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9 November 2015 by Jan Rivers

Conference report back

In all about 60 people attended Information, ethics and the public good. We heard a dozen great speakers and had about 4 hours dedicated to debate and discussion focused on what we had heard. A full conference report is in development and the full content of the presentations will be posted here over the next […]

Filed Under: Democracy Tagged With: Democracy

30 October 2015 by Jan Rivers

Scoop Foundation: Take back the news

This post is to ask for your support of the new Scoop Foundation for Public Interest Journalism. The foundation is a newly established charitable trust dedicated to helping Scoop Media and public interest journalism flourish in New Zealand. It is Scoop’s response to the worldwide crisis in journalism caused by the dramatic shrinkage of advertising […]

Filed Under: Democracy, News media

20 October 2015 by Jan Rivers

NZ: An outstanding trading nation?

Liam Dann has written a long article on the TPPA in last week’s New Zealand Herald. He’s equivocal about the agreement saying “Movement on dairy was disappointing, but movement was made. A first step, however small, is actually a very important one. It does seem that with regards to specific gains New Zealand only did […]

Filed Under: Democracy

15 October 2015 by Jan Rivers

Helen Kelly’s valedictory speech to the CTU 2015 conference

Here is a link to Helen Kelly’s valedictory speech to the 2015 unions conference as she steps down from her role at the NZ council of Trade Unions due to ill health. The speech has far too many examples where workers and their families have had to spend months and years resorting to the law […]

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11 October 2015 by Jan Rivers

Introduction to Information, ethics and the public good.

Tena koutou katoa, Ko Jan Rivers toku ingoa. Ko te whakamohiotanga mo te iwi whanui te kaupapa o tenei hui. No reira tena koutou, tena koutou, tena koutou katoa. A warm Welcome everyone who has given their Friday and some of you the weekend to this important topic. I’m Jan Rivers from public good. Conference […]

Filed Under: Democracy

6 October 2015 by Jan Rivers

Information, ethics and the public good: Conference Agenda

PUBLIC GOOD CONFERENCE 2015 Online Registration Conference Background Bookings Read about the purpose of the conference Printable leaflet 2014 Conference report and resources list Friday 9 October 7.00 – 9.15 Dr Jim Cunningham Welcome Jan Rivers – the 2014 conference Dr Christopher Longhurst – a rights and justice model for information Valerie Morse – The […]

Filed Under: Democracy

26 September 2015 by Jan Rivers

Overreach: When ideology replaces quality public services

In the last week the National government’s ideological approach has been heavily criticised by the  very organisations that should be the beneficiaries of the it’s proposed policy changes. Lowered regulation in housing construction On Monday Radio New Zealand reported that  the government is planning to allow builder self certification and that “New Zealand had “moved […]

Filed Under: Democracy, Privatisation, Public Sector, The Economy

16 September 2015 by Jan Rivers

Online voting: “the risks to democracy are too great”

Grateful to web software developer Nigel McNie for his permission to reproduce this speech to Wellington City Council.  Nigel also writes on IT security  at at https://medium.com/@nigelmcnie.     He has written a recent mythbuster against online voting and his thought provoking submission to  the Justice & Elections Select Committee’s inquiry into the 2014 New Zealand […]

Filed Under: Democracy

14 September 2015 by Jan Rivers

Confirmed speakers for information, ethics and the public good.

Prior registration is preferable but you can also register at St Andrews using the registration form Conference St Andrew’s on the Terrace Registrations Friday 9 October 7.00pm – 9.15pm Unwaged $20.00 Waged: $40.00 Saturday 10 October 9.00 am – 4.00pm Under 25/student loan $10.00 Online Registration Conference Background Bookings Read about the purpose of the […]

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14 August 2015 by Jan Rivers

Information, Ethics and the Public Good: Who can we trust?

Mini-Conference at St Andrews on the Terrace – Conference Friday 9 /Saturday 10 October Save the date for a fascinating, involving conference and workshop. You can book and pay for the conference using Eventbrite registration Satrs conference intro leaflet to print for friends See the final list of confirmed speakers At last year’s conference Democracy, […]

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13 August 2015 by Jan Rivers

The Death of God and the War on Terror

Link to the video Summary This article attempts to give a flavour of a videoed talk by Terry Eagleton “The Death of God and the War on Terror” which was made at the How the Light Gets In festival in Wales in May this year and which is taken from ideas in his 2014 book […]

Filed Under: Democracy

9 August 2015 by Jan Rivers

Naomi Klein on not looking.

Larger PDF version of How we look away from climate change diagram Here is a model of what Klein identifies as the reasons we use for not looking at climate change in her recent book “This changes everything”

Filed Under: Books, Democracy, The Environment

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