October has been a big month in for the emerging international community informatics movement. At the beginnng of the month Monash University hosted the second Community Informatics Research Network conference and colloquim at its Prato Centre in Tuscany, Italy. Academics, practitioners and policy makers met to consider sustainability and community technology. There was a New [...]
Now that the mild weather has returned it’s time to enjoy the great New Zeeeaaland outdoors. I went tramping over Labour weekend with the Wellington Tramping and Mountaineering Club. Our trip was due to take us from the Holdsworth roadend to Otaki Forks with lots of open tops travel. The weather disrupted our plans: fearing [...]
This cartoon, courtesy of Creative Commons, gets to the heart of an alternative to full copyright. Artists, musicians, photographers, writers, bloggers, educators, filmmakers, photographers and others are using the Creative Commons licence to allow people to legitimately redistribute or re-use their work under licence.I have seen the CC logo around the place but I hadn’t [...]
The computers at the Robertson Community Technology Centre (CTC) are named after potatoes. Pontiac, chips and mash are among the names of the PCs and Macs you’ll find. I learnt about all of this and more on the most recent edition of “The Buzz”, a technology focused programme broadcast on demand from Australia’s National Radio [...]
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