I have been a regular contributor to EDUCAUSE online discussions on higher education. I have reviewed some papers for their conferences but never been to one, as they are mostly in the USA.. CCA-EDUCAUSE Australasia 2011 is on 3 to 6 April 2011 in Sydney, so I thought I would go along. It is notRead… Read more »
Former Canadian military college, Royal Roads University, is constructing a Learning and Innovation Centre building. One floor will be a “Centre for Dialogue”, intended to carry out a similar function to that of the Wosk Centre at Simon Fraser University.However unlike the Wosk centre, which is essentially a conterence centre with very specalsied discussion roomsRead… Read more »
The Verdiem presentation I attended today was held at the National Portrait Gallery (NPG) in Canberra. The National Portrait Gallery turned out to be a very good event event venue. This might make a good template for new and larger venues in the Parliamentary Triangle.The building has extensive free parking underneath and a bus stopRead… Read more »
Greetings from the Australian National University in Canberra where Apurva Sanghi, from the World Bank, is talking about their new book “Natural Hazards, UnNatural Disasters: The Economics of Effective Prevention”.Apurva Sanghi outlined how prevention and preparation could lower the overall cost and effects of disasters. However, he then played a video of the “SMART: StormwaterRead… Read more »
Today I attended a presentation by John Scumniotales, the newly promoted President of Verdiem at the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra. His company was founded to provide PC power management software. They are now expaning to provide management of network equipment and other ICT devices..The Australian Government ICT Sustainability Plan 2010 – 2015 (DEWHA, 2010)Read… Read more »
Greetings from the Australian National University in Canberra where Apurva Sanghi, from the World Bank, is talking about their new book “Natural Hazards, UnNatural Disasters: The Economics of Effective Prevention”.Apurva Sanghi outlined how prevention and preparation could lower the overall cost and effects of disasters. However, he then played a video of the “SMART: StormwaterRead… Read more »
Greetings from the Australian National University in Canberra where Apurva Sanghi, from the World Bank, is talking about their new book “Natural Hazards, UnNatural Disasters: The Economics of Effective Prevention”.Unfortunately the World Bank has chosen to restrict access to this document. This is ironic as in his presentation Apurva Sanghi urged government to make publiclyRead… Read more »
Stuart Kennedy reported in The Australian that CSIRO is seeking a deal with NBN in the next three months for use of their long range high speed wireless broadband technology (“CSIRO keen to secure commercialisation deal for Ngara”, March 08, 2011 12:00AM). This is CSIRO’s Ngara wireless broadband technology. The claim is that just aRead… Read more »
There are media reports that CSIRO is seeking a deal with NBN in the next three months for use of their Ngara long range high speed wireless broadband technology. The claim is that just a firmware and antenna upgrade is required to mobile phone LTE base station technology to make it usable.If this is true,Read… Read more »
The Planet Filestore project at Cardiff University claims to reduce energy use by 80% by moving rarely used data files to slower, lower energy digital storgae devices. This is not a new idea. I used such a system at the ABS several decades ago for the census data. Less frequently used data was automatically migratedRead… Read more »