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 [...]
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 [...]
Podcast interview with “A Capital Talk Trio”:
In this episode we talk to Senator Kate Lundy, and her senior policy advisor Pia Waugh (who’s also well known in the Australian and International free-and-open-source-software community).
We should note that Senator Lundy’s comments about the Clean Feed were made before the report was released and the government’s plan to [...]
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 [...]
Earlier this morning, before the Senate resumed, I participated in an ‘Emergency 2.0 Australia: Geospatial and social media making a difference’ Roundtable discussion organised by NGIS and Know And Then under the auspices of the Gov2.0 Taskforce project of the same name.
The discussion brought together stakeholders from government agencies, emergency services, elected representatives, the ABC, [...]
The ANU (Australian National University) is today hosting an important and timely forum in Canberra on e-health, which I had the privelege of opening just a little while ago. The forum is a joint initiative of the ASPR (Australasian Society for Psychiatric Research) and ISRII (International Society for Research on Internet Interventions) and titled: From [...]
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 work of [...]
Gov2.0 Roundtable on Accessibility for People with Disabilities
Thursday 26 November, 2009, 9am-1.30pm
Parliament House Canberra, Committee Room 2S3
Senior government leaders and industry will meet in Canberra tomorrow (Thursday 26 November, 2009) to discuss accessibility of government communications services for people with disabilities hosted by the Australian Communications Consumer Action Network (ACCAN) and Senator for the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
