Category: events
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OurMedia (Community Media) Conference: Sydney 9-13th April 2007
The conference series ‘OurMedia’ is coming to Sydney in April of next year. The last conference was in Bangalore in India; which unfortunately I missed because I couldn’t get a plane on that date. It is a strange leap from Bangalore to Sydney. Sydney is just so Third World when it comes to ICT compared…
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iCommons Summit Rio de Janeiro, 23-25 June, 2006
“Towards a global digital commons” (From iCommons.org ). The past few years has seen the burgeoning of a number of initiatives aimed at opening the fields of creativity, science and knowledge in communities around the world. Practitioners from these movements currently identify themselves as falling within a particular community – ‘free and open source software’,…
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Launch of the Australian Dictionary of Biography – Online Edition
Australian Dictionary of Biography – Online Edition Welcome to the Australian Dictionary of Biography Online, Australia's pre-eminent dictionary of national biography. Here are over 10,000 scholarly biographies of significant Australians who died before 1980. The ADB, produced in part by The Australian Science and Technology Centre at the University of Melbourne, will be officially launched…
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World Environment Day Melbourne
Images from World Environment Day in Melbourne.
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8 Hour Day Conferences
To celebrate the 150th Anniversary of the 8 Hour Day, there are a couple of conference being held in Melbourne. The first focuses upon the history of the 8 Hour Day, whilst the other looks at contemporary concerns. 8-hour day. Two conferences to celebrate the history and the future of the 8-hour day. 21-23 June,…