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Creative innovation: Supporting the business of creative enterprise

Creative innovation is a website dedicated to growing the potential of Australia's creative enterprises, big and small.

National broadband plan: connecting America

Broadband networks only create value to consumers and businesses when they are used in conjunction with broadband-capable devices to deliver useful applications and content. The plan seeks to ensure that the entire broadband ecosystem - networks, devices, content and applications - is healthy.

Policy Adviser

NSW Business Chamber is an independent member-based company, founded in 1885. Since that time we’ve worked with thousands of businesses, from owner- operators to large corporates to connect them with the information, people and advice they need to make sound business decisions.

Our member base has grown to over 5,000 full member companies and 23,000 associate members.

Creative industries after the first decade of debate

Creative Economy News and Research - 17 March 2010 - 2:14pm
Creator:  Stuart Cunningham Creator:  Terry Flew

Issues surrounding the nature of participatory media culture, the relationship between cultural production and economic innovation, and the future role of public cultural institutions can be developed from within a creative industries framework

Mass localism: A way to help small communities solve big social challenges

Creative Economy News and Research - 17 March 2010 - 1:46pm

 

Localism presents a dilemma. Government has traditionally found it difficult to support genuine local solutions while achieving national impact and scale. This UK report offers a solution

creative3

Creative Economy News and Research - 17 March 2010 - 1:41pm

creative3 will empower individuals and organisations alike to harness the power of three – creativity, investment and enterprise – to build a successful creative business, through practical learnings and applications.

Focused on showcasing the combined power of these three key elements, the new generation event will place particular emphasis on the areas of film and television, new media, design, and music.

Memory, Trauma and Reconciliation in post-War Bosnia and Herzegovina

Creative Economy News and Research - 16 March 2010 - 2:15pm

A forum presented in support of Most Mira (Peace Bridge) Youth Festival, a UK-based charity aiding reconciliation in Northern Bosnia through work with young people

VET E-portfolio privacy impact assessment research report

Creative Economy News and Research - 16 March 2010 - 1:55pm

E-portfolios by nature contain a significant amount of personal information about learners, some of which may be quite sensitive and, if not managed well, can compromise learner privacy.

Community broadcasting means community relevance

Creative Economy News and Research - 16 March 2010 - 1:49pm

Community broadcasting engages a range of people who may be left behind in the digital economy, writes Deborah Welch in the National Times

Australian vocational education and training: Apprentices and trainees 2009 - September quarter

Creative Economy News and Research - 15 March 2010 - 2:53pm

Estimates of apprentice and trainee activity in Australia for the September quarter, 2009 are presented in this publication.

CFP: Exploring Produsage - Special Issue of New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia

CCI Blog Roll - 15 March 2010 - 10:14am

With my colleague Jan Schmidt from the Hans-Bredow-Institut in Hamburg, I'm delighted to have been approached by the editors of the Taylor & Francis journal New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia to edit a special issue on produsage. Below is the Call for Papers - we welcome any enquiries and submissions. Please spread the word!

Exploring Produsage A Special Issue of New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia Call for papers

The concept of produsage points to the shift away from conventional producer/consumer relationships, and highlights the more fluid roles of users and contributors within social media environments. Participants in open source projects, in Wikipedia, in YouTube and Second Life are no longer merely consuming or using preproduced material, but neither are they at all times acting as fully self-determined producers of fully formed new works; rather, they occupy a hybrid position as produsers of content.

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One teacher's response to literacy learning and teaching using technology

Creative Economy News and Research - 12 March 2010 - 2:06pm
Creator:  Pauline Jones Creator:  Lisa Kervin

Access to technology remains uneven across schools, student competency levels differ and teacher expertise varies considerably.

ACCAN: Digital dividend green paper

Creative Economy News and Research - 12 March 2010 - 1:46pm

The digital dividend is the Australian Government's opportunity to ensure that the benefits to individuals and the community outweigh the costs associated with the switchover to digital television.

Where's the payoff? Convincing citizens to engage with government

Creative Economy News and Research - 12 March 2010 - 1:22pm

Governments regularly hold consultations with their public. Craig Thomler wants value given for value received.

Creative New Zealand review

Creative Economy News and Research - 12 March 2010 - 11:58am

The NZ Government's review of Creative New Zealand’s governance structure aims to improve efficiency and make the best investment of resources for the benefit of New Zealand artists and arts organisations.

Supporting culture when everyone's on YouTube

Creative Economy News and Research - 12 March 2010 - 11:47am

 

What role can government play in assisting Australian creative talent to catch some of dynamism of emerging markets for culture asks Stuart Cunningham in The Punch.

Open government: the Information Commissioner

Creative Economy News and Research - 12 March 2010 - 11:09am

Following on from the conversation last week on 'open government' this program hosts the head of the newly created Office of the Information Commissioner.

Workforce Policy in 2010 and Into the Future

Creative Economy News and Research - 12 March 2010 - 10:45am

The theme of this year’s conference is “Workplace policy in 2010 and into the future”.

Improving mathematics learning in the early years: the use of interactive multimedia

Creative Economy News and Research - 12 March 2010 - 9:15am
Creator:  Kristy Goodwin

This article reports on research into the potential of interactive multimedia to develop K-1 students' understanding of fractions.