Caloundra Regional Gallery is kicking off the launch of the Inaugural Sunshine Coast New Media Award Exhibition with Digital Disruption, an interactive showcase of new media, design innovation and future thinking. Featuring a six-legged electric walking machine that blows bubbles, absurd and whimsical machines and the Pixel Mosaic life-sized interactive artwork of colour and light, these incredible works will inspire and delight! The New Media Art Prize and Digital Disruption exhibition offers workshops, forums, seminars and on the ground discussions as we interact with and get a chance to participate and learn in this experiential showcase. Visit the Caloundra Regional Gallery website for more…

This page has been archived. For information on current coding workshops please visit: ​http://sunshinecoast.coderdojo.com.au Are you looking to inspire the next generation? CoderDojo Sunshine Coast is starting its next series of workshops on 14 February and is looking for mentors to help out. Anyone can be a mentor. You don’t need to be an expert in coding – all you need is a passion for helping kids learn. Mentors are often asked to guide kids with ideas, point them to other kids who have the knowledge or call for help from a lead mentor. If you have an interest in coding,…

If you were to describe yourself as a sequence of colours, what would it look like? That’s the challenge going out to school students to participate in Pixel Mosaic, a world-first interactive digital art project to be featured at the Caloundra Regional Gallery early next year. “I want these kids to reflect about what makes them ‘them’ - if they had to summarise their personality in 20 seconds, what would that look like in colour?” project artist and serial inventor Mic Black said. Using an online app, which features interactive educational games explaining colour theory and creative expressions, students will…

Each year, the Australian Information Industry association (AIIA) hosts a Navigating Summit, seeking to explore the value that cutting edge technology can bring to Australia and Australian Government Policy and its operation. This series is designed by thought leaders and industry experts to facilitate debate and discussion on key issues relevant to the ICT industry and Government across Australia. On 26 March the AIIA will shine a spotlight on IoT, and the profound transformative impact of ubiquitous and intelligent ‘connectivity’ on the economy, society, business and government. Key segment themes for 2015: Transforming the physical economy and built environment Transforming…

Nominations for the 2015 iAwards have now opened. If you or your company have created an innovative ICT product or solution, then nominate today. The iAwards showcase excellence across five domains and 17 categories and recognises product innovation, project excellence and entrepreneurial courage. For more than 20 years the iAwards have recognised and celebrated the achievements and innovation made in ICT across all areas of the economy. The iAwards honour companies at the cutting edge of technology innovation and through the Student Domain, celebrate the up and coming innovators of the future.  The awards provide the platform to discover, recognise…

The Sunshine Coast has the second highest number of Facebook users per capita, with 82% of residents using the social network, according to research by The Creative Collective and its sister company The Training Collective. For the second consecutive year, the Sunshine Coast-based creative agencies have conducted research across Australia’s major cities and towns into the number of users on two of the more popular social networks - Facebook and LinkedIn. Figures sourced direct from the social networks and compared against the 2013 Australian Bureau of Statistics estimates revealed that Darwin, in the Northern Territory, has the highest number of…

Nine additional communities on the Sunshine Coast can now switch to the National Broadband Network (NBN) after services recently went live in the following areas: Mapleton (surrounds) North Arm Browns Creek Cooloolabin Eumundi West Pomona (surrounds) Black Mountain (surrounds) Cooroy (surrounds) Tinbeerwah West Construction has also started in Bli Bli (surrounds) with homes and businesses in this area able to connect to the NBN in the coming 12 months. Residents can check if their home or business is in an NBN coverage area. How to connect to the NBN Step 1: Order a service Contact your preferred telephone company or…

The Federal Government has released a policy paper outlining a roadmap for telecommunications regulatory and structural reform including a response to the recommendations of the independent cost-benefit analysis of broadband and review of regulation, led by Dr Michael Vertigan AC. Telecommunications Regulatory and Structural Reform (PDF, 644.7 KB) The Government will implement policy reforms that include: a phased implementation process that will deliver a more competitively-neutral market structure long term requiring networks competing with NBN Co to offer wholesale services on a non-discriminatory structurally separated basis legislating that NBN Co be the infrastructure provider of last resort replacing NBN Co's…

The Department of Science, Information Technology, Innovation and the Arts (DSITIA) is conducting a state-wide survey of the digital industry. Its aim is to produce a Queensland Digital Industry Profile report that covers industry size, business structures, locations (particularly regional distribution), revenues, employment, ownership, markets served, exporting and research and development activities, funding, skill shortages, industry engagement with the government's four pillars, and future policy priorities. This is the first state-wide survey of organisations operating in the digital industry since 2006-7. Some organisations may have already received an email from Antony Skinner, the Queensland Government Statistician, inviting their organisation to…