GOVIS 2009 - User Centred Government
More than meets the eye

Wellington Town Hall, Civic Square, Wellington, New Zealand

Wednesday 20 to Friday 22 May 2009

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Keynote Speakers

Conference Programme

 

Use the Conference programme below as an index to the Rich Media video and slide presentations (presentations are linked from the individual sessions) or browse the full set on the GOVIS Rich Media site

Day 1    E-Government

Day 2    Service Delivery/GOVT 2.0

Day 3    Rethinking the Organisation

Download MINDesigns from the Keynote sessions, by Jana Lyn-Holly (also linked in the programme below)

Mike Pearson (PDF 138 KB)

Richard Worth (PDF 138 KB)

Fergus Hogarth (page 1 (PDF 163 KB), page 2 (PDF 121 KB))

Stephen Collins (PDF 172 KB)

Tom Steinberg (PDF 169 KB)

Elizabeth Churchill (PDF 172 KB)

W David Stephenson (PDF 344 KB)

Nat Torkington (PDF 157 KB)

 

Citizen Services Workshop (PDF 168 KB)

Participatory Government DVD (PDF 186 KB)

Elizabeth Churchill is a Principal Research Scientist at Yahoo! Research, where she manages the research area of Internet Experiences. A psychologist by training, for the past 15 years she has drawn on diverse areas to consider how to design effective communication situations – both face to face and technologically mediated.
 
Elizabeth earned a PhD in Cognitive Science from the University of Cambridge. Prior to her PhD, Elizabeth's undergraduate degree was in Experimental Psychology and her MSc in Intelligent Knowledge Based Systems (both from the University of Sussex).
 
Elizabeth has conducted fieldwork and led design teams in the US, the UK and in Japan to produce research prototypes and social software products. She previously worked at FXPAL, Fuji Xerox’s Research laboratory in Silicon Valley where she led the Social Computing Group, and at PARC (the Palo Alto Research Center) where she led research on the design and use of communication technologies and social software among cross-cultural, distributed software engineering teams. Elizabeth is a Senior Member of the Association for Computing Machinery.
Keynote Day 3 - Friday 22 May - 9:45 am
Rich Media slides and video

Stephen Collins

Stephen Collins is the Founder and Chief Troublemaker at acidlabs. One of Australia’s leading proponents of participatory culture, Web 2.0, Enterprise 2.0 and social networking, he is driven by a need to help people and organisations to retain, distribute and share knowledge.

He has extensive consulting experience across government and private enterprise and has expertise in social media and networking, knowledge management and web strategy.

He has been interviewed by several media outlets including Australian CIO Magazine, the Australian Financial Review, and the Australian Financial Review’s podcast, The Scoop
He has also been published in Social Computing Magazine.

Stephen is a life member of Electronic Frontiers Australia and an Electronic Frontier Foundation member.

In real life, you could describe him as “husband, Dad, web worker, rugby nut and Brumbies supporter.”
Keynote Day 2 - Thursday 21 May - 9:45 am
Rich Media slides and video - Slides only, on Slideshare

Fergus Hogarth

Fergus Hogarth is the Manager of Information and Knowledge Management in the Department for Families and Communities in South Australia.

Fergus has a strong background in online community engagement and prior to moving to Adelaide in 2006 led an eDemocracy Policy team in the Queensland Government which was established to oversee the implementation of an eDemocracy agenda including an internet broadcast of Queensland Parliament, an ePetitions system and online consultation between government agencies and the Queensland community via the Get involved website.

Fergus has a strong interest in how technology is changing the way government, business and community operates and especially how it is being used to share, connect and engage.
Keynote Day 2 - Thursday 21 May - 9:00 am
Rich Media slides and video

Tom Steinberg

Tom Steinberg is the founder and director of mySociety, a non-profit, open source organisation that runs many of the best-known democracy websites in the UK. These include the Parliamentary transparency website TheyWorkForYou and the somewhat self-explanatory FixMyStreet. mySociety’s missions are to build websites which give people simple, tangible benefits in the democratic and community aspects of their lives, and which teach the public and voluntary sector how they can use technology better to help citizens. Tom’s role in mySociety is mainly to go to conferences, come up with ideas for websites, and buy our staff and lovely volunteers as much food as they can eat.

By trade Tom was a policy analyst and general wonk who mainly cut his teeth at the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit from 2001 to 2003. He grew up in Oxford, and lives in Whitechapel, East London.

Tom’s most recent publication is The Power of Information Review, co-authored with Ed Mayo and the Strategy Unit, launched in 2007. The Power of Information Review aimed to help the UK government understand the value it has locked in datasets, and the help that can be done for citizens by simply being willing to go into and answer questions in places like Netmums and MoneySavingExpert. Following the publication of economic analysis commissioned by the review, Tom is convinced of the urgent need for substantial reform in the provision of public sector information from organisations like the Ordnance Survey
Keynote Day 3 - Friday 22 May - 9:00 am

W. David Stephenson

W. David Stephenson of Stephenson Strategies (Medfield, MA, USA) is a leading Gov. 2.0 (especially transparent government), Web 2.0, and crisis management strategist and theorist. He focuses on anti-terror, disaster management and technologies directly involving the public as full partners in policy and services debate and delivery.

He consults for several governmental entities on strategies to increase their transparency and simultaneously increase operating efficiency.
Stephenson is writing a book, “Democratizing Data,” tentatively scheduled for publication in July 2009 (O’Reilly Media), on strategies for using automated structured data feeds to improve worker efficiency, transparency, and to stimulate mass collaboration.

David created the “Pandemic Flu Survival Guide” & “Terrorist Survival” suite of programs putting all information necessary to prepare for and/or respond to terrorism in easy-to-use data bases for handheld devices. He did a series of YouTube videos on smart use of wireless devices in emergencies: “@21st-century disaster tips you WON’T hear from officials.”
Keynote Day 3 - Friday 22 May - 3:30 pm
Rich Media slides and video - Slides only, on Slideshare

Nathan Torkington

Nathan Torkington ran the first web server in New Zealand, chaired the O'Reilly Open Source Convention and other O'Reilly conferences for over a decade. He runs Kiwi Foo Camp, co-wrote the best-selling Perl Cookbook, and lives in Leigh where he consults in the Asia-Pacific region on web and open source technology.  He teaches programming to 7 year olds and isn't afraid to admit it.

Learn more at nathan.torkington.com.

And, of course, Nathan is on the card at Webstock 2009 in February.
Keynote Day 3 - Friday 22 May - 4:15 pm
Rich Media slides and video - Slides only, on Slideshare

Day 1 – E-Government     Wednesday 20 May 2009

Please Note: The details of the programme may be subject to change

Day 2 – Service Delivery/GOVT 2.0     Thursday 21 May 2009

Please Note: The details of the programme may be subject to change

Please Note: The details of the programme may be subject to change