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Hotels, Identity Thieves and Terrorism
StephenWilson | August 21, 2009The reservations databases of global hotel chains are a complete cornucopia for criminals.
Radisson Hotels has reported a database breach which has exposed the credit card numbers of guests said to be "limited to an isolated number of hotels in the U.S. and Canada".
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Entrepreneurship Education: Unlocking Potential
Karen Wilson | August 21, 2009Interest in entrepreneurship education has grown dramatically around the world in the past 5-10 years. Schools, universities and other training organizations have increasingly been integrating entrepreneurship into their programmes. In addition, national governments and international organizations such as UN, OECD, the European Commission and others have begun to put a greater focus on entrepreneurship education.
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The Green Economy also Needs a Plan B
Murray Hogarth | August 21, 2009This blog first appeared on The Fifth Estate and is published here with the kind permission of the author.
Global economies move in strange ways. From an environmental sustainability perspective, more and more observers are saying;Paul-Keating-like, that the current savage global economic downturn after a long boom is a recession we had to have.
So what is the green lining to this dark economic cloud? Three crucial things have happened in the past 12 months.
The recession sucked unsustainable momentum out of indiscriminate, environmentally-damaging global growth; at least for a while.
The building of a green economy with new jobs, investment, innovation, technologies and even consumer behaviours emerged as a fundamental component of today’s prescriptions for economic stimulus and the longed-for recovery.
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The challenges for healthcare as Australia’s population ages
Mark Fear | August 18, 2009The Australian Bureau of Statistics projects that by 2050 the percentage of people aged 65 or over will have almost doubled from 13% today to 25% of the population. This change will bring with it the challenge of providing health care and allowing people to maintain a good quality of life as they age. With chronic disease also on the rise (3 million Australians will be diabetic by 2030), health problems in older people are also expected to increase, making the current costs and systems in place for treatment completely inadequate for the future needs of Australia.
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Government 2.0: Epic Fail
Daniel Filan | August 18, 2009Barack Obama has his blog, Gordon Brown has his vlog, and now Kevin Rudd has his own blog.
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Political Champions Needed for a Spatially Enabled Society
Gary Nairn | August 17, 2009In my last blog I argued that spatially enabling government was good politics. So hopefully many who are reading this will be asking the question “so why isn’t it happening?”
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Smut Still Sells
alison gordon | August 14, 2009Personally, I have never understood the popularity of the Kyle and Jackie O “show”; even when they first started their illustrious career as the nightly Top 30 countdown team for 2dayFM some years ago.
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Creative Commons & Spatial Information
Wayne Patterson | August 14, 2009One of the most important issues currently facing Government is intellectual property management of public sector information; particularly spatial information. NSW requires a system of intellectual property management for spatial information that:
– improves access and re-use;
– maximises its potential; and
– addresses the challenges and opportunities of the Web 2.0 digital environment
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No Need for Protocols: Main Game is Voluntary Cooperation
Warren Reed | August 13, 2009When a controversy blew up last week about The Australian’s reporting of Somali raids in Melbourne, the government immediately suggested it might introduce tough new protocols to control the media.
It was a silly reaction because the newspaper had been more than cooperative. The government should have sought to build on a positive, rather than respond to it with a negative. And anyway, the failure rested with the AFP, not the newspaper.
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Battling the Dysfunction of Federation
Tony Abbott | August 13, 2009What should happen to the states?
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Why Pay for Mp3s?
Daniel Filan | August 12, 2009On the 31 of July 2009, 25-year-old Joel Tenenbaum of Boston University was sued for US$675,000 for downloading 30 songs. Sure he committed a crime, but typical reactions are far from, Good, make the evil man pay, and more like, He had to pay $675,000 just for downloading some songs! Poor guy.
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The Imperative for Government to Engage Online
Matthew Crozier | August 12, 2009Governments around the world desperately need to wrest control of their dialogue with the community away from factional interest groups. Online engagement holds the solution.
