If you work for government – or with government – whether federal, state or local, this one-day forum is for you. What’s a “GovCamp”? A barcamp “unconference” is simply a space to open up the public sphere conversation - to create a comfortable place where new thinking becomes possible and enables new outcomes. There are no long presentations and the topics are yours - you get to create the agenda.

“New thinking - innovation - happens in the space between us all, as well as between how we work now and how we'd like to work.” (NSW public sector leader)

So this GovCamp is about how government works, as well as how it works for citizens. It's about the pressures of needing to do better government with less; about meeting growing public needs and expectations within an increasingly transparent and stretched public space.

It's also about leverage points for innovation in NSW, such as connective technologies and open data. We hope to hear some big-picture policy ideas and some pragmatic new- ways-of-working.

GovCampNSW is about the power of ideas and conversation. It aspires to build upon the gov-tech / 2.0 focus and look beyond to shaping innovation in government in NSW.

Discussion will include:

Cultural change

leading to open

government.

Social technologies

and service delivery.

Policy 2.0: Why do

apps have all the

fun?

Who is GovCamp for? Public sector practitioners, advisers and leaders who are excited by these challenges, who seek to better understand the risks and opportunities within emerging trends.

There are no clever corporate games; just dialogue and an open exchange of ideas. It's a Saturday. It's free time, casual and as "off-the-record" as you need. And because it's shared conversation, you'll take away even more than you contribute.

Registration is free. Catering is provided courtesy of our generous organising partners: AGIMO, NICTA and Cisco Systems.

GovCampNSW organising partners and supporters

Architecting resilience? Martin Stewart-Weeks,

Cisco will overview a worldwide study based on

200 public sector interviews, including Australia.

Gov 2.0 and public innovation:

International guest Dominic

Campbell, founder FutureGov,

will share learnings from the UK

and United States.

GovCampNSW will draw on the

spirit of GovCamp events

across the world in the United

Kingdom, Germany, the United

States, Canada, Singapore

and elsewhere—as well as the

recent GovCamp Canberra in

September 2011.

Open government; resilient state: Innovating for government in NSW

Aust Technology Park

NICTA Lab, Level 4, 13 Garden St, Eveleigh

9.30-4pm Saturday,

19 November 2011

FREE of charge.

Lunch & refreshments

provided courtesy of

Partners & Supporters

“I’m delighted to see this GovCamp taking place in Sydney which can add momentum and creativity to the search for new ideas and new angles on the big issues facing

government and the public service. I’ll be keen to see the results of your work.”

Dr Peter Shergold - Chair, Advisory Board, NSW Public Service Commission.

For more information or to REGISTER NOW: w w w . g o v c a m p n s w . i n f o For pre-Camp updates and comments from your peers stay tuned on the GovCampNSW website.

Q: What can change

as a result of you

joining in this day?

“I am excited that New South Wales will be playing host to our first GovCamp… I will be participating for the full day… and I invite you to join me and others in what will certainly be a day

of inspiring conversation. I look forward to meeting many of you and learning from your experiences.”

Deirdre O’Donnell - Information Commissioner, NSW Information and Privacy Commission.