education
Have been meaning to post about Design-Led Tuesdays at UNSW for a while now. Selena Griffith, Martin Bliemel, and I kicked off Design-Led Tuesdays as a new initiative between UNSW, ENACTUS UNSW and Social Innovation Sydney. 12 to 2pm: Design for Innovation These Tuesday 'brown bag' lunchtime workshops
speaking
A colleague and I are co-chairing the Design for Disaster Response cross disciplinary conference to share research and actions around approaches to preparing for, and delivering responses to, disaster. We recently issued the following call for papers. More information will be available on the #d4dr15 conference website. Date and Location
social computing & social media
Life for an academic these days seems to be getting more complex. In addition to the traditional tasks - teaching, researching, and publishing - the job has expanded to include endless grant applications and the need to develop a public persona to publicise their work. All of this is in
ideas
The sad news of the death of a great and humble man came out overnight: Sir Nicholas, then a stockbroker, arranged for trains to carry Jewish children out of occupied Prague. Via BBC He, like others during the 1930s and World War Two period, took action at great personal risk
social computing & social media
Mobile and social media have created a new business landscape If you're not already working out how to disrupt your business and your industry then you will be disrupted… Who succeeds at amazon? "Explorers and pioneers". Who fails? Those who focus on killing our competitors. -Bezos
social computing & social media
I used to think of LinkedIn as a boring but worthy social network for business contacts. But I was wrong. Over the years it has become a critical B2B social network, with multi-million dollar deals often being done via the platform. LinkedIn has also disrupted the recruitment business and reshaped
business
"We measure a leader, not by the absence of problems, but how he or she confronts those problems and takes action." - Rosabeth Moss Kanter There has been a long and largely unprofitable debate in management circles about the difference between management and leadership. Over the years I
technology
The annual Harvey Nash CIO Survey launched in Sydney in early December 2014. This is a long running CIO survey with responses from more than 3,200 CIOs and technology leaders globally. It was interesting to join the panel at this event for a lively discussion of technology and business
IoT
The debate about the internet of things often centres on privacy, but here is why privacy on the internet of things doesn't scare me as much as digital rights management. I tend to suspect that issues relating to privacy on the internet of things will be sorted out
cybersecurity
I've been attending the 36th International Conference of Privacy and Data Commissioners in Mauritius, presenting on the Internet of Things (IoT) privacy and security to the attendees. It has made me very conscious of the tension between privacy/security and the drive to bring products to market quickly.
awards
Really honoured to have been listed among such an august list of women on the Smart Company list of Australia’s most powerful women in technology. (That’s a pic of the lovely and smart Pip Marlow though).
social computing & social media
As part of Social Media Week Sydney 2014 I was honoured to host a panel discussion about the Politics of Social. The panel made for a lively and interesting chat - wish we could have had more time as there was much more to discuss! Panel Members * Ariadne Vromen -