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 Conference Trust 2009 6-8 April 2009, Oxford Trust 2009
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Conference Creative Clusters Summer School: Entrepreneurship, Workspace and the Local Creative Economy 6-9 July, London Creative Clusters
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Conference 18th National Vocational Education and Training Research Conference 'No Frills' 8-10 July, Ballarat The National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER)
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Conference International Unity In Diversity Conference 12-14 August, Townsville Unity in Diversity Conference
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Conference Transforming audiences 2: creativity / knowledge / participation 3-4 September 2009, London, UK University of Westminster
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Conference The future of journalism 9-10 September 2009 Cardiff School of Journalism
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Creative Economy Weekly Top 5
1. Why China wants creativity / Michael Keane
2. No longer taken for granted / John Holden
3. Fans, friends and followers: building an audience and a career in the digital age / Scott Kirsner
4. Trends in communications and media technology, applications and use / Australian Communications and Media Authority
5. Working together or apart: promoting the next generation of digital scholarship
Council on Library and Information Resources
CHANGES AT CREATIVE ECONOMY
Creative Economy was established as a sister site to Australian Policy Online, sharing the same database. Recently APO has moved to a new content management system (Drupal) leaving us with a few questions as to how to manage Creative Economy and the Creative Economy Weekly update email.
At this stage we are still working things out so we will keep you informed about how things will go over the next few weeks. If you would like to send us any comments please email admin@apo.org.au
Creative Economy editors
2. No longer taken for granted / John Holden
3. Fans, friends and followers: building an audience and a career in the digital age / Scott Kirsner
4. Trends in communications and media technology, applications and use / Australian Communications and Media Authority
5. Working together or apart: promoting the next generation of digital scholarship
Council on Library and Information Resources
CHANGES AT CREATIVE ECONOMY
Creative Economy was established as a sister site to Australian Policy Online, sharing the same database. Recently APO has moved to a new content management system (Drupal) leaving us with a few questions as to how to manage Creative Economy and the Creative Economy Weekly update email.
At this stage we are still working things out so we will keep you informed about how things will go over the next few weeks. If you would like to send us any comments please email admin@apo.org.au
Creative Economy editors
NEWS FROM CCI
CCI Symposium: video presentations
Professor John Hartley and CCI Director, Professor Stuart Cunningham brief symposium attendees on the recent achievements and future directions for the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation.
Posted: 21 April 2009
Professor John Hartley and CCI Director, Professor Stuart Cunningham brief symposium attendees on the recent achievements and future directions for the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation.
Posted: 21 April 2009
What's New
Extract from the evaluation report for the request for proposals to roll-out and operate a national broadband network for Australia
Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy
This extract explains some of the rationale behind the Australian Government's decision to invest up to $43 billion over eight years to build and operate a National Broadband Network. Posted
How the Internet got its rules
Stephen D. Crocker / New York Times
Forty years ago a few humble documents began to shape the Internet's inner workings and have played a significant role in its success. Posted
Privacy in the digital world: towards international legislation
Nour S. Al-Shakhouri and A. Mahmood / First Monday
Consumers' confidence in personal privacy is directly affecting and limiting the growth of the internet commercial development. This article discusses constraints and options. Posted
Broadband policy: beyond privatization, competition and independent regulation
Larry Press / First Monday
During the last 25 years, telecommunication has toward privatization with competition and oversight by independent regulatory agencies – PCR policies. This article presents data indicating that PCR has had little impact on the internet during the last ten years in developed or developing nations, and discuss the reasons for this. Posted
Beyond Google and evil: how policy makers, journalists and consumers should talk differently about Google and privacy
Chris Jay Hoofnagle / First Monday
Google has come to symbolize the tensions between the benefits of innovative, information-dependent new services and the desire of individuals to control the contexts in which personal information is used. This essay reviews the debate about these issues. Posted
Socially relevant computing
Michael Buckley, John Nordlinger and Devika Subramanian / Socially Relevant Computing
This paper introduces socially relevant computing as a new way to reinvigorate interest in computer science. Posted
The future of our cities: open, crowdsourced, and participatory
John Geraci / O'Reilly Radar
John Geraci has spent the last six years making life in cities better with the use of web technologies. His latest project, DIYcity.org, has web developers and urban planners all over the world teaming up to create open source tools for residents of cities everywhere. Posted
Getting the balance right: gender equality in journalism
International Federation of Journalists / UNESCO
This handbook is a timely, illustrated and easy-to-read guide and resource material for journalists. It evolved primarily out of a desire to equip all journalists with more information and understanding of gender issues in their work. Posted
Freedom of expression, access to information and empowerment of people
Guy Berger / UNESCO
At the 2008 World Press Freedom Day celebration in Maputo, UNESCO explored how both Press Freedom and Freedom of Information can feed into the wider objective of empowering people. Posted
UNESCO, Library of Congress and partners launch World Digital Library
UNESCO
UNESCO and 32 partner institutions will launch the World Digital Library, a web site that features unique cultural materials from libraries and archives from around the world, at UNESCO Headquarters on 21 April. Posted
Democracy Mao! - the web and political reform in China
Rebecca MacKinnon / Radio Berkman, Berkman Center for Internet and Society
Could the 'Digital Revolution' in China lead to an actual political revolution? With greater openness, communication, and debate taking place among the 1/5th of Chinese citizens on the web, the potential is greater now than ever before. Posted
Internet typology: the mobile difference
John B. Horrigan / Pew Internet and American Life Project
Until now, it has not been clear how mobile access interacts with traditional wireline online behavior. Does availability of mobile access crowd out desktop access? Does it draw some users further into digital lifestyles? Posted
Lost in the real world, found via cyberspace
Brad Stone / New York Times
The Internet may allow bad guys to stalk people or steal their identities. But it also makes it easier to give something back, because of sites and tools that can help people reunite strangers with lost valuables like wallets, cellphones and cameras. Posted
Regulatory reform for 21st century broadband
Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy
This discussion paper outlines various reform options that the federal government is considering to reform the telecommunications regulatory framework. Posted
Internet activity, Australia, Dec 2008
Australian Bureau of Statistics
The Internet Activity Survey (IAS) collects details on aspects of internet access services provided by Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in Australia. This release contains results from all ISPs operating in Australia as at 31 December 2008. Posted
Spectrum licensing technical frameworks review
Australian Communications and Media Authority
This discussion paper is part of a review of the technical frameworks that apply to radiofrequency spectrum licences and analyses the current operation of, and possible improvements to, future technical frameworks. Posted
Ubiquity: laptop culture and the demise of the campus computer lab
Diana Kimball / Digital Natives
When every student has a laptop, will there still be a role for computer labs in schools and universities? Posted
Is this the future of the digital book?
Brad Stone / New York Times
Recently there has been a flurry again of optimism and activity around the once-derided idea that people might read books on a digital screen. Posted
Friending libraries: Why libraries can become nodes in people's social networks
Lee Rainie / Pew Internet and American Life Project
This presentation discusses the way that libraries can play a role in people's social networks in the future. Posted
Working together or apart: promoting the next generation of digital scholarship
Council on Library and Information Resources
This is the report of a workshop examining the research challenges that will use the new media to advance the analysis and interpretations of text, images and other sources of interest to the humanities and social sciences and, in so doing, to pose interesting problems for ongoing computational research. Posted
Kevin Rudd's partner
Fresh back from overseas, a prime minister makes a stunning telecommunications announcement. And the historical parallels don't end there, writes JOCK GIVEN
Revolutionary highway
PODCAST | There's no turning back for the news media. MARGARET SIMONS discusses the threats and opportunities with PETER CLARKE
Why China wants creativity
What does the “creative economy” mean in China and how might it be developed, asks MICHAEL KEANE
Going private
The evidence suggests that publicly listed media companies are digging their own graves. Does this mean a return to the age of moguls, asks JONATHAN ESTE
Public broadcasting looks for a future
The pay TV industry has opened up a new front in its battle with free-to-air, writes MARGARET SIMONS on our partner website, Inside Story
A unique television channel under threat
The withdrawal of government funding threatens South Korea's innovative RTV, writes ELLIE RENNIE
The bad news
Are Australians abandoning the news? Drawing on new survey material SALLY YOUNG looks at the drift away from conventional news and the evidence about where audiences are going
Movement at last on media policy
The government's review of public broadcasting might be unnecessarily narrow, but there's plenty of fuel for controversy, writes Margaret Simons
Copyright: the middle way
Support is growing for a different perspective on intellectual property, write BRIAN FITZGERALD and BEN ATKINSON