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Speech notes from Google Election 2010 Launch
Senator Lundy spoke at the Google Australia Election 2010 launch, alongside other panelists, Paul Fletcher MP and Senator Scott Ludlam. Her speech notes are below, and all video content from the event is available at http://www.youtube.com/australiavotes.
If the first incarnation of the internet saw the democratisation of information and made us all publishers, the second incarnation [...]
Declaration of open government imminent
Article in Computerworld:
The Federal Government will soon act on one of the Government 2.0 Taskforce’s central recommendation in declaring an open government, according to Labour Senator, Kate Lundy.
Full article at http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/348084/declaration_open_government_imminent/
Reflections from Gov 2.0 Expo 2010, Washington DC
Update: Please also see my speech notes for what I covered in my keynote speech and the Australian panel discussions. Also please see Minister Tanner’s blog post where he supported me going to the Gov 2.0 Expo as the “Australian ambassador promoting the Government’s commitment to Gov 2.0 and our achievements thus far”.
Update 2: Feedback [...]
Information Awareness Month – Gov 2.0: Communities and conversations
Senator Lundy gave this speech to open Information Awareness Month 2010. Below is the full speech, whereas the video was edited slightly to the maximum length allowed by Youtube. Below are also some of the other video content presented at the event.
I acknowledge the traditional owners of the land on which we are gathered, the [...]
Australia commits to Gov 2.0
Today the Minister for Finance, Lindsay Tanner and the Special Minister of State Joe Ludwig made a ground breaking announcement for Australia. They released the Australian Government response to the Gov 2.0 Taskforce Report which was launched in December last year and will be launching a Declaration for Open Government in the near future. This [...]
The history and issues around broadband in the Gungahlin area
This video describes the history, technical issues and the impact on users resulting from the broadband issues in the Gungahlin area. The video includes commentary from Senator Kate Lundy, Russ Gillon (from ACT Broadband) and Palmerston resident, Greg Wells.
The captions are on the video, and there is a transcript below.
Transcript:
Kate Lundy
This video is the next [...]
Reflections on “Building Britain’s Digital Future”
On the 22nd March the UK Prime Minister, Gordon Brown gave a speech about “Building Britain’s Digital Future“. It was streamed realtime over the Internet and had a busy and interesting online discussion on Twitter with the hashtag #bbdf.
Prime Minister Brown spoke of the Britain of the year 2020:
“… which leads the world in open, [...]
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 [...]
Recommendations from ICT/Creative Industries Public Sphere up for endorsement
Public Sphere 3: ICT & Creative Industry Development is now finally closed for further edits. The recommendations are all in an online endorsement system called IdeaScale and we’d like to strongly encourage you to take a few minutes to endorse recommendations you care about. This process is a basic quality assurance of the ideas as [...]
