[LINK] ICT Predictions 2009 - little OT (gov't reports example)

[Tom Worthington]

At 08:24 AM 19/01/2009, Stilgherrian wrote:
>On 19/01/2009, at 8:04 AM, Tom Worthington wrote:
> > Unfortunately, providing access to information does not seem to be a
> > priority for most agencies. ...
>
>Oh, but the impressive annual report ... will be distributed to all 
>MPs. ... don't use computers ...

MPs may not sit down reading web pages at a computer, but many have 
smart phones. The agencies could provide the reports in a format 
suitable for a Blackberry. We can tell them this has been specially 
prepared for MPs. We don't need to tell them that this is just the 
same accessible version of the web pages which everyone else gets, 
with an extra cascading style sheet for a small screen. ;-)

I am currently restructuring the ANU course where we teach web design 
to the computer science and commerce students 
<http://www.tomw.net.au/blog/2009/01/my-first-blended-course.html>. 
Previously I have got them to convert web pages into smart phone 
format. Perhaps this time we will do it for government reports. 
Perviously I got them to minimise the number of kbytes the web pages 
used. This time I can ask them to calculate the CO2 emissions from 
the web page.



Tom Worthington FACS HLM tom.worthington at tomw.net.au Ph: 0419 496150
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Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Australian National University