Opening up government data for Big Data analysis and public benefit

Governments around the world are posting many thousands of their datasets on online portals. A major purpose of releasing this data is to drive innovation through Big Data analysis, as well as to promote government transparency and accountability. This article considers the benefits and risks of releasing government data as open data, and identifies the challenges the Australian government faces in releasing its data into the public domain. The Australian government has ambitious aims to release greater amounts of its data to the public. However, it is likely this task will prove difficult due to uncertainties surrounding the reliability of de-identification and the requirements of privacy law, as well as a public service culture which is yet to fully embrace the open data movement.     

改革开放三十年上海外国人证件管理的变化

改革开放三十年,上海外国人证件管理工作发生了巨大变化。从机构设置、人员编制、签证和居留证等出入境证件的种类与样式,到工作职能与业务等,都有了飞速发展和变化。通过健全和完善执法体系,理顺办理外国人证件工作,优化出入境口岸签证窗口功能,来沪外国人累计人数是改革开放前的100多倍,为吸引外国籍高层次人才和资金、促进国家经济建设发挥了积极作用。     

开放的区域主义与区域经济一体化的制度创新

开放的区域主义是新区域主义理论框架中的一种新型的理论形态。开放的区域主义为区域经济一体化的组织创新提供了新的理论基础,并促进了区域经济一体化新浪潮的形成。中国——东盟自由贸易区正是在区域经济一体化的新浪潮中在开放的区域主义的影响下区域经济组织创新的产物。中国——东盟自由贸易区所显示出的全面性、开放性、平等性、整合性等特点充分说明了开放的区域主义的作用和影响。     

军队从政坛的退出与韩国社会转型:基于自然政府的视角

文章利用诺斯等人发展起来的基于自然政府的精英主义理论框架,重点讨论了对军队的政治控制与韩国从有限准入向开放准入社会转型之间的关系。分析表明,从20世纪60年代初开始,一批围绕朴正熙和全斗焕的军事精英通过建立一个包括军队官员、政党政治家、高级政府官员和资本家阶层在内的统治联盟,从整体上控制国家和社会,从而重建了韩国的有限准入社会秩序。然而这个相对稳定的社会秩序不是一成不变的,随着经济的快速发展和相应的社会结构的变化,社会反对势力尤其是中产阶级和工人阶层不断成长,军人执政联盟最终自掘坟墓,被迫于20世纪80年代末从政坛退出并将其归还给市民社会。沿着这一主题,文章分析了韩国对军队的政治控制过程及竞争性政治和经济市场的出现,指出两种市场的建立标志着韩国社会转型的完成。     

从《意见》看我国公开审判制度的再完善

《关于加强人民法院审判公开工作的若干意见》中提出的每一项具体措施都是针对司法实践中制约当事人诉讼知情权的突出问题而制定的。这将更加有力地维护当事人的诉讼权利,促进司法的公正、高效和权威,使司法审判为和谐社会的构建提供强有力的保障。但仍存在不足之处。对此,应从我国国情出发,借鉴国外及国际立法,使我国的公开审判制度既符合现代诉讼的规律和要求,又符合我国的立法环境。     

Understanding Open Data Policy: Evidence from Bulgaria

This paper provides an overview of Bulgaria’s policy on open data by using the framework of a novel Open Data stage model, showing that the country is still at the first stage of opening data. We also present a detailed overview of the data landscape of the public sector in the country and outline the first milestones and successes in its efforts to publish some of that data for reuse. A complete data audit reveals persistent technological and cultural barriers to publishing public sector information but also outlines the potential of doing so. The paper summarizes the limited knowledge about the actual benefits of open data and proposes moving beyond anecdotal evidence and usage metrics toward a more complete impact evaluation.     

法官公开法律见解义务探析

法官的法律见解向来被认为是审判秘密的范畴。自20世纪70年代以来。德、法等国家的民事诉讼立法规定法官有公开法律见解的义务，以保障当事人的程序主体地位。我国最高院在司法解释中对此也作出了类似规定，但由于理论研究的不足。该规定较为笼统，实践中也难以把握，需要进一步研究和完善。     

Champions of local authority innovation revisited

This article revisits the concept of the public sector innovation champion. Reflecting changes in sectoral and wider contexts and conceptual advances in the innovation literature, it suggests that much of the underlying thinking behind the original article is of continuing relevance and suggests a number of directions in which this could now be extended, particularly in terms of the nature of innovation and the role of champions therein. It concludes by considering how innovation champions of the future will require a new skillset which draws on new and emergent technologies to align diverse sets of stakeholders in networks of ‘open innovation’.     

Current developments in Open Source Software

Open Source Software (OSS) has hit the mainstream in recent years and its scope is set to increase. Best seen as a range of associated licensing techniques, there are many different types of OSS licences. Coupled with a lack of settled case law and rapidly developing market practice, legal interpretation of the OSS world presents challenges to lawyers. Of the ‘top 20’ OSS licences, the GPL is the most commonly used and among the most radical in legal effect. The GPL's legal radicalism centres on its Article 2(b) concept of ‘copyleft’. Copyleft is an inheritance requirement to pass on the GPL's terms to other software that ‘contains’ or is ‘derived from’ the initially used GPL software. I illustrations of Article 2(b) issues from the Linux and Java worlds are provided. Current case law (such as it is) is then overviewed. Finally, contractual and policy implications of OSS governance are then reviewed as the increasing uptake of OSS in the organisation is mirrored in the growing importance of OSS governance.     

公安专网自由开源软件应用与资源下载站点构建

由于与因特网物理断开,公安专网成为完全独立于因特网的超大专用广域网络。自由开源软件从安全性、稳定性上讲,并不比许多商业软件差,这为其在公安网上运行提供了较强的可行性。在自由软件运动深入开展的今天,公安网上运行成熟的自由开源软件成果,将为金盾工程、公安信息化建设节约大量资金。