On Wednesday the 14th September, I’m going to be launching the Open Technology Foundation with the organisation’s new Chair, Dr Terry Cutler. The Open Technology Foundation has been a couple of years in the making, and is an initiative about supporting the use of open technologies, methods and standards across governments. They have participation at [...]
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Citizen-centric services: A necessary principle for achieving genuine open government
Below is a speech given by Senator Kate Lundy at the Citizen Centric Service Delivery 2011 conference on March 1st 2011. Open Government can mean many things. It relates to accessible and transparent data, the extent government engages citizens in decision making and the accessibility of government itself. With the increases in Internet access in [...]
Welcome news for Open Source
Last week the Federal Labor Government’s Special Minister of State, Gary Gray announced the revised Federal Government policy on open source procurement. I have taken a long standing interest in open source and ICT procurement generally and want to acknowledge the merit of the revised policy, which aims to strengthen the consideration of open source software by agencies [...]
ACTA: DMCA Mark II?
We are entering the information age, where economies are built on the back of digital infrastructure. This ensures the full spectrum of ICT related policy, from Gov2.0 to growing ICT exports is more important than ever. We need to make sure our capacity to innovate and collaborate with ICT is harnessed to strengthen our exports. [...]
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 [...]
Audio from the ACCAN Government 2.0 Roundtable on Accessibility
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
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 [...]
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 [...]
New International Law Review for FOSS
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 [...]
