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 [...]
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Geospatial: the lifeblood of data
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 [...]
Government as the ‘platform’ for community innovation
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 [...]
Wikimedia GLAMS up
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 [...]
Wrap up & next steps for Public Sphere Camp
I want to formally thank all of the presenters at the Public Sphere Camp Gov 2.0: Policy and Practice event at parliament house yesterday. All the speakers obviously put an enormous effort into their presentations. I am really grateful everyone was good-humoured about working within very tight time frames, and still able to convey such [...]
Three pillars of Open Government
We have been witnessing a technological revolution for many years now and like the renaissance, the social revolution that follows is profound. As recently as 2002 I remember being challenged about what was perceived as my inappropriately high level of enthusiasm for the Internet. The bursting of the dot.com bubble saw many a cyber-sceptic adopt [...]
Conversations at Copyright Futures
I have already posted my speech to the Copyright Future – Copyright Freedom dinner, however there were a lot of other things happening at this conference that I wanted to discuss. On the evening of the dinner, I was able to catch up with Professor Lawrence Lessig and thanks to Pia’s organisational skill, we were able [...]
Public Sphere #2 – Government 2.0: Policy and Practice
UPDATE: The briefing paper was finalised on the 22nd July and is available both on the Wiki (which includes change logging), and in a prettified PDF with photos, graphs and a mind map. All recommendations were put into an endorsement system for quality assurance and potentially prioritisation. Please see the blog post for more information. [...]
Copyright Future – Dinner Address
Copyright Future: Copyright Freedom Conference 27-28 March 2009 Old Parliament House Canberra Dinner Presentation I’d like to begin tonight by illustrating the beauty of open access to intellectual property. I am going to borrow a thought from Lawrence Lessig, who in turn is borrowing from someone else. I thinks it contextualises my comments. Lawrence wrote [...]
Metadata Seminar – opening address
Sharing Data, Sharing Ideas Slides will be available from presentions at the seminar. Wednesday 21st May 2009 Knibbs Theatre, ABS House, Canberra Notes from opening address. I would like to acknowledge the traditional owners on whose land we are gathered. I pay my respects to elders past and present, and thank them for their ongoing [...]
