ICT Newsline - 9 May 2012

NZCS Newsline	9 May 2012
Your weekly dose of ICT news and views

		This week: Paul Matthews: And... we're back! NZCS: Consultation on Degree Accreditation closes Friday Juha Saarinen: Request for thought Garry Roberton: ICT Trends: Tertiaries and App Development Paul Brislen: It's the Internet, stupid ICTEvents.co.nz: List of upcoming tech-related conferences NZCS: The Woz coming to New Zealand! ICT around town: All the latest ICT-related events in your area
		This Week at NZCS

And... we're back! by Paul Matthews, NZCS Chief Executive After a bit of a hiatus for a few weeks while we concentrated on getting a few key projects up and running, it's great to be back with Newsline! I thought I'd kick off the Newsline restart with an update on what we've been up to including our major Name Change consultation, ICT-Connect in Schools programme, our re-launched National Event Series, some upcoming changes to CPD (the ongoing education professionals need to stay current) plus the CloudCode and Degree Accreditation projects. Plus an exclusive deal on Computerworld for NZCS members. » Continue Reading Consultation on Degree Accreditation closes Friday by NZCS A reminder that the final consultation on the proposed tertiary Degree Accreditation process closes Friday! » Continue Reading

		Taku Waimārie Hoki!

Request for thought by Juha Saarinen, Newsline Editor TradeMe's Mike O'Donnell (MOD)'s opinion piece on goverment procurement and greedy IT vendors makes for an interesting read. Faced with IT providers charging insane amounts for very little, central and local governments try to mitigate the risk by issuing dense guide lines to protect the public purse from being pillaged by unscrupulous vendors. That's laudable, but the processes put into place clearly aren't working as government IT projects appear to be overshooting budgets as badly as ever. » Continue Reading Contributed content is the opinion of the author only, and not necessarily the view of NZCS.

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ICT Trends: Tertiaries and App Development by Garry Roberton, Senior Lecturer at Wintec In my last Newsline article I posed several questions about the response from the tertiary education sector to the emerging Apps economy. Are we preparing students for relevant areas such as App dev? This month we have some answers, from the ITP sector at least. Plus an update on the skills shortage stats and some recent happenings in this space. » Continue Reading It's the Internet, stupid by Paul Brislen, TUANZ CEO Well that's put the rat well and truly among the pigeons. Auckland-based ISP Maxnet has launched a sub-brand called FYX which offers 'pay as you go' data use at a cost of 34 cents per gigabyte. Users pay a monthly base fee of $34.34 (I notice a numbering trend here) which means for 100GB/month you'll pay around $70. That alone is nice - use as much as you want, or as little, without having to change your plan. But FYX hasn't stopped there. » Continue Reading List of upcoming tech-related conferences by ICTEvents.co.nz Last year NZCS released the ICTEvents.co.nz website to list all upcoming tech-related events throughout New Zealand. The site has since listed hundreds of events from many different organisations, becoming the #1 listing site for tech events and presentations. We're very excited to announce some changes to this site, with a new "Upcoming Conferences" section listing upcoming conferences across New Zealand. From the end of May these will also be automatically listed in Newsline. » Continue Reading The Woz coming to New Zealand! by NZCS We're very excited to see that Apple Co-founder Steve "Woz" Wozniak will be coming to New Zealand and presenting on the Apple Story - Disruptive Innovation, Inspiration and Entrepreneurial Wizardry. NZCS Members get a discount and tweet this or any other Newsline article to win a free ticket! » Continue Reading Contributed content is the opinion of the author only, and not necessarily the view of NZCS.

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