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OpenAustralia Hack(s)fest on FOI – for hackers, media, activists & FOI gurus

Bycraigthomler 5 November 2012

The OpenAustralia Foundation will be holding the first Australian Hack(s)fest as part of the countdown to the launch of their new FOI assistance site, designed to make it easier for ordinary Australians to put in FOI requests to Commonwealth agencies.

The event, being held in Sydney at Google’s office, will be held on the weekend of 17-18 November.

For more details and to register, visit: www.openaustraliafoundation.org.au/2012/11/05/youre-invited-to-our-freedom-of-information-hacksfest/

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IP Australia releases open data including over 100 years of patent, trademark, design and plant breeder rights records
Bycraigthomler 9 October 2014

In a great step forward for Australian open data, IP Australia has, for the first time in history, released over 100 years of patent, trademark, design and plant breeder rights records as free publicly accessible and machine-readable data. Released through data.gov.au (at https://data.gov.au/dataset/intellectual-property-government-open-data), while not a real-time feed, the information contained on Australia’s innovation history is staggering….

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Doing good while improving security with ReCAPTCHA
Bycraigthomler 7 March 2011

There’s still many government online forms and consultation systems that don’t make use of ‘human recognition’ tools such as CAPTCHA to help verify that the people filling in the forms are humans and reduce the attractiveness of online government forms to large-scale automated attacks by bot-armies. However, even where government has added CAPTCHA security, I’ve…

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Should political accounts for governments declare they’re not run by the public service?
Bycraigthomler 28 March 2013

I blogged last December on the topic of whether social media was blurring the non-partisan status of appointed public servants. At the time I was reflecting on the confusion that can be caused when political operatives and members of a politician’s own staff use social networks in ways that can mislead parts of the broader…

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UK makes learning to program mandatory in all state-run primary and secondary schools from September
Bycraigthomler 20 June 2014

In the UK, from September this year (the start of their school year), all primary and secondary students in state-run schools will be taught how to program computers as a mandatory part of their national curriculum. Announced as part of the UK’s ‘Year of Code’, the introduction of this new mandatory computing curriculum was necessary,…

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AGIMO invites participation and guest blogging on accessibility matters
Bycraigthomler 17 August 2010

AGIMO’s latest blog post, Welcome to the WCAG 2.0 Community of Expertise (CoE), has invited those with an interest or involvement with accessibility matters to join a new Community of Expertise or provide guest posts to the AGIMO blog. Related to the endorsement of WCAG 2.0 (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0) by the Australian government…

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UK wikipedia ban dropped
Bycraigthomler 11 December 2008

In one of the more misguided approaches to internet regulation, the UK government banned the majority of UK citizens from editing Wikipedia earlier this week. This was done, according to the SMH article, Wikipedia added to child pornography blacklist, due to the identification of a photo in one article (of the more than 2.6 million…

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