Program
GovCamp is an ‘un-conference’ which of course means that the contents of the day were decided by the attendees on the day. As you’ll see below, we had a fabulous range of topics for discussion.
We’ve captured the events of the day below for posterity, and also added links to the presentations and videos of many of the sessions
Presentations
We have the presentations from the following sessions. If you facilitated a session and would like to add your slides or notes here then please let us know.
Videos
Find all the videos of the plenary and barcamp sessions in the main auditorium here.
Program Overview
However, it’s not a complete free for all! We do have some structure and some pre-planned sessions to get you thinking and hopefully trigger conversations, discussions and debate.
What would you like to hear about or facilitate a session on? If you’d like to host session at GovcampQLD feel free to suggest a topic now either by adding a comment to this thread or #tweeting your topic to @gov2qld; OR you can suggest a topic on the day at the morning’s Open Space session or by posting your topic to any remaining open slots on the agenda as the day unfolds.
It’s our event so we can all create the program. And if you find yourself in a session where you are not learning or contributing, why not move on.
To help you get to the sessions you want to get to on the day, you can access an up to date (and easier to read) version of this spreadsheet here.
Barcamp Sessions
Of course, the exciting bit about an un-conference is the sessions that you decide on, we’ve called these the ‘BarCamp Sessions’. Based on other events and previous meetings of the gov2qld community, topics for the BarCamp sessions will likely cover topics as diverse as:
- social media use in and by government
- online community engagement
- agency collaboration
- open data standards, copyright and use
- records management and gov2.0
- social media monitoring
- engaging with young people
- emergency management and agency resilience
- augmented reality
- mobile government
- policies
- legal issues of gov2.0 use of gaming in engagement
- anything else related to new ways of doing government and service delivery.
The following table will be updated live on the day so if you’re bringing your laptop, tablet and smart phone bookmark this page.
A PDF of the draft program (subject to minor tweaks) is also available here (pdf) – but we can’t guarantee it will stay up to date with the above!
After Party
… and of course, the place to continue the discussions and build your networks further will be the after party at The Joynt, very close to The Edge. There will be Pizzas (free – thanks to our sponsors) and Drinks (your shout I’m afraid!) and lots of relaxed networking and fun. See you there!
I’m keen to chat about #society5/distributed democracy and about how to change tech culture in gov.
If you want to start the journey towards distributed democracy I would suggest beginning with adding a “NO Vote” to the democratic ballot paper. A simple change like this will get everyone’s interest back on the political arena. It will roll forward well from this.
Thanks Pia. Great to have you involved. We’ll include your topic on the agenda.
I’m keen to discuss how open data can support emergency management. I’m eager to learn what other data is out there, if it is in an open format and how it can be accessed.
I am also interested in open data. check out http://www.razient.com/global-incidents/ for a look at the way we are utilizing this data for commercial uses. later this year we are releasing our free, community focused version.
Stephen – we add this topic the agenda.
I’m thinking about presenting some of the work I have done in creating interactive maps to support emergency management and how using open standards has helped get more data on the map.
What facilities are available to show visuals (e.g. powerpoint, video files) and what should I bring (e.g. USB, CD or PC?)
Hi Stephen
Each room and most bays have projectors and a laptop (with Powerpoint etc) but please bring your own laptop as well just in case
Looking forward to it.
David Eade
I would be happy to do a short presentation on legal issues relating to gov 2.0, which could cover copyright management (including CC licensing) and other aspects of online engagement.
Hi Anne, Great topic. We’ll add you to the agenda.
Ok, thanks. Looking forward to it.
2 topics that no-one is so far game to consider:
A) Complete Global Monetary System Failure & Collapse
B) The possibilities and likeliness of 2012 Prophecies
As likely or unlikely these two scenarios may be, what steps are we taking, or should we be taking towards mitigating the possibilities altogether.
What are the opportunities for business, government and the community if we completely re-produced our world digitally? Google started it but there is a long way to go. How far do we want to go and for what reasons do we want to go there?
Can this be a way to engage and attract the global community into the digital age by CrowdSourcing the required data?
Can this model of the world then be used to create and model alternate realities? Say we did go ahead and build the Mary River Dam, what would the region look like on completion? in 5 years? 50 years? Can we create overlays of the flora and fauna? Digital trial introductions of new species? Are there any limits to this technology if it is CrowdSourced and we also have access to quantum computers with almost infinite calculation capabilities?
Hi Luke, Would you like to run a discussion or do a presentation on this topic? Amelia
Hi,
I’d like to hold the Australian debut screening of Twittamentary at GovCamp.
This is a one hour long documentary that explores how lives meet and affect one another on Twitter produced by a Chinese film-maker in the US.
Twittamentary has previously screened in the US, UK, Singapore, China and Malaysia.
More about the documentary (including a teaser video and media coverage about the documentary) can be found at their site: http://www.twittamentary.com
Cheers,
Craig
NOTE: THIS IS NOT AN ‘UNCONFERENCE’
An unconference or barcamp is defined as open, participatory workshop-events, the content of which is provided by participants, consisting of sessions proposed and scheduled each day by attendees, mostly on-site, typically using whiteboards or paper taped to the wall.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BarCamp
In a programme of 6hrs 15min, (less 45 minutes for lunch) nearly 60% of the time is already structured/allocated before anyone turns up.
It’s good that someone has organised something, but don’t call it something that it isn’t.
My office facilitated a project involving a three-month social media monitoring exercise for 6 different agencies across the SA Government.
I am happy to give a presentation on social media monitoring. This would include looking at the results of the monitoring, and our recommendations for agencies.
Thanks Leigh. That’d be great!
hi folks . .
I’m keen to hear ideas and discuss innovation in the public service. How does your own work unit or department manage innovation? This topic probably croses through a bunch already posted.
What barriers did you face?
How have you overcome barriers?
What have you been able to achieve as a result?
Hope to speak with you,
cheers,
Ian
Some great questions here Ian. Thank you. Let’s encourage their use across the program.
There’s a really interesting discussion going on in the gov2qld LinkedIn group around measuring the value of Gov 2.0:
http://www.linkedin.com/groupAnswers?viewQuestionAndAnswers=&discussionID=97466737&gid=3427896&commentID=70733583&trk=view_disc&ut=3HaO6fXUVgol81
Does anybody want to facilitate a discussion on this topic at GovCamp QLD?
Dave
I’m involved in a proposal/project to set up a South Australian Virtual War Memorial – an interactive online resource for the community to share in the experiences of all South Australians who have been touched by war or peace-keeping operations.
The vision is to be able to pull up a name of a soldier on your iphone, and attach documents – like a scanned in diary.
I’m in the SA Gov Office of the CIO, and we’ve been working with other gov agencies as well as non-gov organisations (e.g. Army Museum, University of SA) to get this happening.
We’re still in the early stage, but if there’s enough interest, I’d be happy to present on it
Im happy to take a session on justifications against open data and how they stack up.
I can also demonstrate some simple ways to make data open