We’re down in Melbourne for the annual Making Links conference. The focus is the convergence of social action and technology and we’re coming up on morning tea of the first day. So far we’ve had a great talk by Matthew Allen on “de-tooling” technology, whereby change how we think about our role within systems and how we treat them reflects our attitudes towards offline community. Lisa Harvey (@lisaharvey) has provided a summary on the ongoing efforts of the Australian Federal Government’s Gov 2.0 taskforce. Included in her presentation were ideas about open information, a look at the developments triggered by the Gov 2.0 roadshow from earlier in the year and how interaction with the public service has the chance to run in both directions.