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• Australia tops global open data index

  ​Australia has topped a global index of how well nations publish open government data.

• Data.gov.au and data.sa share search metadata

  The data.gov.au website has shared its metadata with data.sa.gov.au, allowing users to search datasets from both sites using a shared search repository.
  

• World gets ready for international Open Data Day

  More than 110 cities around the world will take part in local hackathons, workshops and discussions on using open data to serve their communities on international Open Data Day.

• CIO year in review

  2014 was an eventful year for CIOs, with many starting new initiatives in mobility, wearables, machine learning and tapping into open data. Many CIOs also decided to change jobs and move to greener pastures.

• Smart grids could drive open data movement

  The open data movement in Australia may get a boost if the 'Smart Grid, Smart City' project goes ahead, following a successful trial between 2010 and 2013.

• Turnbull talks challenges with open data in government

  The government’s push for more open data and transparency no doubt opens the doors for private sector organisations to be more innovative, but it doesn’t come without its challenges.

• Blog: Can Gov't Go from Open to Smart in Today's Economy?

  For the last year or so governments have increased efforts to become more transparent by making information available about their agency decisions and operations, have increased public participation in government, and initiated plans and deployed nascent endeavors to collaborate and cooperate across all levels of government to better serve their constituents.

• Open source IT Dashboard tracks govt spending

  The United States Government has open sourced the IT Dashboard project, a Web-based application designed to track IT spending used by CIOs of government agencies.
  

• Government should use cloud to reduce IT costs: Gartner

  Governments should cut costs in the face of uncertain economic conditions with the use of public cloud services being hailed as a starting point for CIOs.