[LINK] An Android Dematerialising Parliament

[stephen at melbpc.org.au]

We've spent a lot of money being able to tele-conference, let's do it.

<http://tomw.net.au/moodle/course/view.php?id=12&topic=7>

> Yesterday Senator Lundy talked about her experience trying a 
> Blackberry smartphone as part of a trial for members of the 
> Australian Parliament .. The Senator mentioned that with a
> workable smartphone she has much less need to turn on her
> laptop. Also that for one recent parliamentary committee
> meeting several members chose to telecommute from their
> electorate office ..


Good .. give our pollies our best technology .. heck, even encourage
they Obama-style-twitter .. and get them used to the tele-conference
modus-operandi ... if our pollies can meet easily with their mobiles
they will, and more often because it's easy .. and so be more 'open'.


May be hard for a pollie to avoid mobile-phone tele-conferences with
invited participants. Great for democracy, especially if some record
the tele-conference for websites. Bingo .. transparent government :)


> suggested they look at the new Google Android phones, such as the
> HTC Magic One possibility is to run the same Android software on
> the laptop and the phone. Apart from the convenience of the user
> being able to use the same interface and applications, it would
> allow for very low power, low cost netbook and nettop computers
> to be used (under $300) 


Yes .. although, Roger will say it's much better to wait for LiMo

Our Dematerialism philosophy is good .. just maybe not by Androids :)


BARCELONA (Reuters) - The world's second-largest cell phone maker, 
Samsung Electronics, will start to sell several phones using open-source 
Linux software platforms this year, a senior executive told Reuters in an 
interview.

Won-Pyo Hong, head of product strategy, said the firm would start selling 
more than three phones using Google's Android software by the end of the 
year and would "definitely" unveil a phone using LiMo's Linux software 
this year.

Computer operating system Linux has had little success in cellphones thus 
far, but its role is increasing with the operator-focused LiMo platform 
and Google's using Linux for its Android platform."

http://www.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUSTRE51F2FS20090216

> 
> This would be an interesting form of what the SMART 2020report from 
> the  Climate Group refers to as "Dematerialisation" 
> <http://tomw.net.au/moodle/mod/resource/view.php?id=258>. Several of 
> the speakers at the symposium yesterday referred to this report, 
> including myself 
<http://www.tomw.net.au/technology/it/green_ict_elearning/>.
> 
> The audio and slides of the symposium should be on the web later 
> today <http://tomw.net.au/moodle/course/view.php?id=12>.
> 
> ps: The notes from my Green ICT course also worked fine on the 
> Senator's phone, allowing for universities to be "demateralised" as 
well. ;-)

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Dematerialism is good .. just maybe not by
Andriods

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