[LINK] NSW IT Ministers fight it out, 21 February, Sydney

[Tom Worthington]

This should be entertaining:

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PANEL DISCUSSION on NSW ICT for 2007 State Election: Building 
Prosperity through ICT
Sydney, 21 February 2007, 5.30pm - 7.30pm 
<http://www.acs.org.au/index.cfm?action=event&temID=eventdetails&eveID=1889>

As the professional association for the Australian ICT sector, the 
ACS wishes to raise the level of attention and focus given to 
technology issues amongst Government policy-makers. ...

Moderator: Mr Peter Roberts, Managing Editor of BRW

Panellists:

* The Hon. John Della Bosca, Minister for Commerce, Minister for 
Finance and Minister for Industrial relations (Labor)
* The Hon. Gregory Stephen Pearce, Shadow Minister for 
Infrastructure, Shadow Minister for Housing and Shadow Minister for 
Commerce (Liberal)
* Prof Roy Green, Dean of the Macquarie Graduate School of Management (MGSM)

Questions for the panel, by 14 February 2007, to: 
donna.burridge(a)nsw.acs.org.au
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For my take on IT industry policy see "Building Arcadia: Emulating 
Cambridge's High Technology Success" <http://www.tomw.net.au/nt/arcadia.html>.

I applied some of these ideas when helping the Australian Technology 
Park in Sydney, with their web site and "ATP Discussion Forums" in 
2004/5. But my impression is that NSW trails behind Queensland and 
Victoria when it comes to state IT industry policy.



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