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 [...]
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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 [...]
Humphries turns his back on Gungahlin: Liberals to abolish NBN
Today Senator Humphries was forced to concede that the Liberals, if elected to government, will abandon the NBN rollout in Gungahlin with no alternative plan to deliver high speed broadband. Last week Liberal Senator Gary Humphries was trying to claim credit for the announcement that Gungahlin is one of the early rollout sites for the [...]
Fact sheet about the early NBN rollout to Gungahlin
NBN, bringing real broadband to the Gungahlin area Fact sheet NBN Co are embarking upon the next phase of the fibre to the premises (FTTP) broadband rollouts across Australia, and Gungahlin is one of 14 new sites chosen to have the fibre Internet rolled out mid next year. Please note, this fact sheet will be [...]
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 [...]
ACTA: DMCA Mark II?
We are entering the information age, where economies are built on the back of digital infrastructure. This ensures the full spectrum of ICT related policy, from Gov2.0 to growing ICT exports is more important than ever. We need to make sure our capacity to innovate and collaborate with ICT is harnessed to strengthen our exports. [...]
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/
Reflections from Gov 2.0 Expo 2010, Washington DC
Update: Please also see my speech notes for what I covered in my keynote speech and the Australian panel discussions. Also please see Minister Tanner’s blog post where he supported me going to the Gov 2.0 Expo as the “Australian ambassador promoting the Government’s commitment to Gov 2.0 and our achievements thus far”. Update 2: [...]
