I gave this speech at the Australian Government Leadership Network Annual Conference (New South Wales) on 7 September, 2012. The audio quality in this case isn’t great so I recommend you read the transcript.
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Transcript
No-one one born after 1935 has walked on the moon, the promise that was made to people of my generation memorably in [...]
Tag Archives: presentation
Where’s My Jetpack?
- 09
- Jan
Presentation on Cloud and DCaaS – AIPM
- 07
- Jan
In the last couple of months I have given a number of presentations at various forums regarding the use of ICT in the Australian Government. I thought I would share them here over the coming weeks.
The first is from an Australian Institute of Project Management event held in Canberra in late November. All photo attributions [...]
Not Just Nonsense
- 14
- Feb
Last week, I gave a presentation to members of the Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy on the use of social networking tools in government. In accordance with our developing practice, I am posting the slides here on our blog. The presentation was also videoed and, for those of you who really need [...]
Open Source Developers Conference
- 25
- Nov
Last Friday I presented a key note address at the Open Source Developers Conference at the Australian National University in Canberra. My talk covered the Australian Government Open Source Policy, and also provided some background on other AGIMO programs, and a brief overview of the international landscape in regard to Open Source. The slides from [...]
The Future of Gov 2.0: iGov2s?
- 31
- Oct
Last week, I spoke at CeBIT’s annual Gov 2 conference, held here in Canberra. The conference was opened by Senator Kate Lundy and featured an international key note address from NASA’s Nicholas Skytland. Nicholas’ presentation contained details of NASA’s impressive efforts in the social media sphere. His stories of tweeting astronauts, citizen science and other [...]
IPv6 Transition – Progress of Australian Government
- 20
- Oct
Yesterday John Hillier and I presented at the Australian IPv6 Summit in Melbourne. We provided an update on the progress being made by Australian Government agencies in line with our IPv6 transition strategy. The transition strategy runs over five years, from January 2008 to December 2012, so we are almost three quarters of the way [...]
Hammers and Beer
- 04
- Oct
Maintaining the AGIMO policy of posting our public presentations on our blog, this post contains the details of two presentations that I gave last week. The first was to a Citizen Centric service delivery conference and the second was a speech to the 2011 Annual Conference of the Australian Law Librarians Association. You might reasonably [...]
e-Publication accessibility
- 29
- Sep
Recently the Australian Security Research Centre hosted an information sharing session on “i-documents & other e-publications”. It included information on a range of e-publishing trends including the use of EPUB and various other formats and their application in the government context. I spoke about accessibility and e-publications, and how the principles of accessible information apply [...]
Science or Fiction: ICT in the future of government service delivery
- 20
- Sep
Last week, I spoke to the FutureGov conference in Canberra about government service delivery, in particular, the role in that delivery of ICT. Rightly, much is made of the advantages ICT can bring to this and other aspects of modern government. However, as Dr Francis Collins of the Human Genome project observed, we tend to [...]
