Public Speeches

CeBIT 2010: Gov 2.0 building a strong foundation for open democracy

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 [...]

$2.9 million water project for Botanic Gardens

Work will begin in the new year on a multimillion dollar construction project to pipe water from Lake Burley Griffin to the Australian National Botanic Gardens in Canberra.
Environment Minister Peter Garrett and ACT Senator Kate Lundy today announced the successful tenderer, the NSW construction firm Draincorp.
The project secures a long term water supply for the [...]

Parliamentary speech: Centenary of Canberra

Senator Lundy gave a speech on Tuesday in Parliament on the National Capital and Centenary History. Please find the speech below.
Just down the hill from the Parliament, not more than a ten-minute walk from here, the Maps Section of the National Library of Australia is currently playing host to a superb exhibition on the role [...]

Parliamentary speech: New opportunities for open government

Yesterday Senator Lundy gave a speech in Parliament about the new opportunities presented to government with online tools and open community methods. She only got about half way through the speech in Parliament, so we decided to post the whole speech here.
Transcript
Today I would like to take this opportunity to recognise the ground-breaking work of [...]

NICTA Speech: Government 2.0 – Co-designing A Better Democracy

Senator Lundy recently gave a speech as part of the the Queensland NICTA Big Picture Seminar Series. It covered a lot of ground around Government 2.0, open government, policy and technical foundations for open government, some of her favourite case studies and more.
Government 2.0: co-designing a better democracy
Big Picture Seminar
30th October 2009
Our apologies for the [...]

Geospatial: the lifeblood of data

This morning I presented at the FOSS4G Conference at Darling Harbour in Sydney. It’s official name is the Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial Conference 2009. It was one of the the many conferences I attend that I wish I could have spent more time at. Cameron Shorter, the hard-working conference organiser (congrats) has [...]

CeBIT Australia Gov2.0 Conference Keynote Speech

UPDATE: The video from this speech is available here, courtesy of CeBIT.
Here is the text for the presentation I just gave to the CeBIT Australia Gov2.0 Conference being held at the Hyatt Hotel in Canberra today.The conference is streaming live and the hashtag for twitter users is #Gov2.

Originally I was going to chair the conference [...]

Creating a New Nation’s Capital: the Griffins’ Vision for Canberra

Speaker’s Corner, National Archives of Australia
Canberra
20 September 2009
Below is a video and transcript of a speech I recently gave titled Creating a New Nation’s Capital, Musings on Canberra’s design origins at the National Archives of Australia.
The discussion following my presentation included lots of questions about the current interpretation of the National Capital Plan and how it [...]

Launch of the new AANRO website – an exemplar Gov 2.0 initiative

Senator Kate Lundy did this video to launch the new Australian Agriculture Natural Resource Online website as she couldn’t participate in person due to parliamentary duties.
Transcript
Hi. I’m Senator Kate Lundy and I’m really pleased to be able to official launch the wonderful AANRO website. I’m really sorry I can’t be there in person but the [...]

Spatial Information: New Zealand steps up!

Good evening, The Hon Maurice Williamson – Minister for Land Information; Colin MacDonald – Chief Executive of Land Information New Zealand; Steve Critchlow – Chairman of the Spatial Industries Business Association of New Zealand, Ladies and Gentlemen.
I am very pleased to be here at the launch of the ACIL Tasman report on the economic contribution [...]