jason brown curriculum veritas 2011

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2011 | CURRICULUM VERITAS | JASON BROWN 

LAST NAME:
Brown

MIDDLE NAMES:
(none)


FIRST NAME:
Jason

CITIZENSHIP / NATIONALITY
Australian / Cook Islands Permanent Resident (1985)


DATE OF BIRTH
15th September 1965, St. Leonards, Sydney


INTERESTS
Walking, cycling, photography


CONTACT

e-mail: avaiki@facebook.com 

postal: 9/116 Wellington Street

Freeman's Bay

Auckland 1011
Aotearoa, New Zealand

HEALTH

Tinnitus (google results).




ESTIMATED TOTAL PERSONAL DEBTS
US$120,000 as at 15 September 2011


PERSONAL CREDIT RATING
Bad


PERSONAL DEBT BY COUNTRY
Cook Islands
New Zealand


PERSONAL STATUS
Divorced

  

CAREER LOWLIGHTS *

1982: First job threats from cabinet ministers
1983: Off work, glandular fever 

1986: Sacked by Sir Thomas Davis administration for "mischevious" Stories
1988: Failure of bid for privatisation of Cook Islands News
1989: Public relations for Cook Islands Government

1990: Resign from government over censorship

1993: Contempt of Cook Islands Parliament for cartoon
1994: Lots of promises, but few funders for Cook Islands Press
1995: Death threat from shipping owner

1996: Develop tinnitus, 24/7

1997: Refused NZAID funding
1998: Commercial failure of Cook Islands Press
1999: failure of Cook Islands Media Council

2000: Not selected for Olympics media

2001: Banned from Cook Islands Parliament

2004: Declare crisis in Cook Islands media

2005: NZAID: "Your name is mud with New Zealand."

2006: Migrate for health reasons, Auckland

2007: Banned from PINA membership

2008: Banned from WIBT, Auckland, withdraw from AUT PIMA scholarship

2009: Declare crisis in New Zealand media

2010: Banned from Pacific WAVE meeting, at WPFD, Brisbane

2011: Declare GJC, Global Journalism Crisis

* Please note that some linked documents may need searching to find relevant reference. 



CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

1982: First news story, on impacts of Space Invader games on youth, CINews

1985: Editor, Mini South Pacific Games insert, Rarotonga
1986: Sacked by Sir Thomas Davis administration for "naughty" stories
1988: Te Kuki Airani; campaign newspaper, exposes mafia links
1990: Liasion, Media and Government Relations, Forum, Rarotonga
1991: Exclusive expose Avaiki Air crash, CITV
1992: Advocate for Maori-first news, Te Rongo Veka, CITV
1994: Founding member Cook Islands Journalists Association, code of ethics
1995: Expose US$1.1 billion Letters of Guarantee, Cook Islands Press
1995: Leading role in public petition against Media Standards Bill
1996: Freedom of Information Award, PINA, Cook Islands Press
1996: Press Attache to Atlanta Olympics, team Cook Islands - Go Green!
1997: Exclusive coverage of Cyclone Martin, Manihiki, Cook Islands
1997: Founding role in Cook Islands Media Association 
1997: Expose constitutional amendment against permanent residents
1998: Cook Islands media only institution gaining public confidence

1999: Set up Avaiki Nius Agency

2001: Speaker lifts ban
2002: Information Assistant, Pacific Islands AIDS Foundation, Barcelona

2003: WWF photo contract
2004: Avaiki Nius Agency launches online.
2005: Tahiti by election, launch JPK investigation
2006: 'Malestreaming' intern, Pacific Women's Bureau, SPC
2006: Women in Politics, Rarotonga
2006: Sole Pacific Islands media contributor to aid review, Australia
2007: Australia aid strategy review ticks sustained public broadcasting
2008: Founding member Pacific Islands Journalism Online
2009: Inaugural meeting Pacific Freedom Forum, Samoa.
2010: Establish JICC, Journalism in Crisis Coalition

2011: Establish WJR, World Journalism Review 

CONFERENCES

1994: PINA Samoa
1998: PINA Tahiti
1999: PINA Fiji
2003: PINA Samoa
2006: PIMA New Zealand
2008: PIMA New Zealand
2009: PIMA New Zealand
2010: World Press Freedom Day, Australia

LINKS:

2006 Curriculum Vitae | Jason Brown 

Foreign aid in Pacific media education

Total Transparency Tools 

EARLIER VERSION

2008 Jason Brown Curriculum Veritas

UPDATED:
2011, Wednesday, 19 October 

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20081101 knight news challenge

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knight news challenge:

application for a good governance project,

total transparency tools, TTT

november 2008
avaiki nius agency

Project Title: total transparency tools, TTT
Requested amount from Knight News Challenge: 500,000
Expected amount of time to complete project: 2/3 years
Total cost of project including all sources of funding: 500,000

Describe your project:

TTT, total transparency tools, offer global transformation simply by extending everyday email skills.

TTT takes an open-source approach to a gender-balanced, ethics-based training model, promoting participation in real-time, real-world information for and by ‘real’ people.

This project takes three years of conceptualisation and a draft working model to the next phase, seeding a pilot project across 26 territories and states of the world’s most widespread and vulnerable region, the Pacific Islands.

From Hawaii in the north, Aotearoa to the South and Rapa Nui westwards, imploding timeframes for global warming add urgency to calls for effective networking of communities facing climate adaptation, and, in some cases, sovereign extinction. Related issues exist for Oceanic partners, Australia and New Zealand.

How will your project improve the way news and information are delivered to geographic communities?

Total transparency tools, TTT offer potential for broad scalability using mainstream web2 tools as an open gateway to “golden mile” transformation of good governance globally, starting with bottom up advocacy among communities.

At people level, email users avoid having to learn complicated (and usually male dominated) content management systems, like Joomla for example, a favourite among toys-for-boys IT sections!

Instead, even a remote user can extend an email account to update and interact with social networks, like Blogger, Facebook and Ning – all via email.

Remote media centres limited only to UHF email, for example, might partner with urban media centres with better internet links to enable web-based registrations.

What experience do you or your organisation have to successfully develop this project?

Living on a small island since 1977, I remember wind-up phones, morse code and telex, the excitement in 1981 of phone and fax, space-age reality of a satellite dish, gleaming stark white among glossy green banana leaves and coconut trees.

Suitably impressed, us islanders grabbed hold of email to avoid ruinously expensive toll calls, us$3 a minute at one stage.

Similar patterns are emerging for adoption of web2 approaches to all sorts of
social issues, including corruption and mismanagement.

Going online with my news agency from 2004, I learnt how to work around internet access issues with a third-world approach to www wonderful-whatever- works!

Early web2 advocacy helped plant seeds that emerged this year as the region’s first successful media forums, the Pacific Freedom Forum and Pacific Islands Journalism Online, assisting also with similar efforts for a public news blog from PIMA, an Auckland-based NGO, the Pacific Islands Media Association (New Zealand).

How is your idea innovative; new or different from what already exists?

Not just innovative, globally transformative, always, by favouring low-tech information over high-tech processes. Every time an information-first approach; technology a distant second.

By getting back-to-basics with mainstream webmail, TTT establishes an ethics² administrative overlay, offering immediate scalability. In the same way online networks now refer to the need for cloud or even swarm computing, TTT provides ‘virtual’ capacity, on whatever scale, when and where needed.

TTT also:

• serves as a back-up for existing good governance approaches, providing raw
  RSS feeds for monthly accounts and annual audits.
• user friendly, promoting awareness that anyone can freely create their
  own transparency tools.
  

Another innovation takes TTT advocates through next phase certification processes, the first free, the second and third outlining techniques and transformations required to gain a full TTT credit.

An early example of these tools in action can be found at my agency’s transparency blog, avaiki nius featuring email alerts auto-published from my own personal bank account.

Another draft ethics² example, updates traditional curriculum vitae concepts, founding as curriculum veritas.

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jason brown - curriculum veritas

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CURRICULUM VERITAS:

Evolving from generally accepted practice in curriculum vitae, this curriculum veritas presents a paradigm shift in personal and professional transparency.

Curriculum veritas provides real-time, real-world accountability, for real people.

Still in beta or draft mode as a proven concept, curriculum veritas is on record, here, as a world-wide first.

WORKING DRAFT:

What follows is a live, working draft of the founding example of the world's first public curriculum veritas.

Earlier discussion of this concept establishes intellectual copyright to public application of this concept, registering under trust laws of Aotearoa.

Subsequent private approaches to this concept are already established, and will be monitored by this agency.  

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CURRICULUM VERITAS | JASON BROWN

LAST NAME:
Brown

MIDDLE NAMES:
(none)

FIRST NAME:
Jason

DATE OF BIRTH
15th September 1965

INTERESTS
Walking, cycling, paddling, photography, driving.

CONTACTS
phone: +649 8292086
fax: +6497169552
e-mail: avaiki.nius@gmail.com
postal:
project jpk
tagata pasifika
TVNZ
100 victoria street west
auckland
aotearoa, new zealand

SERO STATUS
negative, as at 2006 - long overdue for another test!

HEALTH

Sickness beneficiary since August 2006,

ESTIMATED TOTAL PERSONAL DEBTS
us$120,000
as at 15 September 2008

PERSONAL CREDIT RATING
Poor.

PERSONAL DEBT BY COUNTRY
Cook Islands
New Zealand

PERSONAL STATUS

Divorced.
  

CAREER LOWLIGHTS

1982: first job threats from cabinet ministers
1983: off work, glandular fever 

1986: sacked by Sir Thomas Davis administration for "naughty" Stories
1988: failure of bid for privatisation of Cook Islands News
1989: public relations for Cook Islands Government
....

1997: failure to gain any aid funding
1998: commercial failure of Cook Islands Press
1999: failure of Cook Islands Media Council...

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

1982: First story, on impacts of Space Invader games on youth
1986: Sacked by Sir Thomas Davis administration for "naughty" stories!
1988: Te Kuki Airani, campaign newspaper, expose mafia links
1990: Chauffer, Media and Government Relations, Forum, Rarotonga
1991: Exclusive expose Avaiki Air crash, CITV1992: Advocating for Maori-first news, Te Rongo Veka, CITV
1994: Founding member Cook Islands Journalists Association, code of ethics
1995: Expose of us$1.1 billion Letters of Guarantee, Cook Islands Press
1995: Leading role in public petition against Media Standards Bill
1996: Freedom of Information Award, PINA, Cook Islands Press
1996: Press Attache to Atlanta Olympics, team Cook Islands - Go Green!
1997: Exclusive coverage of Cyclone Martin, Manihiki, Cook Islands
1997: Founding role in Cook Islands Media Association
1997: Founding role in Cook Islands Media Council
1997: exposed amendment to remove high-court oversight for permanent residents
1998: Cook Islands media achieves unique public confidence, parliamentary review
...
2002: Information Assistant, Pacific Islands AIDS Foundation, Barcelona
...
2004: Avaiki Nius Agency launches online.
2006: 'malestreaming' intern, Pacific Women's Bureau, SPC
2006: Women in Politics, Rarotonga
2006: sole pacific islands media contributor to parliamentary review, Australia
2007: Australia aid strategy review tick for sustained public broadcasting
2008: Australia announces in-house programme for sustained public broadcasting
2009: to be advised.
2019: to be confirmed.

LINKS:

curriculum vitae | jason brown
Foreign aid in Pacific media education: Panacea or Pandora’s box? in PDF, ctrl+f > avaiki 

MTC

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