Information and Communications Technology (ICT)

e-Research, digitisation

The tangled web: beyond an internet filter (hosted by New Matilda)

Submitted by Nigel Palmer on Mon, 2009-03-16 13:44

The tangled web: beyond an internet filter
A series of public forums about the internet regulation debate in Australia

The Federal Government’s proposal to block internet sites with a mandatory filter has drawn overwhelming opposition from voices across politics and civil society. So what are the real questions for policy-makers?

These forums explore the ethical, social and political questions raised by government regulation of the internet. With the growing intersection between technology, politics and media, how do existing and proposed classification regimes measure up?

An e-Research Strategic Framework Response to the Discussion Paper

The Council of Australian Postgraduate Associations (CAPA) is the national peak body representing Australia's 257,700 postgraduate students, including 47,300 research students. CAPA welcomes the opportunity to contribute to the discussion on an e-Research strategic framework.

Assistance for library resources significant boost to Australian research

CAPA hails the seventeenth recommendation of the Senate Committee report, Universities in Crisis, that the Commonwealth contribute to the establishment of national site licence agreements to facilitate Australian researchers' access to essential journals and other research materials.

"The massive disinvestment visited upon Australia's university research infrastructure by the present Government has hit no operating units of our higher education sector harder than our libraries," said CAPA President John Byron today.

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