When: 8.30 am – 4.00 pm Friday 23 September 2011. The conference will be followed immediately by the Data Camp, from 4.00 – 6.00 pm
Where: Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Gardens Point Campus, Brisbane ‐ Gibson
Room, Z Block, Level 10
RSVP: online at http://tiny.cc/OGDBrisbane. Numbers are limited.
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
Conference Chair: Professor Brian Fitzgerald, Professor of Intellectual Property and Innovation, QUT
Law Faculty
8.30 ‐ 8.40am: Welcome: The Honourable Simon Finn, Minister for Government Services, Building
Industry and Information and Communication Technology
8.40 – 9.10am Professor Anne Fitzgerald, Professor of Law Research, QUT Law Faculty ‐ Setting the
Scene: Towards an Australian information strategy
9.10 – 9.40am: Senator Kate Lundy, Parliamentary Secretary for Immigration and Citizenship, and
Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister ‐ Opening Keynote Address: The Path to Open
Government
9.40 – 10.45am: International perspectives on Open Government Data policy and practice
9.40 – 10.10am Andrew Stott (United Kingdom) ‐ The UK Government Experience
10.10 – 10.30am Richard Best (New Zealand Government) – NZ Government policy and practice:
NZGOAL
10.30 – 10.45am Questions and Discussion
10.45 ‐ 11.15am – Morning Tea
(Continued overleaf)
11.15am ‐ 1.00pm: Innovation Paradigm
11.15 – 11.45am Dr Terry Cutler (Cutler and Co, Consultants) ‐ Productivity dividends from Open
Government
11.45 am – 12.20pm Claire Driscoll (National Institutes of Health, USA) ‐ National Institutes of
Health: Strategy and Policy on Open Knowledge for Real World benefits
12.20 – 12.45pm Keitha Booth (Programme Leader, NZ Open Government Data and Information
Programme) ‐ Open and Transparent Government..Innovation Opportunities
12.45 – 1.00pm Questions and Discussion
1.00 ‐ 2.00pm ‐ Lunch
2.00 – 3.30pm: Implementation and Case Studies
2.00 – 2.20pm Dr Graham Vickery (formerly OECD) – Policy and Principles (OECD) [Pre‐recorded
presentation]
2.20 – 2.50pm Neale Hooper (Technology and Licensing Lawyer, currently on secondment to QUT
and Creative Commons Australia) – Implementation of Creative Commons Licences as a Driver of
Open Access Policy and Practice in Australia
2.50 – 3.10pm James Kliemt (Queensland Police Service) ‐ Emergency Response and Social Media
[invited – TO BE CONFIRMED]
3.10 – 3.30pm Dr Mark Elliott (Collabforge) – Collaborating with the Crowd: online case studies for
success
3.30 ‐ 4.00pm – Afternoon tea
DATA CAMP
4.00 – 6.00pm
Several case studies will be presented, in flexible format. Further details will follow.
