CeBIT 2010
Tuesday, 2nd March 2010
Introduction
If the first incarnation of the internet saw the democratisation of information, and made us all publishers, the second incarnation of the internet – Web2.0 – is the democratisation of innovation and decision-making, and will make us all co-designers of civil society in the 21st century.
This brings with it a great [...]
Yesterday Yahoo, Google, the Australian Librarian and Information Association (ALIA) and Inspire Foundation came together under the banner of the Safer Internet Group to make a public statement about the proposed mandatory Internet filtering policy.
The paper calls for two things:
That the scope of filtering be reduced from RC content to child pornographic material
That adults can [...]
With parliament back in session I have been able to continue my conversations with my Labor colleagues about my ideas for improving our internet policy by introducing a ‘mandatory choice’ (providing an opt out for adults and businesses) approach to the proposed mandatory filtering on RC classification content on the internet.
My understanding is that the [...]
I was very pleased to be asked by Sam Sheppard of Buildmore to be the national patron for an Australian first project to promote women in the construction industry- The Women Into Building Housing Showcase.
My background in the workforce was as a labourer in the building and construction industry, removing asbestos from buildings, including the [...]
Late last year Minister for Youth Kate Ellis had an online and offline consultation about issues facing young Australians. As our contribution to this consultation, we went around the ACT and did interviews with young people in schools, work and universities. We had an enormous amount of content and were able to put some of [...]
Thanks to everyone who has taken the time to contribute so far. I have read all the posts and have outlined some ideas as to how the policy could better reflect the original election commitment of a mandatory filter for children. I am very conscious that this direction will never satisfy those who continue to [...]
Around the time when global leaders were arriving at the Copenhagen Climate Change Summit, the Australian Government hosted a different summit in Sydney, much of it online. The Realising Our Broadband Futures Summit participants discussed some of the exciting ideas that a ubiquitous high bandwidth network will inspire.
Not surprisingly, addressing climate change through clever use [...]
First, a bit of history: Whilst the call for a mandatory filter had originally come from some Christian and parent groups, the idea attracted cross factional attention in the ALP when Clive Hamilton from the Australia Insititute brought a broad left view into the debate calling for a mandatory filter, not to mention declaring that [...]
I thought I would put down a few thoughts and links while I am at the Broadband Futures Forum….it’s day two and having heard from Premier of Tasmania, David Bartlett. If you want to get an insight into how the speech was recieved, check out the twitter feed.
By the way, you can view all of [...]
I announced on Monday in collaboration with Minister Conroy and the Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy that there will be several group contribution events happening in parallel with the upcoming Realising our Broadband Future Forum which is at the University of New South Wales in Sydney on December 10 and 11.
These events [...]
