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 [...]
With parliament back in session I have been able to continue my conversations with my Labor colleagues about my ideas for improving our internet policy by introducing a ‘mandatory choice’ (providing an opt out for adults and businesses) approach to the proposed mandatory filtering on RC classification content on the internet.
My understanding is that the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
I went along to the GovHack event last weekend along with Pia, which was pretty amazing! It ended up being about 150 people all up, with a smaller group of dedicated hackers (in the good sense) doing some pretty amazing development work over about 24 hours, mashing up government data sets in new and interesting [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
