Senator Lundy spoke to Russ Gillon from ACT Broadband to briefly discuss some of the issues facing ACT contstituents living in areas such as Gungahlin.
This short video is an introduction to the problems, and will be followed up by a longer and more in-depth interview.
Transcript:
Kate: Russ, you’ve obviously been campaigning for quite some time now, [...]
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Interview with Russ Gillon from ACT Broadband
Audio from the ACCAN Government 2.0 Roundtable on Accessibility
Late last year, ACCAN ran a Government 2.0 Roundtable on Accessibility for People with Disabilities. We arranged to have the event recorded (audio only) and have now put all the recordings online. We have put the recordings up on a website called DotSub where people can contribute transcriptions, in the hope that people from ACCAN [...]
Youth videos up online
Late last year Minister for Youth Kate Ellis had an online and offline consultation about issues facing young Australians. As our contribution to this consultation, we went around the ACT and did interviews with young people in schools, work and universities. We had an enormous amount of content and were able to put some of [...]
How you can contribute to the Realising our Broadband Future forum
Senator Lundy explains how you can contribute online to the Realising our Broadband Future Forum, which is on next Thursday and Friday, the 10th and 11th December. The transcript is below and includes all links and additional information.
UPDATE (7/12/09): All remote group contributions are listed at http://bbf.civictec.net/
UPDATE (31/12/09): All remote contributions closed soon after the [...]
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 [...]
Cotter Dam extension starts
Today marks the start of construction on the Cotter Dam extension on the western outskirts of Canberra. Enlarging the Cotter Dam has long been contemplated as an option for increasing water supply to the ACT and surrounding region.
Constructed in 1912 and enlarged to 4 gigalitres (GL) in 1951, the Cotter Dam provided all Canberra’s water [...]
GovHack – a resounding success!
I went along to the GovHack event last weekend along with Pia, which was pretty amazing! It ended up being about 150 people all up, with a smaller group of dedicated hackers (in the good sense) doing some pretty amazing development work over about 24 hours, mashing up government data sets in new and interesting [...]
GovHack – Come along and mashup government data
Senator Lundy discusses the govhack event happening in Canberra on the 30/31st October 2009.
Transcript:
Friday and Saturday of this week and exciting event’s happening in Canberra. Under the auspices of the Gov 2.0 Taskforce, we are promoting govhack.
Now this is a fantastic event where heaps of geeks are going to get together to mashup Public Sector [...]
Laurie Wilson interviews Senator Lundy on Viewpoint – from sport to technology
Senator Lundy is interviewed about her background, interest in ICT, Government 2.0, Canberra and a few personal topics such as her passion for sport.
Transcript:
Laurie Wilson: Hello and welcome to another edition of viewpoint. Kate Lundy has represented the people of the ACT in the senate for well over a decade. Like many Labor party politicians [...]
The Gershon Review and the ICT Reform Program
Below is a vodcast by Senator Kate Lundy outlining the status of the ICT Reform Program, a set of projects and initiatives resulting from the Gershon Review which was presented to the government in late 2008.
Transcript
The government was pretty quick to accept all of the recommendations of the Gershon Review and have since then implemented [...]
