Ramin Communications

Marghanita da Cruz

Author, Publisher, Principal Consultant & Director at Ramin Communications Pty Ltd

E-mail: marghanita@ramin.com.au
Website: ramin.com.au
Telephone: (+61)0414-869-202
Post: PO Box 341 Annandale NSW 2038 Australia

2011-2012

30 November 2012: Talk on Roles and Responsibilities of System Administrators
18th October 2012: Initiated online discussion on Tuning Systems and Energy Use (Sys Admin Roles and Responsibilities)
17th October 2012: Attended Environmental ICT Issues Discussion in Canberra
13 October 2012: Opening of Eco-Annandale 2012 and Launch of Federation Annandale: A Short Walk
September/October 2012: Curated Eco-Annandale 2012 Exhibition at Leichhardt Library
13 September 2012: Initiated online discussion about the Roles and Responsibilities of a Systems Administrator, with a view to a possible book chapeter.
September 2012: Published Federation Annandale: A Short Walk (Paperback and E-Book)
26 Jul 2012: Report on UTSEngage Future Services & Productivity
26 Jul 2012: Photographs of Sydney Wind Turbines
Sustainability in Melbourne, 20 Jul 2012
20 Jul 2012: Log of Sydney to Melbourne by Train
27 June 2012: Notes on Master Plan Community Consultation
26 Jun 2012: Notes on Sustainability of Innovative Meeting and Learning Spaces

25 June 2012: Notes on Gov Camp Co-Lab NSW, UNSW City Campus
20 June 2012: Notes on Gov Campfire NSW, Mitchell Library
15 Jun 2012: Notes on Senator Bob Brown on Global Governance
May 2012: Highlights of CEBIT 2012
May 2012: Briefing on E-Waste Stewardship
May 2012: Guide to Domestic Energy Efficient LED Lighting
April 2012: Researched, Designed and guided Historical Walk - Federation Annandale (including history of Electricity Distribution) - E-Book/Paperback due for launch October 2012
Feb 2012, Advocacy for LED Lighting Pilot
October 19, 2011 at 9:50 am comment on http://cyberwhitepaper.govspace.gov.au: "The capability of Directors and Office Bearers to meet their obligations in relation to privacy laws would be assisted with the implementation of a Responsible Collection and Management of Data Certificate similar to the Responsible Serving of Alcohol Certificate. See example here:http://mailman.anu.edu.au/pipermail/link/2011-October/095195.html. More about Corporate Governance of ICT at http://ramin.com.au/itgovernance/as8015.html"
The Digital Culture Public Sphere Comment:
A search on the National Library’s Trove website and a separate search on the National Sound and Film Archives website reveals an opportunity to use technology to provide better exposure to Collections.
A Policy Framework that provides funding for innovation in Digitisation and propagation of innovations through other institutions, perhaps through exchange programs, cadetship, etc and withholds funding for reinvention of the wheel.
Development of Open Source Software by Cultural Institutions, which would allow software and its development to be sharedby organisations would also help improve public access to collections.
Trove would be such an innovation and funding could, for example, be made available to make the National Film and Sound Archive’s catalog available through Trove but not to enhance the current NFSA system independently.
By way of example, currently, a search of HEROES' FAIR AT ANNANDALE in Trove reveals
"SOLDIERS' MEMORIAL AT ANNANDALE.
The net proceeds of a village fair, which was held on Friday, amounting to about £550, are nearly sufficient to complete the sum of £1250, which it is desired to raise for the Annandale Heroes’ Memorial.” http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/15872712
but not the following (though I have now added the following as a comment in trove – which enables crowd sourcing):
Title No: 100748
Title: HEROES’ FAIR AT ANNANDALE, NSW
http://colsearch.nfsa.gov.au/nfsa/search/display/display.w3p;adv=;group=;groupequals=;holdingType=;page=0;parentid=;query=annandale%20Decade%3A%221910-1919%22;querytype=;rec=0;resCount=10
Processes to Digitise video and audio content for the Web would also be shared. - Marghanita da Cruz Posted October 6, 2011 at 10:53 pm
September-October 2011: Eco-Annandale 2011
30 September 2011: Lightning Talk Formatting an E-Book and Paper Back: Part 3 1890s Annandale: A short Walk - The Book
27 August 2011: Publication of 1890s Annandale A Short Walk (paperback)
26 August 2011: Lightning Talk Formatting an E-Book and Paper Back: Part 2 Interoperability - Formatting the PDF from the HTML source using Open Office Master Document
29 July 2011: Lightning Talk Formatting an E-Book and Paper Back
24 July 2011: 1890s Annandale: A Short Walk (Ebook)
28 June 2011: Initiated a LinkedIn Poll:Why do you attend Meetings?
24 June 2011: SLUG Lightning Talk - Organising Meetings in the Digital Age (or hearding SLUG) and Meeting Chair. Watch this on YouTube at 15 min 40 sec of 1hour 7 min video
Meeting Agendas and Timers
Sydney 1788 to 1938 (Interactive Image Map Mashup). Watch this Talk on youtube
May 2011: Library Hack 2011 Competion Entry: Sydney 1788 to 1938 Photo Mashup
Eco-Annandale 2011
OAIC Discussion Paper on FOI Disclosure Logs: Comments March 2011
AGIMO Discussion Paper on Data Centre as a Service (DCaaS)
Comments March 2011
January 2011: Recent Changes Unconference, Canberra: When will wikis supersede traditional Word Processing?