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Here is the (Current) schedule for the Open in the Public Sector miniconf. Please note, we are now scheduled for Tuesday, 19 January.


10:30 – 10:40 The Intro, Don Christie, President of NZOSS
10:40 – 11:05 Keynote from Andrew Stott, Director of Digital Engagement, UK (Remote Audio/Slide presentation)
11:10 – 11:45 Keynote from Lisa Harvey, representative of Australian Govt 2.0 Taskforce (Remote Audio/Slide presentation)
11:45 – 12:15 Stephen Boyd (Aus) IT Security Adviser Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage & the Arts; Why hasn’t the year of the linux desktop arrived in Canberra?
12:15 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 14:00 Laurence Millar, How can Govt procurement better support Open?
14:00 – 14:30 Pia Waugh, Assistant to Senator Kate Lundy (Aus); Open Government: Getting the core policy and technical principles right!
14:30 – 15:15 Panel Discussion: The Politics of Open: Moderator: Nat Torkington Panel: Clare Curran- Labour MP, Pia Waugh, Assistant to Senator Kate Lundy (Aus), Andrew Holmes, Principal Clinical Advisor, Health Information, National Health Board Business Unit, Ministry of Health
15:15 – 15:45 Afternoon Tea
15:45 – 16:30 Steven Schmid, A/NZ Open Source Sand Pit; Implementing an authoritative repository of public sector Open Technologies for Government agencies
16:30 – 17:15 Panel Discussion: Creative Commons, Open access/ licensing, and NZGOAL. Panel Professor Anne Fitzgerald- QUT Law Faculty, Keitha Booth- Open Government Information and Data work programme at NZSSC,
17:15 – 17:30 The Outro Jason Ryan, Manager, Communications & Records Management, NZ State Services Commission

Panelists confirmed

Professor Anne Fitzgerald, QUT Law Faculty
Nat Torkington
Barry Polley, NZ Post
Clare Curran, MP, Labour