ANU Vice-Chancellor Professor Ian Chubb has congratulated the University’s new Chancellor Gareth Evans on being named winner of the international 2010 Freedom from Fear Medal. The international prize is awarded every two years by the Roosevelt Stichting in the Netherlands, a private foundation allied with the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute in New York. Previous recipients of Roosevelt medals include Nelson Mandela, John F. Kennedy and Terry Waite. ANU News, 14 January 2010
Archive for January, 2010
Academics in the land of the free
Freedom of speech is a hot topic, particularly in universities. But while the concept is vigorously championed very few people can resist calling for censorship when they do not like what is being expressed. To paraphrase the title of a popular book on free speech, it is very difficult to get people to grant freedom to ideas they hate. Macquarie University’s Vice-Chancellor’s blog, 12 January 2010
AARNet and the lords of the dark fibre
IF OzEmail and Internode were newborns of the internet age in Australia, AARNet was the midwife. But the Australian Academic Research Network, set up in 1989, is hardly a household name. The Australian, 13 January 2010
Mobile broadband and internet services take off
During 2008-09 Australians continued to demonstrate their thirst for flexible communications. Take-up continued across a range of platforms and technologies, with the use of 3G mobile and wireless broadband services growing by 162 per cent. At the same time, general internet use continues to grow and diversify strongly, with Australians downloading ever-increasing amounts of data and more of us going online for business and personal transactions. ACMA Media release, 12 January 2010