This video highlights some of the Federal Government investments in the ACT, discussing examples of the Digital Education Revolution, Building the Education Revolution and the Trade Training Centres. Transcript to follow. Category: News & PoliticsUploaded by: KateLundyHosted: youtube
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Investing in education in the ACT
This video showcases education investments in the ACT including projects under the Digital Education Revolution, Building the Education Revolution and the Trade Training Centres. Thank you to all schools, principals, teachers and students who agreed to participate! Transcript: Senator Kate Lundy: I’ve been visiting schools all around Canberra looking at how our investments in education [...]
Speech to the Technology in Government and the Public Sector conference
Firstly I would like to acknowledge the traditional owners of the land on which we have gathered, the Ngunnawal people, and thank them for their continuing contributions to our wonderful Canberra community. The first term of a new government is arguably one of the most transformative periods in modern democracies as new ideas responding to [...]
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 [...]
New opportunities for open government
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 [...]
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 [...]
Green ICT: are you ready for this?
Yesterday I addressed a Green IT forum “Are you carbon ready?”, held at Old Parliament House in Canberra. It was a great timing as that day we would begin the debate in the Senate on the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme Bill that the Rudd Government is proposing as Australia’s emissions trading scheme. My presentation reflected [...]
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. [...]
Community News June 2009
Here is my annual ‘Community News’ letter for the residents of Canberra, which I sent out to the Canberra Senate electorate in June. It includes a brief overview of latest news and initiatives which affect the people of Canberra. This edition of ’Community News’ focuses on the 2009/10 Federal Budget and nation building infrastructure for economic stimulus. [...]
Metadata Seminar – opening address
Sharing Data, Sharing Ideas Slides will be available from presentions at the seminar. Wednesday 21st May 2009 Knibbs Theatre, ABS House, Canberra Notes from opening address. I would like to acknowledge the traditional owners on whose land we are gathered. I pay my respects to elders past and present, and thank them for their ongoing [...]
