what are we doing today, brain?

"The New Zealand Open Source Society is launching a project to demonstrate the viability of free open source software on public sector desktops."

"Social innovation: an Australian priority: We know how to innovate in science and we have an idea about how to do industrial R&D". Looks interesting.

"GovLoop is the premier social network connecting the government community." Very interesting project. Looks US centric but already had over 120 Aussies on it (and ppl all around the world). Worth checking out.

The last 10 years has seen a concerted effort globally to improve the relationship between governments and their citizens." Great speech by Lynelle Briggs, Public Service Commissioner relating to Gov 2.0.

"The Power of Information Taskforce was established by Cabinet Office Minister Tom Watson MP in March 2008." Very interesting stuff!

"Did medieval women pick up weapons and fight? The answer is an unqualified yes." Nice article, talks about women in various cultures in the art of war and combat.

Aussie site for community consultation by Government, used currently by largely local and state governments, and some good results! Nice work!

Onlline public engagement in Canberra. Nice! "The Chief Minister wants to hear from you about how the ACT Government can improve the way it consults, and engages the ACT community."

"How great are the potential advantages of allowing the public greater freedom of use … relative to the potential harm associated with an increase in misquotations as a result of copyright licensing changes." Nice post by Liam about responses to Digital Economy submissions on copyright.

Very interesting read, great work by Colin Jackson (misprinted as Colin Jacobs) in the article. That is all I'm going to say True colours…

"This Article argues that we need a politics, or perhaps a political economy, of intellectual property." Interesting concepts, and great references!

Really interesting presentation given by Stephen Collins in NZ at the GOVIS conference. Great references to Gov 2.0 stuff happening in US, NZ and Australia.

A really interesting study that reflects some of what I’ve seen. It is based on a couple of classes of 9-13 year olds. I’ve found soon after that age is when you see a gender gap. I believe this is due to negative (and incorrect) stereotypes and social pr

“This New Wave Nigel doll that they’ve created is just a complete Devo rip-off and the red hat is exactly the red hat that I designed… Plus, we don’t like McDonald’s, and we don’t like American Idol, so we’re doubly offended.” HAha!

“The OAK Law Project has released the results of its survey of the attitudes and practices of Australian academic authors towards the publication and dissemination of their research, Academic authorship, publishing agreements & open access” - Interesting!