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 [...]
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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 [...]
New opportunities for open government
Yesterday Senator Lundy gave a speech in Parliament about the new opportunities presented to government with online tools and open community methods. She only got about half way through the speech in Parliament, so we decided to post the whole speech here. Transcript Today I would like to take this opportunity to recognise the ground-breaking [...]
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 [...]
CeBIT Australia Gov2.0 Conference Keynote Speech
UPDATE: The video from this speech is available here, courtesy of CeBIT. Here is the text for the presentation I just gave to the CeBIT Australia Gov2.0 Conference being held at the Hyatt Hotel in Canberra today.The conference is streaming live and the hashtag for twitter users is #Gov2. Originally I was going to chair [...]
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 [...]
NBN will cause a social tipping point: Senator Kate Lundy
The National Broadband Network (NBN) will give the Government the incentive it needs to invest in the digital sector, according to ACT Senator Kate Lundy who spoke at a Wikimedia event in Canberra.
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 [...]
Three pillars of Open Government
We have been witnessing a technological revolution for many years now and like the renaissance, the social revolution that follows is profound. As recently as 2002 I remember being challenged about what was perceived as my inappropriately high level of enthusiasm for the Internet. The bursting of the dot.com bubble saw many a cyber-sceptic adopt [...]
