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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
November 26, 2009
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By Pia Waugh
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Also posted in Senate Speeches
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Tagged ACT, broadband, congratulations, DER, gov20, government, ICT, Internet, NBN, open data, open government, open standards, Public Sphere
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]