Senator Kate Lundy will be a keynote speaker at the international Gov 2.0 Expo later this week. She will be discussing Open Government, and how Australia is innovating with technology and new community collaborations to make government more transparent, participatory and responsive to the changing needs of citizens. http://www.gov2expo.com/ The Senator was originally invited to [...]
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Metadata Australia 2010 opening speech
Senator Kate Lundy opened the Metadata Australia 2010 conference with this remote video presentation. Transcript I’m really pleased to be giving this opening address at the Metadata Australia 2010 conference. I’m sorry I can’t be there in person but this is an incredibly important issue and I’d like to wish you all the best for [...]
Call put out for Gov 2.0 showcase
Computer article about the launch of the Australian Gov 2.0 showcase: The Federal Government has put a call out for case studies on the use of web 2.0 technologies in the government space with a view to setting up a gallery to help the edification of others. Full details at http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/346605/call_put_gov_2_0_showcase/
ICT & Open Government in the 2010-2011 Budget
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
