On 11th August 2011 Minister for the Arts, Simon Crean, released a discussion paper seeking public input into the National Cultural Policy. This consultation will help to determine a 10 year strategic vision to ensure our arts, cultural and creative endeavours resonate with a 21st century, globally competitive, internationally celebrated and culturally diverse Australia. The Final [...]
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Senator Lundy named in International Top 10 People Changing the World of Internet and Politics
Labor Senator for the ACT Kate Lundy has been selected as one of the international “Top 10 Who Are Changing the World of Internet and Politics” awards, coordinated by PoliticsOnline and the World eDemocracy Forum. Senator Lundy has keenly supported Australian Gov 2.0, including engaging with the Gov 2.0 Taskforce chaired by Nicholas Gruen last [...]
Speech to the New Zealand Labour Open Government policy consultation
Senator Lundy was invited to speak about her experiences and understanding of Open Government and the Australian Gov 2.0 agenda at the New Zealand Labour Open Government policy consultation on the 28th August 2010. The Senator gave a pre-recorded video presentation with her thoughts. Transcript: Hi. I’m Senator Kate Lundy. Thank you very much for [...]
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 [...]
Live chat with The Australian about Gov 2.0
Today I participated in a “live blog” about Gov 2.0. The topic was Gov 2.0, and I had over 170 questions posted. With the hour given, I was only able to respond to about 65 questions, so I’ve put a full transcript, with some additional questions answered below (marked with ADDITIONAL RESPONSE). I have included [...]
Senator Lundy represents the Australian Government at CeBIT Germany
Kate Lundy, Senator for the ACT was invited to Hannover Germany to keynote at the world’s largest ICT event, CeBIT, and her talk will be streamed live over the Internet at 9:30pm today Canberra time. “Connected Worlds” is the main topic at CeBIT 2010, and Senator Lundy will be speaking about how the Australian Government [...]
How you can contribute to the Realising our Broadband Future forum
Senator Lundy explains how you can contribute online to the Realising our Broadband Future Forum, which is on next Thursday and Friday, the 10th and 11th December. The transcript is below and includes all links and additional information. UPDATE (7/12/09): All remote group contributions are listed at http://bbf.civictec.net/ UPDATE (31/12/09): All remote contributions closed soon [...]
ICT & Creative industry development briefing paper handed over to Minister Carr
Senator for the ACT Kate Lundy presented the finalised briefing paper from her third Public Sphere on Australian ICT and Creative Industries Development to the Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, Senator the Hon Kim Carr today to put to the Information Technology Industry Innovation Council. Public Sphere Briefing paper #3 – Australian ICT [...]
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 [...]
