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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Earlier this morning, before the Senate resumed, I participated in an ‘Emergency 2.0 Australia: Geospatial and social media making a difference’ Roundtable discussion organised by NGIS and Know And Then under the auspices of the Gov2.0 Taskforce project of the same name.
The discussion brought together stakeholders from government agencies, emergency services, elected representatives, the ABC, [...]
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 [...]
Senator Lundy recently gave a speech as part of the the Queensland NICTA Big Picture Seminar Series. It covered a lot of ground around Government 2.0, open government, policy and technical foundations for open government, some of her favourite case studies and more.
Government 2.0: co-designing a better democracy
Big Picture Seminar
30th October 2009
Our apologies for the [...]
Senator Lundy discusses the govhack event happening in Canberra on the 30/31st October 2009.
Transcript:
Friday and Saturday of this week and exciting event’s happening in Canberra. Under the auspices of the Gov 2.0 Taskforce, we are promoting govhack.
Now this is a fantastic event where heaps of geeks are going to get together to mashup Public Sector [...]
This morning I presented at the FOSS4G Conference at Darling Harbour in Sydney. It’s official name is the Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial Conference 2009. It was one of the the many conferences I attend that I wish I could have spent more time at. Cameron Shorter, the hard-working conference organiser (congrats) has [...]
Adrian Cunningham’s post on digital archives on the Gov2.0 Taskforce website is a timely reminder of the practical challenges that lie ahead of the Government in making the transition from analogue to digital archiving. In doing so Adrian reinforces the point that with this transition to digital, the benefits lie not just in records being [...]
This aspect was reinforced by Senator Kate Lundy, Senator for the ACT, who said in her opening speech on the Friday, “Open access to public data is extremely important for community and cultural engagement. Wikimedia Australia have done a great job in starting an important discussion with Australian public and cultural institutions around improving access [...]
