Computing Assistance Support & Education Inc – CASE Notes

We’re very proud to announce that Kate has picked up a significant award for her efforts in electronic democracy! If you’ve followed what she’s been up to (you’d be hard pressed to keep up, for starters…) you’ll see that engaging citizenry through and leveraging social energy with Internet technologies is a major facet in her politic. Here at CASE we share exactly the same sentiment which is why this award is so exciting.

From CeBit:

“Senator The Hon. Kate Lundy has been awarded the International eDemocrary Award for 2010 at a ceremony during the World eDemocracy Forum. The ceremony took place at France’s Department of Foreign Affairs in Paris overnight.

Senator Lundy was selected from a shortlist of 12 to take top honours at the event, which is considered the foremost awards for leaders and practitioners of the Gov 2.0 and eGovernment agendas.”

From all the CASE staff, well done Kate!

If you live in the ACT, anywhere near Gunghalin and like your Internet, be aware that the NBN Co will be holding a consultation session on broadband deployment very soon. From the official release:

“An open public consultation is to be held about the NBN deployment to approximately 3000 premises in the Gungahlin region, which is planned for deployment in the 2nd quarter of 2011.

The consultation will be held by the Gungahlin Community Council at our October 13th meeting at the Palmerston Community Centre on Tiptree Crescent at 7.30pm.

Glenn Holdstock, the NBN Co Community and Stakeholder Relations Manager will speak about the early NBN deployment to Gungahlin, and then will open the floor for community discussion and questions.”

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More info can be found here.

We’re pleased to announce the CASE Annual General Meeting for 2010:

Wednesday 27 October, 2010
Pearce Community Centre
Collet Place – Pearce, ACT

4.00pm – Member Presentation:
“Woden Community Services Info Tech Modernisation Project”
Stuart Hogan, Woden Community Service.

Over the past two years Woden Community Services and CASE have worked together on a project to upgrade the IT infrastructure of WCS offices. Nic Ilic, Project Manager, and Stuart Hogan, IT Manager will share with the sector their secrets on how this project was implemented, what was achieved and how to avoid the pitfalls of managing such a large project.

If you are interested in how to get the most out of your IT infrastructure and what it takes to implement best practice systems, then this presentation will be extremely valuable to you. This is one of the largest IT upgrades undertaken by a community development organisation in the ACT in recent times. WCS has implemented some very interesting systems such as the Zimbra Collaboration Suite which we are confident that members will find very interesting.

After this presentation, the AGM will commence.
CASE Members are encouraged to attend!