Andrew Rixon of Babelfish Group has been running free webinars working up to his Strategic Planning for Managers and Consultants program. After reading the key text for each webinar I have drawn up cartoons that can be used to illustrate some of the ideas in each webinar. Here are a few….
What happens if the ABS (Australian Bureau of Statistics) doesn’t have statistics for your town? Have you ceased to exist?
Read the id Blog to find out the answer, and more.
.id is ‘a company of population experts – demographers, spatial analysts, urban planners, forecasters, census data and IT experts who build demographic information products for Australia & New Zealand‘.
From a cartoonist’s point of view, using ‘tailor made’ cartoons to highlight many of their blog posts, .id recognises the value of cartoon illustrations to catch the eye and give a fun take on quite serious information.
‘Hole in the wall’ is a project begun by Indian researcher Sugata Mitra in 1999, to inspire curiosity and working together in children around the world. By putting an internet-connected PC in a hole in a wall in a slum in New Delhi the researchers saw slum kids playing with the computer, exploring websites, learning English – and teaching each other. 13 years of study on the nature of self-organised learning has earned Sugata Mitra the first ever $1,000,000 TED Prize award. Read more on the Pro Bono news website.
This news story inspired today’s Kneebone cartoon on the Pro Bono website…
Australia is heading for an election … in seven months time.
Mission Australia’s chief executive says the ‘welfare system is broken and is limping along in a dire state’, on the Pro Bono website.
Don’t hold your breath….
Here is a cartoon originally drawn during the ‘Show me the change’ conference for community organisations. It has been revived for use with RMIT University’s Better Evaluation project.
Hans T from Germany is a cartoon fan and is writing to cartoonists around the world hoping to get back a signed ‘pig-ture’, he and his wife being collectors of pig cartoons.
Here’s my attempt….
id Informed Decisions are the Australian and New Zealand ‘population experts’ providing demographic profiling and forecasting: ‘We believe that by making demographic information accessible to the broadest possible audience, and promoting evidence-based decision making, we are contributing to a fairer and more sustainable society’.
Their id blog has many observations drawn from a range of data. A prime source of data being the 2011 Australian Census.
Here are some of the small graphics drawn for a number of the blog posts.
The coffee economy
2012 review
Grim reaper
Economic modelling
Frank Fisher, who died earlier this year, was an inspiration to many people, an environmental educator committed to ‘social transformation to a more sensitive self-aware world’. Among other things he was professor in the National Centre for Sustainability, Swinburn University of Technology, Melbourne.
Frank established The Understandascope in 2005, the name coming from cartoonist Michael Leunig’s cartoon. It was relaunched this year as a website www.understandascope.org – to continue Frank Fisher’s vision of ‘a more circumspect, humble and considerate society, increasingly sensitive and responsive to the consequences of our actions upon each other and the rest of nature’.
The Understandascope has launched an ebook Everyday Transcendence: the influence of Frank Fisher. Discover Frank Fisher and a link to download the ebook here.
Frank Fisher was a committed cyclist. Here is one cartoon from the ebook.
November’s New Internationalist is out. This issue tackles Medicine and ‘inequality’s toxic effect on health and healthcare’. However, with the US election only days away my Scratchy Lines cartoon took a look at how electing our representatives works …
Simon Kneebone - cartoonist and illustrator 