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Dunedin residents call for change
As you know, I’m standing for Dunedin City Council in the upcoming elections with Greater Dunedin. Several people have asked me for my opinion on the the current Council. Rather than just a soapbox from me (happy to do that too, involves repeated use of the word debacle), I’d rather look at what Dunedin […]
Posted in: Dunedin
Syme: we should trust communities
July 23, 2010
This week I went to two talks by Professor Geoff Syme from Edith Cowan. He presented a social psychological approach to climate change and water allocation. In the first talk Syme developed a model of factors affecting support for Climate Change policy. The model includes knowledge, awareness of consequences, personal pro-environmental norms, personal and societal […]
Posted in: psychology
Desire unmatched by skills equals disempowerment for computing students
July 20, 2010
At the CITRENZ conference last week Dobrila and Mike Lopez presented an interesting paper on sustainability worldviews of incoming students at Manukau Institute of Technology (pdf). Their paper aimed to replicate our study of Otago Polytechnic students (summarised in post “Can’t rely on geeks” here, from original paper). This replication aimed to cement the generalisability […]
Dunedin Digital Strategy: Content needs process; upscale Capability; add Catalyst
July 16, 2010
Here’s my submission on the Dunedin Digital Strategy. I applaud the development of this document, its direction and all the initiatives described. I do, however, have two areas of concern: Content; and Capability, and suggest a new project area: Catalyst. Content The strategy describes worthwhile projects to increase DCC content on the web. Unfortunately, this […]
Posted in: Dunedin
CityScape team wins national award – again!
July 14, 2010
CityScape is a panoramic exhibition system for the Otago Settlers’ Museum. It engages visitors to the museum in building a shared narrative of place. Sustainability is a theme in our capstone projects. We have a focus on communicating and engaging people in aspects of sustainability. We took the CityScape poster to the CITRENZ Conference (incorporating […]
Posted in: Bachelor of Information Technology, Otago Polytechnic
Computing for Sustainability 
July 25, 2010
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