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It was Colin Powell, the former US Secretary of State who said: “Bad news isn’t like wine. It doesn’t get better with age”. In the aftermath of the Great Recession of 2008-09, Western governments of all political stripes have finally come to terms with what they’ve ignored for far too long...

We’ve started hearing a lot over the last year or so about “open data”, particularly in the municipal sector. It’s all about municipalities (and senior levels of government) sharing information with private individuals, principally in digital format and via website portals.

James Anaya, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, has described the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples as an instrument of reparation and reconciliation that calls for affirmative measures to redress historical injustice of indigenous peoples.