Notices tagged with newzealand

Guilty until proven innocent: New Zealand passes P2P bill

• digitalrights
• linuxoutlaws
• lxnews
• newzealand
• p2p

Tall poppy syndrome - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

• australie
• culture
• newzealand
• société
• uk

Tall poppy syndrome (TPS) is a pejorative term used in the UK, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand to describe a social phenomenon in which people of genuine merit are resented, attacked, cut down, or criticised because their talents or achievements elevate them above or distinguish them from their peers.

Pretty good education NZ « Lance Wiggs

• education
• newzealand
• research

In an article in the NYTimes that focuses mainly on Shanghai’s stellar results we find a table, and in that table we find NZ’s education test results. This is the PISA test of 15 year olds.

The New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs : Services : Scam updates

• dia
• list
• newzealand
• scam
• spam

Email and Short Message Service (SMS) text message-based scams have been reported to the [DIA] Anti-Spam Compliance Unit and are provided below for your information. Please note that this list does not cover all scams currently circulating.

MPs Expenses Review - politics - national | Stuff.co.nz

• crowdsourcing
• expenses
• foi
• hmitwt
• newzealand

Michael Geist - ACTA Participants Agree To Release Draft Text Next Week

• acta
• newzealand

The New Zealand round of ACTA negotiations concluded earlier today with participants promising to release the draft text next week. This obviously represents a major new development that reflects the mounting global pressure for greater transparency that

Submission about Digital Enforcement Provisions in ACTA | Tech Liberty NZ

• acta
• newzealand
• techlibertynz

"The Ministry of Economic Development asked for submissions about the Digital Enforcement Provisions in the ACTA treaty. While we object to New Zealand’s participation in the treaty, we still thought it was worthwhile to respond. The full text follows..."

Edtalks  

• collaboration
• education
• newzealand
• presentations
• teaching

"EDtalks, a growing collection of videos featuring New Zealand and International educators talking about learning."

DigiStore - New Zealand Digital Collections

• digistore
• education
• newzealand
• resources

Digistore includes content selected and made available specifically for education purposes. This list provides access to further sources of digital content relevant to teaching and learning programmes in New Zealand. This list is not exhaustive but presen

Ethical Martini

• cj
• newzealand
• research

data.govt.nz | NPSC Blog

• data
• govt20
• interoperability
• newzealand
• npsc
• transparency

Some thoughts on open data and open formats...

Science Media Centre » Blog Archive » Why don’t Kiwis trust the media?

• media
• newzealand
• surveys
• trust
• via:@keithng

Research showing that MSM has reached a new low (if that is possible)...

New Zealand Author Claims Libraries Are Involved In Grand Theft By Loaning Books | Techdirt

• books
• copyright
• infringement
• libraries
• masnick
• newzealand
• stealing
• tech
• techdirt
• theft

Announcing the ReadWrite Real-Time Web Summit, Research Report and Month of Special Coverage

• bernardlunn
• california
• kaliyahamlin
• marshallkirkpatrick
• mountainview
• newzealand
• readwriterealtimewebsummit
• readwriteweb
• tweecious

we're getting more inbound interest in our Real Time Web Summit than I can keep up with - awesome! http://bit.ly/1r1Bbi [from http://twitter.com/marshallk/statuses/4068009893]

New Zealand Government Promoting Open Data - Creative Commons

• data
• newzealand
• opengovernment
• openp2p

DOC staffer's dodgy Wikipedia edit - Web 2.0 - NZ Herald News

• integrity
• newzealand
• publicservants
• web20
• wikipedia

Christchurch man Alan Liefting, who set up the "1080 usage in New Zealand" page last September, resurrected the information within 30 minutes. He told The Press debate was being "stifled" by "bad-faith editing" by public servants wasting their time. "It's not up to DOC employees to do this sort of thing."

Censorship in New Zealand: Wide-spread public brain-wash

• internet
• monitoring
• newzealand

We have to remember that any possibility to filter web-pages and the Internet in general - no matter what the initial good intention may have been - opens the door to abuse and further spreading of censorship. Remember, this debate should not at all be about whether child-porn is good or bad.

Identity Politics

• identity
• newzealand
• politics

The great problem with identity politics is that it takes as its focus a series of factors for which the individual is not responsible, and over which he or she has no control. Our race, gender and sexuality are attributes we inherit - they have nothing to do with personal choice, and, for the most part, they are factors we can do nothing about. This is less of a problem when, in terms of socio- economic, cultural and political status, you're on the debit side of the historical ledger, because then the world can be forced to make good the discrepancy. If, however, you're not black, female, or gay, life can get pretty rough. White, heterosexual, males, in particular, are expected to pay, and go on paying, until the scales are evened-up.

Open Data Catalogue

• data
• government
• govt20
• newzealand
• opensource

Government datasets curated by @barnaclebarnes & @gnat