ramin communications
Marghanita da Cruz, BSc
E-mail: marghanita@ramin.com.au
Telephone: (+61)0414-869-202
Post: PO Box 341
Annandale NSW 2038 Australia
Information and Communication Technology Consultant
Review and Preparation of Strategy, Action Plans, Rollout, DevOps, Business Analysis and Governance
E-Waste | Governance of ICT
| EBooks (
EPUB and 
iBook) | Video & Linux & Open Source Software on Netbooks and Laptops | E-Governance.
Cloud/Social Media
Twitter:
@callicoma Linkedin | YouTube | flickr | github | Wikipedia | Lulu | Wikiversity (Wikis) and Wikiversity (Environment) | Google Books | Google Maps
Ecological Sustainability and Governance
Ecologically Sustainable Sydney | 
Annandale on the Web Eco-Annandale
1890s Annandale A Short Walk: eBook, iBook and Paperback Edition
2011-
- 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, 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?
2000-2010
- June-Dec 2010: Documented Development Application Processes for 74b Trafalgar Street and 69-73 Parramatta Road
- August 2010: Recent Changes, Canberra
- July 2010: Video Codecs in HTML5 Sydney Linux Users Group (SLUG)
- 6 June 2010: Eco-Annandale 2010 at Footprints Eco festival
- 2010 Member Leichhardt Council Reference Group for Footprints Festival
- March-April 2010: Commenting on NSW Metropolitan Strategy
- May 2010: Green ICT: E-Waste
- May 2010: Interview with GRC-ME
- April 2010: Business Imperatives for Green ICT, April 2010
- 20 March 2010: APPS4NSW Hackfest
- March 2010: Nutrition analysis of common recipes
- 6 February 2010: Bar Camp Canberra: Local Community Engagement
- Googel Wave: marghanitadacruz@googlewave.com (Waves: Ecologically Sustainable Annandale and Envisaging an Australian broadband future)
- ICT Governance Forum
- Photo Journal and
- February 2010, Submission to NBN Wholesale Fibre Bitstream Consultation Paper
- December 2009-January 2010: Curated Eco-Annandale 2010
- July 2009: Geotagging Location specific Webpages
- Public Sphere #2
Open Government Policy and Practice, June 2009
- March 2009: Established Leenova Craft Website: leenova-craft.com.au
- 20 January 2009: E-Learning: Recorded & Edited Video of Speakers at ComputersOff Breakfast, Canberra. See 4 clips for publication on Youtube
- Curated
Eco-Annandale 2009 Exhibition and Talks (December 2008/January 2009)
- Walks on Google Maps (December 2008)
- Established Ecologically Sustainable Sydney webspace and RSS Feed, 2008-
- No Duty of Care - Govnet Vol 2, No 1 (2008)
- No Duty of Care: The Governance and ICT, July 2008.
- Leveraging ICT in Corporate Governance - The Australian Experience, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 15-6 May 2008.
- No Duty of Care: the Governance of ICT (ET GOVICT2008), 1-2 May 2008.
- eeePC on an Aegean Odyssey - travelling with a Linux Netbook, May-June 2008.
- Manager Contracts and Infrastructure, APSC - managed implementation of VoIP for Branch Office and migration of Web sapplications to new server and vendor, Oct 2007-Jan 2008.
- Design and Hosting of Creekcare, 2007-
- 1998-2008: new theatre website (ramin.com.au/online/newtheatre/) program information; subscription to email alert; rss feed of media releases. Registration and redirection of Domain Name newtheatre.org.au
- Comments on Draft HTML5 Specification as invited public member of HTML5 Working Group Feb 2007 to May 2008
- SLUG Bootcamp Lightning Talks: switch to Linux, Knoppix, Kino and Video & Animation Editors, May 2007.
- Set up RSS Feeds, July 2007
-
2006,Talk Open Source Video Editing and Publication
- Introduction to AS8015 Australian Standard for Corporate Governance of ICT, IQPC IT Governance, June 2007.
- Getting more from the time and money invested in online services, March 2007.
- Entry to Fedora/Creative Commons Video Competition, 2006.
- Chapter on AS8015 in
Frameworks for IT Management, September 2006. This book, has been re-published as a pocket guide, and translated into Japanese, German and Dutch and is available on Google Books.
- Commissioned Illustrations of Governance of ICT: IT Governance, Corporate Governance of ICT and Leadership and Governance of ICT, 2006.
- Founding Chair of Australian Computer Society, Governance of ICT Committee and ACS representative on Standards Australia committee IT-030 IT Governance and Management. Established the ACS Governance of ICT Committee Webspace and ICT Governance Forum Mailing List 2003-2006.
- Performance Indicators and Business Intelligence from Websites, 2005.
- Co-wrote Governance of Information and Communication Technology for Institute of Chartered Accountants's ITSIG Newsletter Issue 3 - April 2005 Edition
- 2004 Member of Leichhardt Cool Communities Steering Group
- Assisted in the drafting and socialising of
AS8015-2005 Australian Standard for Corporate Governance of ICT, which was published January 2005 and adopted as ISO/IEC 38500 in May 2008.
- 2003. Member standards working group on IT Governance and Management, coordinated qualitative market research to scope and position standards on the governance of ICT, 2002-2005.
- Program Manager E-Business Optus Communications Input into strategic planning including opportunities for use of the Internet, Budget and Implementation Strategy, 2000.
- Hunter Hill Theatre Website, 2003.
Pre 2000
See resume-pre-2000
Associations, Education & Training
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2007- Member Sydney Linux Users Group (SLUG)
- 2003-2006 Founding chair ACS Governance of ICT Committee and ACS representative on Standards Australia Technical Committee, which published AS8015-2005
- 2002-2005 Member of Standards Australia Working group which drafted AS8015-2005
- 2002 Certificate of IT Industry Specialised Mediation Training, Australian Commercial Disputes Centre.
- 2001 Member of the NSW Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Innovation and Small Business Standing Committee (2001).
- 2001 Member of the Sydney Chamber of Commerce
- To fill gap see resume pre2000
- 1984 Philosophy A1, Australian National University
- Bachelor of Science (Computer Science/Mathematics/Chemistry/Zoology/Physics), University of Western Australia (1984)
Other Interests
Sydney History & Sustainability
LED Energy Efficient Lighting
