[OAM-talk] What is the business elevator pitch?

[Cameron Shorter]

Don,
Thanks that is great background, and your story will certainly be 
compelling to help other agencies get involved. I suggest that you write 
down your agency's commitment and plans into the OAM website somewhere, 
and encourage other agencies to do the same.

To profile Australian government agencies I'd expect may be interested 
and may get involved:

* They have datasets
* They have a mandate now, or will likely be able to get a mandate in 
future with suitable lobbying, to make their own datasets available to 
the public.
* They likely will not have budget yet to put datasets online, but with 
a suitably compelling case, they could lobby for funding.
* They would probably want to be in control of their datasets, and hence 
would likely want to host their own node of the dataset - ie. being the 
master repository of the dataset
* They would want to obey international standards in this area, and 
align with international initiatives if they exist
* There will be debate over pricing models, but individuals will likely 
want to have the datasets made available under a free licence. The 
agency won't know much about Open Source licenses, and would want advice 
and to follow
* They will want to talk to someone with authority to negotiate what 
they would contribute. The NPS Foundation may well be the right 
organisation to make it work.

Don Brutzman wrote:
> p.s. NPS Foundation online at http://www.npsfoundation.org
>
>>  The NPS Foundation is a non profit 501 (c) (3) organization (Tax ID: 
>> 23-7098729) whose primary mission is to support the students, faculty 
>> and staff of the Naval Postgraduate School. The NPS Foundation 
>> creates programs and services that reinforce NPS initiatives. Similar 
>> to other educational institutions, private support is vital to 
>> achieve standards above the sustaining level of public support. 
>> Private donations help to enhance the educational experience of NPS 
>> to the level of the country's best institutions of higher learning.
>>
>> The NPS Foundation uses these private contributions to:
>>
>>     * Provide academic awards for deserving students
>>     * Recognize distinguished faculty
>>     * Facilitate student and faculty research
>>     * Sponsor lectures
>>     * Upgrade facilities and equipment, labs and classrooms
>>     * Promote NPS visibility and community involvement
>>     * Assist with historic preservation, library programs, museum 
>> displays, and student recreational opportunities
>>     * Sponsor a distinguished speaker program
>>     * Support international students and programs
>>     * Endow faculty chairs
>>     * Fund student and faculty events
>>     * Provide discretionary funds for NPS leadership
>
> all the best, Don


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