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ItemDarebin eForum Report( 2004)This report provides an assessment of the pilot electronic democracy project undertaken at Darebin City Council during 2004. The Darebin eForum provided Council staff and Darebin residents the opportunity to discuss policy related issues via electronic mail in a structured manner which allowed the Council to summarise topics of interest and concern to feed into pre-existing decision-making processes. Based on research conducted with participants during the pilot project, a number of conclusions can be drawn regarding the value and future viability of the online forum. These are: The pilot project did not attract a wide number of participants from outside of the Council organisation and participants reflected a relatively narrow slice of the diversity within the City of Darebin. Overall, the average eForum participant was a forty-year-old English speaking, educated, and computer literate woman in full time employment. These participants tended to exhibit characteristics that would classify them as joiners who tend to be in well-developed social and work networks, and tend to have a consociational and communitarian outlook, who would therefore be attracted to discussion lists of this type. This finding indicates that the work of recruitment for the eForum of residence of the city needs to be a priority for future iterations or implementations of this concept. The selection of topics for discussion on the eForum allowed discussion to develop amongst the list participants, even where some topics were outside of the specific knowledge for interest of members. This was advantageous in the development of an active group of participants as topics were inclusive of participation across a number of levels. The selection of topics, however, may have been overly broad and fail to deliver instrumental outcomes either to participating staff members with responsibility for policy development, or a reasonable minority of non-staff list participants who focus their interest
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ItemInformation Technology in Teaching and Learning: A Report on Trial Applications of MultiMedia in the Department of Political Science( 2003-06)In accordance with the policy of the University of Melbourne to develop and integrate the use of Information Technology (IT) in teaching and learning, in 2003 a small-scale trial was undertaken to apply desktop MultiMedia (MM) to the teaching of one subject which had made limited use of teaching in learning in previous years.This document reports on the outcomes of this trial, indicates the positive and negative benefits of this application, and makes some conclusions about barriers and enablers to the implementation of IT in the teaching environment. The aim of the document is to:•Report on agreed activities to the Head of Department, Political Science, and•Provide feedback on IT applications in teaching to other staff of the University of Melbourne.
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ItemSubmission to the Review of the Operation of Schedule 5 of the Broadcasting Services Act 1992( 2002-11)A submission made to the Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts in reference to the operations of the Internet content regulation scheme (censorship) in Australia. Contains unpublished research.
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ItemSubmission to the Inquiry into Electronic Democracy( 2002-10)A submission made to the Victorian Scrutiny of Acts and Regulations Committee pertaining to electronic democracy. Contains as yet unpublished research