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Make every day Harmony Day in your workplace
Dr Hass Dellal OAM | March 19, 2010The message of Harmony Day is "Everyone Belongs". Millions of Australians are employed in small to medium sized businesses, so yous SME workplace is a good place to start putting this philosophy into practice.
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Sharon from What’s for Dinner? takes the OZ SI Camp Changemaker Quiz
Sharon Lee | March 17, 2010Sharon Lee introduces her new project from OZ SI Camp, "What’s for Dinner?", in a quick Q& A.Had you ever entered a contest like this before?No, ASIX is my first.How much research did you do to find out if other people are already developing an idea like yours here or overseas?
Book Review: ‘Australian Sustainable Energy – by the numbers’, by Peter Seligman
Dr Gideon Polya | March 17, 2010Professor Peter Seligman is not alone in estimating that Australia can rapidly and relatively cheaply ($253 billion) achieve 100% sustainable energy.
Aequus Partners Workplace Flexibility Survey
Juliet Bourke | March 15, 2010Did a new “flexibility” normal get kick-started in the GFC?
If so, what could it mean for the workforce of the future as we move into recovery?
Data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics suggests that Australia experienced an overall drop in full-time hours and an increase in part-time hours in 2009, and media reports heralded the beginning of a four-day week.
The question is: were the 2009 employment statistics a short-term workplace adjustment, or did something change fundamentally? Did the GFC cause employees to question the rat-wheel we had been running on at an ever increasing pace? Did the GFC give employers an experience of the business benefits of flexibility and confidence that they could “do” part-time work, working from home and purchased leave?
Uncategorised1st National Pain Summit launched
editor | March 11, 2010In Canberra on 10 March 2010 The Hon. Nicola Roxon MP declared the first National Pain Summit open, remarking that "Given the breadth and importance of the topic it may be odd to outsiders that such a conference on such a topic has not been held before – but you are breaking new ground, as indeed we are by showing the leadership needed to stabilise and secure health investments for the future".
UncategorisedCongratulations Refugee Buddy
editor | March 11, 2010Last weekend 5-7 March 2010 was the innaugral OZ SI Camp. Congratulations to all the teams, with a special mention to the prize winners. In third place Emergent Reality’s initiative ISIS, or Interlocked Social Information Systems, from the collaboration that began as Citizen Driven Stats. In second place The 2 Bob’s Worth crew. And taking out first place was (drumroll) Refugee Buddy, sign up to be a buddy today at www.refugeebuddy.org
National Pain Summit
Lesley Brydon | March 11, 2010Organiser Lesley Brydon reveals how the long road to the innaugrual National Pain Summit began.
The idea for a National Pain Summit emerged 16 months ago, following recommendations made in the Access Economics Report The High Price of Pain, prepared for MBF Foundation in collaboration with the University of Sydney Pain Management Research Institute.
We started with just that; an idea. No resources, no formal plan but we did have some seed money provided by MBF Foundation.
To start the process we identified around 130 healthcare and consumer bodies, with an interest in pain. Associations that represent all primary health care providers, medical specialist bodies and colleges and the various not-for-profit bodies representing all chronic diseases where pain is a factor, as well as other consumer advocacy groups.
Walmart, Carbon, and Lessons for Woolworths
Leighton Jenkins | March 11, 2010The recent announcement by Walmart to reduce its carbon footprint has thrown down the challenge to other global retailers such as the UK’s Tesco and Australia’s Woolworths. Until this announcement all three essentially had drawn an imaginary wall around their business and set targets that were, a) related to their direct property and operations, b) therefore under their direct control. A diagram from the Tesco site shows this quite clearly.
The Market Fever Index – issue 3
patrickcallioni | March 7, 2010First, allow me to apologise for the delay in publishing this. I have been pondering comments I have received in response to previous blog entries and, in particular, to this comment:
Russell from Citizen Driven Stats takes the OZ SI Camp Changemaker Quiz
Russell Kallaman | March 5, 2010Open Forum invited all of the Changemakers who have had their ideas selected as projects to be developed at the innaugrual Australian Social Innovation Camp, 5-7 March 2010, to join us for a quick Q&A. Russell Kallaman, co-creator of Citizen Driven Stats shares his answers here.
Have you ever entered a contest like this before?
No. I am prepared to be astounded.
How much research did you do to find out if other people are already developing an idea like yours here or overseas?
The usual google search and a some chats with friendly people in the industry.
I understand it was through that process you teamed up with the project’s co-creator. Tell us about it.
Harriet from Citizen Driven Stats takes the OZ SI Camp Changemaker Quiz
Harriet Wakelam | March 5, 2010Open Forum invited all of the Changemakers who have had their ideas selected as projects to be developed at the innaugrual Australian Social Innovation Camp, 5-7 March 2010, to join us for a quick Q&A. Harriet Wakelam, co-creator of Citizen Driven Stats had this to say.
Have you ever entered a contest like this before?
Good News TV takes the OZ SI Camp Changemaker Quiz
Sohail Dahdal | March 5, 2010Open Forum invited all of the Changemakers who have had their ideas selected as projects to be developed at the innaugrual Australian Social Innovation Camp, 5-7 March 2010, to join us for a quick Q&A. Sohail Dahdal, creator of Good News TV had this to say.
Have you ever entered a contest like this before?
