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Audio from the ACCAN Government 2.0 Roundtable on Accessibility

January 7, 2010 | By Pia Waugh | Posted in Blog, Video | Also tagged ACT, broadband, digital economy, gov20, government, indi, Internet, NBN, telstra | Comments (0)

Late last year, ACCAN ran a Government 2.0 Roundtable on Accessibility for People with Disabilities. We arranged to have the event recorded (audio only) and have now put all the recordings online. We have put the recordings up on a website called DotSub where people can contribute transcriptions, in the hope that people from ACCAN [...]

NICTA Speech: Government 2.0 – Co-designing A Better Democracy

November 25, 2009 | By Pia Waugh | Posted in Public Speeches, Video | Also tagged gov20, government, ICT, open data, open government, open standards, Public Sphere | Comments (0)

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 [...]

Geospatial: the lifeblood of data

October 22, 2009 | By Kate Lundy | Posted in Public Speeches | Also tagged digital economy, government, ICT, open data, open government, open standards | Comments (3)

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

September 15, 2009 | By Kate Lundy | Posted in Blog | Also tagged digital economy, egovernment, gov20, government, Internet, open data, open government, open standards, Public Sphere | Comments (6)

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 [...]

New International Law Review for FOSS

July 19, 2009 | By Kate Lundy | Posted in Blog | Also tagged congratulations, digital economy | Comments (0)

Congratulations to Brendan Scott and everyone involved in the creation of a new International Law Review for Free and Open Source Software.
There was a soft launch last Wednesday ahead of the formal event in London next Wednesday. Brendan blogged about it, which is how it came to my attention. Brendan makes the point that prior to [...]

When ‘Free’ is a business model…

July 17, 2009 | By Kate Lundy | Posted in Blog | Also tagged business, digital economy, Internet | Comments (2)

When you are flat out working across a number of fronts it is easy to lose sight of the wood for the trees. So a couple of weeks leave was a very good way to reflect on the whole landscape. The snippets of commentary about information management in both the public and private sector in [...]

Wrap up & next steps for Public Sphere Camp

June 23, 2009 | By Kate Lundy | Posted in Blog, Public Sphere 2: Government 2.0 | Also tagged egovernment, gov20, government, open data, open government, open standards | Comments (4)

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 depth [...]

Participants – ‘Foundations of Open’ Local Summit

April 17, 2008 | By Kate Lundy | Posted in Media Releases | Also tagged foundations summit, ICT, open standards | Comments (0)

Senator Kate Lundy
ACT Labor Senator

Roger Fisher
Office of Senator Kate Lundy

Rachel Allen
Office of Senator Kate Lundy

Senator Stephen Conroy
Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy

Andrew Lanigan
Adviser to Senator Stephen Conroy

Tim Murphy
Adviser to Senator Kim Carr, Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research

Colin Steele
Australian National University

Robin Stanton
Dept. of Computer Science, Australian National University

Bob Edwards
Depart. of Computer Science, [...]

Ideas from the ‘Foundations of Open’ Local Summit

April 8, 2008 | By Kate Lundy | Posted in Media Releases | Also tagged DER, foundations summit, ICT, open data, open government, open standards | Comments (0)

Presenters’ submissions
Idea from Local 2020 Summit: Foundations of Open: Technology and Digital Knowledge, Canberra ACT.
Openness for Government – a national imperative
Pia Waugh
Openness as a default position for ICT innovation and development provides many clear opportunities and advantages. Clear leadership and assistance is necessary from the Australian Government so individuals and organisations from all sectors can [...]

Foundations of Open: Technology and Digital Knowledge

April 5, 2008 | By Kate Lundy | Posted in Campaigns | Also tagged foundations summit, ICT, open data, open government, open standards | Comments (0)

Link to official 2020 Local Summit website (http://www.australia2020.gov.au/local/index.cfm)
Foundations of Open: Technology and Digital Knowledge
Local 2020 Summit
Thursday 3rd April 2008
The Australian National University

LINK TO IDEAS GENERATED FROM THIS LOCAL SUMMIT
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