As I looked through the budget looking for benefits to my constituents are areas of interest, I was very happy to see some of the ICT-related budget items. I thought I would make a short video about some things that I found interesting, and have added a few more below the video transcript with plenty [...]
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Information Awareness Month – Gov 2.0: Communities and conversations
Senator Lundy gave this speech to open Information Awareness Month 2010. Below is the full speech, whereas the video was edited slightly to the maximum length allowed by Youtube. Below are also some of the other video content presented at the event.
I acknowledge the traditional owners of the land on which we are gathered, the [...]
Australia commits to Gov 2.0
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 [...]
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 network, [...]
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 in open, [...]
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 with it a great [...]
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 [...]
Q and A from my thoughts on the internet filter
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
