The information about the Network isn't very helpful

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When you look at the introduction the Network on the About page, it doesn't tell you anything about how the Network actually works or what it means to be a member.

Most of it is when and who stuff, but that only tells you about the steering committee, which isn't very interesting and doesn't really tell me much about the character of the Network.

Here’s the current text:

The Australian Open Government Civil Society Network is a coalition of civil society organisations and individuals committed to making government work better for people through transparency, participation and accountability. The network collaborates with and challenges governments in Australia to develop and implement ambitious open government reforms through Australia’s membership of the Open Government Partnership.

The Australian Open Government Network was formed in December 2015 after the Australian government reaffirming its commitment to join the OGP.

There are already 50 members in the network. It is coordinated independently of government and has a steering group.

An interim Steering Committee and Convener will guide the activities of the network in its first 6 months.

The interim Steering Committee consists of organisational members

• Dr Nicholas Gruen, Open Knowledge Australia
• Jon Lawrence, Electronic Frontiers Australia
• Phil Newman, Transparency International Australia.
• Dr David Solomon AM (chair), Accountability Roundtable
• Katherine Szuminska, OpenAustralia Foundation

and individuals:

• Dr Johan Lidberg
• Craig Thomler

The interim Convener is Peter Timmins.

View our Terms of reference to learn more about how we work.

This is a similar issue to #36 and could probably be tackled at the same time.

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This relates to #55

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I've done a draft of this @kat https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ABvordVFZ3ViHal7bE3juay-iMwbffiJbvw6lmLq9tk/edit

Could you have a squiz and let me know what you think?