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 [...]
Public Sphere
Recommendations from ICT/Creative Industries Public Sphere up for endorsement
Public Sphere 3: ICT & Creative Industry Development is now finally closed for further edits. The recommendations are all in an online endorsement system called IdeaScale and we’d like to strongly encourage you to take a few minutes to endorse recommendations you care about. This process is a basic quality assurance of the ideas as [...]
Laurie Wilson interviews Senator Lundy on Viewpoint – from sport to technology
Senator Lundy is interviewed about her background, interest in ICT, Government 2.0, Canberra and a few personal topics such as her passion for sport. Transcript: Laurie Wilson: Hello and welcome to another edition of viewpoint. Kate Lundy has represented the people of the ACT in the senate for well over a decade. Like many Labor [...]
Radio interview: Participatory democracy, Web 2.0 and the Government 2.0 Taskforce
Dr Nicholas Gruen is head of the Australian government’s Government 2.0 Taskforce, which is in the final stages of a public consultation process. Dr Gruen is due to report his recommendations and findings by December 31. So what are his priorities and how does he answer the sceptics — not about his taskforce, but about [...]
Ranking of recommendations from Public Sphere 2: Gov 2.0
Please find the ranking of the recommendations arising from the Public Sphere 2: Gov 2.0 topic. This was presented to the Taskforce and the Briefing Paper handover and Q&A session last month. The original recommendations were derived from the Public Sphere process, and honed in the Public Sphere 2 wiki. Please click through for a [...]
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 [...]
Senator Kate Lundy ‘Upgrading Democracy’
The Centre for Policy Development has released a new e-book that calls for Australia to ‘upgrade its democracy’ by combining open access to government information with collaborative policy development to increase citizens’ participation in the decisions that affect their lives. The Government2.0 Taskforce, a Labor Government initiative announced at Senator Lundy’s second Public Sphere event [...]
Senator Lundy makes 13th for international people “Changing the World of Internet and Politics”
Kate Lundy, Senator for the ACT, ICT enthusiast and advocate has been voted 13 out of 25 for the international “Top 10 Who Are Changing the World of Internet and Politics” award, coordinated by PoliticsOnline and the World eDemocracy Forum, narrowly missing out being placed in the top 10. While Senator Lundy didn’t make the [...]
Senator Lundy promotes community engagement on Australian ICT and Creative Industries Development
Labor Senator for the ACT Kate Lundy in collaboration with the University of Wollongong and the associated Innovation Campus (iC), NICTA & the NICTA OpinionWatch project and the University of Melbourne’s Trinity College is holding the third public sphere event on Australian ICT and Creative Industries Development. The aim of this Public Sphere is to [...]
Gov 2.0 Briefing Paper handover and Q&A event
Update: the event streaming and main online discussion will be at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/gov-2-taskforce-q-a This event is for the handover of the finalised briefing paper and the recommendation voting results from the Government 2.0 Public Sphere held by Senator Kate Lundy July 22nd 2009. http://www.katelundy.com.au/2009/07/29/briefing-paper-and-recommendation-endorsements-from-public-sphere-2-government-2-0/ The entire Australian Gov 2.0 Taskforce will be available for a Q&A [...]
