ICT Newsline - 27 May 2011

NZCS Newsline	27 May 2011
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This week:

Paul Matthews: Copyright Regulations and a couple of updates
Juha Saarinen: It's the law
Donald Clark: Does IPv6 ensure the survival of an open Internet?
Laurence Millar: Opening up government data: NZ leads the way
ICT around town: All the latest ICT-related events in your area

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Newsline edited by Juha Saarinen

This Week at NZCS

This week I thought I'd run a quick update on three areas we're currently working on quite extensively, namely the analysis of the Copyright (Infringing File Sharing) Amendment Act and submission on the Regulations, the issue identified last time in relation to taxation on failed software projects, plus a bit of an update on Degree Accreditation.

Sick of Copyright yet? Me too. It is massively important at the moment, though, but I promise to give it a rest for a while after this one.

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It's the law by Juha Saarinen, Newsline Editor Imagine if we were to introduce a law that criminalises a very common act. Next, imagine if we said that if you're guilty upon accusation. Not content with that, we then make it perfectly legal for the accuser to hand in false claims and allegations. How could we make that law better? Easy: by making it impossible for you to challenge or to defend yourself against the accusations. » Continue Reading Contributed content is the opinion of the author only, and not necessarily the view of NZCS.

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Does IPv6 ensure the survival of an open Internet? by Donald Clark, Internet and Network Consultant Last week, I sat next to the team from Outpost Central, a finalist at the NZ Hi-Tech awards. Outpost Central makes thousands of remote, battery powered sensors that people use for real-time water or energy use measurements, or to keep an eye on soil moisture and the like. That is a classic case for IPv6 surely, I thought. It's a profusion of devices, all wanting to be connected to the Internet to share data. I asked them if they used IPv6. » Continue Reading Opening up government data: NZ leads the way by Laurence Millar, Editor at Large, FutureGov Magazine The European e-government community continues to look to New Zealand as a leading practitioner in the area of Open Government Data. At the Share-PSI workshop in Brussels there were many references to New Zealand by delegates from across the European Union. » Continue Reading Contributed content is the opinion of the author only, and not necessarily the view of NZCS.

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