Invitation to GNI Project Symposium '09

by andrewlong July 23, 2009

Our friends on the GNI project are organising the following symposium. If these topics interest you, please feel free to submit something.

WHEN: Friday 4th September 2009, 8.30 am - 5 pm

WHERE: School of Business, University of Otago, Dunedin

REGISTRATION: Online Registration - registration is due 5pm Friday 14th August

Telecommunications technologies and Internet services are experiencing unprecedented growth. Technological advances together with the growing scale of deployments are driving rapid change in the telecommunications arena.  All these factors contribute to the push towards convergence on the network core. Next generation networks, programmable networks, and the converged core opens up and provides new network architectures and new converged service opportunities.

The Global Network Interconnectivity (GNI) Project was established at the University of Otago in 2006 to develop expertise, provide knowledge sharing and conduct activities supporting new ICT technologies that contribute to telecommunications, multimedia, and information systems convergence.

The GNI Project is proud to bring together academic and industry leaders for a one day symposium to discuss current and future issues relating to convergence in the ICT and Telecommunications arena.

Topics of interest include:

  • Next generation networks and LTE convergence
  • Evolved Packet Core
  • IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS)
  • Applications and services
  • WiMAX-LTE
  • Architectures and standards for service development and operation, such as JAIN SLEE
  • Multimedia telephony and service convergence
  • Integration of real-world services and applications within virtual worlds and augmented reality systems
  • Convergence of the network core vs. convergence on the application layer
  • Next generation web and telecommunications services

Registration is free, but to secure your place at the symposium please register online by 5pm Friday 14th August.

For further information, please contact Dr. Melanie Middlemiss, mmiddlemiss@infoscience.otago.ac.nz

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unConference news: Academic Guest of Honour

by erikap June 25, 2009

The IRGO unConference committee is pleased to announce that our opening speaker and academic GoH will be Professor Greg Hearn (QUT).  Professor Hearn has an extensive and diverse history in both academia and industry.  In 2005, Professor Hearn was an invited member of a working party examining the role of creativity in the innovation economy for the Australian Prime Minister’s Science Engineering and Innovation Council.  His books and papers span disciplines as diverse as psychology, economics, media and communication studies, cultural studies, management, and forecasting.  We are pleased and excited that Professor Hearn will be joining us at the inaugural IRGO unConference.

More information about the unConference, including details about the submission site, will be posted in the next few weeks, so stay tuned!

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by andrewlong June 22, 2009

CALL FOR POSITION PAPERS “Academia 2.0 and beyond – How Social Software changes research and education in academia” — WORKSHOP at E-CSCW, http://www.ecscw09.org, Vienna, September 7-11, 2009

NEW: Extended Deadline for submissions: June 28th, 2009.

Organizers:
Michael Koch, Bundeswehr University Munich, michael.koch@unibw.de and
Isa Jahnke, University of Technology Dortmund, isa.jahnke@tu-dortmund.de

The Web 2.0 and Social Software is often attributed with a high potential for addressing today’s challenges in knowledge management and distributed collaboration. This development has already reached industry. Using the term Enterprise 2.0, different possibilities to use Social Software in enterprises are researched. But also in academia, cooperation to generate new knowledge, and to add it to the scientific discourse may radically change under open Web 2.0 conditions. In addition, teaching and learning scenarios might be moved towards technology enhanced lifelong learning communities. The aim of this workshop is to discuss the application of Social Software in academia (research as well as teaching and learning) – and how these new kinds of software might change the whole setting – make new ways of doing research or teaching and learning possible or at least easier to do.

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Health IT event on 9 June

by stuartbarson May 29, 2009

What: Technology Business in Action Current Healthcare R&D and Healthcare IT initiatives.

When: Tuesday June 9, 3-6.30pm

Where: Fullwood Room, Dunedin Centre, Octagon (enter off Harrop St)

Who: Michael Woodhouse (Dunedin MP – National) is our MC. Attendees include, health professionals, ICT Cluster members businesses, business support agencies, local politicians.  

Cost: Free – supported by the Dunedin ICT Business Cluster, NZBio and the Dunedin Economic Development Unit,

Technology Business in Action

Theme: Can Dunedin grow from having leading health researchers and clinicians into a place where health IT, devices, research, services and other innovation lead the world?

Start

2.30pm - 3.00pm

Attendees seated

3.00pm - 3.15pm

Graham Strong (Economic Development Unit). Introduction – How important is Healthcare and ICT to Dunedin’s Economy?

Ken Aitchesen (New Zealand Trade and Enterprise) – Health NZ Innovation Challenge

Bronwyn Dilley (CEO NZBio) – Regional Support

3.15pm - 3.30pm

Michael Woodhouse (National - MP Dunedin) – MC; Govt perspective on healthcare; How can Dunedin benefit?

Mini Session I – Healthcare R&D

3.30pm - 3.45pm

Margie Murray - Otago Clinical Audit  - What is it?

3.45pm - 4.00pm

Brendan McCane (UoO) - Automatic interpretation of medical images

4.00pm - 4.15pm

Tim Gluyas (CEO Canard Design) - Who needs designers anyway? (Healthcare Product Development)

4.15pm - 4.25pm

Alec Holt – (Health Informatics UoO) - Health informatics the intersection between disciplines and R&D

Break

4.25pm - 5.00pm

Refreshments

Mini Session II - Making Money in Healthcare IT

5.00pm - 5.15pm

Gavin Wright – Deputy Chairman of the National Health IT Business Cluster

5.15pm - 5.30pm

Stacy Hunt (CEO Orasphere) - How To Build a Fire in 10 Easy Steps

5.30pm - 5.45pm

Paul Hansen (CEO 1000Minds) - Making money in Healthcare: If it were easy, everyone would be doing it, right?   

5.45pm - 6.00pm

Murray Tilyard – Best Practice Advisory Centre - Expert advice and artificial intelligence for general practice.

Conclusion

6.00pm - 6.20pm

Q&A

6.20pm – 6.30pm

Wrap-Up

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State of the IRGO

by erikap May 8, 2009

This June, IRGO celebrates its second birthday.  To honour our achievements, and to look forward to the future, we invite you (and any interested and interesting colleagues) to a ‘State of the IRGO’ meeting.  This is a chance for you to tell us what you as a member would like to see IRGO do and be in the future.  It will also be a chance for the steering committee to fill you in on some of the exciting developments we have been working on in 2009.

What: State of the IRGO
When: Friday, June 5th, at 2pm
Where: Centre for Innovation Seminar Room
Who: All current and future IRGO members

We look forward to seeing you there!

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by andrewlong May 5, 2009
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IRGO Seminar Series 2009 - updated

by erikap April 29, 2009

Reblogged from our Events Page.

Monday, May 25th, 12-1pm: John Kaiser, Manager, ICT Strategy and Services, Division of Health Science, will be facilitating a discussion on fostering innovation in ICT in the health sciences.  School of Business Boardroom CO4.20.

Friday, June 12th, 12-1pm: Andrew Long, Information Science, will be speaking to the topic “Life is Tweet: Emergent Micro-narratives on Twitter”.    School of Business CO2.07.

Wednesday, July 22nd, 12-1pm: Prajesh Chhannabai, PhD candidate at Information Science, will be speaking on his research into online/mobile social networking and dissemination of health information.   School of Business Boardroom CO4.20.

Friday, August 14th, 12-1pm: John Egenes, Department of Music, speaking on Remix Culture: The Folk Process in the 21st Century. School of Business CO2.07.

Wednesday, September 2nd, 12-1pm:  Alan Toy, Department of Accountancy and Business Law, speaking on current research on consent to online privacy policies .  School of Business Boardroom CO4.20.

All seminars are also listed on the Facebook page if you use that site to manage your RSVPs.

Please distribute this information among your colleagues.

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