Senate Committee Public Seminar, Regulation of BBS's, 4 Apr, Canberra

[Tom Worthington]

         Select Committee on Community Standards Relevant to the 
          Supply of Services Utilising Electronic Technologies

        Public Seminar on the Regulation of Bulletin Board Systems

       4 April 1995, Committee Room 2S3, Parliament House, Canberra

Chairperson to make opening statement.

9:30am	Mr Roger Clarke, Reader in Information Systems, Department of Commerce, 
Australian National University - to provide an introduction to the 
terminology, an explanation of the technology and provide an overview of the 
policy issues.

10:15am	Attorney-General's Department/Department of Communications and the 
Arts - description of the Government's Task Force Report on Regulation of 
Computer Bulletin Board Systems and subsequent developments.

10:45am	Mr Alan B. Wakley, Pacific Area Director of Public Affairs, Church of 
Jesus Christ of latter-day Saints (Australian representative of the 
Religious Alliance Against Pornography) - to provide the perspective of a 
community group and to discuss international developments.

11:30am	Mr Tom Worthington, Director of the Community Affairs Board, 
Australian Computer Society - discussion of the response of the Joint Task 
Force on Freedom in Cyberspace (a joint task force of the Australian 
Computer Society and Electronic Frontiers Australia)  to the proposals of 
the Government's task force.

12:15pm	AARnet - Mr Peter Saalmans, General Manager and Mr Geoff Huston, 
Network Manager (also Secretary of the Internet Society) - to provide 
comment on the options for regulation from its perspective.

1:00pm	 Lunch

2:00pm	Internet Industry Association of Australia - Mr. Geoff Slater, 
co-founder. - to provide comment on the options for regulation from its 
perspective.

2:45pm	 Panel discussion.

4:00pm	Conclusion. Chairperson to summarise proceedings.

As at cob, 23 March 1995

Michael McLean, Acting Secretary, Parliament House, Canberra, ACT 2600
Fax: +61 6 2775809

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Posted as a community service by Tom Worthington, Director of the Community 
Affairs Board, Australian Computer Society Inc., G.P.O. Box 446, Canberra 
A.C.T. 2601, Australia
E-mail: tomw@acslink.net.au	Home page: http://www.acslink.net.au/~tomw/

ps: I invite members of the networking community to discuss the issues in the 
ACS & EFA's newsgroups: AUS.ORG.ACS & AUS.ORG.EFA