Below is the address Senator Lundy gave to FutureGov 2011 on Gov 2.0 as a mechanism for resilience in a 21st century democracy. Below the speech are some short podcasts from Andrew Stott (previous Director of Digital Engagement in the UK) and Chris Moore (CIO for the City of Edmonton, Canada). All transcripts are under [...]
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Launching the Open Technology Foundation with Dr Terry Cutler
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 [...]
Accessing Australia: The Challenges of Digitisation
Senator Lundy gave a speech at the “HASS on the Hill” conference as part of a session on Accessing Australia: the challenges of digitisation. HASS on the Hill is an event coordinated by the Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (CHASS) for the humanities, arts and social sciences sector to communicate with government [...]
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 [...]
Speech to the Technology in Government and the Public Sector conference
Firstly I would like to acknowledge the traditional owners of the land on which we have gathered, the Ngunnawal people, and thank them for their continuing contributions to our wonderful Canberra community. The first term of a new government is arguably one of the most transformative periods in modern democracies as new ideas responding to [...]
The Declaration of Open Government
Today Minister Tanner launched the Australian Declaration of Open Government on the AGIMO Govspace website. The Declaration was one of the core recommendations of the Gov 2.0 Taskforce Report (the Government response is here), and it includes some good key principles for Open Government in the 21st century which I’ve quoted below: The Australian Government’s [...]
Declaration of open government imminent
Article in Computerworld: The Federal Government will soon act on one of the Government 2.0 Taskforce’s central recommendation in declaring an open government, according to Labour Senator, Kate Lundy. Full article at http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/348084/declaration_open_government_imminent/
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
