Australian Governance and Regulation Network (AGaRN)

By speaking truth to power, and finding out who gets what, when, where and how, AGaRN seeks to build knowledge through collaborations and create a national centre of excellence in governance and regulation. Focusing on governance, or steering society through networks (public, private and voluntary), it seeks to improve the policymaking and regulatory capacity of Australian governments by providing better evidence-based policy advice. Through AUSSGrid (Australian Social Science Data Grid) it will access and make available policy-relevant academic and governmental databases; build a policy-based information gateway; and unlock historical and interview data by making it available in digitised form.