I was struck by the significance of a news article, that the Monty Python team have launched their own YouTube channel, saying they’re tired of being “ripped off” by YouTubers. Here you have a creative team that first start producing content in the 1970s, moving to adopt a new channel — YouTube.
On the same day, there was [...]
We are at the starting point of a NZ Government Information R/evolution. The Digital Continuity Strategy represents a paradigm shift in the way that the NZ government thinks about storing and retrieving digital information.
5.2.4 Investigate shared service for storage and retrieval of digital information.
This will involve taking a whole-of-government approach to the storage of information. [...]
The Department of Labour has a new initiative called Workforce 2020. Its purpose is to stimulate debate on future trends affecting the labour market, by thinking what the labour market might look like in 12 years. From 2008, looking out to 2020 seems a long way away. But to train some professionals, such as scientists, [...]
In August, we published a Request For Information on the use of technology to reduce travel.
The RFI publicised the fact that by 2010, each Public Service department must have a workplace travel plan in place, aiming for a 15 per cent reduction in kilometres travelled. It noted that technology offers several ways to reduce workplace [...]
