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Australian”innovation”: desires and reality
Last night was the Pearcey Awards, which in itself is always a great way to find out about up and coming leaders in the field and achievements in ICT, however they also created a national roundtable...
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Antiquated ideas won’t save Australia
The recently released Venturous Australia report that this quote refers to is actually quite an interesting read. I found it refreshingly aware of the importance of opening up research and...
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Going to work on the Hill
I am very excited to say that I am now working as a Policy Adviser for Senator Kate Lundy! This is a very different direction for me. I have worked in the ICT industry for almost 10 years, been deeply...
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Over the past two weeks I’ve redone and consolidated the 3 existing websites into Senator Kate Lundy’s new website. I’ve been really impressed to be reading through her historical posts, podcasts,...
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High speed broadband in Australia – what do you think?
I decided that every time I’m doing something in my work for Senator Kate Lundy that I think is of interest to the FOSS community, my family, and many other readers of this blog, I’ll repost it here...
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An amazing day involving metadata, wikis and copyright freedom!
Today was brilliant! The most fun day in my new job working for Senator Lundy! I have been a little lax in my blogging due to being so busy so I thought I’d share a (probably not typical) day in the...
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Gov 2.0: Where to begin – Part 1 of 3
Over the last few months I have met many of Australia’s leading “social media experts”, have spoken at various Government 2.0 events and have been closely watching the initiatives happening in the UK...
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Welcome to part two my this blog post. Part one covered some basic definitions for Web 2.0, Open Government and Government 2.0. Now to our next steps. Learn from others’ success “That some achieve...
View ArticleGov 2.0: Where to begin – Part 3 of 3
This is the final part of my Government 2.0 blog post. Beware the hype “Government 2.0″ is a current buzz phrase, and when you hear it used, it could mean just about anything from having a Facebook...
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Embrace your inner geek: speech to launch QUT OSS community
This was a speech I gave in Brisbane to launch the QUT OSS group. It talks about FOSS, hacker culture, open government/data, and why we all need to embrace our inner geek Welcome to the beginning of...
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