Category Archives: governance

‘Database state’ report

By Craig | Published: April 1, 2009

An interesting new report has recently been released from a senior researcher, Ian Brown,  from the Oxford Internet Institute (OII) .  It charts the cost and scale of data collection and the methods used in data preservation and maintenance.  As listed on the OII web site; the report has also been receiving a lot of [...]

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Labor’s ‘deafening silence’ as web censorship trials delayed

By Craig | Published: January 31, 2009

One of the largest ISPs signed up to participate in Labor’s ambitious internet censorship trials has said its application has been met with “deafening silence” from the Government, raising questions over the workability of the proposed scheme and the effectiveness of the trials. The Government originally planned to trial the mandatory internet filters before Christmas [...]

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Google: global search trends

By Craig | Published: December 14, 2008

Google has released some of its search results. Releasing results like this is extremely important as it gives citizens access to some of the ‘meta-narratives’ that influence our lives. If large corporation such as Google only have acesss to these ‘meta-narratives’; it means that they can manipulate these trends and patterns to their own advantage [...]

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Online Democratic Deliberation in a Time of Information Abundance

By Craig | Published: September 14, 2007

This article of mine recently appeared in the journal, Fast Capitalism. The intensified use of the Internet by civil society groups and governments for political purposes has left many questions unexplained—especially in terms of the Internet’s effects upon deliberative democratic processes. The Internet was first imagined as a means to revitalize deliberative processes. However, poor [...]

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What is e-Framework?

By Craig | Published: August 29, 2007

The e-Framework for Education and Research is an initiative by the UK’s Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) and Australia’s Department of Education, Science and Training (DEST). The primary goal of the e-Framework is to facilitate technical interoperability within and across education and research through improved strategic planning and implementation processes (link)

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Ten Major Issues in Providing a Repository Service in Australian Universities

By Craig | Published: May 18, 2007

By mid 2006, all Australian universities had established, or were partway to establishing, institutional repository services. The development of institutional repository services can often be related to the open access movement, which seeks to make valued research outputs openly available by encouraging academics to place their publications into repositories, enhancing their availability and bypassing the [...]

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UK Government Restrictions on Street Photography

By Craig | Published: February 27, 2007

(the software for No 10 was developed by MySociety.org) Signing up to ask the Prime Minister to Stop proposed restrictions regarding photography in public places The UK Govt are about to propose restrictions on photography in public places which could make street photography and documentary photography against the law. There’s a petition on the Downing [...]

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    Hi, my name is Dr Craig Bellamy and I am a digital humanities analyst for the Victorian eResearch Strategic Initiative, a consortium based at the University of Melbourne, however, the views expressed in this blog are the responsibility of the author alone.

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