ICT Newsline	18 November 2010
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Paul Matthews: Assalamualaikum from Brunei
Juha Saarinen: Controlling the tools of your trade
Murray Wills: Who needs CIOs?
Ian Finch: In Depth: Commissioning under the Copyright Act: Pt 2
ICT around town: All the latest ICT-related events in your area

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Assalamualaikum from Brunei
by Paul Matthews, NZCS CEO

As mentioned in the previous Newsline I've spent much of the last week out of the country visiting Brunei (with a side-trip to Vietnam). I thought I'd take the opportunity to talk about some of the excellent experiences from this trip.

We visited Brunei at the invitation and as a guest of the Prime Minister's Office of His Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan of Brunei Darussalam to run a two-day ICT skills workshop and associated meetings with Brunei government officials and other stakeholders. The intention was that this would be the first step in planning implementation of an ICT Skills competency framework in their country.

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		Taku Waimārie Hoki!

Controlling the tools of your trade by Juha Saarinen, Newsline 2.0 Editor A while ago, I wrote about David Frampton who developed the hugely popular Chopper series of games for Mac OS X and iPhone OS, for the NZ Herald. That's some wild career weave there for Frampton, going from being a fine artist to a coder. It's excellent stuff, and shows how mature ICT has become - it's a creative industry now. I didn't however ask him any detailed questions about what it's like being a little cog in the giant Apple machine, beyond general stuff like how he finds it and how lucrative it is (very, by the sounds of it). » Continue Reading Contributed content is the opinion of the author only, and not necessarily the view of NZCS.

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Who needs CIOs? by Murray Wills, MD, Maxsys Ltd The CIO, or Chief Information Officer, is an essential role for any organisation looking to harness the power of ICT to enable their organisation. But why is it that only some organisations are embracing the role and in fact some are seeing it diminish? Over the last year or so we have seen increasing press about CIO roles being disestablished or pushed further down the hierarchy in an organisation, for example becoming an administrative role reporting to the CFO. » Continue Reading In Depth: Commissioning under the Copyright Act: Pt 2 by Ian Finch, Partner, James and Well In the first part of this article (in Newsline 2 weeks ago) we examined the distinction between the types of works that are subject to the commissioning rule and those that are not. This week we look at the elements of a valid commissioning and conclude with some pragmatic advice to safeguard ownership of commissioned copyright works. If you work for clients you really do need to be aware of the effect of the Commissioning Rule. » Continue Reading Contributed content is the opinion of the author only, and not necessarily the view of NZCS.

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