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KAREN wiki highlights, recent updates and cool stuff you should know about for September 2009.

Witness history in the making. You can watch a multicast stream of the US Presidential Inauguration over KAREN.

KAREN members across the country can now access over 20 free-to-air television and radio streams in high quality from their desktop through TelstraClear’s new IPTV service trial.

TelstraClear has launched an innovative new service trial over KAREN – free-to-air TV and radio multicast streaming. This valuable IPTV service is available only to KAREN members (and only for those who have implemented multicasting).

A new book has just been released as an online eBook and in hard copy called The Tower and The Cloud – Higher Education in the Age of Cloud Computing.

A group of research libraries from USA universities have launched a new online shared digital repository called the HathiTrust.

HathiTrust (pronounced "hah-tee") pulls together the digital collections, including millions of books, of research libraries from 25 American universities. Materials in the public domain will be available for reading online in full.

The World Summit Award (WSA) is the global contest to select best practice in e-Content and innovative ICT applications.

The new Creative Commons Aotearoa New Zealand (CCANZ) web project enables you to choose your own Creative Commons New Zealand 3.0 Licence, read about other Kiwi CC users, join the CC community and promote your work.

The University of Otago has made audio and visual tracks of lectures, seminars and other content available on iTunes U. These tracks are hosted at the university meaning they're available over KAREN for super quick download.

The consultation period on the Draft Digital Strategy 2.0 has been extended to 5.00pm Friday 23 May, 2008.

Today Communications and Information Technology Minister David Cunliffe announced the release the Draft Digital Strategy 2.0 for public consultation.

ResearchChannel has invited New Zealand researchers to take part in the public beta test of Research1.

New Zealand researchers can now access and share their research with peers both in New Zealand and overseas through the Kiwi Research Information Service.

Get up with the play on the Creative Commons approach to copyright licensing at this free event: Expanding Expanding Copyright Horizons - Creative Commons Seminar, 27 October, Wellington.

New Zealand academics, researchers and repository managers are invited to take part in a short survey to develop a framework in the UK for the identification of versions of objects in digital repositories.

KAREN, the Kiwi Advanced Research and Education Network, is increasing the value of network membership by introducing clear guidelines for organisations to connect to KAREN for the purpose of providing services and content to the research and education community in New Zealand.

Creative Commons Aotearoa New Zealand will soon offer licences in New Zealand.

New Zealand’s access to rich digital content and global knowledge networks took a leap forward today when the National Library of New Zealand formally joined the KAREN community.

The annual conference of the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) was held in Birmingham on 13 March. JISC funds a range of ICT services and programmes to support education and research, including JANET, the UK equivalent of KAREN.