FW: [Aust-NZ] Wrappup report of Spatial@Gov conference in Canberra, Australia [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

Thu Jun 25 00:31:57 EDT 2009

Bruce,

No I don't have a transcript - although there may be one one her web site.  Senator Lundy is very much in favour of making greater use of PSI and the announcement of a Government2.0 Task Force at the event is a clear indication of interest in moving in this direction.

Thank you for your comments on the spatial at gov<mailto:spatial at gov> Conference.  We have already started looking at next year and I think we can look forward to an even better event.  A web site covering the past event and its presentations etc will be available shortly and we are also seeking ideas for the next event.

Not sure if I have much free time over the next few months - I still have a real job to do.....

Regards

Ben Searle
General Manager,
Australian Government Office of Spatial Data Management

Phone: 02 6249 9298
Mobile: 0439-995-785
Fax: 02 6249 9942
Email: ben.searle at ga.gov.au<mailto:ben.searle at osdm.gov.au>
Postal address: GPO Box 378, Canberra ACT 2601
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spatial at gov Conference - Canberra 15 - 16 June 2009
<http://www.osdm.gov.au/Events/220.aspx>
 See more at http://www.spatialgov2009.com/

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Cameron,

Perhaps I was reading things into Kate Lundy's keynote address, however I made note of her references to concerns that the Federal Government should be looking to less restrictive copyright (IP?) on government data in an effort to stimulate more use of this data.

Ben,

- Did you get a transcript of these comments?

- Congratulations on a well run and very informative event. It was one of the better spatial events that I've been to. I hope that we can do as well with FOSS4G-2009. btw do you have any spare time over the next few months? ;-)

Bruce Bannerman

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:aust-nz-bounces at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:aust-nz-bounces at lists.osgeo.org>] On Behalf Of Cameron Shorter
> Sent: Thursday, 25 June 2009 10:21 AM
> To: Aust-NZ OSGeo; OSGeo Marketing
> Subject: [Aust-NZ] Wrappup report of Spatial at Gov conference
> in Canberra, Australia
>
> http://cameronshorter.blogspot.com/2009/06/osgeo-at-spatialgov
-conference-canberra.html<http://cameronshorter.blogspot.com/2009/06/osgeo-at-spatialgov%0A-conference-canberra.html>
>
> The Aust-NZ OSGeo local chapter set up and OSGeo booth at the
> Spatial at Gov <http://www.spatialgov2009.com/> conference a few
> days back, and I gave a well attended Geospatial Open Source
> presentation. The conference attracted ~ 200 delegates and covered:
>
>     * Climate Change
>       <http://www.spatialgov2009.com/abstractsClimateChange.asp> (7
>       abstracts)
>     * Local Government
>       <http://www.spatialgov2009.com/abstractsLocalGovernment.asp> (1
>       abstracts)
>     * Indigenous culture and communities
>
> <http://www.spatialgov2009.com/abstractsIndigenouscultureandco
> mmunities.asp>
>       (4 abstracts)
>     * Health <http://www.spatialgov2009.com/abstractsHealth.asp> (1
>       abstracts)
>     * Future directions of spatial technologies
>
> <http://www.spatialgov2009.com/abstractsFuturedirectionsofspat
> ialtechnologies.asp>
>       (24 abstracts)
>     * Public/Private partnerships
>
> <http://www.spatialgov2009.com/abstractsPublicPrivatepartnerships.asp>
>       (5 abstracts)
>     * Social Inclusion
>       <http://www.spatialgov2009.com/abstractsSocialInclusion.asp> (4
>       abstracts)
>     * Not Specified
>       <http://www.spatialgov2009.com/abstractsNotSpecified.asp> (9
>       abstracts)
>
> The conference was particularly encouraging for people
> interested in "Open Technologies". It was opened by Senator
> Kate Lundy <http://www.katelundy.com.au/>, who is making a
> name for herself in Australia around Open Government (and who
> is also a keynote speaker at the FOSS4G
> <http://2009.foss4g.org/>conference in October). Then most of
> the presentations I attended mentioned Open Standards. In
> particular, there is a strong push to develop a "Spatial
> Marketplace" which is effectively a Spatial Data
> Infrastructure. I was pleasantly surprised to hear ~ 30% of
> the presentations mention how agencies are deploying Open
> Source software. And there was regular mention about how
> agencies are following Queensland's initiatives moving
> government data to Creative Commons licenses. (There are
> abstracts on this at FOSS4G too).
> Thanks to the following people for helping to man the OSGeo stand:
>
>     * Milton Lofberg & Autodesk for sponsoring the booth
>     * Cameron Shorter (me) and LISAsoft for providing fliers
> and giving
>       an Open Source presentation
>     * Bruce Bannerman
>     * Shoaib Burq
>     * Plus a couple of others who dropped by for a bit
>
>
> --
> Cameron Shorter
> Geospatial Systems Architect
> Tel: +61 (0)2 8570 5050
> Mob: +61 (0)419 142 254
>
> Think Globally, Fix Locally
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> Source http://www.lisasoft.com
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