Today Minister Tanner launched the Australian Declaration of Open Government on the AGIMO Govspace website.
The Declaration was one of the core recommendations of the Gov 2.0 Taskforce Report (the Government response is here), and it includes some good key principles for Open Government in the 21st century which I’ve quoted below:
The Australian Government’s support for [...]
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The Declaration of Open Government
July 16, 2010 – 12:08 pm
Live chat with The Australian about Gov 2.0
June 9, 2010 – 7:26 pm
Today I participated in a “live blog” about Gov 2.0. The topic was Gov 2.0, and I had over 170 questions posted. With the hour given, I was only able to respond to about 65 questions, so I’ve put a full transcript, with some additional questions answered below (marked with ADDITIONAL RESPONSE). I have included [...]
Keynote Address: Gov2.0 Expo 2010
May 26, 2010 – 11:53 pm
Update: Please also see my “Reflections from Gov 2.0 Expo 2010, Washington DC” post for my thoughts on the event, and the media and Twitter coverage.
Below are the notes for two speeches Senator Lundy gave to the international Gov 2.0 Expo in Washington D.C. on the 26th May 2010, including additional links, information and examples [...]
Information Awareness Month – Gov 2.0: Communities and conversations
May 5, 2010 – 9:39 am
Senator Lundy gave this speech to open Information Awareness Month 2010. Below is the full speech, whereas the video was edited slightly to the maximum length allowed by Youtube. Below are also some of the other video content presented at the event.
I acknowledge the traditional owners of the land on which we are gathered, the [...]
Australia commits to Gov 2.0
May 3, 2010 – 2:29 pm
Today the Minister for Finance, Lindsay Tanner and the Special Minister of State Joe Ludwig made a ground breaking announcement for Australia. They released the Australian Government response to the Gov 2.0 Taskforce Report which was launched in December last year and will be launching a Declaration for Open Government in the near future. This [...]
ICT Supplier Advocate off and running!
April 29, 2010 – 6:35 pm
I just had an excellent meeting with Don Easter, the newly appointed supplier advocate for the ICT industry. Having had the privilege of announcing the Rudd Labor Government would be making the appointment when I was a CeBIT in Hannover earlier this year, it was wonderful to meet the person tasked with this critical role.
It’s [...]
National Records & Information Officers’ Forum 2010
April 28, 2010 – 3:58 pm
This morning I presented at the National Records and Information Officers’ Forum 2010 in Melbourne. The Forum also had speakers from a range of private and public organisations covering innovations in digital record-keeping, standards and future directions.
My presentation traversed a range of issues including the importance closing the digital divide through the national braodband network, [...]
Reflections on “Building Britain’s Digital Future”
April 5, 2010 – 8:00 am
On the 22nd March the UK Prime Minister, Gordon Brown gave a speech about “Building Britain’s Digital Future“. It was streamed realtime over the Internet and had a busy and interesting online discussion on Twitter with the hashtag #bbdf.
Prime Minister Brown spoke of the Britain of the year 2020:
“… which leads the world in open, [...]
CeBIT 2010: Gov 2.0 building a strong foundation for open democracy
March 2, 2010 – 8:47 pm
CeBIT 2010
Tuesday, 2nd March 2010
Introduction
If the first incarnation of the internet saw the democratisation of information, and made us all publishers, the second incarnation of the internet – Web2.0 – is the democratisation of innovation and decision-making, and will make us all co-designers of civil society in the 21st century.
This brings with it a great [...]
