[LINK] How far the fibre?

[Stephen Loosley]

At 11:39 AM 2/07/2007, Eric writes:

> On 2/7/07 11:16 AM, "Craig Sanders" <cas at taz.net.au> wrote:
>
>> if you asked the people living out there, they'd say they'd rather have
>> a hospital or a doctor .. even a nurse would be an improvement over
>> the nothing they have now.
>
> ..and not tele-medicine provided via fat broadband?  ;-)

Agreed .. and what about tele-education?

For example, today the Victorian Info-Tech Teachers Association
(VITTA) write: "The SiMERR project is a national project that seeks
to explore ways in which professional development materials can be
distributed to rural and regional areas. Our focus, VCE programming..

The web site: <http://simerr.vitta.org.au/index.html> At this site, you will
find six VB.Net Express Edition tutorials and their solutions – I am (also)
in the process of creating multimedia presentations working through each
of the programs step by step. These presentations are large in size but can
be downloaded & placed on your school network for your students to access."

And this VITTA computer-programming student resource is just today. Anyone
ever tried Blackboard over a dial-up account? As text books become rare what
chance a small school in upper WA will have such programming edu resources?

And why should our multi-million indigenous-art creators need to rely on the trendy
gallery owners of Toorak and Double Bay to sell their works, at 80% commissions?
There's gold in them thar hills .. both intellectually and materially... and broadband is
the key. Dial-up is too slow, satellite is too flakey (even in country Vic) so what's left?

Agreed satellite may need to replace the School of the Air for single out-back stations
otherwise imho Link should assert where there's phone & power there should be cable.

Cheers people
Stephen Loosley
Victoria, Australia