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, [...]
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Interview with Russ Gillon from ACT Broadband
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 [...]
A Capital Talk Tri Talk Tech: Episode Six – Interview with a Senator
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 [...]
Audio from the ACCAN Government 2.0 Roundtable on Accessibility
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 [...]
New E-book: how to be green in ICT
Around the time when global leaders were arriving at the Copenhagen Climate Change Summit, the Australian Government hosted a different summit in Sydney, much of it online. The Realising Our Broadband Futures Summit participants discussed some of the exciting ideas that a ubiquitous high bandwidth network will inspire.
Not surprisingly, addressing climate change through clever use [...]
Ideas abound at Broadband Futures forum
I thought I would put down a few thoughts and links while I am at the Broadband Futures Forum….it’s day two and having heard from Premier of Tasmania, David Bartlett. If you want to get an insight into how the speech was recieved, check out the twitter feed.
By the way, you can view all of [...]
New BBF Forum ‘open to your ideas’ webpage
The broadband future web site now has Google Moderator ‘Open-to-your-ideas’ online forum functioning, which I just checked out!
I haven’t used Google moderator this way before but it looks like a great way to pitch your big ideas for the NBN (relatively succinctly and get them into the mix heading into the main conference [...]
Parliamentary speech: New opportunities for open government
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 [...]
CeBIT Australia Gov2.0 Conference Keynote Speech
UPDATE: The video from this speech is available here, courtesy of CeBIT.
Here is the text for the presentation I just gave to the CeBIT Australia Gov2.0 Conference being held at the Hyatt Hotel in Canberra today.The conference is streaming live and the hashtag for twitter users is #Gov2.
Originally I was going to chair the conference [...]
