Archive for the ‘Policy, stats, etc’ Category

Save the internet

Often when I read about some trend in the USA, or elsewhere overseas, I wonder if the same sort of thing is happening in Aotearoa New Zealand. The Save the Internet clip, which you can link to on YouTube above, is about a campaign by citizens in the USA to resist corporate efforts to control [...]

Community informatics on the rise

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 [...]

A new way of thinking about copyright

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 [...]

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