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 [...]
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Wrap up & next steps for Public Sphere Camp
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 [...]
Participants – ‘Foundations of Open’ Local Summit
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 [...]
Ideas from the ‘Foundations of Open’ Local Summit
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 [...]
Foundations of Open: Technology and Digital Knowledge
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 Moodle for Local Summit recordings, biographies, other details and links (Please either click the Login as a guest button or create [...]
Will the future of innovation be built on Open Foundations?
ACT Senator Kate Lundy and Tom Worthington, Adjunct Senior Lecturer at The Australian National University are co-chairing a Local Summit in Canberra today that will explore the opportunities presented by open technology and digital knowledge. “Having a Local Summit on the Foundations of Open Technology and Digital Knowledge will shine a spotlight on the important [...]
Software Freedom Day 2006
SFD Conference University of NSW, Sydney Thank you for having me here today to speak and celebrate international software freedom day! I want to give you an insight into how federal politics and policies impact upon Free and Open Source Software in Australia. There are three main areas of effect: Firstly, the Commonwealth Government as [...]
Labor moves on Open Standards and Open Source Software for Government IT
Open standards are the foundation for efficient and interoperable IT systems, and will enable greater use of open source software in the public sector. It is important that Open Source Software can compete fairly with other software in the market, and Labor is committed to removing the barriers facing smaller local companies wanting to compete [...]
Open Source in Government
Open Source Software: Providing Greater Security and Innovation in the Delivery of E-Government Services Open Source Software Conference Sydney 11 September 2003 Thankyou for the invitation to speak here today. I am going to start by taking a big picture view. The Information Age in which we all now live has brought with it two [...]
Coalition only paid lip-service to Open Source alternative
The Howard Government has only feigned interest in Open Source Software, delivering no practical outcomes other than a seminar earlier this year. Once again it has been left up to Labor, both at a state and federal level, to take the initiative and investigate Open Source Software as an alternative to proprietary software. Some of [...]
