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 [...]
Public Speeches
Parliamentary speech: New opportunities for open government
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 [...]
GLAM WIKI: Finding Common Ground
This is an important and timely conference and I congratulate the organisers of Glam Wiki for their foresight.
There are several public policy initiatives which place Australia in the vortex of the social revolution that is occurring on the back of some incredible digital technological developments over the last 30 to 40 years or so.
The first [...]
AuDA Australia and New Zealand Best Practice Awards open for nominations
Senator Lundy opened the AuDA Australia and New Zealand Best Practice Awards event last month with this short pre-recorded video.
Entries close for the awards the 31st August 2009, and information is available here: http://www.bestpracticeawards.org.au/
Transcript:
Hello everyone. I’m really pleased to be here as part of the launch – albeit by recording – of the Australian and [...]
Copyright Future – Dinner Address
Copyright Future: Copyright Freedom
Conference
27-28 March 2009
Old Parliament House Canberra
Dinner Presentation
I’d like to begin tonight by illustrating the beauty of open access to intellectual property. I am going to borrow a thought from Lawrence Lessig, who in turn is borrowing from someone else. I thinks it contextualises my comments.
Lawrence wrote this of the US Republican Party [...]
