Category: data
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Open Government Data: possibilities and problems
View a . PDF version of this report here Government 2.0 involves direct citizen engagement in conversations about government services and public policy through open access to public sector information and new Internet-based technologies. It also encapsulates a way of working that is underpinned by collaboration, openness and engagement[1] Background and context The Political Issues…
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Framing the NBN: Consumer Attitudes and Perceptions
The report I co-authored for the Institute for Broadband Enabled Society (IBES) at the University of Melbourne is now available. “The Australian Government is building a National Broadband Network (NBN) to connect all Australians to high-speed broadband. Government and industry commentators have promoted the network as increasingly important for participation in the digital economy. Yet,…
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Arts Hack @ University of Melbourne
I attended this event recently at The University of Melbourne. Thanks to ITS Research for putting it on.
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Gov Hack: What party am I?
This is a project in which I was involved over the weekend at GovHack (in Melbourne). It was a really good event. The two guys in the video did all the hard work; I was the story teller (and was at a wedding most of the weekend whilst they did all the coding). Also, check…
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Data versus method (data needs heads!)
I have been thinking a little more about the relationship between eResearch and Digital Humanities of late, partly because it is the subject of my talk at the Digital Humanities conference in Hamburg in July, and I want to do justice to what I see as a critical topic that hasn’t been mainly well handled…
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What is VeRSI?
Overview of VeRSI from VeRSI on Vimeo.