On September 27th 2010, Senator Lundy did a pre-recorded video for the 2010 Australasian Curriculum, Assessment and Certification Conference about the importance of technology and cultural diversity skills for preparing young people for the 21st century. Transcript to follow. Senator Lundy’s submission on technology skills to ACACA from April 2010: katelundy.com.au/2010/04/22/open-submission-to-the-national-curriculum-consultation/ Conference information is available [...]
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Senator Lundy discusses technology and cultural diversity skills at 2010 ACACA conference
Senator Kate Lundy spoke at the 2010 Australasian Curriculum, Assessment and Certification Conference about the importance of technology and cultural diversity skills for preparing young people for the 21st century. ACACA information at: acaca.bos.nsw.edu.au/ Senator Lundy’s submission on technology skills to ACACA from April 2010: katelundy.com.au/2010/04/22/open-submission-to-the-national-curriculum-consultation/ Transcript to follow. Uploaded by: Kate LundyHosted: vimeo
Press clipping: Data#3 MD awarded a Pearcey
Article by Negar Salek on CRN: Interview: John Grant delighted to receive lifetime achievement award. The 2010 Pearcey Medal was awarded to Data#3 CEO John Grant at the World Computer Congress in Brisbane last week. The Pearcey Medal was presented to an individual who had made an “outstanding life-long commitment” to the ICT sector. Senator [...]
Press clipping: Aussies named global e-Gov leaders
Article by Liz Tay in ITNews: The World eDemocracy Forum this week named Canberra Senator Kate Lundy and Department of Health director Craig Thomler as two of the 10 most influential e-government leaders in the world. Fourteen activists, politicians and publishers were shortlisted for the “Top 10 Who Are Changing the World of Internet and [...]
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 briefly discusses the NBN expansion of fibre to 93%
Senator Lundy briefly discusses the announcement of the NBN expansion of the fibre to the premises 100 Mbps network from 90% of the population to 93%. TRANSCRIPT Yesterday the Federal Labor Party announced the National Broadband Network would be going further than the 90% fibre to the premises. They’ve now followed the advice of the [...]
Press clipping: Politician Profiles: Senator Kate Lundy
Senator Lundy was interviewed by Computerworld for a profile piece on her thoughts around ICT: Senator Kate Lundy has become known in the technology community as a fierce advocate of government engagement and Gov 2.0, pushing for support of many of the recommendations made last year by the Government 2.0 Taskforce, and pre-empting the declaration [...]
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 [...]
OLPC Oceania update and chance meeting with Gartner’s Andrea Di Maio
Some days just work out right. Last Thursday week was one of them. Early in the day, I bumped into Glenn Archer, the CIO of DEEWR whilst walking in Parliament House who mentioned Andrea Di Maio was in Canberra for the day. I asked Glenn if he could ask whether we could arrange a meeting [...]
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/
