[LINK] Broadband technology for Western Australia

[Chirgwin, Richard]

Good point about approval procedures ... but why would the approval
procedure for the advertisement be easier/quicker/not transferable to the
Website? ... that would suggest someone still views the Web as somehow
"different" from publication.

RC

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Worthington [mailto:tom.worthington@tomw.net.au]
> Sent: Thursday, 5 September 2002 09:15
> To: Chirgwin, Richard; link@www.anu.edu.au
> Subject: RE: [LINK] Broadband technology for Western Australia
> Importance: Low
> 
> 
> At 10:45  3/09/02, Chirgwin, Richard wrote:
> >Tom - it's a good thing you sent this, because it hasn't yet 
> made it onto 
> >the SWDC's Website...
> 
> Yes, gone are the days when you could just copy something to 
> the corporate 
> web site. Now organisations have lots of (needed) approval 
> procedures. When 
> working as a consultant I obtain permission from the client's senor 
> executive to put a draft of material on my own site to bypass their 
> bureaucracy.
> 
> On the topic of IT industry in regional Australia, you might 
> not think much 
> would be happening IT-wise in a place next to Antarctica, but 
> all sorts of 
> interesting people and organisations pop up. As an example 
> when doing a 
> report for the Great Southern Region of Western Australia 
> (next to the 
> South West Region) I found they had a University of Western Australia 
> campus with wireless data and remote education (including 
> poetry reading by 
> video conference), as well as a factory making computer 
> controlled plasma 
> cutting machines for export around the world 
> <http://www.tomw.net.au/gsr>.
> 
> By coincidence the person now responsible for the network at 
> UWA is Alex 
> Reid, who's computer centre I gate crashed at Oxford 
> University in 1994: 
> http://www.tomw.net.au/nt/tourist.html#oxford
> 
> 
> 
> Tom Worthington FACS tom.worthington@tomw.net.au Ph: 0419 496150
> Director, Tomw Communications Pty Ltd ABN: 17 088 714 309
> http://www.tomw.net.au PO Box 13, Belconnen ACT 2617
> Visiting Fellow, Computer Science, Australian National University
> Publications Director & Past President, Australian Computer Society
> 
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