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 [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Wrapup and thanks vodcast for Public Sphere 2: Gov 2.0
This short video wraps up some of the outcomes and ideas of “Public Sphere 2: Gov 2.0” along with thanks by Senator Lundy to all those who contributed. We had some technical issues with this vodcast wchich resulted in us having to capture the video via a screencast, so our apologies for the low video [...]
Vodcast: Kate’s Monthly Wrap #1
Senator Lundy does her first monthly wrapup including a snapshot of Kate’s recent ACT, Parliamentary and ICT activities and campaigns. Transcript Kate’s Monthly Wrap #1 Welcome to this vodcast. I’m trying something new again and I’d like to be able to present a monthly wrapup. What I’ve been doing over the last part of the [...]
Vodcast: How I became interested in ICT
Senator Kate Lundy describes her personal story of how she became interested in ICT and what meaning it has for her in politics and government. Transcript My interest in ICT really started back when I worked for a Trade Union. I didn’t go to university, so I didn’t know about the Internet before about 1993. [...]
