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Girl Develop IT Sydney kicked off well last night with thirty eight students, led by the indomitable Pamela Fox and a number of teaching assistants. Women from all sorts of jobs and backgrounds came along to grapple with the basics of web development - with the youngest still in high
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Today is Blog Action Day 2010 and the theme is water. Many people are without access to this most basic of human needs. In Australia we need to find ways to conserve the water we so often take for granted. http://www.change.org/widgets/content/petition_scroller_js?width=
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It was fascinating to take the time and think back to the days of the Y2K bug and discuss what happened (and some of the crazy hype that went on) with Paul Wallbank, Prof. John Quiggin on Radio National's Future Tense program with Antony Funnell. You can listen
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The next Social Innovation BarCamp is on and the theme is sustainable design! Click here to REGISTER NOW When: Saturday 6 November 2010 Time: 9.30 am – 5.30 pm Where: COFA Paddington, Cnr of Oxford St and Greens Rd, Paddington, NSW 2021 [map] You can also follow on Twitter
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We are currently planning the next Social Innovation BarCamp for 6 Nov 2010 in Sydney and I've just written a post about it called 4 Principles and 2 Laws of Social Innovation BarCamp. Thinking about the state of conferences over the past few years I have become enamoured
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One thing I'm passionate about is the possibilities opened up for all of us by technology. And techincal literacy is an important way that we can open up those possibilities for women. Another thing I'm passionate about is people who make a difference - those who
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A recent disclosure that a Federal public servant has been blogging about matters political in his personal time has come to be referred amongst Australian journalists and bloggers alike as #groggate. There has been much discussion about the rights and wrongs of this unmasking of a pseudonymous blogger who had
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I've been observing the discourse in the mainstream and social media worlds about the 'outing' of the blogger Grog's Gamut - the so-called #groggate. Craig Thomler has made an excellent aggregation of the various sources of comment. There were two things that really irritated
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I've been a big supporter of the Plan Because I am a Girl campaign - if you haven't shared your story do it now! The other day @uskovic shared this video about the Girl Effect with me: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIvmE4_KMNw&
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Sheryl WuDunn's Half the Sky investigates the oppression of women globally. Half the Sky lays out an agenda for the world's women and three major abuses: sex trafficking and forced prostitution; gender-based violence including honor killings and mass rape; maternal mortality, which needlessly claims one woman