San Diego to introduce real-time alerts
Starting in June, riders on San Diego’s Metropolitan Transit System (CA) will be able to receive real-time arrival info for bus and trolley via SMS. Original post
Outside groups, public financing, video apologies and a few other political law links today
$200 MILLION PLAN FOR OUTSIDE GROUP. The Post. “The effort — spearheaded by a small group of longtime congressional and White House aides — represents Democrats’ response to the electoral drubbing of 2010, when a coterie of conservative and business groups did a far better job than their opponents of adapting to a new campaignRead… Read more »
An Introduction to the Knowledge Hub
As we approach the first (Beta) release of the Knowledge Hub (May 2011), a project that has consumed my very existence as lead consultant for these past 2 years, I thought I would share a presentation I put together for the Knowledge Hub Conference that was held in London on 1st March 2011 (yes, aRead… Read more »
More thoughts on the MTA and artistic license
So I’m still thinking about the MTA’s attempts to get a New York artist to license her paintings that discarded MetroCards, and I can see both sides. Original post
Canada to develop LNG locomotive
Canadian National Railway and natural gas distributor Gaz Métro are teaming with Westport Innovations to develop a liquefied natural gas locomotive. Original post
ANU Ethel Tory Collaborative Learning Studio
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 »
Carbon Footprint of Paper versus Electronic Invoices
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 »
E-invoices Online in Taiwan
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 »
149 steps to a better government website
This is a little blog post about a big spreadsheet. I’ll understand if you click onto the next post 🙂 One of my early consulting projects over the summer since leaving the UK Civil Service and going freelance was for the UK’s Foreign & Commonwealth Office, helping the digital team there to assess their complianceRead… Read more »
Government 2.0 at Parliment House
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 »