Today the Minister for Finance, Lindsay Tanner and the Special Minister of State Joe Ludwig made a ground breaking announcement for Australia. They released the Australian Government response to the Gov 2.0 Taskforce Report which was launched in December last year and will be launching a Declaration for Open Government in the near future. This [...]
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National Records & Information Officers’ Forum 2010
This morning I presented at the National Records and Information Officers’ Forum 2010 in Melbourne. The Forum also had speakers from a range of private and public organisations covering innovations in digital record-keeping, standards and future directions. My presentation traversed a range of issues including the importance closing the digital divide through the national braodband [...]
Reflections on “Building Britain’s Digital Future”
On the 22nd March the UK Prime Minister, Gordon Brown gave a speech about “Building Britain’s Digital Future“. It was streamed realtime over the Internet and had a busy and interesting online discussion on Twitter with the hashtag #bbdf. Prime Minister Brown spoke of the Britain of the year 2020: “… which leads the world [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Emergency 2.0 Australia: Geospatial & social media Project
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 [...]
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 [...]
NICTA Speech: Government 2.0 – Co-designing A Better Democracy
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 [...]
NICTA Big Picture Seminar – October 2009
Senator Lundy gave a significant speech for the NICTA Big Picture seminar series on Government 2.0: co-designing a better democracy. It is a 45 minute speech, and covers open government, open data, Gov 2.0, her Public Spheres initiative and much more. We hope you enjoy. Full details at http://www.katelundy.com.au/2009/11/25/nicta-speech-government-2-0-co-designing-a-better-democracy/ —- Big Picture Seminar If the [...]
