Joining the #sdgAU Partnership ?

Consider Principles of Innovation (Principles for Digital Development) #pi9 - Be collaborative. By suitably #tagging genuine content, stakeholders and donors can contribute it to an open domestic and global conversation on governance, knowledge sharing and innovation for sustainable development, the economic activities and functions of government in Australia, its cities and municipalities. By providing low-hurdle access to open data that matters to a particular context or trade, stakeholders are empowered to add data-driven elements to the discourse.

In a #tag2wiki step, the #tagged discourse can be curated, analysed, and shared and conflicting viewpoints can be covered in wiki sector maps and maps of the functions of government, as part of Australia's planning for inclusive and sustainable development¹.

This reference page for Australia is not intended for being read in a linear way. Rather, it must be used as a "4 dimensional topic map" for a knowledge and data driven development discourse in Australia. The reader with an interest in a particular topic can quickly find open data and other content on that "topic in its context and dimension". Before contributing new content, we recommend the reader to minimally check the content that is (referenced) on this page, and to keep in mind Principles of Innovation (Principles for Digital Development) #pi7 - Reuse and improve. For what concerns the reuse, improving or addition of new content, we recommend the use of the suitable hashtag with awareness of its dimension (lgu, sdg, isic or cofog).

#AUlgu tags for administrative units, with curated open data²

• For cities' tags, check Australia (Geohive).
• Australian Bureau of Statistics

#sdgAU tags for sustainable development goals

Sustainable Development Global Goals (SDGs)⁴ in Australia - use #sdgAU on Twitter or G+.

Each goal has targets listed on the linked page.

For these targets there are #SDT tags. If you consider a target of particular interest for your country, then create your country's #sdt tags using a simple trick.

An example: for the global sustainable development target with tag #SDT011, construct the #tag for AU as follows: #sdt011AU.

#isicAU tags for economic activities

#cofogAU tags for functions of government

+ Government and the People

Check out Australia's profile in the Human Development Report - 2014 to understand the country's challenges in below areas.

+ Government and the Economy, Environment and Community

+ Government and Society's Foundations

In the media

Australia's #tags in other languages:

أستراليا (Arabic)
澳大利亚 (Chinese, simplified)
Australien (German)
Australia (Spanish)
Australie (French)
オーストラリア (Japanese)
Австралия (Russian)

#Tag guide & other resources:

• Australia - #AUlgu
• Lake Macquarie
• Melbourne
• Social actors and #SDG17
• Statutes and #SDG16
• Subiaco
• Sydney

Open Data and Content

Various sources

• Human Development Report 2014: Check it here (at UNDP website): Australia's profile in the Human Development Report - 2014
• Mapping for Results: The World Bank's Mapping for Results Platform provides detailed information about work to reduce poverty and promote sustainable development around the world. Here the data on projects in Australia.
• Akvoopenaid: Check Open Akvoopenaid for a list of development aid projects in Australia.

The Sector field of listed projects are indicative for the function of government and the industrial sector under which the project should be classified.

Curated open data in the World Data Atlas (by Knoema)

Social Progress Index

Check Australia's Social Progress Index (Social Progress Imperative).

The Fringes

• Comments
• Australia Monitoring Window
• Guidance
• Contributor?

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Rio+20 Address by H.E. Julia Gillard, Prime Minister of Australia

janbmgo 10 Jul 2012 18:59

The statement (June 21, 2012) can be accessed here (UN Rio+20 website).

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Are initiatives transparent, effective & with synergy?
Give your comments or provide links to resources that are instrumental to improving transparency and effectiveness of the public sector and/or aid in Australia.

For the initiatives listed per Function of Government (COFOG class) and/or category of economic activity (ISIC class), comments may be given at an initiative's wiki page. If such a wiki page is missing, make a request to create it in your comment.

- Read about how to become a local owner in a (global) Wiki Cooperative.
- Participation Content Steward
- Access to Information officer

+ propose url

- propose url

If you have a Facebook page, a Blog or a website in which you address local development and governance topics, let us know in the Comments section to include it in this window.

Scope of the country's Initiative Book: The initiatives concluded, planned, or ongoing in Australia, involving (relevant) actors listed in the Actor Maps (Included Actors) and compliant with or building upon (relevant) statutes and treaties listed in Statute Books.

Parties in the initiatives: both public authorities and private entities are invited. See Included roles.

Constraints: At the Constraint Dictionary common constraints facing development initiatives are classified by COFOG/COPNI class, and dependencies and impact spheres are indicated. The constraint map is under construction. The degree to which a constraint matters to a developing country, and is (can be) reduced by an initiative, is measured by indicators which are mapped, also by COFOG/COPNI class, at the Indicator Dictionary (under construction).

Achieving synergies across initiatives Initiative management is often the weakest link in the (strategy) execution chain. Traditional project and programme planning and communications approaches insufficiently use the bundling facilities that internet and wikis offer. As a precursor for an initiative atlas, a country initiative book aims to list all development initiatives and cluster them according to their COFOG classification. In this way, proponents and stakeholders of new initiatives can easily discover what initiatives exist already. Suitable cooperative agreements can be made and double or competing efforts can be avoided early in the planning cycle.

Initiatives of developing country governments must both avoid the fragmentation of public resources and ensure a sufficient coverage of all functions of government. An initiative book can support striking such a balance.

As indicated in Reform of the Multilateral Development System: Call for a High-Level Commission (J.F. Linn, The Brookings Institution) both the rapidly rising number of multilateral agencies, and the declining average project size reinforce the risks of aid fragmentation, a lack of focus on scaling up development impact, and rising transactions costs.

Initiative books, used both by the multilateral agencies and country development stakeholders will help mitigate the risks of aid fragmentation.
Moreover, when multilateral and national initiative books are complemented also by nested Development Dashboards, the smaller project size should not be overstraining the limited absorptive capacity of poor recipient countries, it should not lead to inefficient communications with stakeholders, and it could be coupled to a more equitable spreading of the public resources.

Everyone having knowledge or opinion about the country situation is invited to give comments, here or via the sites and pages listed in the public monitoring window.

Check out Participation Content Steward and Access to Information officer on the specific wikiworx user roles for this page, and wikiworx.info team for the indicative skill requirements for contributors.

How to apply for membership in the wikiworx.info team is explained at the wikiworx.info joining page.

• Australia - #AUlgu
• Lake Macquarie
• Melbourne
• Social actors and #SDG17
• Statutes and #SDG16
• Subiaco
• Sydney

You can add a development initiative to the list. Create a page for it, start the page's name with "AU-", this is the ISO 3166 country code, followed by a dash.