I’ve just jumped off the phone from an interview with Ben Fordham on Sydney radio, 2UE. We discussed the future trend of transparency – how technologies are merging to enable people to make more informed choices. Two examples were discussed – Naming and shaming restaurants – I’ve blogged about that before. And – Naming and [...]

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Food inspectors don’t just hand out fines to dirty restaurants in NSW Australia, they name and shame the offenders online (read about it, see it). Far more sophisticated is the New York equivalent: it’s a searchable database that offers the ‘stick’ of shame and the ‘carrot’ of an award: “Golden Apples” are awarded to restaurants [...]

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The idea of an election cheat sheet is to get a broad overview of the various political parties (both major and minor) on a comparison table. Ideally the cheat sheet will be together at least two weeks out from the election. The information required could be sourced from: hansard official party documents and announcements quotes [...]

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Politicians are influenced by their political donors and that is why Australia’s citizens deserve to know what organisations and individuals are funding political candidates. I read the below editorial in today’s Crikey newsletter and decided I wanted more information. A search of Google News finds almost nothing. Is this a ‘fringe issue’ that doesn’t rate [...]

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It seems like only yesterday Coca-Cola had the wind taken out of their sails for using false and misleading techniques in their “Zero Movement” campaign. A whole bunch of people weighed in and Coke changed their game-plan significantly within a matter of days. So how quickly will Quickflix change its latest campaign? I checked it [...]

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