September 2009 Archives
Girl Geek Dinner Canberra #3
Announcing: Canberra Google Girl Geek Dinner #3!
Date: Wednesday, 14 October, 2009
Time: 6:00pm for a 6:30 start
Venue: The Burns Club, 8 Kett St Kambah, ACT 2902
I’ll be speaking at this event in a Lightning Talk spot, titled “What Revoluton!” I expect to not fill the allotted 5 minutes, but I’m sure the questions will make up for that 
RSVP Here! Hurry time is running out, Lana has to book a bigger room tomorrow!
Adobe Co-founders to Receive the National Medal of Innovation and Technology at the Whitehouse in October
Adobe’s co-founders to receive the National Medal of Technology and Innovation at the White House in October: http://bit.ly/w6I3Y
One Word = Accessibility
Today Lisa Harvey posted an excellent post on accessibility for the Government 2.0 Taskforce. Which immediately prompted some lively commenting on the post.
On person asked if the Government needed to impose the Federal Government’s laws regarding content publishing standards to consituents submission formats.
The short answer to the question is a resounding no. There is a simple answer as well which is Business Transformation, rather than impose a law on constituents the documents should be transformed during the submission process, some Federal and State Government departments already have the technology in place to do this. The issue is they have not yet identified the business need to write the business process to do this. It really is quite simple for those departments to implement an automated process which takes all the words and formatting from the submissions and converts them to all of the required formats with full accessibility applied, and all without any need for physical human interaction.
NSW Premier follows in Government 2.0 Taskforce Footsteps
Today Premier Nathan Rees announced the the NSW Government would be running a public competition called apps4nsw. A competition where the public are asked to submit ideas for applications or services based around public or government data, and prototype software applications that demonstrate the idea in action. This may include websites or web based services, mobile applications or stand-alone PC based or kiosk based applications.
There is a $100,000 prize pool and at first glance the model looks similar to the Government 2.0 Taskforce. Although the Government 2.0 Taskforce model is not limited to a prize based model.
Well done NSW Government, Premiere Rees and #nswsphere.
