education
I've never been a big online game player (the third world bandwidth here in Australia has been enough to discourage many like me). But, having observed the development of online games and the gamer communities since the early days of the internet, I can see clearly that this
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Happy Caturday!
social computing & social media
Yesterday I attended a fascinating session hosted by the Bay Area Executives Meetup on the topic of the The Future of Games: enterprises, education, social + more. The session was conducted via CISCO Public TelePresence Suites, WebEx, Livestream, Twitter - with attendees from all around the world (Santa Clara, CA, San Francisco,
gender & sexism
Bain & Company have just released a brief titled “Level the playing field: A call for action on gender parity in Australia”. The key findings are: * Australian men are 1.4 times more likely to believe that gender parity should be a strategic priority than men surveyed in the US
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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 school.
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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 get
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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