NSW Public Sphere: Government 2.0

Hi Penny,

excellent work. I'm really looking forward to this event and the change it can start - Kate Lundy and #publicsphere set a pretty good benchmark.

I hope everyone get's involved in the twitter discussion using the #nswsphere tag to help us shape this into an event that can have a real impact!

Let's start with one simple question for everyone - what do you want to achieve from #nswsphere?

roBman

Hello Rob - World peace. Reversing global warming. For me it's all about meeting people who are doing stuff & who want to do stuff. Think of this as the "Forming" and hopefully "Storming" phases of the Tuckman Model?

I will happily volunteer to do a talk.

Name: Matt Moore
Title: Confessions of a Former Public Servant

I would like to present a short paper at this event * title "Real
Access in the Age of Technology?". This would look at the issue from perspective of rural and remote access, along with other aspects including age (youth and older age) and what democracy means in the context of the internet.
Dr Jocelynne a. scutt

G'Day,

I would like to present a paper - the abstract is below. If Adam Kennedy is presenting it would make sense for mine to immediately follow his as the content flows logically.

Thanks

Jeffery

This talk will cover the development of myrepresentatives.org – a web service that maps street addresses to electoral divisions at 2 or 3 levels of government in Australia. The service can return several different pieces of information – for example, the list of elected representatives representing a given address, the electoral divisions covering that address or information to render maps of those electorates. The talk will discuss the process of sourcing and processing geospatial data, the combining of public sector information, Google web services and Perl modules to deliver a new service to enable people to more easily engage in their democracy and the need for and development of a standard open data model to describe politicians, elected bodies, electoral divisions and associated objects in Australia to allow the easy exchange of data between governance and political services.

I'd like to speak about Twitter and what it means for civic engagement, and give a bit of an explanation about how it is fundamentally different from the previous social communication tools available to politicians. Touching on the virtues of open data. We will have the NSW portion of TweetMP up and running by the time of the conference.

Hi Penny, thanks for making the effort to create a NSW event. I was down to speak at the last one in Canberra but had to cancel due to work. Still saw about half online though.

Would be interested in speaking briefly on how we can develop a resilient, vibrant Gov 2.0 based on meaningful engagement with a light touch from the government including some international examples.

Cheers, Pete (@pc0).
www.peterjcooper.com - bio
www.coopersydney.com - work
www.alturnal.com - blog

I'd like to present on the topic of Open Data.

A short presentation on the continuum of options possible and a look at some tangible uses this data has been put to, as well as the types of things it can enable in the near term future.

This will be a tangible practice based presentation.

We would like to talk about how the State Library of New South Wales has been working with public libraries in the use of web 2.0 tools to both engage their communities and interact professionally online. Training in the use of web 2.0 tools was provided to over 1 000 NSW public library staff many of whom are now using web 2.0 tools in their daily work (http://nswpubliclibrarieslearning2.blogspot.com/). Web 2.0 tools are also being using for across NSW for collaborations between public libraries and the State Library, examples of these collaborations will also be discussed (for an example see http://wiki.libraries.nsw.gov.au/index.php/Reference_excellence).

Happy to talk about this if it's relevant:

http://forrester.com/go?docid=47968

I'm going to flesh out my title a little:

Who's Afraid of Government 2.0?

It's become a truism that Government 2.0 is about more than just the technology. The word "culture" is used a lot but it's not always clear what culture means. This presentation draws on an unusual open research programme to explore the challenges and enablers for Gov 2.0 in Australia from a cultural perspective.

Congratulations Penny - great to see this happening.

There are some excellent topics here. Living as I do up here in the Northern Rivers region, I'm pleased to see an offer to talk about the rural and regional perspective.

It was a pity Pete Cooper didn't get to speak in Canberra and as he is a seriously achieving entrepreneur and investor in the field I hope he gets a guernsey in Sydney. Then there is Steve Noble's offer to talk about Forrester's research results on government and Gen Y - I love the phrase in the exec summary: "the government should involve Gen Y in all aspects of service design, marketing, and delivery".

Matt will surely make us all think, as he does. Damien's TweetMP is a cool tool. Rob on Open Data options sounds good. Always good to have the libraries involved with this sort of event. myrepresentatives.org is new to me but looks very interesting.

And I'm sure there are quite a few excellent proposals to come.

Glad you are keeping the 15 minute limit. Having spoken at the Canberra event, may I suggest a 5 minute warning (just hand up with 5 fingers extended is old but appropriate technology), then maybe a 1?

I would like to present about my experience with the use and usefulness of video for politicians and government agencies. I have multiple case studies that I would like to use to explain why it is important and what impact video can create that no other data is capable of.

My company Vquence has helped Senator Kate Lundy & Pia Waugh plan and execute their vodcasting ideas and we have a report that I hope to be able to use publicly by the event.

We have in the past undertaken a trial project with the NSW government on setting up a central video and document repository system that can be used as an archive, but at the same time would be a hub from which to share videos with the public. The ideas for such a system were far-reaching and I would like to talk about the potential of such technology.

Further, I would like to report on what open source technology and open standards have made possible for the publishing of searchable and re-usable video recordings of US congress sittings on the example of Metavid, which is making use of Australian created technology.

Finally, there are some great examples of US government agencies making use of YouTube channels to communicate their message and I intend to point out their use cases.

I'd like to talk at the event. There are a number of issues I could cover but I thought it might be good to focus on Risk management in online engagement and how properly managed online engagement is a risk management tool rather than a risk in itself.

Thanks to all who are organising this - I'm looking forward to it.

This is an excellent initiative and great to see the public sector taking a coordinated lead in discussing the 2.0 phenomenon (collaboration, participation and service delivery).

I’d been keen to present a 2.0 perspective from the NSW Department of Education’s Centre for Learning Innovation. The Centre for Learning Innovation (CLI) produces high quality interactive learning resources and provides leadership in the use of technology in education and training.

The aims of more open, transparent and collaborative government all rely on the creation, management and preservation of digital records. I would be keen to present on some of the long term information accessibility issues that we as a government must deal with if we are to embrace working digitally. State Records (the State Archives) has an initiative called 'Future Proof' which is all about ensuring the digital information government makes and uses today will be accessible and useable down the track.

NSW is Australia's most populous state and there is no denying that we face a number of challenges in how we deliver public services across our community. Government 2.0 involves re-balancing our expectations of government and encouraging (and possibly educating) us to take more individual and collective responsibility for our society. I would like to discuss:
* How we need to see government as an enabler or a force multiplier that can combine with the energy and resources of ordinary people to improve governance and public service delivery.
* The gaps that need to be addressed for this to be achieved.

This talk is intended to compliment the "Open Data" and "My Representatives" talks.

I intend to cover (very very briefly) some of the inherent "behaviours" of data in open communities, to provide a better understanding of what actually happens when closed data starts to be released into the wild.

For example, how new connections and data flows emerge within open communities, how it combines and collects together with other data and organises itself, and methods (both easy and hard) that data providers can use to greatly increase the spread, usefulness and value of that data as it moves downstream.

If a laptop projector is available, I'd like to accompany the talk with some visuals from other open data efforts such the Tim Berners Lee's graphic summary of the semantic web, and some of the latest analysis results from the CPAN (a very large data-driven software repository).

This event sounds great but wasnt publicised well. see you next year though.

Perhaps send an update to local councils. Was there anything about it on the LGSA site/newsletteR?

this event seems very interesting. Is it an annual venue?If so, will be during the same dates.Please let me know