is about two things: giving the Taskforce inputs that we can use in our final report, and building up agency capabilities in the Web 2.0 space.

Individuals and firms with relevant capabilities are invited to submit quotes to undertake these projects on behalf of the Taskforce.  The usual Fine Print is here, with some changes from the round one tendering process.  Ignore it at your own risk.

We’ve decided to change the process we used for the round one projects. This time, instead of specifying a price for each project, for some we’re giving you an estimated range of what we think the project should cost, for others we’re not providing an estimated budget at all because we don’t want to shape your ideas of the scope.  You may want to give us a quote with a few separate pricing options that we can choose from and to ‘think aloud’ for our benefit. Either way, we’re open to your ideas and want to take a flexible approach to how we deal with quotes. We’re perfectly willing to go back to you and discuss your quote if we think you have a good proposal which just needs some tweaking.

Details of the requirements for each of the round two projects are contained in the project proposal briefs below, which you can download in PDF or RTF format. Note, we are considering the round one projects as projects one through six, and these as projects seven through 13.

If you submit by 4pm AEST on Tuesday 22nd September 2009 we undertake to give your proposal full and fair consideration.  Submit after that time by all means. If your submission is a stand out and there’s still time, we may consider it, but we can’t promise anything.

Project Proposal Briefs

7. Whole of Government Information Publication Scheme

8. Online Engagement Guidance and Web 2.0 Toolkit for Australian Government Agencies

9. Preservation of Web 2.0 Content

10. Framework for Stimulating Information Philanthropy in Australia

11. Hypotheticals — Ethical and Cultural Challenges of Digital Engagement by Government

12. Promoting the Government 2.0 Taskforce and Agenda

  • Deliverable: Implementing a public relations strategy plus accompanying reports
  • Deadline: 30/09/09 (report on strategy)
  • Deadline: 30/11/09 (final report)
  • Project 12 Brief RTF (76k)
  • Project 12 Brief PDF (21k)

13. Government 2.0 Governance and Institutions: Embedding the 2.0 Agenda in the Australian Public Service

]]> http://gov2.net.au/blog/2009/09/17/submit-a-quote-for-our-round-two-projects/feed/ 4 Open for business – quotes needed for Round One of the Project Fund http://gov2.net.au/blog/2009/09/01/open-for-business/ http://gov2.net.au/blog/2009/09/01/open-for-business/#comments Tue, 01 Sep 2009 03:53:14 +0000 Nicholas Gruen http://gov2.net.au/?p=725 Thank you to everyone who commented on the proposed project that we posted for public pontification recently.  Based on your feedback and the input of the Taskforce members we have refined our ideas and decided to proceed with commissioning six of these projects, which will be funded from the Project Fund.  Details of the requirements for each project are contained in the Project Proposal Briefs below, which you can download in PDF or RTF format:

  1. Enhancing the discoverability and accessibility of government information
  2. Identify key barriers within agencies to Government 2.0
  3. Survey of Australian Government Web 2.0 practices
  4. Copyright law and intellectual property
  5. Early leadership in Semantic Web
  6. The value of Public Sector Information for Cultural Institutions

Individuals and firms with relevant capabilities are invited submit quotes to undertake these projects on behalf of the Taskforce.  Before you submit your quote please take the time to read the Fine Print so you understand the terms and conditions that project funding will be based on.  Please also note the deadlines for the project deliverables – we need to move fast on these projects so that they can inform our thinking while we are writing our report.  It is our intention that for many of the projects, much of the work will be interactive with us and may go either to the production of an independent report by you or towards your contributing to outputs that the Taskforce ultimately takes responsibility for.

You will note that we have included estimates of the size of each project in terms of funds. I insisted upon this because, in another life as a consultant, I know how maddening it is not to have any idea of the scope of the project a client is contemplating.  But we are definitely focused on value for money. So please don’t write your brief up to or down from the figure we have quoted.  If you can save us money we’ll be intersted, and if you can add a lot of value by going over our indicative budget, we’ll be interested.  We’ll also consider ourselves welcome to give you a ring and discuss whether parts of your proposed project could be done differently to generate better value. It will also be of value to us if we can develop a trusting relationship in which some flexibility can be built into the contract to enable you to adapt your work at our direction – for instance by payment per hour.

Submitting Quotes

Quotes should be brief (no more than five pages and preferably less) and should contain the following information:

  • details of the individual/company providing the quote
  • names and qualifications of key people who will work on the project
  • a brief description of your capabilities/credentials to undertake the work, including past experience doing projects of a similar kind or in a similar area
  • a brief description of you proposed approach to the project
  • a breakdown of key areas of expenditure for the project
  • what contribution (financial or services) you are willing to make to the project
  • the name and phone number of the authorised person for further enquiries

Quotes can be submitted by email to projects@gov2.net.au:

by 5pm AEST on Wednesday 9 September 2009.

As stated previously, the Australian Government welcomes contributions by private organisations or individuals to the Project Fund or to the Taskforce’s work generally, so if these are not the projects for you and you want to donate your expertise and/or services please send your proposal to projects@gov2.net.au.  If you have an idea for how to spend the project fund then you are welcome to submit it on the same email address.  Please clearly identify it as such a project and it will be considered in the next round of projects.

Project Proposal Briefs

1. Enhancing the discoverability and accessibility of government information

2. Identify key barriers within agencies to Government 2.0

3. Survey of Australian Government Web 2.0 practices

4. Copyright law and intellectual property

5. Early leadership in Semantic Web

6. The value of Public Sector Information for cultural institutions

]]> http://gov2.net.au/blog/2009/09/01/open-for-business/feed/ 27 Posting proposed projects for public pontification http://gov2.net.au/blog/2009/08/18/posting-proposed-projects-for-public-pontification/ http://gov2.net.au/blog/2009/08/18/posting-proposed-projects-for-public-pontification/#comments Mon, 17 Aug 2009 22:48:34 +0000 Nicholas Gruen http://gov2.net.au/?p=586 One of the roles of the Taskforce is to decide on how to allocate the Project Fund to further the interests of Government 2.0 in Australia.

We’ve been discussing and refining a number of research ideas for potential projects so far. They’re not written up as fully specified projects yet, but we’re after your feedback on them.

Feel free to

1. approve or criticise the projects we’ve set out
2. propose improvements to those ideas
3. propose alternative ideas
4. suggest people or firms/agencies that might do a good job of these projects

Please do any of steps 1 to 3 in the specific comments threads relating to the project, and if you want to suggest additional ideas for projects, please do so in the general comments box.

If you want to propose additional projects as suggested in point 4 above, please do so in the comments box corresponding to the whole page.

We’ve set up a list of projects on our Consultation page and we’re after your feedback. We’re already pretty sure we want to go ahead with quite a few of the projects but we’re still open to your ideas on how to improve them.

We’ll be formally deciding to go ahead with many of the projects at our next meeting – on Friday Aug 21st (when we’re also throwing open part of the meeting to the community for a question and answer session), so your feedback will be most influential if you get us your feedback by 1.00 PM Thursday.

We’re excited to see what comes out of this process, and look forwarding to hearing your ideas.

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