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ItemHow Australians are represented in Wikipedia( 2023)Nationality, biography, Australianness: these are topics beset with complexities and politics before we even get to Wikipedia. On Wikipedia, further complexities arise. Even getting to the point of being able to map Wikipedia's representation over time requires understanding which biographies on Wikipedia refer to Australians. This involves further questions: who counts as Australian in Wikipedia and its sister-projects? How are Wikipedia articles or Wikidata items marked as 'Australian' by the system? How does Wikipedia define or represent 'Australianness'? In this report, we address these questions using a dataset of biographical articles culled from English Wikipedia with the aim of revealing the definition of 'Australianness' implicit in Wikipedia's systems and assessing how well Wikipedia represents the diversity of Australians. To address these questions and complexities, we used an innovative methodology which is explored in-depth in the report Appendix for all those data fiends out there.
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ItemMedia Lab Report(School of Culture & Communication, University of Melbourne, Australia, 2016-09-16)The School of Culture and Communication is a large interdisciplinary School with a number of inter-related media, communications, digital humanities, screen studies and journalism programs and research groups requiring high quality media facilities. These programs are growing in global significance as the fields of the humanities, communication disciplines interact with real world issues and contexts. The reputation of the School, commensurate with the University’s ambition to be a world-leading institution, for delivery of high quality teaching and research is currently inhibited by the lack of a dedicated strategy and resource agenda to provide suitable media facilities anywhere on campus. The purpose of this report was to identify the requirements of programs within the Faculty of Arts, to investigate what was available at competitor institutions both in Australia and internationally, to scope existing resources on campus and to identify any possibilities for expansion or refurbishment of appropriate spaces on campus. In addition, it was to recommend courses of action to stage investment in a Media Lab at the University of Melbourne Carlton campus.
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ItemACFID and 'Value for Money'(Australian Council for International Development, 2012)Value for Money is not a new concept and has again become prominent in international discourse around aid and aid effectiveness including from deliberations leading to, and outcomes resulting from, the 2011 Fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness held in Busan. From discussions with our members, many of whom have participated in relevant initiatives such as the Big Push Forward, ACFID appreciates the need to discuss ‘value for money’ in the international aid context and wishes to engage more with the Australian Government (especially AusAID), our members, primary stakeholders and the Australian public so that a mutual understanding of value for money can be developed.
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ItemResearch for Better Aid: An Evaluation of DFAT's Investments(Office of Development Effectiveness, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, 2015)Research-based evidence contributes to development innovation and high-quality aid policy and programming. The Australian aid program has long recognised the importance of research to its work. Indicative of this is that the Australian Government Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s (DFAT) (and, before that, AusAID) grew its investment in research from $19 million in 2005–06 to more than $181 million in 2012–13—a rate of increase significantly higher than that of its programmable aid. This Office of Development Effectiveness evaluation assesses the degree to which DFAT’s aid investment in research has been appropriate, effective and efficient, and provides recommendations for improving the future management of its research investment.