Computing Assistance Support & Education Inc – CASE Notes

The Federal Government wants to introduce filters to stop people accessing x-rated material, child pornography and inappropriate material.

The plan is being opposed by the internet industry which says it opens the door to censorship of other material, including political views.

“We’re very, very concerned that there’s going to be a unnecessary clamp down on the internet and it has to be watched,” Greens leader Bob Brown told ABC Television on Tuesday… (Source)

The Making Links Conference 2008 will be held in Melbourne from 12th-14th November.

CASE President Darrell Burkey will give two presentations, Tail, Dog, Wag (1Mb pdf file) and Joomla! Web Based Content Management (310k pdf file). Darrell will also speak about domain name issues (65k pdf file) at the conference ‘web day’.

Making Links is a conference that seeks to engage interested people, organisations and groups working at the intersection of social action and IT – including community workers, educators, trainers, not-for-profit organisations, school teachers, environmental campaigners and activists.

The Conference seeks to:

• bring the community sector together to access resources, training and services, and to share ideas, skills and creative applications of technology.

• Explore the possibilities ICTs generate for communities whose voices have been marginalized and excluded from the mainstream.

• Showcase innovative, grass roots ICT initiatives in community cultural development, outreach, and e-learning.

• Build and develop networks amongst workers and activists interested in how ICT can be used to support social justice.