The lives of prominent and ordinary Australians who have come and gone will be resurrected in the digital afterlife through a new website being launched at The Australian National University today. Obituaries Australia, the first resource of its kind in Australia, has taken the paper trail left by the likes of first fleet convicts, bushrangers and their victims, ANZAC diggers and cricketing heroes, and transformed them into a freely accessible online database. The website is linked to digital material held in Australian cultural institutions as well as items in the National Library of Australia's digitised newspapers. The website is at http://oa.anu.edu.au/
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- Education Network AustraliaEducation Network Australia (edna) was a collaborative project between all Australian governments, states and territories and sectors of education and training. The project was partly funded by the Australian Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations. Initiated in 1994 as a means to facilitate access to the internet for schoo […]
- Protection of children online. Risks faced by children online and policies to protect themAs increasing numbers of children worldwide enjoy the benefits of the Internet, they also face a spectrum of risks to which they are more vulnerable than adults. This report examines these risks as well as the policy responses of governments and other stakeholders to improve the protection of children online.
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