The report concerns the investigation of a former senior officer at the Department of Finance (WA) who downloaded confidential information from a computer system before leaving to take up a role in the private sector. It highlights the significant misconduct risks in having weak and insufficient information controls. The Commission provided two recommendations.

Drawing on Ithaka S+R findings and the scholarly literature, this paper identifies what constitutes a data community and outlines the most important features by studying three success stories, investigating the circumstances under which intensive data sharing is already happening.

Investigators of this study found that changing the educational model may lead to improvements in future library data services.

Cities today collect and store a wide range of data that may contain sensitive or identifiable information about residents. As cities embrace open data initiatives, more of this information is available to the public. While releasing data has many important benefits, sharing data comes with inherent risks to individual privacy: released data can reveal information...

Big data is big news these days. But most organisations just end up hoarding vast reams of data, leaving them with a massive repository of unstructured – or “dark” – data that is of little use to anyone. Given the potential benefits of big data, it’s crucial that we find better ways to gather, store...