Quantcast
Channel: Science & Technology
Browsing all 408 articles
Browse latest View live

The good life in Asia's digital 21st century

The essays collected in this book are intended as an initial contribution by an emerging and open interdisciplinary research network consisting of students, researchers, entrepreneurs, and many other...

View Article


Army research and development plan

Introduction The Army Research and Development (R&D) Plan is the foundation for collection and development of decision support information that underpins Army’s modernisation. The R&D Plan has...

View Article


Datahub

Datahub is a free data management platform from the Open Knowledge Foundation, based on the CKAN data management system. CKAN is a tool for managing and publishing collections of data. It is used by...

View Article

On the pulse of the networked society

Currently, there are as many mobile subscriptions as people in the world, and every second, 20 new mobile broadband subscriptions are activated. In addition to the increase in subscribers, data...

View Article

Life cycle assessment of electric vehicles

A life cycle analysis report commissioned by the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority (EECA) has found that electric vehicles (EVs) are better for the New Zealand environment than petrol or...

View Article


Connected nations 2015

High quality, widespread communications, fixed and mobile, are an engine of our economy and the pulse of our society. They are not nice-to-haves, but essential enablers of our working and social lives....

View Article

Forestry and water conservation in South Africa

This innovative interdisciplinary study focuses on the history, science, and policy of tree planting and water conservation in South Africa. South Africa’s forestry sector has sat—often...

View Article

Australia's innovation system

This inquiry looks at the challenges to Australian industries and jobs posed by increasing global competition in innovation, science, engineering, research and education. Innovation has consistently...

View Article


Growing the social life of soil

This is likely to be a big week for soils. World soil day is being celebrated on the 5 December at the headquarters of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in Rome, and in a...

View Article


Future Smart Australia

The Australian Labor Party also launched its innovation policy on Monday.  The policy includes 6 plans some of which have been launched separately over 2015.  These are developed in more detail on...

View Article

National Innovation and Science Agenda

Outlines the initiatives being introduced as part of the Australian Government's National Innovation and Science Agenda. Introduction There has never been a more exciting time to be an Australian....

View Article

The effect of increasing the number of wind turbine generators on...

This report investigates the effect of increasing the number of wind turbine generators on transmission line congestion in the Australian National Electricity Market’s (NEM) existing transmission grid...

View Article

Innovation: the test is yet to come

Education is the sector that most urgently needs to be freed from the Abbott legacy EVER since his ascent to the prime ministership, Malcolm Turnbull has represented a puzzle. Is the leadership change,...

View Article


The effect of increasing the number of wind turbine generators on wholesale...

Preface This report investigates the effect of increasing the number of wind turbine generators on wholesale spot prices in the Australian National Electricity Market’s (NEM) existing transmission grid...

View Article

An energy revolution is possible

The aim of this analysis is purely to calculate an investment cost of providing several regions of the developing world with 100% renewable electricity, and to compare those amounts with the gross...

View Article


The effect of increasing the number of wind turbine generators on carbon...

This report investigates the effect of increasing the number of wind turbine generators on carbon dioxide emission in the Australian National Electricity Market’s (NEM) existing transmission grid from...

View Article

Outcome document of the high-level meeting of the General Assembly on the...

Seventieth session, agenda item 17 Information and communications technologies for development The General Assembly adopts the following outcome document of the high-level meeting of the General...

View Article


AOASG and Creative Commons Australia response to the Australian Government...

The Australasian Open Access Support Group and Creative Commons Australia  welcome the new initiatives in the government’s National Innovation and Science Agenda. In a modern world both  publications...

View Article

New Zealand's cyber security strategy 2015

The Internet and other information technologies have transformed the way New Zealanders live. Connectivity is an integral part of New Zealand’s economic growth and international competitiveness. Ninety...

View Article

Increasing productivity and profitability of Indonesian smallholder...

By world standards, Indonesia has a very large installed pulp and paper processing capacity,  and further plans for expansion. The value to Indonesia is more than US$4.2B per year. There is a rapid...

View Article
Browsing all 408 articles
Browse latest View live