About a month ago I was at the Global INET conference in Geneva. One of the keynote speakers was Jimmy Wales, best known for building Wikipedia. The bit from his keynote that got the most Twitter and mainstream media coverage was towards the end- the prediction that “Hollywood will be mostly dead and no one will care.”
We are organising a meeting of ICT NGOs on Wednesday 11th July 2012, 6.30 - 8.30 pm at SkyCity Convention Centre, Auckland. The meeting will provide us with an opportunity to know more about each others' priorities and plans for the year ahead. In turn, this will allow us to get to know each other better and perhaps identify areas of common interest to make the most of our limited resources.
I read an article in the Herald the other day – High-quality Pacific trade deal vital, says Key – that gave me cause for concern. I read it somewhere en route from Wellington to Dallas for the 12th round of Trans Pacific Partnership agreement (TPP) negotiations. The reason why I am here, in Dallas, is to advocate for an open Internet under the TPP.
Guest post by Donelle McKinley, Researcher - digitalGLAM.org
How is the Internet and digital technology facilitating collaboration between New Zealand’s cultural heritage institutions, and between institutions and their visitors?
Last week there was more heat and noise than facts about Huawei’s participation in NZ’s telco industry. Those who didn’t have the facts wanted them; those who did weren’t talking; and those who don’t particularly care about facts were busy speculating. The one person who had the facts was in South Korea keeping out of it, apparently revelling in the gym and photo-ops.
NZ is at an interesting transition phase between the ‘old’ copper network and the ‘new’ fibre one. I call it a phase rather than a point in time as the last of the houses getting fibre are 7 years away.
Impossible. Nuts. Unbelievable. Those are some of the more polite reactions when I tell people that having a .com domain name for their website is sufficient for them to be subject to US jurisdiction. Which allows for nasty stuff like the US Government seizing their website or extradition to USA to stand trial over there. Based on allegations alone.
I spent last Friday at the Australian Digital Alliance (ADA) Copyright Forum 2012, the theme of which was Growing the Digital Economy: Copyright Exceptions for the Digital Age. The forum was timely – scheduled just before the Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) kicks off an inquiry into “whether the exceptions in the Copyright Act are adequate and appropriate in the digital environment”. (Terms of reference for the review should issue from the Attorney-General by end of April).
As previously announced, InternetNZ was one of the supporters of NZRise’s lunch event on 2nd March for negotiators at the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement in Melbourne. Four speakers presented their views on the Intellectual Property chapter with a focus on copyright, based on the US position leaked a year back.
