tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30168643823283484882024-03-13T09:40:01.159+10:00OctaviaNetKyliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07327515027655019929noreply@blogger.comBlogger104125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3016864382328348488.post-33197530565108292492010-02-14T10:18:00.002+10:002010-02-14T10:22:24.842+10:00New blogNow that I have started my PhD, I plan (hope) to be blogging a lot more from now on. I have a shiny new blog to celebrate this occasion - the new address is: <a href="http://kyliepappalardo.net/">http://kyliepappalardo.net</a>. If you use RSS to subscribe to this blog, you will need to change your subscription to the new address. Thanks!Kyliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07327515027655019929noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3016864382328348488.post-6847357891927394362010-02-12T10:27:00.002+10:002010-02-12T10:46:19.701+10:00Some updatesSo I have fallen a bit behind in my promised extended discussion of the iiNet case. I'm halfway through the full judgment, but have unfortunately been sidetracked with some other work-related tasks.<br /><br />There has been no shortage of interesting copyright judgments in the last week. In addition to the <a href="http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/cth/FCA/2010/24.html">iiNet decision</a>, there has been the decision of <a href="http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/cth/FCA/2010/29.html" target="_blank">Larrikin Music Publishing Pty Ltd v EMI Songs Australia Pty Limited [2010] FCA 29</a> (where the band Men At Work was found to have infringed Larrikin's copyright in the children's song 'Kookaburra Sits in the Old Gum Tree', by using the flute riff in their famous 'Down Under' song), and on Monday, in <a href="http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/cth/FCA/2010/44.html" target="_blank">Telstra Corporation Limited v Phone Directories Company Pty Ltd [2010] FCA 44</a>, a single judge of the Federal Court held that copyright does not subsist in Telstra's Yellow Pages and White Pages directories (choosing to follow <span style="font-style: italic;">IceTV </span>rather than <span style="font-style: italic;">Desktop Marketing</span>).<br /><br />These are all important decisions, and I have every intention of getting to them (for reading and blogging in detail) as soon as I can. In the meantime, if you are interested in reading some updates and discussions, I'd recommend viewing <a href="http://nic.suzor.com/">Nic Suzor's blog</a> on the iiNet decision (<a href="http://nic.suzor.com/2010/02/04/iinet-did-not-authorise-providing-internet-access-is-not-providing-the-means-of-infringement-safe-harbours-are-effective/">1</a>, <a href="http://nic.suzor.com/2010/02/05/the-means-of-infringement/">2</a>, and <a href="http://nic.suzor.com/2010/02/05/iinet-what-of-the-safe-harbours/">3</a>) and <a href="http://ipwars.com/2010/02/10/no-copyright-in-telephone-directories-downunder/">Warwick Rothnie's post</a> on the Telstra decision.Kyliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07327515027655019929noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3016864382328348488.post-41465654768964309872010-02-12T10:17:00.004+10:002010-02-12T10:25:30.749+10:00EFA submission on minimum legitimacy requirements for mandatory internet fileringThe <a href="http://www.efa.org.au/">Electronic Frontiers Australia</a> (EFA) submission to the Australian Government <a href="http://www.dbcde.gov.au/online_safety_and_security/cybersafety_plan/transparency_measures/consultation_paper">Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy</a> (DBCDE) on what measures would be needed to make mandatory online filtering legitimate, particularly from a transparency perspective, is now available online. You can view a summary or download the submission in PDF from the <a href="http://www.efa.org.au/2010/02/12/mandatory-filtering-minimum-legitimacy-requirements/">EFA website</a>.<br /><br />I am happy to say that I played a small role (together with <a href="http://nic.suzor.com/">Nic Suzor</a> and <a href="http://libertus.net/">Irene Graham</a>) in putting this submission together. I hope that it will have some impact in helping to make the proposed filter (if it is indeed implemented) more transparent, and as a result, the government more accountable to the Australian people as far as internet filtering goes.Kyliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07327515027655019929noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3016864382328348488.post-86840209409843662932010-02-04T10:02:00.003+10:002010-02-04T10:37:23.281+10:00iiNet prevails in Federal CourtJustice Cowdroy of the Federal Court today handed down his judgement in the <i>Roadshow Films Pty Ltd v iiNet </i>case.<div><br /></div><div>The case involved a number of film studios who had sued iiNet, an internet service provider, for authorising the copyright infringement of its users. Their argument was that some of iiNet's users were infringing copyright by downloading movies and TV shows via a BitTorrent service; that iiNet knew this was going on; and that iiNet failed to do anything about it. The question for the court was whether iiNet was authorising the copyright infringement of its users by failing to take any steps to stop the infringing conduct.</div><div><br /></div><div>In a decision that has been celebrated all over the internet this morning (especially Twitter), Justice Cowdroy held that iiNet was not authorising copyright infringement. The Justice gave three reasons his decision:</div><div><ol><li>the infringements occurred as a result of use of the BitTorrent system, not the internet, and iiNet did not control the BitTorrent system;</li><li>iiNet did not have a relevant power to prevent the infringements occurring; and</li><li>iiNet did not sanction, approve or countenance copyright infringement.</li></ol><div><br /></div><div>In the summary of his judgement (which I have had the good fortune of reading), Justice Cowdroy made the following important statement: "I find that the mere provision of access to the internet is not the 'means' of infringement".</div><div><br /></div><div>The judge found that a scheme for notification, suspension and termination of customer accounts is not a relevant power to prevent copyright infringement pursuant to <a href="http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act/ca1968133/s101.html">s 101(1A)(a) of the Copyright Act</a>. The judge's reasons for this finding are set out in the <a href="http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/cth/FCA/2010/24.html">main judgement</a>, which I have not yet had a chance to read. I hope to do this later today and provide updated comments shortly.</div><div><br /></div><div>Justice Cowdroy also found that iiNet did have a repeat infringer policy that was reasonably implemented and that iiNet would therefore have been entitled to take advantage of the safe harbour provisions of the Copyright Act. However, because the judge found that iiNet did not authorise infringement, iiNet did not need to rely on the safe harbours.</div><div><br /></div><div>Nic Suzor, Associate Lecturer in the Faculty of Law at QUT and Chair of Electronic Frontiers Australia has further comments and analysis <a href="http://nic.suzor.com/2010/02/04/sanity-prevails-iinet-did-not-authorise-its-users’-infringements/">here</a> and <a href="http://nic.suzor.com/2010/02/04/iinet-did-not-authorise-providing-internet-access-is-not-providing-the-means-of-infringement-safe-harbours-are-effective/">here</a>.</div><div><br /></div><div>I think this is a fantastic result and I am happy that common sense has triumphed. </div><div><br /></div><div>The main judgement is available <a href="http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/cth/FCA/2010/24.html">here</a>. It is almost 200 pages. Happy reading!</div><div><br /></div><div>(Updates will follow once I have read the full document myself)</div></div>Kyliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07327515027655019929noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3016864382328348488.post-79097180376101230002010-01-06T14:56:00.003+10:002010-01-06T15:11:47.766+10:00Government 2.0 Taskforce report(s)<p>This post is hugely late, but I've only just realised that I never actually posted notice of the Government 2.0 Taskforce final report, or the project report that I did with Professor Anne Fitzgerald for the Government 2.0 Taskforce.</p><p><br />So, without further ado, here are the relevant links:</p><p><br />The final report of the Government 2.0 Taskforce, entitled, "Engage: Getting on with Government 2.0" (December 2009) is available <a href="http://www.finance.gov.au/publications/gov20taskforcereport/index.html">here</a>. The report makes a number of important recommendations, including:</p><blockquote><p><strong>Recommendation 6: Make public sector information open, accessible and reusable</strong></p><p>6.1 By default Public Sector Information19 (PSI) should be:</p><ul><li>free</li><li>based on open standards</li><li>easily discoverable</li><li>understandable</li><li>machine-readable</li><li>freely reusable and transformable.</li></ul><p>6.2 PSI should be released as early as practicable and regularly updated to ensure its currency is maintained.</p><p><br />6.3 Consistent with the need for free and open re-use and adaptation, PSI released should be licensed under the Creative Commons BY standard as the default...<br /></p></blockquote><p> </p><p>The Government 2.0 Taskforce commissioned a number of projects to assist them with examining various areas of policy relating to their government 2.0 agenda. I assisted Professor Anne Fitzgerald with Project 4: Copyright Law and Intellectual Property. Our project report is available <a href="http://gov2.net.au/projects/project-4/">here</a>. Here is the summart of the project report, as provided on the Government 2.0 Taskforce website:</p><blockquote>Professor Anne Fitzgerald examined the broad policy rationale for copyright in relation to public sector information and found that there is a strong case to realign Commonwealth copyright policy based on the principles of open access and re-use which would facilitate complex flows of information between and within the public and private sectors. The report stated that this could be achieved without the need for significant changes to copyright legislation by repositioning crown copyright to enable rather than restrict re-use; adopting copyright management practices appropriate to the Web 2.0 environment (e.g. standardised open licenses which provide clear statements of users’ permissions); and providing clearer guidance to agencies about the use of open licenses, and the meaning of ‘publication’ in the Copyright Act.</blockquote><blockquote></blockquote><p> </p>Kyliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07327515027655019929noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3016864382328348488.post-55379126810167079762009-12-23T09:18:00.003+10:002009-12-23T10:40:01.274+10:00Conroy's Con - the new grass-roots campaign against the Government's mandatory internet filterOn Monday 21 December 2009, I attended the Brisbane <a href="http://www.stopinternetcensorship.org/">Stop Internet Censorship</a> Public Meeting. The meeting was organised by Nicholas Perkins and had a fantastic turnout - close to 90 people! There is clearly a lot of interest around this issue.<br /><br />The meeting was focused on what we can do to get the message out about Conroy's mandatory filter and the negative impacts it will have. Mainly, that the filter will NOT stop child pornography or protect children from the dangers that lurk online (including online predators and cyber bullying) but it DOES pose a serious risk of political censorship.<br /><br />It was generally agreed that at present, we are losing the great internet filter battle. Conroy has used strong rhetoric that casts anyone who opposes the filter into the role of child pornographer (or at least, supporter of child pornography). Further, we are not aided by our own "geekiness" - as tech-savvy Twitteratti, we do not appeal to mainstream Australia who may not know what a "feed" is, let alone the significance of the "clean feed" proposal.<br /><br />So what can we do?<br /><br />The answer is a lot. But we need to do it fast, and we need to apply a lot of pressure consistently. We need to reach both the pollies and the general Australian public, and we need to turn this debate around soon or the battle is lost for good.<br /><br />The Stop Internet Censorship meeting had two speakers, each of whom presented compelling options for moving forward. Each speaker took a completely different approach, but I believe that both approaches can be effective and if we apply them together, even more so.<br /><br /><a href="http://nic.suzor.com/">Nicolas Suzor</a> from <a href="http://www.efa.org.au/">Electronic Frontiers Australia </a>spoke first and outlined the importance of keeping this debate rational. He argued that we shouldn't get sidetracked on issues of speed. The most important issues relate to censorship and control, and the fact that the RC list has a far wider ambit than child porn. Nic stated that the most effective thing we can do in terms of reaching the politicians is letter-writing. Many MPs do not really have a clear idea of what this debate is about. We should inform them and make our case. Write, write write! EFA has provided a <a href="http://nocleanfeed.com/action.html">template</a> on their <a href="http://nocleanfeed.com/">website</a>, if you are not sure what to write.<br /><br />Nic also highlighted the <a href="http://www.internetblackout.com.au/">Great Australian Internet Blackout</a>, an online protest that runs from 25th - 29th January, in which you can blackout your online profile picture and/or website to protest against the filter. Additionally, Michael Meloni of <a href="http://www.somebodythinkofthechildren.com/">Somebody Think of the Children</a> has developed a website called <a href="http://www.thegiftofcensorship.com/">The Gift of Censorship</a>, which allows you to leave a short (500 characters or less) message for Stephen Conroy. For every 1000 messages sent, Michael will send a Christmas stocking of coal to the Senator.<br /><br />Finally, Australia Day is the national day of action for this debate. EFA are asking you to spread the word about what the filter really means for Australians, by bringing it up at your Australia Day Party.<br /><br />The next speaker was Cameron Reilly, who spoke about the propaganda techniques that Conroy has used to swing the debate his way. Sometimes, you need to fight fire with fire, and in addition to the more reasoned approaches above, we may need to develop our own propaganda techniques. We need to bring this issue to the masses.<br /><br />Andrew Bartlett suggested "Conroy's Con" as our slogan. More meetings will follow to discuss what techniques we can employ to show mainstream Australia that this filter is not what Conroy promises. Importantly, we need Mums and Dads, family groups and church groups on our side.<div><br /></div><div>To find out more about the next meeting, visit <a href="http://www.stopinternetcensorship.org/">http://www.stopinternetcensorship.org/</a></div><div><br />Videos of the December meeting have been posted on YouTube.<br />You can see Nicholas Perkins speaking <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwbpCqIHCr8">here</a><br />Nic Suzor is <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4klqDz9pRk&feature=video_response">here</a><br />Cameron Reilly is <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1I_oMeO0Pw">here</a> and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gZE89WPnKc">here</a><br /><div>and the public debate is <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtW-X9tIwSs">here</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_8edtpJFeg">here</a> and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2NDgkECm2o">here</a></div><div><br /></div><div>You can also see the Twitter feed from the night by searching for <a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23sicbne">#sicbne</a></div></div>Kyliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07327515027655019929noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3016864382328348488.post-90329055588507379902009-12-10T15:32:00.001+10:002009-12-10T15:33:48.335+10:00I think my blogging is over for the day... #bbfqld <meta name="Title" content=""> <meta name="Keywords" content=""> <meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"> <meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 2008"> <meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 2008"> <link rel="File-List" href="file://localhost/Users/kylie/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/msoclip/0/clip_filelist.xml"> <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:officedocumentsettings> <o:allowpng/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:trackmoves>false</w:TrackMoves> <w:trackformatting/> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:drawinggridhorizontalspacing>18 pt</w:DrawingGridHorizontalSpacing> <w:drawinggridverticalspacing>18 pt</w:DrawingGridVerticalSpacing> <w:displayhorizontaldrawinggridevery>0</w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery> <w:displayverticaldrawinggridevery>0</w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:dontgrowautofit/> <w:dontautofitconstrainedtables/> <w:dontvertalignintxbx/> </w:Compatibility> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="276"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--> <style> <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:Cambria; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language:EN-US;} @page Section1 {size:612.0pt 792.0pt; margin:72.0pt 90.0pt 72.0pt 90.0pt; mso-header-margin:36.0pt; mso-footer-margin:36.0pt; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> </style> <!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-ansi-language:EN-US;} </style> <![endif]--> <!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="">We are engaging in general discussion now in Brisbane, which probably means it is easier to follow this via Twitter, rather than me trying to follow it all.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="">
<br /><span style=""><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style=""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="">So, I guess this is where I sign off.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style=""><o:p>
<br /></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style=""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="">Phew! It’s all over!<span style=""> </span>Live blogging is exhausting – not to mention trying to keep track of the twitter feeds, the Google Wave discussions and all the other activity going on!<span style=""> </span>There has been a hive of activity here in Brisbane and I can only imagine the same (or more) has occurred in Sydney.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style=""><o:p>
<br /></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style=""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="">I think the Brisbane forum has been very successful and thank you to everyone who attended, whether in person or online.<span style=""> </span>I’d also like to extend thanks to the wonderful speakers on the program today, Prof Anne Fitzgerald and Paul O’Keeffe for organising the forum, Pia Waugh, Senator Kate Lundy and our friends at the main forum in Sydney, other members of our research team – Elliott Bledsoe, Jessica Coates, Cheryl Foong and Jimmy Ti – for helping with taking notes, making tweets and taking photos, and finally Patrice Meixsell-Draper and the QUT AV services and technical services teams for assisting with the venue, wireless connectivity and audio recording of today’s events.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <!--EndFragment--> Kyliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07327515027655019929noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3016864382328348488.post-91678384674299093002009-12-10T15:25:00.002+10:002009-12-10T15:31:53.452+10:00Brisbane forum #bbfqld - Stream 5: e-Community <meta name="Title" content=""> <meta name="Keywords" content=""> <meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"> <meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 2008"> <meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 2008"> <link rel="File-List" href="file://localhost/Users/kylie/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/msoclip/0/clip_filelist.xml"> <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:officedocumentsettings> <o:allowpng/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:trackmoves>false</w:TrackMoves> <w:trackformatting/> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:drawinggridhorizontalspacing>18 pt</w:DrawingGridHorizontalSpacing> <w:drawinggridverticalspacing>18 pt</w:DrawingGridVerticalSpacing> <w:displayhorizontaldrawinggridevery>0</w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery> <w:displayverticaldrawinggridevery>0</w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:dontgrowautofit/> <w:dontautofitconstrainedtables/> <w:dontvertalignintxbx/> </w:Compatibility> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="276"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--> <style> <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:Cambria; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language:EN-US;} @page Section1 {size:595.0pt 842.0pt; margin:72.0pt 90.0pt 72.0pt 90.0pt; mso-header-margin:35.4pt; mso-footer-margin:35.4pt; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> </style> <!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-ansi-language:EN-US;} </style> <![endif]--> <!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="">The final stream (Stream 5 – e-Community) was facilitated by Fee Plumley of the Australia Council for the Arts.<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""><o:p>
<br /></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="">Fee described the Geeks in Residence program that the Australia Council is running – putting “geeks” within arts organisations to help them with their digital agenda.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""><o:p>
<br /></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="">The Geeks in Residence program is interested in three things:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <ol><li><span style="">What innovation can take place around artistic programming?<o:p></o:p></span><span style=""><o:p></o:p></span></li><li><span style=""><o:p></o:p></span><span style="">Audience development (marketing through digital – but this needs to be done strategically – must build community of users within the organisation) – need cultural change within the organisation – staff are taught to use networking in a productive way<o:p></o:p></span><span style=""><o:p></o:p></span></li><li><span style=""><o:p></o:p>General operations – something often overlooked in terms of how technologies can improve productivity<o:p></o:p></span></li></ol> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""><o:p>
<br /></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="">Fee also made the point very well that it is important to have clear and sensible policy around use of social networking in the workplace.<span style=""> </span>You must let your staff engage with and network with their communities online.<span style=""> </span>Talking about their work with passion to others is just as important as the actual work.<span style=""> </span>Passion spreads the message further.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""><o:p>
<br /></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="">Discussion then turned (very strongly) to copyright.<span style=""> </span>Fee made the following arguments:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""><o:p>
<br /></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""></span></p><blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="">The first thing we must do, alongside the NBN, is to re-examine the copyright system.<span style=""> </span>All we have currently is blockades, because the old organisations are just working to preserve old industry and old business models.<span style=""> </span>This may rock the boat – but the boat needs to be rocked. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""><o:p>
<br /></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="">We need to get Creative Commons, APRA, MEAA, whoever, to work together – to try a number of case studies of business and copyright models with difference content and different audiences – to see what happens.<span style=""> </span>Sick of hearing “it can’t be done” and closed doors – let’s do it as an experiment!<span style=""> </span>If at the end, the best answer is to shut down the process and fiercely protect the copyright, then “I will shut up”.<span style=""> </span>We need to let new business models develop.<span style=""> </span>We must demand that even though we are small and niche (“the arts”), we have an important part within the economic system. We need knowledge investment.<span style=""> </span>We must question why we accept models from the past.</span></p></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""><o:p>
<br /></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="">Other debate – <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""><o:p>
<br /></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="">Fee Plumley: Artists need to stop feeling bad about asking for money.<span style=""> </span>The subsidising system makes artists feel like beggars.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""><o:p>
<br /></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="">Elliott Bledsoe: Similarly, artists need to stop expecting other people (intermediaries) to ask for money for them.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""><o:p>
<br /></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="">Fee Plumley: There must be a balance across the whole space.<span style=""> </span>We don’t just want commercially-driven art<o:p></o:p></span></p> <!--EndFragment--> Kyliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07327515027655019929noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3016864382328348488.post-13011825003111460552009-12-10T14:50:00.002+10:002009-12-10T14:53:05.633+10:00Brisbane Forum #bbfqld - Stream 4: e-BusinessIn the e-Business stream we had an overview of the Peer to Patent Australia Project from Professor Brian Fitzgerald. I'll let you see my earlier (more extensive post) for information about this project and I'd also encourage you to visit <a href="http://www.peertopatent.org.au/">the website</a>.<br /><br />There was also some general discussion around some e-business issues, all of which were well covered via the twitter stream (#bbfqld) - so again, I will let you read the tweets there.Kyliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07327515027655019929noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3016864382328348488.post-8262208549498920132009-12-10T14:23:00.003+10:002009-12-10T14:29:46.802+10:00Brisbane Forum #bbfqld - Stream 3: Digital EducationStream 3 was on digital education.
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mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-ansi-language:EN-US;} </style> <![endif]--> <!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="">First up was Linda Pitt, Manager, Discovery Programs, eLearning, QLD Department of Education and Training.<span style=""> </span>Linda gave an overview of <a href="http://education.qld.gov.au/learningplace/"><u>The Learning Place</u>.</a><span style=""> </span>I encourage you to check it out – they are doing some fantastic things.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""><o:p>
<br /></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="">The Learning Places works on the theory that a robust digital education infrastructure involves three limbs – digital pedagogies, digital content, and e-learning spaces.<span style=""> </span>It is trying to give students a ‘real-world’ experience through online networks.<span style=""> </span>It is encourage use of digital spaces (such as Second Life) and tools such as blogging. It helps to have people blog their teaching and learning experiences to share with others and grow from everyone’s experiences.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""><o:p>
<br /></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="">Some other points made by Linda:</span></p> <ul><li><span style="">Smart Classrooms not only need bandwidth they need access to trained facilitators that can show students how to learn online (via @MichaelSmale)<o:p></o:p></span>
<br /></li></ul><span style=""><o:p></o:p></span><ul><li><span style="">One of the biggest problems for the learning place is low bandwidth in most QLD schools – only have a small number of schools with definite broadband – this is poor<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><span style=""><o:p></o:p></span><ul><li><span style="">We want teachers to be able connect with experts out there, and we want teachers and students and students and students to be able to connect with each other, no matter where they are.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""><o:p>
<br /></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="">Second up was Professor Greg Hearn, ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation (QUT), Director Creative Workforce Program.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""><o:p>
<br /></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="">Main points made by Greg about new broadband technologies were:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <ul><li><span style="">There is potential for a major paradigm shift in education</span></li></ul><span style=""></span><ul><li><span style="">We need innovation in all three layers (technology, content, social) to have real progress in education<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><span style=""><o:p></o:p></span><ul><li><span style="">Some provocations for education –
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<br /><span style=""><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 72pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style=";font-family:";" ><span style="">o<span style=";font-family:";font-size:7pt;" > </span></span></span><span style="">Is the music industry a model for the education system? Do we need new business and content models?<span style=""> </span>What is the disruptive innovation that will bring about a paradigm shift in education?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 72pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style=";font-family:";" ><span style="">o<span style=";font-family:";font-size:7pt;" > </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="">Should bots (online games) be adopted as the new primary school classroom?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 72pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style=";font-family:";" ><span style="">o<span style=";font-family:";font-size:7pt;" > </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="">How do we harvest and accredit web 2.0 learning?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 72pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style=";font-family:";" ><span style="">o<span style=";font-family:";font-size:7pt;" > </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="">Which is a more important budget item – the teacher or the IT infrastructure?<span style=""> </span>They are roughly 50/50 at the moment – what should we spend more on?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 72pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style=";font-family:";" ><span style="">o<span style=";font-family:";font-size:7pt;" > </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="">Who will be the gatekeeper of the virtual classrooms (that have no boundaries)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: 72pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style=";font-family:";" ><span style="">o<span style=";font-family:";font-size:7pt;" > </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="">Which physical facilities still add value in the education process?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""><o:p>
<br /></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="">Greg then moved on to facilitating discussion around some specific <u><a href="http://www.broadbandfuture.gov.au/streams.html">discussion points.</a><o:p></o:p></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""><o:p>
<br /></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="">We focused on the two later discussion points of those provided to us by the main forum:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><span style=""><o:p>
<br /></o:p></span></p><p style="font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><span style=""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""><span style="font-weight: bold;">(2) Reality Check – what is holding us back?</span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <ul><li><span style="">The digital literacy of the educators (may need retraining)<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><span style=""><o:p></o:p></span><ul><li><span style="">One of the key restraints in our current education = regression in the mean i.e. we need to tailor programs to the less able students.<span style=""> </span>One of the big changes that broadband can offer is bringing experts closer to students and tailoring education to the individual.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><span style=""><o:p></o:p></span><ul><li><span style="">How will we create the right environment for teachers to be able to handle multiple students using multiple technologies, at different levels and in different regions? – it will bust apart the system – it is a challenge – but we need to create digital support networks.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul> <p class="MsoListParagraph"><span style=""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""><o:p>
<br /></o:p></span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="">(3) Next steps – what needs to be done?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <ul><li><span style="">Why don’t we de-regulate the university curriculum and let students do the individual courses they want to take?<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><span style=""><o:p></o:p></span><ul><li><span style="">Individuals will be better catered for in an open system<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul> <!--EndFragment-->
<br />Kyliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07327515027655019929noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3016864382328348488.post-50842043418035806732009-12-10T12:59:00.002+10:002009-12-10T13:00:38.544+10:00Brisbane Forum #bbfqld - Stream 2: e-HealthThe second stream at #bbfqld was about e-Health.<br /><br />The first presentation was from Alan Taylor, Director of Coeenet@qld, Radiology Informatics Program, Queensland Health.<br /><br />Alan made the following points:<br /><ul><li>There will be a huge demand for e-Health applications, including for health records, health monitoring, video conferencing etc</li><li>Large investments in e-Health infrastructure will be needed.</li><li>There is absence of broadband competition outside the south-east corner of Queensland.</li><li>We need to understand the issues according to area and what are the issues for different people – health care providers, specialists, patients etc.</li><li>Health care needs a range of special security and privacy measures appropriate to the context of use.</li><li>Healthcare information needs a range of guarantees that information is available within stated timeframes</li><li>Health care traffic is symmetric. Asymmetric “residential” type services are not a good fit. Healthcare traffic requires “quality of service”</li><li>How will we know whether NBN is on track for healthcare needs? Questions to consider in assessing this – can we get competitive services throughout Queensland and can those services connect with each other? Can we get business grade services for health and government in both regional and metropolitan areas? Will the NBN services support symmetric traffic? Will there be sufficient bandwidth?</li></ul><br />Importantly, Alan argued that we need to lobby for investment in Queensland. Funding for digital investment in regional areas absent in Queensland.<br /><br />Alan also showed a video that demonstrated the different that technology makes to health in rural QLD. Crucially, it helps in making quick decisions about whether patients need transport to other facilities. It is about having up-to-date, accurate information, to make rapid, well-informed decisions. This enhances patient care.<br /><br /><br />The second speaker was David Hansen, a research scientist from CSIRO. David gave a number of thrilling examples of how CSIRO are using digital technologies in medical research – e.g. to map progression of Alzheimer’s, and many other things. I can’t really do the research justice by explaining in short-form here, but we will endeavour to make the slide set and audio recording available online soon.<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">General discussion report</span><br /><br />Alan Taylor: We need the broadband, but we also need the smart people to get the right management of legal issues and proper business models to actually use the broadband and implement all the possibilities the broadband offers<br /><br />Q: [Jessica Coates] How hard is training for people with digital technologies?<br /><br />A: [David Hansen] – Generally you need a clinical champion to actually push the technology in the first place, but once people see the possibilities and how it all works, they generally get very excited about using it.<br /><br />[Alan Taylor]: Most clinicians can see they need to do things better. Problem is knowing when they can use new technologies – will it save time and money? Will it expose them to risk of clinical malpractice?Kyliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07327515027655019929noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3016864382328348488.post-72935686549639855652009-12-10T12:14:00.002+10:002009-12-10T12:47:43.956+10:00Brisbane #bbfqld : Stream 1 - Smart Infrastructure <meta name="Title" content=""> <meta name="Keywords" content=""> <meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"> <meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 2008"> <meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 2008"> <link rel="File-List" href="file://localhost/Users/kylie/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/msoclip/0/clip_filelist.xml"> <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:officedocumentsettings> <o:allowpng/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:trackmoves>false</w:TrackMoves> <w:trackformatting/> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:drawinggridhorizontalspacing>18 pt</w:DrawingGridHorizontalSpacing> <w:drawinggridverticalspacing>18 pt</w:DrawingGridVerticalSpacing> <w:displayhorizontaldrawinggridevery>0</w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery> <w:displayverticaldrawinggridevery>0</w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:dontgrowautofit/> <w:dontautofitconstrainedtables/> <w:dontvertalignintxbx/> </w:Compatibility> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="276"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--> <style> <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:"Courier New"; 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<br />Associate Professor James Hogan from QUT's Science & Technology Faculty presented first. He started with a succinct but important quote from </span><span style=";font-family:";" >Microsoft: “It is not longer possible to do science without a computer”.
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<br />James spoke about some projects in his field - namely, how smart infrastructure is being used to measure environmental health. Digital instruments (similar to "smart phones") record environmental acoustics to "emulate scientific eyes and ears" in measuring environmental health. There are two such projects currently being undertaken - one to measure the sounds (and therefore the movements and health) of koalas at St Bee's Island, and another to measure the sounds of Lewins Rail (a type of bird) in the Brisbane Airport surrounds. Broadband helps to take this scientific data from the field and share it with others faster and more broadly, to have greater impact.
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<br />The second speaker in this stream was Lucy Cradduck, a lecturer in business law at the University of the Sunshine Coast and a SJD candidate in law at QUT.
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<br />Lucy made some important points about the challenges facing us in rolling out the national broadband network (NBN). These include:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<br /><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <ul style="margin-top: 0cm;" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0.1pt; margin-bottom: 0.1pt;"><span style=";font-family:";" >Literacy: Access to information is about people being digitally literate – it is important that all people with capacity to access the NBN are fully digitally literate. If we do not have everyone able to understand, as well as everyone able to access, then we cannot move forward properly.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0cm 0.1pt 36pt;"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p>
<br /></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0cm 0.1pt 36pt;"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <ul style="margin-top: 0cm;" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0.1pt; margin-bottom: 0.1pt;"><span style=";font-family:";" >Physical infrastructure: New networks need to be constructed in infill (mainly urban and regional) and greenfield (mainly regional and rural). There are unique issues in greenfield sites, in particular cost and how the cables are going to be treated. Will they be treated the same as other utilities? There must be proper interoperability between old networks and new. Upgrading existing hardware and software needs to be efficient.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
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<br /></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:";" >So what steps do we need to make in moving forward?
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<br /><!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></p> <ul><li><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style=";font-family:";" lang="EN-US">We need consistent policies across Australia on what must be provided for all not just Greenfield<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 18pt;"><span style=";font-family:";" lang="EN-US"><o:p>
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<br /><!--[if !supportLists]--></p><ul><li><span style=";font-family:";" >Specific issues for rural and regional Australia must be addressed</span><span style=";font-family:";" lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 54pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--> - <span style=";font-family:";" >We cannot create an “underclass of the NBN have-nots”</span><span style=";font-family:";" lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 54pt;"><span style=";font-family:";" lang="EN-US"><o:p>
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<br />[Note: I think (hope) that both James and Lucy's slides will be made available online in the next few days.]
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<br /></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:";" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:";" lang="EN-US">Q: What legal issues does the NBN throw up?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:";" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:";" lang="EN-US"><o:p>
<br /></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:";" lang="EN-US">A: [Lucy Cradduck] One big issue is net neutrality – making sure that the NBN is open, that the content and system providers do not control what material we can have access to. Currently, Telstra controls most (if not all) of the internet exchanges. But moving forward, the NBN should be completely neutral so anyone can use it; anyone can gain access.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:";" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:";" lang="EN-US"><o:p>
<br /></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:";" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:";" lang="EN-US">Q: So what are the key net neutrality issues we need to be aware of moving forward?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:";" lang="EN-US"><o:p>
<br /></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:";" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:";" lang="EN-US">A: [Brian Fitzgerald] Part of the innovation of the internet means you don’t try to predetermine the uses of the internet. One of the critical issues around network neutrality is how strongly you enforce the requirement of net neutrality. And how far do we let people tinker with the internet to prevent copyright infringement or for censorship or for a range of other reasons.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:";" lang="EN-US"><o:p>
<br /></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:";" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:";" lang="EN-US">Anne Fitzgerald: Law is part of the infrastructure and the interaction between law and technology is fundamental for access.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:";" lang="EN-US"><o:p>
<br /></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:";" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:";" lang="EN-US">Brian Fitzgerald and others: The law could be more customised for more digital environments.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <!--EndFragment--> Kyliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07327515027655019929noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3016864382328348488.post-88180006555182191742009-12-10T08:49:00.001+10:002009-12-10T08:50:42.828+10:00Extending broadband to rural Queensland #bbfqld #bbfutureIn light of the comments that the Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, has made this morning about extending broadband services across regional Australia, and linking broadband with economic growth and equality, I would like to share a comment made on the Brisbane forum website:<br /><br /><div class="commenttext"> <cite><strong></strong></cite><blockquote><cite><strong><a href="http://grahamstorrs.cantalibre.com/" rel="external nofollow" class="url">Graham Storrs</a> </strong> said: </cite> <p>I live in rural Queensland. When I moved here 2 years ago, I had no phone line. It took a year and a complaint to the ombusman to get a line installed – at a cost to me of thousands of dollars. There is no ADSL of course, I’m too far from an enabled exchange. </p> <p>I can get wireless ‘broadband’ via Telstra’s NextG service (no other supplier covers my house – so I’m in a monopoly market here) but the signal is weak (even with an external antenna) and the bit-rate is extremely low – so low that I can’t listen to streaming audio or watch streamed video without it stuttering and pausing all the time. And it is expensive, of course, being Telstra. The best package I can afford has a 5Gb upload/download limit – not enough to use every day and still have any spare for listening to music or watching video (even if I could). So, for $80 a month, I get a very basic, very slow service, and no option to change supplier. </p> <p>Oh, and forget about smartphones like the iPod. They just don’t work at such low signal strengths (although, thankfully, my Kindle does – most of the time.)</p> <p>Most city-dwellers, certainly no politicians, have a clue how primitive things are out here. Whatever the ‘broadband future’ is for urban Australia, for much of rural Australia, it’s a joke.</p></blockquote> </div> I must admit that as a "city-dweller" I had no idea things were this bad in rural Queensland. I do believe that fast internet = better opportunities for education, connecting with others, and much, much more. I have no knowledge about the physical logistics of extending quality broadband to rural Australia, but I do hope we can do something to improve the situation.Kyliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07327515027655019929noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3016864382328348488.post-63913662903748206502009-12-10T08:21:00.003+10:002009-12-10T08:31:30.040+10:00Realising our Broadband Future - Introduction #bbfuture #bbqldToday, I am at the <a href="http://bbfqld.civictec.net/">Brisbane node</a> (#bbfqld) of the <a href="http://www.broadbandfuture.gov.au/index.html">Realising Our Broadband Future Forum </a>(#bbfuture). I will be attempting to live blog the day, and add substantive points to the forum wiki throughout the day. There will be less need for me to blog this morning while, on the Brisbane program, we are simply watching the live stream from the main event. These events will be captured on video and, I'm sure, by the many attendees in Sydney. However, from 10:30am we will be facilitating our own discussions on the <a href="http://www.broadbandfuture.gov.au/streams.html">5 streams</a> (Smart Infrastructure, Digital Education, e-Community, e-Health, and e-Business) here in Brisbane, and I will be doing my best to capture those discussions. Apologies in advance if my notes are rather rough.<br /><br />My colleague, Elliott Bledsoe, will be twittering the Brisbane event. You can following <a href="http://twitter.com/elliottbledsoe">his Twitter feed </a>directly, or follow the <a href="http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23bbqld">#bbqld</a> stream.Kyliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07327515027655019929noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3016864382328348488.post-7197584619794253412009-12-09T10:04:00.001+10:002009-12-09T10:07:04.550+10:00Peer to Patent Australia launches todayToday, 9 December 2009, the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in collaboration with IP Australia launches <a href="http://www.peertopatent.org.au/">the Peer to Patent Australia (P2P Au) project</a>. <br /><br />This project follows on from the Peer to Patent projects run recently out of the New York Law School (NYLS) and the Japanese Patent Office, and is designed to improve the patent examination process and the quality of issued patents.<br /><br />P2P Au is led by Professor Brian Fitzgerald at QUT and is using Web 2.0 technology to assist patent examiners in their assessment of whether an invention is new and inventive and thereby deserving of the grant of a patent. With approximately 1 million patents being applied for across the world each year the task of examiners especially in assessing new technologies has become increasingly difficult. By harnessing the power of community experts through Web 2.0 technologies, Peer to Patent Australia aims to make the patent examination process more efficient and accurate.<br /><br />Peer-to-Patent Australia will initially run as a 6-month pilot that will focus on the rapidly advancing technology areas of business methods and computer software. Up to 40 business method, computer software and related patent applications that have been filed in Australia and which are open for public inspection will each be posted on the Peer-to-Patent Australia website for a 90-day period. During that time, members of community can review those applications, submit prior art references and comment on the relevance of any prior art that has been put forward.<br /><br />At the end of the review period, P2P Au will forward the top 10 prior art submissions for each application, as selected by the community of reviewers, to IP Australia for consideration in the examination process. The review process in no way abrogates the responsibility of the patent examiner to assess a patent application. Prior art submitted by P2P Au is solely designed to assist a patent examiner, who remains the arbiter of whether a patent is to be granted.<br /><br />The project uses a consent based model. Patent applicants will be asked to consent to having their applications included in the pilot. There are currently 7 applicants who have consented to participate. These are IBM, Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited, General Electric Company, Hewlett-Packard, Residex Pty Ltd, Yahoo and CSIRO. Those applicants have put forward 18 patent applications for peer review. 15 of those will be made available at the launch.<br /><br />For anyone who is interested in participating in the prior-art-search, sign up at <a href="http://www.peertopatent.org.au/">www.peertopatent.org.au</a>.Kyliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07327515027655019929noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3016864382328348488.post-72926352317548594682009-12-08T15:50:00.003+10:002009-12-08T15:55:30.863+10:00R18+ rating for computer games rally - notes, photos and video now onlineOn Saturday, I attended a <a href="http://treatuslikeadults.wordpress.com/2009/11/18/protest-on-the-5th-of-december/">rally</a> in Brisbane in support of an R18+ rating for computer games. The rally was well organised and had a decent turn-out.<br /><br />A summary of events, photos and links to video recordings of the rally are now available on the <a href="http://www.efa.org.au/2009/12/07/treat-us-like-adults-rally-for-an-r18-rating-brisbane/">Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA) website.</a>Kyliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07327515027655019929noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3016864382328348488.post-67952251066981446762009-12-04T14:07:00.002+10:002009-12-04T16:12:38.649+10:00Realising our Broadband Future - Brisbane consultative forum at QUTOn Thursday 10 and Friday 11 December 2009, the Australian Government Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy (DBCDE) will be holding the <a href="http://broadbandfuture.gov.au/" target="_blank">Realising Our Broadband Future Forum</a> in Sydney.<br /><br />For anyone in Brisbane who is interested but unable to attend the main event, we are holding a <a href="http://bbfqld.civictec.net/2009/12/queensland-consultative-forum/" target="_blank">Brisbane consultative forum</a> on Thursday 10 December 2009 at QUT. This forum will include segements of the official video feed by live webcast, as well as facilitated discussion aligned with the themes of the national summit. The discussion session will be summarised and provided as feedback to the DBCDE summit.<br /><br />We’re talking about our connected future. This isn’t about technology, it’s about how we can all use it – to connect communities, build businesses, improve our education and health systems, create and innovate, improve our quality of life for all.<br /><br /><b>Details - </b><br /><br /><b>When: </b><br />Thursday, December 10, 2009 from 8:30 AM - 4:30 PM (GMT+1000)<br /><br /><b>Where:<br /></b>QUT Gardens Point campus - D block, room 101<br /> 2 George St<br />Brisbane, Queensland 4000<br />Australia<br /><br /><b>Register:<br /></b><a href="http://bbfqld.eventbrite.com/" target="_blank">Register online </a><br /><br /><b>Contact:</b><br />If you’d like more information, please contact Paul O’Keeffe on 0423 358 827 or by email to paul.okeeffe[at]columina.com.<br /><br />You can also follow the Queensland Twitter feed through #bbfqld – and the main summit at #bbfuture.<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">UPDATE:<br /></span><br />The forum begins at 8:00am (not 8:30 as stated above)<span style="font-weight: bold;">. </span>I should have also mentioned that registration is<span style="font-weight: bold;"> free.<br /><br /></span>Here are the updated details and program:<span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span> <br /><div dir="ltr"> </div> <div dir="ltr"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">08.00 - 10.15 Registration and Plenary Session from Sydney (the Prime Minister's address runs from 8.05 to 8.35am Brisbane time; other speakers include Mike Quigley (NBN Co. CEO, Vint Cerf and Senator Conroy ) <br />10.35 Stream 1 – Smart Infrastructure<br />11.20 Stream 2 – e-Health<br />12.05 Stream 3 – Digital Education <br />12.55 Lunch Break <br />13.30 Stream 4 – e-Business <br />14.15 Stream 5 – e-Community</span></span></div> <div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">15.30 Conference close</span></div> <p><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">The Brisbane consultation forum will be held at Queensland University of Technology (QUT) Gardens Point campus, in D block room 101. (D block is immediately behind A block, nearest to the George Street entrance to the campus).</span></span></span></p>Kyliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07327515027655019929noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3016864382328348488.post-83174770068672220672009-11-17T10:25:00.003+10:002009-11-17T10:31:15.375+10:00EFA calls for help on the R18+ games issueOn the <a href="http://www.efa.org.au/2009/11/17/michael-atkinson-replies-to-r18-enquiries/">Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA) website</a>, EFA Chair Nic Suzor has made available a six page form-letter from the South Australian Attorney-General, Michael Atkinson, on the topic of the lack of an R18+ rating for games.<br /><br />Nic writes:<br /><p>"The letter reiterates that this is not going to be an easy fight to win. For Atkinson, the lack of an R18+ rating is clearly something that helps keep violent media away from children, and he sees no real harm in not making the same material available to adults..."</p> <p>EFA is planning to put together a response to the discussion paper that analyses and addresses all of the points that Atkinson makes, as well as systematically covering the research in the field. If you are able to help, please <a href="mailto:nic@efa.org.au">contact Nic</a>, join the <a href="http://lists.efa.org.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/r18games">R18+ games discussion list</a>, or take a look at the <a href="http://wiki.efa.org.au/censorship/r18_games/index">EFA R18+ wiki space</a>.</p>Kyliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07327515027655019929noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3016864382328348488.post-68706981746013688122009-10-28T13:08:00.002+10:002009-10-28T13:14:20.392+10:00IP and Tech Law Clinic - 2009 advice sessions now fullThe Intellectual Property and Technology Law Clinic advice sessions for 2009 are now <span style="font-weight: bold;">FULL.</span><br /><br />We are hoping to offer further free legal advice services in 2010. Keep an eye on the <a href="http://www.ip.qut.edu.au/node/120">website</a> for more information.Kyliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07327515027655019929noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3016864382328348488.post-45748752724280013312009-10-23T11:20:00.002+10:002009-10-23T11:33:10.804+10:00The Future of Data PolicyThe Microsoft External Research Division has launched a book entitled, <em>The Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery</em> (2009) edited by Tony Hey, Stewart Tansley, and Kristin Tolle. The book was launched on the opening day of the <a href="http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/events/escience2009/">Microsoft eScience Workshop</a> that took place in Pittsburgh, USA from 15-17 October 2009. The book includes a chapter, 'The Future of Data Policy' (pp 201-208), authored by Professor Anne Fitzgerald, Professor Brian Fitzgerald and myself. The book is licensed under a <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/us/">Creative Common Attribution Share Alike 3.0 United States licence</a>, and can be download in its entirety or by chapter at <a href="http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/collaboration/fourthparadigm/">The Fourth Paradigm</a>.Kyliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07327515027655019929noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3016864382328348488.post-12173607144355559682009-10-23T11:15:00.002+10:002009-10-23T11:20:08.706+10:00ANDS guides - copyright and dataTo follow on from my <a href="http://octavianet.blogspot.com/2009/10/presentation-copyright-and-data.html">copyright and data presentation post</a> -<br /><br />Professor Anne Fitzgerald and I have produced two short guides for the <a href="http://www.ands.org.au/index.html">Australian National Data Service</a> (ANDS): one on <a href="http://www.ands.org.au/guides/copyright-and-data-awareness.html">Copyright and Data</a> and the other on Creative Commons and Data. The Copyright and Data guide is now available (in html and pdf formats) from the <a href="http://www.ands.org.au/guides/index.html">ANDS website</a>, the Creative Commons and Data guide should (hopefully) be available next week.Kyliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07327515027655019929noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3016864382328348488.post-53733094162350850022009-10-21T13:08:00.003+10:002009-10-21T13:22:40.501+10:00Presentation: Copyright and DataThis morning I gave a presentation on Copyright and Data as part of QUT's <a href="http://www.tils.qut.edu.au/">Division of Technology, Information and Learning Support</a> research seminars.<br /><br />I have licensed my presentation under a <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/au/">Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Australia licence</a>. It is available for download here:<br /><br /><a href="http://kylie.pappalardo.googlepages.com/Kylie_Pappalardo_-_Copyright_and_Da.pptx">Copyright and Data</a> (.pptx) or <a href="http://kylie.pappalardo.googlepages.com/Kylie_Pappalardo_-_Copyright_and_Dat.pdf">Copyright and Data</a> (.pdf)<br /><br />Together with Professor Anne Fitzgerald, I have also authored a short guide on Copyright and Data for the Australian National Data Service (ANDS). It is available from the <a href="http://www.ands.org.au/guides/copyright-and-data-awareness.html">ANDS website.</a>Kyliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07327515027655019929noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3016864382328348488.post-54160270628684311382009-10-15T09:52:00.004+10:002009-10-15T10:05:39.600+10:00Event: How to Win an AIMIA AwardThe Australian Interactive Media Industry Association (AIMIA) is holding an event on Thursday 22 October entitled, "How to Win An AIMIA Award". The Awards have a Student/Education category. This is also a good opportunity to see examples of Australian interactive media works, how the works are judged nationally and how to create award-winning works with the principles applicable to interactive media work in general. Student-priced tickets are $30.<br /><br />For more information and to register, visit the <a href="http://www.aimia.com.au/i-cms?page=6272">website.</a><br /><br /><span class="h2" style="color: rgb(112, 93, 133);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,Sans Serif;font-size:85%;" ><b>Event Details:</b></span><span class="body" style="color: rgb(38, 20, 57);font-family:Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,Sans Serif;font-size:85%;" ><br />Date: Thursday 22nd October 2009<br />Time: 3.30pm - 5.30pm with networking drinks afterwards<br />Venue: Central Eagle Street Conference Venue (in the Credit Union Australia building at 175 Eagle St)</span><br /><br /><p style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.conferenceonline.com/index.cfm?page=booking&object=conference&id=14473&categorykey=309A3CFC-3F6E-44B9-B4C5-43916DF061A0&clear=1" target="_blank"><br /></a></p> <a href="http://www.aimia.com.au/i-cms?page=6272" target="_blank"></a>Kyliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07327515027655019929noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3016864382328348488.post-10451757028447094452009-10-12T17:05:00.003+10:002009-10-12T17:07:13.542+10:00Brisbane Creative Industries blog - new post on the IP and Tech Law ClinicI have just made a post on the <a href="http://www.briscreativeindustries.com/blog/">Brisbane Creative Industries Blog </a>on the IP and Technology Law Clinic. I won't repost in full here. If you are interested, <a href="http://www.briscreativeindustries.com/blog/2009/10/12/new-service-intellectual-property-and-technology-law-clinic.html">follow the link</a>.Kyliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07327515027655019929noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3016864382328348488.post-45842390639851413842009-10-07T14:08:00.002+10:002009-10-07T14:34:21.015+10:00A win for QUT student servicesInspired by this recent post by Kate Carruthers, "<a href="http://katecarruthers.com/blog/2009/09/qut-gets-it/">Customer service and student support - QUT gets it</a>" (and I can confirm that Kaylene Matheson in the law school is, in fact, excellent), I would like to share my own experience of being the beneficiary of exemplary service by QUT staff.<br /><br />I am currently applying to universities in the US and the UK to undertake postgraduate study overseas sometime in the near future. The application process has at times seemed unnecessarily painful and complicated. The latest in my series of tiresome hurdles was to send my original academic transcript to one of the governing academic bodies in the US. But the transcript could not come directly from me - it had to come from the appropriate person at QUT who could verify the transcript, who would complete forms to that effect and send the forms and the transcript (sealed) to the relevant US address, and who would be available for follow-up if necessary. While I understood the reasoning behind these requirements, I despaired at what I would need to do to fulfil them. I had no idea who the "appropriate person" was and I was reluctant to ask a stranger to jump through the hoops on my behalf - I was, after all, just one student of thousands at QUT. I thought that at least this would take a lot of running around and probably a fair amount of time on my behalf.<br /><br />I sent an email to the University Registrar, Carol Dickenson, asking for help. I figured I was probably aiming a little high up the daisy chain and Carol was probably too busy, but she seemed like the mostly likely candidate for the "appropriate person". Within only a matter of hours, my request had been passed to Sharron Caddie (Executive Officer, Office of the Registrar), Julianne Paltridge (Associate Director Client Services, Student Business Services) and Joshua Leuner in the Student Centre. I was informed that if I took the relevant forms to Josh, he would complete them for me and post them to the US institution with my academic transcript. I was also informed that QUT would waive the overseas postage fees for me. When I took my forms to Josh, he could not have been more friendly and helpful.<br /><br />I was immensely impressed with the speedy response and general helpfulness of the QUT staff. They genuinely seemed willing to go out of their way to assist me. They made an otherwise troublesome and tedious process just that little bit easier.Kyliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07327515027655019929noreply@blogger.com0