Biography:

Pia Waugh is an open government and open data ninja, working within the machine to enable greater transparency, democratic engagement, citizen-centric design and real, pragmatic actual innovation in the public sector and beyond. She believes that tech culture has a huge role to play in achieving better policy planning, outcomes, public engagement and a better public service all round. She is also trying to do her part in establishing greater public benefit from publicly funded data, software and research. Pia is currently working as a Director of Coordination and Gov 2.0 for the Australian Government CTO looking at whole of government technology, services and procurement. This is in the Department of Finance & Deregulation, itself a central agency focused on whole of government operations. Prior to that she worked in the ACT Government as an Open Government Policy Advisor and on the dataACT open data platform, the first of its kind in Australia.

Presentations:

• Open or perish: long live the new king