Parliamentary Wiki Day/Canberra

Timing

Still open. A possibility is May 2012, which is Information Awareness month.

The event

Best to split in two parts.

#1: Info session

"engaging the community for better policy outcomes." Wikis, social media. Location: At APH, and free. Who: Higher level people. Aim at politicians but also invite high level department people. Run before parliament, 8am.

#2: Multiple sessions, same day.

Location: Probably better to be out of APH, to get wifi and to have the option of charging a fee. Who: Implementers, people responsible for the community engagement stuff & social media; staffers. (Govt people only, unless invited? Govt people will be more comfortable if there are limits to who is there?)

Format ideas for #2

• 2 hr on a topic - cultural institutions, parliament...
• 20 mins at beginning for talks, can be streamed. The rest is private and hands-on.
• We know someone in parliament who could stream and store talks.

Venue for first part

APH, where?

Venue for second part

• Not Parliament itself - perceived as having political alignment.
• ANU?
• Agimo?

Organizing

Catering

• Catering isn't essential (but set expectation correctly)
• BYO food, or
• Modest charge for food - see below.

Cost

• Free may look like it's not serious. Possibly some free public sessions later or on a different day?
• Say (guessing) $100 per session or $200 for the day, to cover catering, costs & time. (Too expensive -> wrong crowd.) People could ask for their training budget to be used, or petty cash.

Random stuff

Talk to:

• Gov2 govdex group. Craig Thomler or someone
• Gov2 google group
• NLA/Nat archives
• Liam Wyatt: excellent GLAM connections, run a session on wiki for cultural institutions.
• James Dellow from HeadShift. @chieftech. May like to do a primer on engaging with community. Has worked with govt a lot.
• Invite Qld police online communications person, James Kliemt - could talk on emergency management & social media.
• Steve Collins aka @trib

• Minister Gary Gray
• Office of the information commissioner - relates to public access. Pitch: integrating wikis into the FOI process - becoming public. Non-public-editable, but gives ease of collaborative editing between govt depts.
• Federated social web tools for government intranets [my idea - didn't talk about it with our friend.]

Organizers

• Chriswaterguy (Chris Watkins)
• ...

Follow-up events

A wiki and Gov2.0 focused BarCamp, for the weekend following, or an evening? This gives parliamentarians an introduction to the concepts first, with the opportunity of engaging in a public event soon afterwards.