Reg Alcock, President of the Treasury Board of Canada and HPG member, was also there, giving a keynote speech along with the Governor of Kentucky and the Governor of Puerto Rico. Reg did the HPG proud and had the best-received keynote. He was the only one to talk directly rather than read a speech.

The video of the Gates interview is linked below and runs a tad over an hour. Again, the questions were made up on the fly, so he was answering spontaneously. Here's an approximate map of the timing of what evolved:

Minutes
0:00 Gates speech
17:30 Your views are optimistic. What's the down side?
21:20 Some paying less attention to e-gov than before. How keep properly visible?
23:30 You say you learn from complaints. What biggest gov complaints to Microsoft?
26:00 What are Microsoft complaints about gov? What should governments do better?
28:00 "Partnership" a widely used, ambiguous word. Can we do real risk-sharing?
31:10 From audience: What is your 20-year view?
34:50 From audience: what 'next big thing' and what Microsoft doing about spyware and I.E. problems?
40:30 Has government put nearly enough redundancy into systems for adequate security?
42:30 Will security patches erode openness in a dangerous way?
45:00 From audience: Latin America is poor. Why not use free software like Linux?
48:50 From audience: Will you put Blackberry capability into Pocket PC PDA's?
50:45 From audience: What Microsoft doing to expand educational accessibility?
54:00 From audience: Shouldn't Microsoft work harder to stop piracy in developing countries?
58:10 What can foundations and non-profits do to create more 'social venture capital'?
1:03:30 Conclusion

The link below brings you first to the text of the Gates speech. The link to the video is in a box near the top to the right, where you select a download speed appropriate for your system.

Here it is: http://www.microsoft.com/billgates/speeches/2005/04-27GLFAmericas.asp

Gates is clearly an important leader of our community. Where's he right? Where's he wrong?