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NZCS talking professionalism

February 28, 2008

The NZ Computer Society had its Otago AGM this week. Don Robertson, the new chair of the NZCS spoke about the Society’s plans to focus on professional registration. This is great news for sustainability. Don talked about the challenges facing the NZCS and its members. Foremost of those is professionalism. With the proliferation of computing […]

Software ecosystem, greenwash or new understanding?

February 17, 2008

Last week Computerworld reported IDC’s annual top ten predictions for the NZ computing industry. Number one is the impact of the skills crisis in NZ computing slowing investment. Number five is: Green IT – issues behind the hype will shine through What interests me most is their repeated use of the term “ecosystem”: 3. Emergence […]

Green in top ten predictions

February 16, 2008

This week Computerworld is reporting on “Gartner’s top ten picks for 2008 and beyond“. This is the international list (first is a growth in Apple, second is the growth in internet centric devices, third is the integration of elements of open source into commercial software, etc). More than half the list can be considered to […]

Juxta-surprise: green, or happens to coincide with cheap?

December 19, 2007

Ted Samson writes green technology for Infoworld. His pieces are well informed, well thought out and add value to the original material. So, working backwards through oldish links this juxtaposition hit me as strange. On the same day he manages to articulate a distinction that describes a values based commitment to sustainability, but then in […]

Participatory decision making the real potential for GIS in Sustainability

December 10, 2007

Jeff Thurston discusses the Connection of GIS to Sustainability and Matt Ball followed up with some interesting observations about GIS and its role in sustainability: I firmly believe that if we get the infrastructure part right, meaning that we invest in a core set of needed infrastructure, then we will be solving a large part […]