Contributing to the Realising our Broadband Future forum

Senator Lundy describes how you can contribute to the Realising our Broadband Future forum. Please post your reponse videos or comments here or on the Senator's blog post at http://www.katelundy.com.au/2009/12/02/how-you-can-contribute-to-the-realisin...

Transcript:

Realising Our Broadband Future is a public consultation to map out high speed broadband applications, services and business models that will drive Australia's digital economy. It is being run by Minister Conroy and the Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy.

I wanted to just take a few minutes to help you understand how you can contribute to this consultation online. For those familiar with my Public Sphere series, this Forum is using some of the same methods.

Firstly, if you are on Twitter please use the #bbfuture hashtag to connect with others and bounce ideas around.

Open for Ideas is the online tool to suggest ideas and questions for discussion. It is based on Google Moderator and will be open in the coming days for your contributions.

Ideas can be provided within each of the five discussion streams: Smart Infrastructure, Digital Education, e-Communities, e-Health and e-Business.

These suggestions can then be voted up or down before the actual forum, so you should make sure you get in, get your ideas up and have your say as soon as you can.

The aim of this part of the consultation is to identify key areas that a majority of people agree are important for including in discussion at the forum.

I encourage you to post a You Tube video comment or even a video response, which you can also link to your suggestions if you choose.

The next part of the consultation is a wiki which aggregates the ideas from the Open for Ideas platform. This wiki will be open for contributions as of the morning of the Forum, and you can add new ideas as well as comments. This will be the main place to contribute online, to help map the next steps for industry, community and the government to Realise Our Broadband Future.

If you are considering getting a few people together to watch the live stream, or even have a local community discussion, please see the Forum website.

For example, its great to see Parramatta City Council taking the initiative to with their group consultation. So check out their website for details.

Finally, we are all thrilled with the number of people who registered to participate in the forum, however the response has been so strong that we phsyically dont have room for everyone.

However, the forum was always designed to promote online participation. By ensuring that plenary sessions of the forum will be webcasted live and audio streaming of other sessions you will still be an important part of the conversation, wherever you are.

Im really pleased to support Minister Conroy in this project and I believe it is an important consultation not just for the planning of future directions of the National Broadband Network, but also for how government consults in the future.

I look forward to seeing you online and really encourage you to use the online tools that were making available so you can be part of this conversation.

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[piawaugh]

Hi there,

We did not know the consultation was going to be taken down, so our apologies for the link being broken.

Cheers,

Pia

[tman78au]

Many of us have put arguments forward constructively in the past only to be ignored, ridiculed and threatened. Kate is a sell out. I quote "Unfortunately, such a short memory regarding the debate in 1999 about internet content has led the coalition to already offer support for greater censorship by actively considering proposals for unworkable, quick fixes that involve filtering the internet at the ISP level." - Sen Kate Lundy 2003. Talk about short memory!

[SpannersTV]

HAHAHA: 404 - idea cannot be found!

[luk3r3volution]

There is much talk about the gov being open to consultation. Yet the "open to ideas" link brings up a 404 error - "open to idea" cannot be found. How can people with so little understanding of the internet as to have a broken link above the fold on their lead page presume to tell anyone about the digital economy. You haven't lost any credibility with me as you never had any. I don't expect Sen. Lundy to respond, just another pacifying double-speak from a staffer. Why bother.

[piawaugh]

Hi tman78au,

Thanks for the comment, obviously you are pretty passionate on this topic and I understand your view. I think getting more openness into government consultation by crowdsourcing & using online tools will help improve public consultation, so my advice to you is to be optimistic and put forward your view constructively. I understand the frustration but without informed people contributing when the opportunity exists, nothing changes.

Cheers,

PIa Waugh

Office of Senator Kate Lundy