Re: [LINK] Reboot ICT teacher training to halt the computing brain drain

2014-05-09 Thread Janet Hawtin
Maybe there could be room for teachers of one special subject. Perhaps they could train in a second subject while teaching the first? I wonder about how kids will learn technical trades and engineering. In SA the TAFE trade workshops have been gutted of equipment. They expected kids to learn

Re: [LINK] web: Queensland technology ranks in disarray

2014-05-09 Thread Janet Hawtin
Not just Queensland perhaps. The SA technology plan suggested outsourcing IT and having no project funding no longer than 3 months. The plan also included only 1 of 5 sections of the overall plan for public comment. The rest was TBA. Perhaps things have changed since but it seemed a high risk with

[LINK] Max Schrems, EU v. Facebook

2014-05-09 Thread Roger . Clarke
Max Schrems, of EU v. Facebook fame, is speaking at an event on 'The Politics of Surveillance' at the Uni of Ottawa: http://www.digitallymediatedsurveillance.ca/ A massive amount of information has emerged from the efforts of Max and five friends who met in his living-room, amplified by 40,000