Category: governance

Ten Major Issues in Providing a Repository Service in Australian Universities

By mid 2006, all Australian universities had established, or were partway to establishing, institutional repository services. The development of institutional repository services can often be related to the open access movement, which seeks to make valued research outputs openly available by encouraging academics to place their publications into repositories, enhancing their availability and bypassing the…
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May 18, 2007

digital humanities, e-science, education, governance, humanities computing, social media, web2.0
Lovink interview with Ken Jordan on Nettime

This interview with Ken Jordan of the Aumented Social Network initiative by Geert Lovink is really good. In fact; it is excellent. And I thought that Lovink was a libertarian! It is on the list Nettime (2004) and is about a model for a Augmented Social Network that facilitates qualty online deliberation partly through ‘interoperability’…
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December 3, 2006

governance, politics, social media, web2.0
What is America Speaks?

One of the most sophisticated projects that I have come across in the field of online political communication in the government sector. They have an excellent guide called: “Public Deliberation: A Managers Guide to Citizen Engagement” (link .pdf) Plus a number of other highly innovative initiatives that you can view on their web site (thanks…
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November 15, 2006

governance, political communication, web2.0
4) Morning Coffee with Craig: What is Globalisation?

Today I give a very brief overview of that monumental term ‘globalisation’. As you probably know, there are protests against a certain type of globalisation (neo-liberalism) being planned in Melbourne for the meeting of the G20 group. Also, here is a site that I made way back in August, 2000 about globalisation. There are some…
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October 27, 2006

governance, politics, video diary, web2.0
Community Engagement and ICT

For those interested in ICTs and Community Engagement, I have transcribed a list of useful sites from that wonderful publication “Towards Whole of Community Engagement: A Practical Toolkit” by Heather J Aslin and Valarie A Brown. Although none of these links particularly concern ICTs, the methodologies and approaches used in them could be applied to…
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October 12, 2006

education, governance, pedagogy

Category: governance

Ten Major Issues in Providing a Repository Service in Australian Universities

Lovink interview with Ken Jordan on Nettime

What is America Speaks?

4) Morning Coffee with Craig: What is Globalisation?

Community Engagement and ICT