MEDIA RELEASE
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 [...]
ICT
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, [...]
Q&A with Senator Kate Lundy
Labor Senator, Kate Lundy, is one of the few Government politicians to go on record against the proposed mandatory ISP filter. ARN spoke with her about voting against it, the effects of Gershon on jobs and CeBIT 2010.
You have been lauded by many people opposed to the mandatory Internet filter because of your strong stance [...]
Press clipping: Lundy: Gershon is good for SMBs
Article by David Ramli (ARN)
“SMBs will benefit in the long term from the Gershon review, but no new powers will be given to the SMB IT advocate, according to Government Senator, Kate Lundy.”
Click through to read the entire press clipping.
Supplier Advocate to Champion IT
Joint Media Release with Minister Kim Carr and Senator Kate Lundy
Australia’s $98 billion IT industry is set to benefit, with an IT Supplier Advocate to be appointed to help secure more major IT contracts.
The IT Supplier Advocate is part of the Rudd Government’s $8.2 million Supplier Advocate Program, which appoints respected industry [...]
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 [...]
Community News: February 2010
At the bottom of this newsletter is a survey where I want to hear your views.
Investing in local jobs and education
The Rudd Labor Government’s economic and infrastructure stimulus is supporting local jobs and the Canberra economy. Investments include:
$242.705 million for 257 halls and classrooms across the ACT’s public and private schools.
$28.68 million for the construction [...]
ACT schools selected for cyber-safety pilot program
Senator for the ACT, Kate Lundy today congratulated local schools Red Hill Primary School, St Thomas the Apostle and St John the Apostle Primary School, who have been selected to participate in the new cyber-safety and student wellbeing pilot program.
The $3 million initiative, developed by child safety charity the Alannah and Madeline Foundation and funded [...]
Twitterers ungather to air views
IT’S A CONFERENCE, but not as we know it.
The Australian National University hosted the third Canberra BarCamp yesterday, an unorthodox gathering of like-minded souls brought together by a thirst for knowledge, to meet new people and chow down on sandwiches.
”We’ve got a real story going on at the moment we’ve got geeks eating salad,” unorganiser [...]
