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editor | June 5, 2009For the second consecutive year Open Forum is proud to be a community partner of the Australian Government's annual National e-Security Awareness Week (5-12 June 2009), by hosting a special e-Security & Small Business forum »»
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The New Tax Year is Coming – Don’t Make It the Year of Living Dangerously!
Paul Ducklin | June 4, 2009Instead of fighting a pitched battle with people who try to give you IT security advice which you don’t like, why not think of a concession to good security practice you are prepared to make personally?
Will 2009/10 be the year in which disagreement over policies and procedures to do with computer security finally leads to pitched battles between those who advise on IT issues, and the rest of us, who merely use IT?
And, if so, who will win?
Will employees who regard themselves as Web2.0-literate finally wear down the joybusting IT wowsers and win at work those internet freedoms they enjoy at home, thus allowing them to do more with less, just as the tightening economy seems to demand? -
Why and How to erase your hard drive, and protect your digital self?
Craig Valli | June 4, 2009You would not place your credit card or personal photos in a rubbish bin so why do the same with your hard disk?
In annual research conducted by Edith Cowan University, British Telecom, Glamorgan University (UK) and Longwood University(USA) we buy hard disks at random from auction houses and disposal companies. We forensically examine these hard drives for remnant data and consistently across all studies for the last 5 years over 66% of drives contain private and sensitive information as a result of people not disposing of these drives properly. We have found top secret government documents, medical records, financial details, legal documents, credit card numbers, insurance policies, personal photos, emails and most data types we produce as humans.
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Gaining Security Peace of Mind with Just 10 Minutes a Day
Boaz Fischer | June 4, 200950 minutes a week – that’s how much time your business needs to devote to your information technology security.
That’s all you need…. just 10 minutes a day to ensure that you can protect your business.
But before I continue, I just want to dispel one big myth. There is no security tool that will provide you with 100% protection.
However, with what I’m about to tell you, you can p
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Australia’s recession in perspective
John.Humphreys | June 4, 2009The fact that Australia's recession will be smaller and shorter than the rest of the world is due to our better starting position and our relatively strong trade performance.
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6 Wicked problems and Homo Economicus
patrickcallioni | May 28, 2009It is hard enough to map and understand the DNA of a single organism, but the challenge assumes an entirely different magnitude when we try to do the same with a system of global scale.
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The many faces of social innovation
msweeks@cisco.com | May 25, 2009Social innovation is an instinct which shows little respect for distinctions of status or sector.
The debate about social innovation has reached an interesting point. In any ways, it has been a something of a "poor cousin" in many of the big debates about how we should tackle difficult social challenges that impact our life in common.
That’s not to say that people have not recognised and often welcomed the input to these debates from the non-profit sector or from those ventures supported in various forms of charity, corporate philanthropy or the more contemporary corporate social responsibility movement. But while those contributions have been encouraged, they have often remained peripheral to the main game of big public policy decisions and spending. At worst, the real significance of these contributions has been rendered invisible through a mixture of ignorance and misunderstanding.
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1 Million Women
Natalie Isaacs | May 19, 2009Mobilising 1 million Australian women to take personal action on climate change.
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Should Australia Have a Statutory Bill or Charter of Rights?
Fr Frank Brennan | May 19, 2009The question of a bill or charter of rights is integral to our national conversation about how human rights might be better protected and promoted in Australia.
As a lawyer with a keen interest in human rights and youth issues, it has always struck me as strange that many Australians, whilst familiar with America’s Bill of Rights, understand little about how human rights are protected and promoted in our own backyard. Many seem to be under the impression that Australia has our own Bill of Rights. We don’t.
The question of an Australian bill or charter of rights has certainly been a hot topic during the National Human Rights Consultation. It is consistently raised both at our consultations and in people’s submissions. It has also inspired great debate in the political arena as well as in the media.
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How could Australia better protect and promote human rights and responsibilities?
Fr Frank Brennan | May 19, 2009When it comes to human rights, there is always room for improvement.
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Are human rights and responsibilities sufficiently protected and promoted?
Fr Frank Brennan | May 19, 2009Would you be able to explain to a new Australian citizen how our rights and liberties are protected and promoted?
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Which human rights and responsibilities should be protected and promoted?
Fr Frank Brennan | May 19, 2009When you are trying to describe human rights, think of the core values which you believe should underpin our society.
In 2005, an inquiry was conducted into the Government’s handling of Australian citizen Cornelia Rau. This inquiry brought up a number of issues relating to human rights in Australia. Namely, rights relating to immigration, detention and the rights of the mentally ill.
The inquiry and accompanying public debate raised a number of questions about our responsibilities to protect those rights. What is the responsibility of Government? Of the community? Of the individual?
Not everyone knows which human rights we have in Australia. Not everyone agrees about which rights we should have. Questions exist about what those rights should be and whose responsibility it should be to protect them.
When becoming an Australian citizen a person says:
