The Fun family photos promotion the Families Commission ran at the International Cultural Festival in Auckland on 26 February was a real hoot. During the course of the day we took over 250 photos of different familes, friends and other permutations of bodies and faces.
I was part of the team cajoling festival goers, handing out […]
Entries from February 2007
Fun family photos
February 27th, 2007 · No Comments
Tags: The Couch · Aotearoa New Zealand · Websites
Organic gardening in Ngaio and Hampstead
February 24th, 2007 · 1 Comment
Over the last few weeks I’ve been enjoying a new blog on the Guardian website about an organic allotment a group of Observer Magazine staff have started working on. They’re starting from scratch at a negelected allotment in Hampstead, London. As photos and videos on the blog show, they started with a pretty messy site […]
Applause for The Couch
February 16th, 2007 · No Comments
It’s gratifying when people notice that you’re doing good work. Last week David Hume, a consultant working for the State Services Commission, said The Couch is “a leading example of online participation in New Zealand”.
David is part of a team promoting efforts by government agencies to use the Internet for citizen participation. You can read […]
Tags: The Couch · Aotearoa New Zealand · Websites
Rubber soon hitting road for e-Rider
February 14th, 2007 · No Comments
On Monday the Wellington Regional 2020 Communications Trust ran a workshop to test ideas for delivering a new ICT advice and support service for community and voluntary organisations in the Wellington region (the participants are pictured here). Our facilitator, and Trust chairperson, Erina Papp managed to boil the whole two hour workshop into a single […]
Tags: Wellington · Community ICT projects
A precious taonga
February 10th, 2007 · No Comments
I’ve been humming and haring about whether to upload any photos of our daugther Elsa. Something primal has struck me - I feel very protective of her and I guess I don’t want to her image freely shared willy nilly with strangers. It’s not that I think any harm will come to her (I definitely […]
Tags: Travels, whanau, life
Save the internet
February 4th, 2007 · No Comments
Often when I read about some trend in the USA, or elsewhere overseas, I wonder if the same sort of thing is happening in Aotearoa New Zealand. The Save the Internet clip, which you can link to on YouTube above, is about a campaign by citizens in the USA to resist corporate efforts to control […]
Tags: Policy, stats, etc
