Setting the Scene. Consultants are people/firms that are hired to divorce an organisations internal politics from a result and quite often, consultants bring with them a differential focused expertise in the area requiring their expert attention. There’s an accepted modus operandi for consultancy firms in business, “When you get hired, look for more [...]
When I was four years old, my family constructed a house. I asked my father how the builders knew what went where. And he told me about the plans and showed me the blueprints. I was enthralled, here was a method to build something. Draw up a master plan, order the lumber, roofing iron, and [...]
Gordon Brown is not the most popular Prime Minister in the UK, but he is certainly getting technology. He gets “it” because of Iran: “You cannot have Rwanda again,” he said. “This week's events in Iran are a reminder of the way that people are using new technology to come together in new ways to [...]
A section of my Introduction to the Responses to Digital Economy Future Directions Consultation Paper By Thomas P. Koltai, on Behalf of Perceptric Pty. Ltd. Submitted 10th of February – Before the Governments National FTTH rollout announcement and before the ACCC ruling against Telstra on last mile local loop. – A section of my [...]
Prologue On playgrounds all over the world, kids are saying to each other…. “If you like me, you’ll do it…. And if you don’t do it, then I’ll know that you don’t really really like me and then you can’t be in our gang. Children don’t understand the concept of bribery or corruption, but [...]
The big problem with a case like the Pirate Bay one is that there are no winners. Particularly not the public. And there are a lot of unintended consequences. I think that governments around the world are watching the results of the PB case and are starting to batten down the hatches. The real results [...]
There are plenty of theories on the Internet. And there are plenty of conspiracies too… Here is a story about a very well connected, successful Jewish guy who became an Ambassador for the US Government, and then, because he took a centrist view of life and thought that all nations should be treated equally, his [...]
There are strong corporate interests that want to take away our freedom. Masquerading as protecting freedom and democracy is a plan to corporatise the web and ensure that big content owners become the gatekeepers to content. The following is a quote from a blog piece by Steve Lendeman that says it very succinctly – and [...]
Recently, the Australian Government asked for comments in an RFC titled Digital Economy Future Directions Consultation Paper.[i] We responded to 30 of the 32 questions – here is our response to Question 23 Q.23 Should the existing copyright safe harbour scheme for carriage service providers be broadened? Setting the Scene. The safe harbour scheme provides [...]
Some good friends came to stay over the weekend just past. They brought with them a couple who are here on holiday from a Eurozone country. Their names should remain anonymous for the purposes of this story. The couple are both retired now. We got talking about his work in the police force of said [...]