[Foss4g2009] Re: International Community wanting to network with Government at FOSS4G

[Gavin Fleming]

Last year we found/made a gap in the programme for a similar session. We rounded up a few local and international, government and private 'experts' (incl Tim Bowden) to sit on a panel and ran a panel discussion anchored by our 'State IT Agency' who is responsible for planning and implementing South Africa's FOSS and interoperability policy. 
 
It was very well attended (about 100 people) and a very productive debate. 
 
Gavin 

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From: foss4g2009-bounces at lists.osgeo.org on behalf of Cameron Shorter
Sent: Sun 7/26/2009 01:32 AM
To: César Medina; Bruce Bannerman; Arnold Wong; Darren Mottolini; Ben Searle; Adam Cooper; Liz; Pia Waugh; foss4g2009
Subject: [Foss4g2009] Re: International Community wanting to network with Government at FOSS4G



Cesar (from Chilli),

You have noted your interest in meeting Australian Government interested
in Geospatial Open Source at the FOSS4G conference, and I have CCed a
few of the people who would be likely to want to coordinate the
introduction of the international community to Australian/New Zealand
initiatives.

Bruce, Ben, Arnold, Kylie, Darren, Adam, Liz, Pia,
I expect that there will be a number of other people like Cesar, who
will want to meet Australian & New Zealand government representatives to
find out what we are doing with regards to Open Source and Open
Standards here.

How do you suggest we accommodate this?
One forum we have at FOSS4G is our unstructured "Birds of a Feather"
sessions where anyone can coordinate discussion around a particular topic.

 From an Australian/New Zealand government point of view, this would be
valuable as it provides an opportunity for us to network and build
valuable international contacts.
For Landgate (who have built a state government SDI based upon Open
Standards, and uses a lot of Open Source) this is an opportunity to
export some of this expertise.


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Cameron Shorter
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