Te Rongo Haeata – the informative beam of light

Anne Milne, Mike Usmar: Exploring authentic community informatics taxonomy from a Maori and Pacific worldview This has been a hugely powerful and important address. Anne Milne, Principal of Kia Aroha College in Auckland delivered the most challenging and credible presentation … Continue reading →

Digital inclusion projects in developing countries: Geoff Walsham

Geoff Walsham – Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, UK Prato, Italy. On the sunny first morning of the Community Informatics Research Network annual conference: Processes of institutionalisation and issues of measurement In this first address to the CIRN conference, … Continue reading →

How do we respond to the harm?

Harvard University Professor of Law Lawrence Lessig is widely known in the global Internet community as a vocal proponent of reduced legal restrictions on digital copyright, and a champion of notions of ‘fair use’ and ‘free culture’.. Edgy stuff from … Continue reading →

Rod Oram at NetHui

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For New Zealand’s future, Rod proposes the Seven sisters of strategy Threads of Rod’s address this morning echo Sir Paul Callaghan at PRiNZ … especially the notion that in NZ we work very hard and quite efficiently, but at low-value … Continue reading →

Computers in Homes NZ

Di Das, National Coordinator of Computers in Homes (CiH), talked today at NetHui in the stream on Access and Diversity. In her own words: Computers In Homes Programme (CIH) in New Zealand This educational intervention programme began as a pilot … Continue reading →