The Australian Government has released a Draft 2011 ICT Strategic Vision for comment. The document is available in PDF, DOC and RTF formats. Unfortunately AGIMO showed a lack of vision by no0t supplying the document in an efficient and easy top read web format. Assuming the vision follows this approach, government IT will be threeRead… Read more »
I will be speaking on “Designing for Democratic Dialogue: More then Mating iPads” at Meta 2011, Australian National University, 25 to 27 May, 2011 .Name: Tom WorthingtonTitle: Adjunct Senior LecturerOrganisation: Research School of Computer Science, The Australian National UniversityStream: Overcoming obstacles in the Execution process – challenges and solutionsYour session title: Original post
The Austrlaian Computer Society is running an ACS Business Skills On-Line Pilot Program. I was selected as one of the initial students. The pilot is from mid April to the end of July 2011 and I have to do at least 3 courses (there are 80 to choose from). These are short one to fourRead… Read more »
T3 Motion’s R3 prototype electric car/motorcycle is reported to have a Galaxy Tab Android tablet computer docked in the dashboard for navigation and entertainment. The R3 has four wheels and two side by side bucket seats like a car, but T3 Motion claim that the rear wheels are so close together that it handles likeRead… Read more »
The Ethel Tory Centre in the Baldessin Building opened for use at the Austrlaian National Unviersity in early March 2011. The centre is a contemporary learning commons, with 3 computer equipped teaching and learning studios, video-conferencing facility and Collaborative Learning Studio with “diner” booths, individual workspaces, group-work tables and a “cafe” area.The video conferencing studioRead… Read more »
One of my Green ICT students pointed out the very useful paper “Assessing the Carbon Footprint of Paper vs. Electronic Invoicing” ( Tenhunen, Maija and Penttinen, Esko, 2010). They found electronic invoices reduce the carbon footprint by 63%. Most of the saving comes mostly from reduced manual labour, not reduced paper production or transport. AbstractRead… Read more »
The Australian Taxation Office allows electronic tax invoices , provided both parties to the transaction to keep a copy (I assume the ATO can then check the two copies match). The Taiwanese regulations seem to require the seller to make their copy available to the buyer online, at least for transactions with consumers. That mightRead… Read more »
At Parliament House Canberra today, I attended the Gov 2.0 lunch with Alison Michalk on Community management . Also Professor Rachel K. Gibson, Institute for Social Change, University of Manchester, said a few words on research in the UK and Australia on use of Internet in election campaigns.Alison Michalk on Community managementAlison, Quiip Director andRead… Read more »
Professor Rachel K. Gibson, Institute for Social Change, University of Manchester, will talk on “What is ‘E-Participation’?”, 4pm, 19 April 2011, at the Australian National University in Canberra. Seminar – Professor Rachel K. Gibson – Tuesday 19 April at 4pm Professor Rachel K. Gibson, Institute for Social Change, University of Manchester Original post
The Canberra Times reports to day in “City’s waterside vision revealed” (by JUDITH IRELAND, 11 April 2011, 2011 12:07 PM), that it is proposed to build a $327 million conference centre and hotel complex. I was previously consulted on the design of a hi-tech dialogue centre as part of the development. My suggestion was toRead… Read more »