Professor Ian Young, Vice Chancellor of the Austrlaian National Unviersity (ANU) has been consulting staff on what should be in a new strategic plan. The current plan “ANU by 2010”, mentions “flexible modes of learning”. This has been implemented through initiatives such as the ANU’s Wattle Learning Management System and the Digital Lecture Delivery System.Read… Read more »
The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner has issued a “Information Publication Scheme Draft Agency Plan” for comment by 28 March 2011. The document describes how the OAIC proposes to provide details of its own information. The document discusses information architecture, what information is to be published including that required by the FOI Act, accessibility,Read… Read more »
This weekend I spoke at the We Live NY Conference, helping to organize a session on Gov 2.0. Slides can be found below. Overall, I think the presentation went really well. I enjoyed speaking on the topic and hope that I will be able to do it again soon! It was also nice to beRead… Read more »
I am among the retired/aged members of this website and by now quite hard-of-hearing (hoh). I also write and still into posting online memoirs, vignettes, blogs, short stories and assorted pieces of non-fiction. About a dozen or so years ago I invited via the growing Internet other hohers (whatever their ages, self-identification discouraged) to tellRead… Read more »
The note for the course “Electronic Document and Records Management” are available. This was first run as COMP7420 an online course the Australian National University, in the Graduate Studies Select Program in February 2011. My intention is to revise the material and expand it from a six to a twelve week full semester course concentratingRead… Read more »
Traction. It gets talked about a lot at the moment. I feel like my wheels are spinning. But while wheels are spinning, experiences are being absorbed, other peoples words are being listened to and I am reading and thinking and dreaming. I think dreaming is important. I suspect to some it might look like IRead… Read more »
A call for papers — with submission deadline of 14 April 2011 — has been issued for The 2011 Workshop on Agent Model-Based Reasoning in Law, to be held 6 June 2011, at The University of Pittsburgh, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. The workshop is being held in conjunction with ICAIL 2011: The 13th International ConferenceRead… Read more »
The 2011 DoDIIS Worldwide Conference will be held 1-5 May 2011 at the COBO at Detroit Michigan. This is always an exciting event for technologists enthused about continued improvement of mission capabilities. The conference is focused on the mission of the US DoD intelligence enterprise, but the many topics tackled at the event are ofRead… Read more »
The London Metropolitan Police are finally learning how to play chess. After the students made them sacrifice their Queen and forced their hand enough to resort to tactics which were perhaps not appropriate for young people (kettling) it seems someone has realised that anger, frustration and unrest are unlikely to go away but only toRead… Read more »
Last weekend I wanted to read “The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement” by Eliyahu M. Goldratt again. It’s been a few years since I had, and it was one of the first books that really helped me to internalize many of the concepts I take for granted today. I was delighted to find itRead… Read more »