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What is this?

+Disclosr is a project to monitor Australian Federal Government agencies +compliance with their "proactive disclosure requirements". +OGRE (Open Government Realization Evaluation) is a ranking of compliance with these requirements. +Prometheus is the agent which polls agency websites to assess compliance. -Organisational Data Sources +

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Organisational Data Sources

http://www.comlaw.gov.au/Browse/Results/ByTitle/AdministrativeArrangementsOrders/Current/Ad/0 defines departments Agencies can be found in the Schedule to an Appropriation Bill (budget), Schedule to FMA Regulations and/or Public Service Act. -http://www.finance.gov.au/publications/flipchart/docs/FMACACFlipchart.pdf summarises these +http://www.finance.gov.au/publications/flipchart/docs/FMACACFlipchart.pdf summarises these. view-source:https://www.tenders.gov.au/?event=public.advancedsearch.home is great for the suspended/active status When defining the hierachy, this system is designed towards monitoring accountablity. Thus large agencies that have registered their own ABN and have their own accountablity mechanisms/website recieve a seperate record as a child of their department. @@ -14,10 +31,20 @@ As agencies themselves shift between departments, there may be scope for providing time ranges but typically the newest hierarchy will be the one recorded. A department/agency name will be the newest active name assigned to that ABN. +ABN information is derived from the ABR. This is the definitive umpire about which former name should be linked to which current name. +For example "Department of Transport and Regional Services" became "Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government" (same ABN) +however it later split into "Department of Infrastructure and Transport" (same ABN) +and "Department of Regional Australia, Regional Development and Local Government" (new ABN). + Statistical information from http://www.apsc.gov.au/stateoftheservice/1011/statsbulletin/section1.html#t2total https://www.apsedii.gov.au/apsedii/CustomQueryx33.shtml +and individual annual reports. -Open Government Scoring +

Open Government Scoring

+1 point for every true Has... attribute -1 point for every false Has... (ie. Has Not) attribute +Don't like this? Make your own score, suggest a better scoring mechanism. +