Snell, R.; Sebina, P.(Australian society of Archivists, NaN, 2007)
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Abstract:
This paper puts forward ideas about trying to take public access to
government information from where it currently is - a few painful, costly
and hard fought steps from its strongly resisted implementation - towards
where it should be in an information age. The current state of play in
Australia after more than twenty years of experience is barely measurable.
The comments in this paper are focused on the capacity of citizens to
access non-personal affairs information on a routine and relatively
unproblematic basis. If in other areas of the information revolution we
had accepted the same minimal results as we have with Freedom of
Information (FOI) then the Internet, laptop computers, iPods and
BlackBerries would have all remained unbelievable elements of
speculative science fiction.