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My talk on Data Liberation at Ignite Sydney | pipka.org - 0 views

pipka.org/...ta-liberation-at-ignite-sydney data freedom dataownership dataserver gov2.0
shared by Roland Gesthuizen on 24 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • Transparency in the first instance is about raw data. You need access to the raw materials to make new and interesting things
  • Open data and raw data also gives us new opportunities to innovation
  • iterative, collaborate government. That’s what Gov 2.0 is about. Transparency, Participation and a Citizen Focus in how we do things
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 24 Oct 12
     
    "I'm here to speak to you about the legend of data liberation. It's an important story, it's a story about society, about people, about geeks, and it's a story about government."
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Privacy Lost - Four Corners - 0 views

www.abc.net.au/...4099165.htm privacy ABCFourCorners NSA security documentary vceit
shared by Roland Gesthuizen on 15 Oct 14 - No Cached
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 15 Oct 14
     
    "When a contractor from America's National Security Agency (NSA) downloaded tens of thousands of top-secret documents from a highly secure Government network, it led to the largest leak of classified information in history - and sparked a fierce debate over privacy, technology and democracy in the post-9/11 world. "
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Bebras Australia | Computational Thinking - 0 views

www.bebras.edu.au australia ComputationalThinking challenge event
shared by Roland Gesthuizen on 27 Aug 14 - No Cached
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 27 Aug 14
     
    "Bebras is an international initiative whose goal is to promote computational thinking for teachers and students (ages 8-17 / school years 3-12). Bebras is aligned with and supports the new Australian Digital Technologies Curriculum. Bebras is run by NICTA under the  Digital Careers program, funded by the Australian Government as represented by the Department of Communications."
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What % of STEM should be Computer Science? | LinkedIn - 0 views

www.linkedin.com/...em-not-enough-computer-science STEM computerscience blog
shared by Roland Gesthuizen on 05 Aug 14 - No Cached
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 05 Aug 14
     
    "STEM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math - all of which are critically important for students to learn (regardless of the economy or jobs). Our governments tout STEM because of the growth opportunities, without looking at where the growth really is. Within all the noise about the "STEM job gap," our focus should be on computer science - on the software and digital hardware that is revolutionizing the world around us and disrupting every industry known to man."
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Spies blow their cover through the internet - 0 views

www.theage.com.au/...e-internet-20121225-2bvaf.html security socialnetworking TheAge espionage Australia socialengineering
shared by Roland Gesthuizen on 29 Dec 12 - No Cached
  • Social engineering is the art of manipulating people into divulging confidential information, either through the introduction of malware into computer systems through carefully crafted, personalised emails - spear phishing, obtaining access to security codes - or by orchestrating social contact with intelligence targets.
  • the abundance of personal and career information available on the internet posed a clear security risk for both government and the corporate sector, especially companies engaged in national security work or high technology activities
  • Defence Department security instructions require that ''when engaged in online forums … Defence personnel must exercise professional judgment to ensure no information breaches operational security''.
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 29 Dec 12
     
    "HUNDREDS of former and some present Australian spies have posted information about their employment with intelligence agencies on the internet in what security experts have called ''a gift for foreign espionage''. "
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Budget 2014-15 Tables and Data - Datasets - data.gov.au - 0 views

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shared by Roland Gesthuizen on 04 Jun 14 - No Cached
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 04 Jun 14
     
    "The 2014 15 Budget is officially available at budget.gov.au as the authoritative source of Budget Papers (BPs) and Portfolio Budget Statement (PBS) documents. This dataset is a collection of data sources from the 2014 15 Budget"
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Guide to securing personal information| Office of the Australian Information Commission... - 0 views

www.oaic.gov.au/...-securing-personal-information VCEIT guide privacy government openaccess law legislation
shared by Roland Gesthuizen on 17 Mar 15 - No Cached
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 17 Mar 15
     
    This 'Guide to securing personal information' (Guide) provides guidance on the reasonable steps entities are required to take under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (Privacy Act) to protect the personal information they hold from misuse, interference, loss, and from unauthorised access, modification or disclosure. It also includes guidance on the reasonable steps entities are required to take to destroy or de-identify personal information that they hold once it is no longer needed (unless an exception applies).
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'Vexatious' digital activist forces Australian Electoral Commission to release secret c... - 0 views

www.theage.com.au/...puter-code-20140710-zt27i.html TheAge opensource bigdata datavalidation election politics freedom FOI
shared by Roland Gesthuizen on 13 Jul 14 - No Cached
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 13 Jul 14
     
    "The Senate has forced the Australian Electoral Commission to disclose the source code of the software that counts Senate preference votes after the organisation refused to release it in response to a freedom-of-information request. "
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