Jessica spoke of her involvement with the programmes and efforts of the early 2000’s to roll out internet and information access to locations across the USA using public libraries. During her talk she spoke about the challenges of working with tribal cultures and technical connectivity. A number of success stories were aired and learning experiences shared with the attentive audience. A delightful speaker who did a great job to spotlight the efforts of the Bill [...]

Day three got off to a great start with an engaging talk by Penny Carnaby who spoke of ‘citizen created content powering the knowledge economy’. Penny laid out the challenge to librarians in attendance to ensure New Zealanders were not part of the ‘delete generation’ and to work proactively to preserve and enhance the digital cultural heritage of the country. A recap of the governments digital strategy and efforts spanning the APNK and Digital New [...]

A continuation of the buzz from yesterday pervades the mood of delegates in attendance at the second day of the Lianza 2009 conference. Today I have taken a slightly less ‘online intensive’ approach to my blogging, twittering etc. This was driven in part by my involvement as a speaker at one of the break-out sessions this morning and also by my desire to sample the conference in a variety of ways – if you’re always [...]

Richard gave an ‘us and them’ style of talk in which he spoke about the concepts of ‘free software’ and DRM. Examples included the use of root-kit software installed on Sony music discs and AACS DRM content control. E-book readers came in for a roasting. Stallman was not happy with the concept of purchasing content via a Kindle and (as he alleges) it’s purported back door that allows Amazon to erase books on end users [...]