Australia now has it’s first hung parliament in 70 years. The people spoke and told our politicians they were unhappy with the way they conduct themselves and the way this campaign was run. But can it change? And, if it does, can we maintain it? As many of you who follow my tweets and read [...]
Entries Tagged as 'connection'
Change Politics in Australia
August 24th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Politics
Tags: Australia·change·collaboration·communication·community·connection·contribution·Environment·government·human behaviour·local·Social Media
Everyone’s talking at Sydney’s first Social Innovation BarCamp
August 19th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Social Innovation, entrepreneur, personal development
Saturday, the 14th of August, 2010 was the inaugural BarCamp discussing Social Innovation. An interesting and diverse range of people participated in conversation and activity throughout the day. “the vision for running the Social Innovation BarCamp is to provide a place for people to engage. There are many intelligent and effective people, from various fields, across the [...]
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Why run an unconference BarCamp to discuss social innovation?
August 3rd, 2010 · No Comments · Social Innovation, entrepreneur, technology
On the 14th of August Sydney will hold it’s first Social Innovation BarCamp. But why is this different to the multitude of other events on every week? A **Barcamp unconference is a chance for all participants to contribute, an opportunity for conversation & for collaboration. After spending some time now in the social innovation and enterprise community [...]
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The green future makers & the politicians
July 29th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Environment, sustainability
Australia is behind the rest of the world when it comes to developing sustainable energy. Yet we lead, especially in Asia, in education and research. Why is this? How can we make progress in these areas? Monday night was an interesting mix of the Future Makers documentary ~ Australians leading the way in sustainable energy, and [...]
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Sustainable Design and Ezio Manzini
July 22nd, 2010 · No Comments · Environment, Indigenous Australia, Social Innovation, Social Media, Social justice, entrepreneur, sustainability, technology
Everybody now acknowledges that there is a problem concerning our environment. The unfamiliar and unsure part is what we can do to solve this. Last week one of the leading thinkers in sustainable design visited Australia. Ezio Manzini shared his wisdom in helping us make this change now. He identified the tools and opportunity we have already around [...]
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