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The CommunityNet Aotearoa monthly newsletter.
"News and views on community networking throughout Aotearoa."
Statistics Minister Maurice Williamson and Government Statistician Geoff Bascand have announced the 8 March 2011 Census will not be held. Mr Williamson said Mr Bascand had advised him the census could not be successfully completed because of the recent Canterbury earthquake. The decision has been made after extensive consultation. "This is not the time to go door to door asking New Zealanders for information when they’re dealing with the aftermath of the earthquake," Mr Williamson said. The feasibility of alternative options is now being investigated.
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The Quality Services and Innovation Fund encourages community services to work closely together and develop new innovative ways to improve the efficiency of services and effective support to children, young people and families. The Fund, totalling $90.5 million, is spread over four years and 14 Community Response Model Regional Forums will use it to support their drive for better results for families in their areas. Two types of funding will be available: capability funding and capacity funding. To find out more about how the Fund works, eligible services, and next steps, go to: http://www.familyservices.govt.nz/working-with-us/funding-and-contracting/community-response-model/quality-services-and-innovation-fund.html .
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Should your sport and recreation organisation register as a charity? SPARC, the Department of Internal Affairs, Inland Revenue, the Companies Office and the Charities Commission have jointly produced an information sheet to help sport and recreation organisations who are considering applying to register as a charity. The factsheet explains when sport and recreation organisations are considered to be charitable. It also provides guidance on the benefits and obligations for charities registered with the Charities Commission, and explains how to apply for registration. You can download the information sheet from the Charities Commission website: http://www.charities.govt.nz/ .
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The NZ Federation of Voluntary Welfare's Executive Committee met recently and started the year with a lively discussion about issues and priorities going into 2011/election year. The Federation is keen to extend this conversation to other sector organisations and has established an online discussion called "Election year ahead". There is growing recognition of the value of partnership and working collaboratively - both across the sector and with Government and other sectors - to address the issues that communities and community agencies face. Over the coming months, the Federation will be collaborating with other agencies to develop a stronger combined basis for messaging across the sector in the lead-up to the election, and in the process strengthening a sector-led vision for our communities. For more information, visit: http://www.nzfvwo.org.nz/government-relationships/election-year-ahead/ .
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New Dunedin-based charity, The Inspiring Stories Trust, aims to spark the production of a series of inspirational short films across the country by connecting young filmmakers up with young people making a difference in their communities. Beginning 1 March, the Inspiring Stories team will embark on a 15-week nationwide road trip to host a series of workshops for young New Zealanders. The two-day intensive workshops connect young filmmakers with young changemakers, as well as mentors from the film industry to support their short film productions. The workshops are open for energetic young Kiwis aged 13-26, and the Trust is now calling for applications from young filmmakers, changemakers, as well as industry professionals interested in volunteering in their region. Applications can be made online through the Inspiring Stories Trust website: http://www.inspiringstories.org.nz .
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The payroll giving scheme, where workers can donate direct from their pay, has been a $1.4 million windfall for New Zealand charities in its first year, Revenue Minister Peter Dunne has announced. "In the first 12 months, we’ve seen support for payroll giving grow and it is only going to build further as more people learn more about it," Mr Dunne said. Under payroll giving, people donate automatically from their pay to their chosen charity from a list of donee organisations approved by Inland Revenue. The employee then gets their tax credit each payday instead of having to wait until the end of the tax year to make a claim. "The charities reap the benefit, employers are helping make a difference in their communities by enabling their workers to participate in the scheme, and people can donate simply and without fuss and receive their tax credit straight away," Mr Dunne said.
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The Salvation Army Social Policy & Parliamentary Unit has published its fourth State of the Nation Report: Stalled. Stalled examines the social policy areas of child welfare, work and incomes, housing, crime and punishment, and social hazards – such as gambling, alcohol and drugs. The report argues that: "the problems of unaffordable housing, alcohol fuelled family violence, child poverty and youth disaffection are as they were four years ago." To download Stalled, go to: http://www.salvationarmy.org.nz/research-media/publications/other-publications/latest-report/ .
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The January 2011 SEEK Employment Index showed that Social Work was a new entry to the list of most ‘in demand’ employees. This is the first time Social Work has entered this list and it was shown as one of the top five most-sought-after employees by Government for the month of January. Furthermore, Social Work positions received the least applications per advertisement for these positions. The Council for Social Work Education Aotearoa/New Zealand (CSWEANZ), which represents Schools of Social Work in New Zealand, noted that these figures confirmed what they have known for some time: that qualified social workers are in short supply. CSWEANZ President Lynne Briggs said there was a need to properly fund social work programmes to ensure that there were enough excellent graduates to meet these roles. "We have an aging workforce and we know that there is likely to be a further shortage as many social workers reach retirement age."
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The Advance Unedited Edition of the Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, James Anaya, 'The situation of Māori people in New Zealand' is now available at: http://www.converge.org.nz/pma/unsr2010.htm . The 24-page Report includes three introductory paragraphs, 17 pages summarising the Special Rapporteur's findings during his follow-up visit in July 2010 on a range of Treaty of Waitangi, human rights and constitutional issues relating to Māori, and 19 paragraphs of conclusions and recommendations.
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The Welfare Working Group, which was established by the Government, has released their report Reducing Long Term Benefit Dependency detailing practical recommendations on how to improve outcomes for people on a benefit and New Zealanders as a whole. "The social and economic costs of the current New Zealand welfare system are unacceptably high and the potential benefits of reform are so significant that fundamental change is needed," says Welfare Working Group Chair Paula Rebstock. "The Welfare Working Group is confident that if the reform package is implemented effectively, it will have a positive impact on many individuals, their families and the wider community," she says. Key to the recommendations is a shift to a stronger focus on paid work. The report can be found at: http://ips.ac.nz/WelfareWorkingGroup/Index.html .
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Arts Access Aotearoa is seeking nominations to its Big ‘A’ Awards 2011, the only national awards in New Zealand celebrating the often unsung work being done in communities throughout New Zealand to provide artistic opportunities for people with limited access. The Big ‘A’ Awards are presented each year at a special ceremony in Parliament. This year’s awards have five categories. This includes a new award, the Big ‘A’ Creative New Zealand Arts For All Award, recognising an arts organisation or company that has gone to extraordinary lengths to become more accessible to the disabled community. Nominations close at 5pm on 25 March. For more information and nomination forms, please visit the Arts Access website: http://www.artsaccess.org.nz .
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Napier Family Centre is offering free counselling for people who have fled from Christchurch to Napier following the earthquake. "We know many people have left Christchurch already or will be leaving in the next few weeks and for those who have chosen Napier we are in a position to offer free counseling," said Roydon Day, Napier Family Centre CEO. "People will perhaps have chosen Napier because they have family or friends connections. This will be a great comfort to the families who are going through this truly awful time. People may be feeling an enormous mix of emotions including being anxious, distressed, confused and traumatised that can be overwhelming and we are extending our services to help. There may also be people in Napier who have lost a loved one in this disaster and our offer includes counselling through this grief." For more information please call Kathy Egan, Counselling Manager at Napier Family Centre - Phone: 06 843 7280; Email: kathy.e@napierfamilycentre.org.nz .
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Latest community news, events, jobs and ads are online at:www.community.net.nz/communitycentre/news.
Ngā rongo kōrero tino hōu, ngā whakahaerenga, ngā mahi me ngā pānuitanga kei te wātea ā-ipurangi i:www.community.net.nz/communitycentre/news.
The purpose of the YWCA of Whanganui is to work for individual and community change by empowering women, especially young women, to develop and exercise their individual and collective leadership through enhancing their spiritual, physical, mental and cultural well-being. We are committed to addressing all forms of oppression, so that women may together attain social and economic justice.
http://www.ywca.org.nz/wanganui
CAMS is a charitable trust that provides training and mentoring in book-keeping, accounting and financial management for community organisations (welfare, sports, arts etc.) in the Greater Wellington Area. The service provides heavily subsidized one-to-one training at your workplace, helping organisations to become confident and self-sufficient with PAYE, GST, tax, monthly and annual reporting obligations, as well as helping set-up new systems and procedures to make your organisation run smoothly and accountably.
http://www.cams.org.nz
Samaritans is a confidential listening and support telephone service operating 24 hours a day for people who may be feeling depressed, lonely or suicidal. That may not sound much but it can make the difference between life and death. Our volunteers (we call them Sams) have been providing this service to everyone who needs it since 1965. Phone 0800 726 666.
http://www.samaritans.org.nz
The International Journal of Wellbeing is an open access online journal devoted to the study of human wellbeing. The site promotes interdisciplinary research to help academics and practitioners’ worldwide better understand what makes people flourish and thrive.
http://www.internationaljournalofwellbeing.org/
FebFast is an annual health and charity event that encourages people to forgo alcohol in February while raising money to support young people with alcohol and other drug-related issues.
http://febfast.org.nz/
Kenbe La Foundation is a registered charitable trust set up by Emily Sanson-Rejouis to celebrate the spirit of her family members who were lost in the Haiti earthquake in January 2010. Kenbe La supports the development of educational opportunities for disadvantaged Haitian children.
http://www.kenbelafoundation.org/
The Champion Centre provides high quality family and whānau based early-intervention services for children/tamariki with multifaceted developmental delay.
http://www.championcentre.org.nz/
The Innocence Project New Zealand (IPNZ) investigates possible cases of wrongful conviction in the New Zealand legal system. The IPNZ is a joint venture between Victoria University of Wellington and the University of Otago.
http://www.victoria.ac.nz/ipnz/index.aspx
Information and support for people and families living with diabetes in the Rotorua region.
http://www.diabetesnzrotorua.org.nz
Bizwize Consulting Limited provides financial and accounting training, MYOB and Xero software sales and training to the not-for-profit sector at discounted prices.
http://www.bizwize.co.nz
The Payroll Giving Foundation works to promote Payroll Giving as a mainstream form of donating to charities and community organisations in New Zealand. The Foundation aims to make payroll giving as simple as possible for all parties by supplying a system that enables employees to make payroll giving requests and changes with as little effort as possible.
http://www.payrollgiving.org.nz
Payroll Giving Info provides information and resources for employees, employers, donee organisations, and payroll companies. The site has been created by the Generosity Hub with the support of The Tindall Foundation.
http://www.payrollgivinginfo.org.nz/
CLANZ is a non-profit organisation that supports and promotes all community languages in New Zealand.
http://www.clanz.co.nz/
Conservation Volunteers is a not-for-profit, independent trust that works with local communities, the business sector and government agencies to bring together additional volunteers to undertake significant conservation projects.
http://www.conservationvolunteers.co.nz/
You'll find these and more links at:www.community.net.nz/links.
Ka kitea ēnei i runga nei me ētahi atu hononga i: www.community.net.nz/links.
These Events are happening in the coming weeks. Find details at: www.community.net.nz/communitycentre/events.
Ka puta ēnei whakahaerenga ā ngā wiki ruarua e tū mai. Rapaina ngā taipitopito Whakahaerenga i: www.community.net.nz/communitycentre/events.
These Training events are happening in the coming weeks. Find details at: www.community.net.nz/communitycentre/training.
Ka puta ēnei whakahaerenga Whakangungu ā ngā wiki ruarua e tū mai. Rapaina ngā taipitopito Whakangungu i: www.community.net.nz/communitycentre/training.
Everybody has a name. We use names to help distinguish between members of a group: "Aroha said this", "Bob did that". But sometimes one name isn't enough. We might have to add a last name, hair colour, where someone comes from, or some other identifying characteristic to distinguish between two people with the same first name.
In the same way, every computer or other device needs its own unique "name" when it connects to the Internet so that the signals it sends and receives end up at the right place.
If you go to the web page What is my IP Address it shows you the unique address of your computer. That address will look something like 203.96.72.12.
203.96.72.12
Any individual digit in that sequence of four groups could be as small as 0 or as big as 255. That gives us around 4 billion possible combinations.
In times gone by, 4 billion seemed like plenty of unique addresses. Now the world's population is more than 6 billion, and many people have several devices connected to the Internet.
Also, every printer, traffic light, mobile phone or whale tracker that connects to the Internet needs its own unique address.
That old system of creating Internet addresses was called IPv4. But now we've reached a very important moment: all the addresses have been allocated and we need more.
There's a new system in town called IPv6, and it's time for us to switch. iPv6 allows for 340 undecillion addresses.
If you're like me, you've probably never heard of an 'undecillion'. Where a billion can be written as 10^9 (10 to the power of 9), an undecillion is 10^36. That's a lot of zeros and 340 undecillion addresses should hold us for a while.
The new IPv6 addresses will look more like this: 2001:0db8:85a3:0000:0000:8a2e:0370:7334
The above address shows 8 groups of numbers and letters separated by colons. The numbers and letters are in hexadecimal: any digit could be between 0 and f.
Aside: the decimal system we usually use counts from 0 to 9 — 10 numbers. The hexadecimal system doesn't stop at 9, but goes on to a, b, c, d, e and f, making 16 in all.
Unfortunately it's not as easy as just handing out new numbers. The underlying infrastructure has to change too, as there's actually a technical difference in the way things work.
You personally don't have to do anything, but the people who run the Internet do and your ISP has to as well. And by all accounts they need to get a move on.
You may find that sometime soon your ISP contacts you to talk about the IPv6 changeover. It's possible that you may need to change settings in your router or other equipment. The ISP should give you full details if that's required.
To read more about IPv4 and IPv6 try:
In the old days people would keep tabs on crime in their community by reading court reports in the paper, talking to their neighbours or perhaps just keeping their eyes open.
From there they could build up a mental picture of the crime going on in their area. They might feel that there was a lot of crime or perhaps that they lived in a safe part of town.
The police of course have a lot of data about reported crime and prosecutions. The UK police have created a mashup so that anyone can get a detailed picture of what's going on.
To take a look for yourself visit: Police UK.
On the opening screen type in an address, for example, 10 Downing Street, London, SW1A 2AA and press the Search button. You might see an alert window asking for clarification if there's more than one possible place with that address. Click the address you want and wait a moment while the website calls up the next page.
10 Downing Street, London, SW1A 2AA
The friendly page you see next shows you information about the team that polices that area, with contact details.
Also on that page are relevant YouTube videos, information about community meetings and, most importantly, a map.
Click on the link below the map to see a larger version and many more details about crime in that area. You see crime data for an individual month divided into categories such as burglary, antisocial behaviour, violent crime and so on.
On the map are markers coloured according to the type of crime you've selected from the list on the left. Click on the map to zoom in.
In the month of the January 2011 it's easy to see that there was no crime immediately adjacent to 10 Downing Street. I guess we're not surprised. Just around the corner though, in or near Canon Row, there were 5 violent crimes, 22 other crimes, 1 burglary, and 17 instances of antisocial behaviour.
Because of privacy issues crimes aren't necessarily mapped to the precise location where they took place.
As you zoom in on the map you see more and more detail about where those crimes took place.
It's pretty obvious to see for example, that in January 2011 most of the violent crimes took place just to the northwest of 10 Downing Street.
The web page also gives you options to view crimes by street or neighbourhood, and gives a handy comparison for the level of crime in that area compared to the rest of England and Wales.
This is an amazing tool. It's an excellent way for the public to obtain and use crime information for themselves. This goes far beyond reading court reports and chatting to the neighbours.
Wouldn't it be great to see something like this in New Zealand!
Panui tips contributed by Miraz Jordan, http://knowit.co.nz . Need help or advice about the Internet? Contact Miraz.
Past Website tips are all available on CommunityNet Aotearoa. Miraz also writes the Tech Universe column for the NZ Herald - it's published online every weekday at http://bit.ly/bGX7UY .
Nā Miraz Jordan i takoha ēnei Kupu Tohutohu, http://knowit.co.nz . Kei te pīrangi āwhina, tohutohu mō te Ipurangi? Whakapā ki a Miraz.
E wātea ana ngā kupu tohutohu i CommunityNet Aotearoa i: /links/monthlysite/ . He kaituhi hoki a Miraz i te wāhanga Tech Universe ō te NZ Herald - kei te tā ipurangitia ia rā mahi i http://bit.ly/bGX7UY .
In February, there were 52,667 visits (January 55,443).
I Hui-tanguru e 52,667 ngā manuhiri (Kohi-tātea e 55,443).
Last month, 81 new community items were published:
I tērā marama, e 81 ngā take hapori i whakaputaina:
Send in your free community notice or advertisement at:www.community.net.nz/about/submit.
Tukua mai tō pānui hapori, pānuitanga koreutu rānei i:www.community.net.nz/about/submit.
There were 7,204 files downloaded in February (January 7,103). The most popular file download in February was the Sample Board Policies from the Governance and Management How-to Guide (941 downloads). In January this was also the Sample Board Policies from the Governance and Management How-to Guide (971 downloads).
I tikiaketia ētahi 7,204 kōnae i Hui-tanguru (Kohi-tātea 7,103). Ko te kōnae tikiake tino kaingākau ko te wāhanga Tauira Kaupapa Here mō ngā Poari o te Kia-pēhea Aratohu Tikanga mō te Kāwana me te Whakahaere (941 ngā tikiake). I te marama o Kohi-tātea koia anō ko te wāhanga Tauira Kaupapa Here mō ngā Poari o te Kia-pēhea Aratohu Tikanga mō te Kāwana me te Whakahaere (971 ngā tikiake).
Find quarterly CommunityNet statistics at:www.community.net.nz/about/website/statistics.htm.
Kitea ngā tauanga CommunityNet toru marama i: www.community.net.nz/about/website/statistics.htm.
Remember: please forward the complete Panui to others who'll find it useful. Tukua whakamua te Pānui katoa ki ētahi atu ka whiwhi painga i ana kōrero.
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Pānuitia koreututia ō rongo kōrero, mahi, whakahaerenga, whakangungu me ō pānuitanga i: www.community.net.nz/about/submit.
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Tukua ngā tuhinga me ngā whakaaro mō Panui me te Upoko "Takoha mō Pānui" ki: information@community.net.nz.
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E pai ana mātou kia tukuruatia e koe he rauemi o tēnei Pānui ki te mea ka whakaaetia e koe te mātāpuna, pēnei: "Reproduced from CommunityNet Aotearoa Panui, March 2011, www.community.net.nz/communitycentre/panui".
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Kei te whakahaeretia te kaupapa here whakatikatika mō Panui me CommunityNet Aotearoa e tētahi Rōpū Kaitohutohu i kūmea mai i ngā whakahaere hapori. Kei te whakaputaina te Panui me te CommunityNet Aotearoa e te Tari Taiwhenua, Pouaka Poutāpeta 805, Te Whanganui-a-Tara 6140. Waea: 04 4957200. īmēra: information@community.net.nz.
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Ahakoa te tino whakauaua ki te tirotiro kei te tika ngā pārongo i tēnei whakaputanga, e kore ngā kaiwhakaputa e whakaae ki tētahi taunaha mō tētahi hē, aweretanga rānei. Ko ngā kōrero me ngā whakaaro kua whakapuakina, nā ngā kaituhi, ehara nā ngā kaiwhakaputa.