Posts By Tom Worthington

ICTs and Environmental Sustainability in Australia

Andrew Garton has produced a “Report for 2010 – ICTs and Environmental Sustainability in Australia”. This is one of numerous reports available at the GISWatch.With the Australian government wavering on its response to climate change, a national household energy reduction scheme in tatters, and illegal shipments of electronic waste (e waste) still said to beRead… Read more »

Systematic Approach to Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Greetings from the Austrlaian National University Planning & Project Support Office where Samuel Fernandes, the Green ICT Project Officer is discussing “Project planning: Using the Six Sigma methodology”. He used the DMAIC Six Sigma methodology for reducing the ANU’s greenhouse gas emissions.Sam is a former student of my Green Information Technology Strategies course. In thatRead… Read more »

Systematic Approach to Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Greetings from the Austrlaian National Unvieristy Planning & Project Support Office where Samuel Fernandes, the Green ICT Project Officer is discussing “Project planning: Using the Six Sigma methodology”. He used the DMAIC Six Sigma methodology for reducing the ANU’s greenhouse gas emissions. Sam is a former student of my Green Information Technology Strategies course. InRead… Read more »

Great Big Carbon Tax Cuts for Everyone

The Australian Prime Minister has a two-stage plan for carbon pricing, starting with a fixed price three to five years before transitioning to an emissions trading scheme (announced 24 February 2011). The federal opposition response was to call this a “… great big new tax to create a great big new slush fund …”.The governmentRead… Read more »

Reimagining education and government at BarCamp Canberra 2011 this Saturday

BarCamp Canberra 2011 is a free “un-conference” this Saturday at the Australian National University in Canberra. There are 158 people registered, with 41 free tickets remaining.Proposed topics include:Designing for cognitive disabilitiesGraffiti: art or vandalism?Open Public Transit Data in the ACTEnabling Digital Society: The Government’s PartMinecraft – using games as building and creativity Original post

Great Big Carbon Tax Cuts for Everyone

The Australian Prime Minister has a two-stage plan for carbon pricing, starting with a fixed price three to five years before transitioning to an emissions trading scheme (announced 24 February 2011). The federal opposition response was to call this a “… great big new tax to create a great big new slush fund …”.The governmentRead… Read more »

Great Big Carbon Tax Cuts for Everyone

The Australian Prime Minister has a two-stage plan for carbon pricing, starting with a fixed price three to five years before transitioning to an emissions trading scheme (announced 24 February 2011). The federal opposition response was to call this a “… great big new tax to create a great big new slush fund …”.The governmentRead… Read more »

Great Big Carbon Tax Cuts for Everyone

The Austrlaian Prime Minister has a two-stage plan for carbon pricing, starting with a fixed price three to five years before transitioning to an emissions trading scheme (announced 24 February 2011). The federal opposition responsee was to call this a “… great big new tax to create a great big new slush fund …”. TheRead… Read more »

Stopping the Next Enron with Data Integrity

Professor Marianne Winslett, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Advanced Digital Sciences Center, Singapore talked today in the famous room N101 at the Australian National University in Canberra, on “Records Retention: Addressing Insider Threats to Data Integrity”. She contrasted the run on the banks during the 1930s stock market crash with the recent stability ofRead… Read more »

Green ICT poster for EduCause 2011

My first rough draft of a poster on “International Graduate Level Sustainable ICT Course” is avilable. This for the conference CCA-EDUCAUSE Australasia 2011, in Sydney 3 to 6 April 2011. I would welcome comments. Sustainable ICT Courses are being introduced at the vocational training level and more rarely at undergraduate and graduate levels. This paperreportsRead… Read more »