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Joanne S

Mobile Strategy | National Library of Australia - 0 views

  • must move towards a model with comprehensive mobile access to online services
  • mobile’ has come to encompass an ever-expanding field of devices, platforms and content
  • Smart (internet enabled) or dumb/cellular
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  • Supplied (on-site device distribution) or privately owned
  • Native apps
  • Mobile websites
  • In terms of content this includes:
  • Applications (software designed for specific tasks
  • Podcasts (audio and video content
  • Other downloadable content (e.g. PDFs and ebook
  • the Library may look to harness the potential of these technologies to break away from the traditional broadcast-only website presence and move towards two-way conversations between the Library and its users, or conversations between the users themselves
  • the key objectives stated in the Information Technology Strategic Plan 2012-2015 include Online Presence and supporting “the needs of our users for easy discovery of, access to, and engagement with our services, collections and other information resources in the digital environment”
  • ensure equal access to our resources and services for all Australians.
  • facilitate equal access to Library resources for everyone.
  • Putting Library resources into the hands of users in their lounge rooms reflects a deeper understanding of the need to move beyond the desire to follow our users and instead reach out to them to “take them some place new
  • mobile will only continue to grow and overtake desktop internet usage within 2-3 years
  • building both infrastructure and a culture of engagement will pave the way to more efficiently and effectively meeting that need in the future
  • 4         Strategic goals
  • Improve access to our collection and services for audiences, wherever they are, whether on-site or anywhere else in the world.
  • Equip staff to champion and drive the development of mobile services to improve access and productivity.
  • Adopt an evidence-based approach to service development and delivery
  • Modernise the Library brand to reflect relevance, accessibility and innovation.
  • Create opportunities for learning
  • Facilitate connections, conversation and overall engagement with national collection material.
  • Establish and expand the infrastructure and back-end systems required to support mobile initiatives, products and services.
  • Build, consolidate and share expertise
  • Adopt standards and best practices for interoperable mobile content and cross-platform data management.
  • A focus on strategic, audience-driven activity with a utility function.
  • Seek out and engage new technologies to achieve marketing and communications goals.
  • 6         Recommended activities
  • activities provide a means to implement and ground the strategy with specific and measurable tasks
  • 6.1      Governance and infrastructure
  • The Library’s IT Strategy Group will determine priorities
  • formalising the Web Committee’s role as an advisory body
  • Include requisite support for mobile content collection, preservation and access in the Digital Library Infrastructure Replacement Project (DLIR
  • Information Technology Division to examine ongoing resourcing of development work, administrative models, and potential for partial cost-recovery
  • Adopt emerging Commonwealth requirements and advice pertaining to managing devices and content
  • Develop and review policy in support of the use of both enterprise devices and use of personal devices for work-related purposes. Identify
  • Investigate infrastructure and resourcing requirements for digital recording and distribution
  • Collections Management Division to keep a watching brief on any developments pertaining to the extension of Legal Deposit to include digital (and mobile) content
  • developing a statement of collecting intentions for the various categories of ebook titles within the context of revising the collecting policy for Australian electronic publications in general
  • Applications
  • Podcasts (audio and video content
  • Other downloadable content (e.g. PDFs and ebooks
  • 3         Our mobile vision
  • Improve access to our collection and services for audiences, wherever they are, whether on-site or anywhere else in the world.
  • 4         Strategic goals
  • 3         Our mobile vision
  • 4         Strategic goals
  • 3         Our mobile vision
  • Improve access to our collection and services for audiences, wherever they are, whether on-site or anywhere else in the world.
  • 4         Strategic goals
  • Adopt an evidence-based approach to service development and delivery
  • Equip staff to champion and drive the development of mobile services to improve access and productivity.
  • Modernise the Library brand to reflect relevance, accessibility and innovation.
  • Adopt an evidence-based approach to service development and delivery
  • Equip staff to champion and drive the development of mobile services to improve access and productivity.
  • Create opportunities for learning
  • Facilitate connections, conversation and overall engagement with national collection material.
  • Establish and expand the infrastructure and back-end systems required to support mobile initiatives, products and services.
  • Tactics
  • Equip staff to champion and drive the development of mobile services to improve access and productivity.
  • Adopt an evidence-based approach to service development and delivery
  • Modernise the Library brand to reflect relevance, accessibility and innovation.
  • Create opportunities for learning
  • Facilitate connections, conversation and overall engagement with national collection material.
  • Tactics
  • Tactics
  • Establish and expand the infrastructure and back-end systems required to support mobile initiatives, products and services.
  • Build, consolidate and share expertise
  • Tactics
  • Establish and expand the infrastructure and back-end systems required to support mobile initiatives, products and services.
  • Build, consolidate and share expertise
  • Adopt standards and best practices for interoperable mobile content and cross-platform data management.
  • Build, consolidate and share expertise
  • Adopt standards and best practices for interoperable mobile content and cross-platform data management.
  • A focus on strategic, audience-driven activity with a utility function.
  • Adopt standards and best practices for interoperable mobile content and cross-platform data management.
  • A focus on strategic, audience-driven activity with a utility function.
  • Seek out and engage new technologies to achieve marketing and communications goals.
  • Seek out and engage new technologies to achieve marketing and communications goals.
  • Recommended
  • 6.1      Governance and infrastructure
  • Library’s IT Strategy Group will determine priorities
  • formalising the Web Committee
  • Information Technology Division to examine ongoing resourcing
  • formalising the Web Committee
  • Include requisite support for mobile content collection, preservation and access in the Digital Library Infrastructure Replacement Project (DLIR
  • Include requisite support for mobile content collection, preservation and access in the Digital Library Infrastructure Replacement Project (DLIR
  • formalising the Web Committee
  • Develop and review policy in support of the use of both enterprise devices and use of personal devices for work-related purposes
  • Investigate infrastructure and resourcing requirements for digital recording and distribution to ensure the long-term sustainability of online broadcast activity
  • Adopt emerging Commonwealth requirements and advice pertaining to managing devices and content
  • formalising the Web Committee
  • Information Technology Division to examine ongoing resourcing
  • Include requisite support for mobile content collection, preservation and access in the Digital Library Infrastructure Replacement Project (DLIR
  • Adopt emerging Commonwealth requirements and advice pertaining to managing devices and content
  • Collections Management Division to keep a watching brief on any developments pertaining to the extension of Legal Deposit to include digital (and mobile) conten
  • developing a statement of collecting intentions for the various categories of ebook titles within the context of revising the collecting policy for Australian electronic publications
  • Adopt emerging Commonwealth requirements and advice pertaining to managing devices and content
  • Develop and review policy in support of the use of both enterprise devices and use of personal devices for work-related purposes
Joanne S

Recordkeeping In Brief 62 - FAQs about cloud computing - State Records NSW - 0 views

  • Cloud computing is internet-based computing whereby shared resources, software and information are provided to computers and other devices on demand.
  • Cloud computing is a general term for anything that involves delivering hosted services over the Internet.
  • There are a range of applications that can be delivered to users via cloud computing models, from email or content management to specialist applications for activities such as project management or human resources management to data storage.
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      Models include: Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
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  • A cloud can be private or public:
  • As with any business related activity there are both risks and opportunities associated with using cloud computing services.
  • potentially a number of business and information risks associated with using cloud computing services.
  • noted that even if the cloud computing environment is managed wholly within NSW an appropriate risk assessment of the service and the provider should occur.
  • level of risk that an organisation attributes to a proposed cloud computing arrangement will vary according to the content or subject matter of their records
  • The content of the contract in these types of service arrangements is very important.
  • What are others saying? Australia Australasian Digital Recordkeeping Initiative (ADRI), Advice on managing the recordkeeping risks associated with cloud computing, July 2010, available at http://www.adri.gov.au Defence Signals Directorate (Commonwealth), Cloud computing security considerations, April 2011, available at http://www.dsd.gov.au/infosec/cloudsecurity.htm Department of Finance and Deregulation (Commonwealth), Cloud computing strategic direction paper: opportunities and applicability for use by the Australian Government, April 2011, available at http://www.finance.gov.au/e-government/strategy-and-governance/docs/final_cloud_computing_strategy_version_1.pdf
  • International Archives and Records Association UK and Ireland, Cloud computing toolkit: guidance for outsourcing information storage to the cloud, August 2010, available at http://www.archives.org.uk/images/documents/Cloud_Computing_Toolkit-2.pdf – this guidance contains a comprehensive overview of the range of cloud computing services available and the recordkeeping considerations that apply to each CIO Council and Chief Acquisition Officers Council (USA), Creating effective cloud computing contracts for the Federal Government: best practices for acquiring IT as a service, February 2012, available at http://www.cio.gov/cloudbestpractices.pdf – this is a comprehensive and useful document for those seeking to procure cloud computing services
Joanne S

Egypt enters communication blackout with disruption to internet, SMS, and BlackBerry me... - 0 views

  • hard data showing that almost all routes for exchanging internet traffic with the country have been shut down
  • clearly an extreme step for any government to take
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    "In Egypt in early 2011, during the revolution the government cut off the internet between 27 January and 2 February. These links were shared by Farah, a previous student who was in Egypt during this period."
Joanne S

BBC News - French downloaders face government grilling - 0 views

  • Hadopi takes its name from the 2009 legislation which permits authorities to fine copyright infringers, or to cut off their internet connection.
  • In the UK, the Digital Economy Act makes some similar provisions, although the exact nature of possible sanctions has yet to be fully explained.
  • It has sent a total of 470,000 first warnings by email, with 20,000 users receiving a second warning through the mail.
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  • If the person does not confess or does not even show up, the only evidence the agency can present before the judge is a series of numbers - a particular computer's IP address
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    "We looked at what it would mean if the internet was a "human right" in France, given that there is legislation that people who violate copyright can have internet access cut off for up to a month."
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    "We looked at what it would mean if the internet was a "human right" in France, given that there is legislation that people who violate copyright can have internet access cut off for up to a month."
Joanne S

Is Internet access a human right? - Technolog on NBCNews.com - 0 views

  • when the Internet is taken away, as it has been in Egypt, people feel as though their rights have been stripped.
  • "If we can't communicate, we can't organize, if we can't organize, then we are reduced to power of a single individual,"
  • "There are certain technological advances that are such leaps forward in human evolution that they do, in fact, become human rights. Vaccines, for example. Potable water. I believe the Internet has become one as well."
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    "In Egypt in early 2011, during the revolution the government cut off the internet between 27 January and 2 February. These links were shared by Farah, a previous student who was in Egypt during this period."
Joanne S

Screenshot Egypt internet is down - 0 views

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    "In Egypt in early 2011, during the revolution the government cut off the internet between 27 January and 2 February. These links were shared by Farah, a previous student who was in Egypt during this period."
Joanne S

Egypt shows how easily Internet can be silenced - Technology & science - Security | NBC... - 0 views

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    "In Egypt in early 2011, during the revolution the government cut off the internet between 27 January and 2 February. These links were shared by Farah, a previous student who was in Egypt during this period."
Joanne S

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights - 0 views

  • Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.
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    "We also discussed the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 19: Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers."
Joanne S

Page 5. Long Live the Web: A Call for Continued Open Standards and Neutrality: Scientif... - 0 views

  • Debate has risen again in the past year about whether government legislation is needed to protect net neutrality.
  • Accessing the information within an Internet packet is equivalent to wiretapping a phone or opening postal mail.
  • Totalitarian governments aren’t the only ones violating the network rights of their citizens.
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  • “No person or organization shall be deprived of the ability to connect to others without due process of law and the presumption of innocence.”
Joanne S

Page 1. Long Live the Web: A Call for Continued Open Standards and Neutrality: Scientif... - 0 views

  • profound concept: that any person could share information with anyone else, anywhere.
  • Web evolved into a powerful, ubiquitous tool because it was built on egalitarian principles and because thousands of individuals, universities and companies have worked, both independently and together as part of the World Wide Web Consortium
  • Large social-networking sites are walling off information posted by their users from the rest of the Web.
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  • Wireless Internet providers are being tempted to slow traffic to sites with which they have not made deals.
  • Governments—totalitarian and democratic alike—are monitoring people’s online habits, endangering important human rights.
  • eb is now more critical to free speech than any other medium
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    6 pages long. see other links
Joanne S

BBC News - Delivering Finland's web 'human right' - 0 views

  • broadband internet connection was a human right, and that everyone in the country must have a connection with a minimum speed of one megabit
Joanne S

1Mb Broadband Access Becomes Legal Right | Yle Uutiset | yle.fi - 0 views

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    Links outline the Finnish legislation that all citizens need to have access to high speed broadband:
Joanne S

Cybersmart - Hector's World Safety Button™ - 0 views

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    "We had a look at the Australian Government's "Hector's World" cybersafety site for children:"
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