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NBN urgently needed in Gungahlin
Senator for the ACT, Kate Lundy and Gungahlin Broadband activist Mr Russ Gillon have today called for NBN priority in Gungahlin to get around Telstra’s broadband blockers.
Senator Lundy and Mr Gillon from ACT Broadband, a grass roots campaign highlighting the impact of broadband-blocking technologies (RIMs)* in Telstra’s copper network have [...]
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NBN urgently needed in Gungahlin
Interview with Russ Gillon from ACT Broadband
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, [...]
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 [...]
Senator Lundy represents the Australian Government at CeBIT Germany
Kate Lundy, Senator for the ACT was invited to Hannover Germany to keynote at the world’s largest ICT event, CeBIT, and her talk will be streamed live over the Internet at 9:30pm today Canberra time.
“Connected Worlds” is the main topic at CeBIT 2010, and Senator Lundy will be speaking about how the Australian Government has [...]
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 [...]
Further thoughts on the filter
Thanks to everyone who has taken the time to contribute so far. I have read all the posts and have outlined some ideas as to how the policy could better reflect the original election commitment of a mandatory filter for children. I am very conscious that this direction will never satisfy those who continue to [...]
My thoughts on the Filter
First, a bit of history: Whilst the call for a mandatory filter had originally come from some Christian and parent groups, the idea attracted cross factional attention in the ALP when Clive Hamilton from the Australia Insititute brought a broad left view into the debate calling for a mandatory filter, not to mention declaring that [...]
Ideas abound at Broadband Futures forum
I thought I would put down a few thoughts and links while I am at the Broadband Futures Forum….it’s day two and having heard from Premier of Tasmania, David Bartlett. If you want to get an insight into how the speech was recieved, check out the twitter feed.
By the way, you can view all of [...]
Group events contributing to Broadband Future Forum
I announced on Monday in collaboration with Minister Conroy and the Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy that there will be several group contribution events happening in parallel with the upcoming Realising our Broadband Future Forum which is at the University of New South Wales in Sydney on December 10 and 11.
These events [...]
New BBF Forum ‘open to your ideas’ webpage
The broadband future web site now has Google Moderator ‘Open-to-your-ideas’ online forum functioning, which I just checked out!
I haven’t used Google moderator this way before but it looks like a great way to pitch your big ideas for the NBN (relatively succinctly and get them into the mix heading into the main conference [...]
