Our last journal article looked at Open Data from the City of Yarra. In this article, we review Open Data from the City of Ipswich. Their first data went live on 1st July 2020.
Transparency is at the heart of good governance and decision-making, and the Open Ipswich Transparency and Integrity Hub shows our commitment to honest and open government going forward as we serve the people of Ipswich.
Acting CEO, City of Ipswich
Ipswich City Council acknowledges that appropriately anonymised Council data will stimulate innovation and enable economic outcomes and support evidenceābased decision making.
Open Data Policy, City of Ipswich
Ipswich at data.gov.au
On data.gov.au, Ipswich publishes 69 datasets, compared with 17 from Yarra.
Ipswich at opengov.com
On opengov.com, Ipswich publishes a wide range of data.
Our view
The City of Ipswich has adopted a best practice policy of commitment to open data, and has followed up by publishing a growing set of data. The City of Yarra can and should do the same. A good place to start would be to publish simple tables of data in the budget papers each year, showing results for the last year and projections for the upcoming year:
Published 8th August 2021