As someone who has been interested in technology for many years, I thought it would be interesting to do a bit of an overview of programs in the 2011-2012 Federal Budget that relate to technology and to our capacity as a nation to leverage the benefits and opportunities presented in the digital age, along with [...]
gov20
Speech to the Annual Institute of Information Management Dinner
Senator Lundy spoke at the annual dinner for the Institute of Information Management, as part of Information Awareness Month. Below are some notes from the speech. Please note, a video will be released next week featuring Senator Lundy discussing all technology related items from the budget which will build upon the items below. The value [...]
Senator Lundy announces the FutureGov Congress coming to Australia
Senator Kate Lundy spoke at the launch event for the FutureGov Congress event, which will be running in Canberra this September. Full details and a transcript of the speech are available at: Category: News & PoliticsUploaded by: KateLundyHosted: youtube
Mohit Sagar from FutureGov Magazine speaks at the FutureGov Congress Australia launch
This is the second video from the FutureGov Congress Australia launch. Mohit Sagar from FutureGov Magazine speaks at the FutureGov Congress Australia launch. Full details along with the speech by Senator Lundy available on the blog post at: Category: News & PoliticsUploaded by: KateLundyHosted: youtube
Accessing Australia: The Challenges of Digitisation
Senator Lundy gave a speech at the “HASS on the Hill” conference as part of a session on Accessing Australia: the challenges of digitisation. HASS on the Hill is an event coordinated by the Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (CHASS) for the humanities, arts and social sciences sector to communicate with government [...]
Citizen-centric services: A necessary principle for achieving genuine open government
Below is a speech given by Senator Kate Lundy at the Citizen Centric Service Delivery 2011 conference on March 1st 2011. Open Government can mean many things. It relates to accessible and transparent data, the extent government engages citizens in decision making and the accessibility of government itself. With the increases in Internet access in [...]
Welcome news for Open Source
Last week the Federal Labor Government’s Special Minister of State, Gary Gray announced the revised Federal Government policy on open source procurement. I have taken a long standing interest in open source and ICT procurement generally and want to acknowledge the merit of the revised policy, which aims to strengthen the consideration of open source software by agencies [...]
Press clipping: The World’s Top 10 Gov 2.0 Initiatives
Senator Lundy was named n umber 5 in a short list of the world’s top 10 Gov 2.0 initiatives for 2010. Read the full article at http://shareable.net/blog/the-worlds-top-10-gov-20-initiatives
Press clipping: Gov 2.0 more than a “one-shot” for South Australia
Article in ComputerWorld Au by James Hutchinson about Gov 2.0 and what the South Australian Government is planning: The United States Air Force and Labor senator, Kate Lundy, have become inspirations for the South Australian Government’s burgeoning Gov 2.0 initiatives, according to government CIO, Andrew Mills. Though the state hasn’t been as proactive in its [...]
