[LINK] Public Sphere #1 High Bandwidth for Australia Live from Canberra
Tom Worthington
Tom.Worthington at tomw.net.au
Thu May 7 09:20:05 AEST 2009
Greetings from "Public Sphere #1 - High Bandwidth for Australia". This
is happening in the famous room N101 at the ANU College of Engineering
and Computer Science in Canberra and online, via Twitter #publicsphere
and Video streaming. I am speaking about broadband and social media to
combat climate change shortly.
Links in my Blog:
http://www.tomw.net.au/blog/2009/05/public-sphere-1-high-bandwidth-for.html
Schedule
Pre-recorded sessions marked with an *
* 0830 Coffee at the Purple Pickle next door to venue
* 0900 Introduction and comments - Senator Lundy
* 0910 The ‘unexplored country’ we will be entering with high speed
broadband - Craig Thomler. Presentation slides.
* 0920 Green ICT - Tom Worthington. Presentation slides
* 0930 Building a Smarter Planet - what is happening in the digital
world to build a digital economy and the imperative that we harness
technology to position Australia for the challenges it is facing -
Judy Anderson (IBM)
* 0940 Opportunities for online collaboration over long distances
with high speed broadband * - James Purser. Presentation video file,
on Youtube and presentation slides.
* 1000 Public empowerment through public engagement with government
at all levels - Stephen Collins. Presentation Paper.
* 1010 Citizen engagement and community participation online: The
Canadian experience - Michael De Percy. Presentation slides.
* 1020 Government service delivery in the new contexts of (a)
broadband, (b) highly diverse access devices, (c) highly diverse
patterns of use, and (d) highly diverse human needs - Roger Clarke.
Presentation paper.
* 1030 Short coffee break
* 1040 Rural and regional accessibility in regard to accessing
agricultural and environmental information for those working on
research and on-ground change - Nerida Hart
* 1050 Personal Publishing, Archival and the Consequences of
Upstream (bandwidth) - Jeff Waugh
* 1100 Online video publishing possibilities and technology needs -
Dr Silvia Pfeiffer
* 1110 Privacy and filtering * - David Vaile
* 1120 The successfully rollout of FTTH in an Australian regional
town and how it expands towns with populations of a few hundred, to
hundreds of thounsands. Also the economic modeling required - Adrian
Blake
* 1130 High Bandwidth - getting things done: particularly in respect
to dealing with complex real world problems, emergency management
and dealing with skills shortages. This is relevant to both the
commercial and community sectors - James Dellow
* 1140 Brief presentation on perspectives put forward on the blog
for comment - Pia Waugh
* 1155 Thanks and close of event
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Tom Worthington FACS HLM
PO Box 13, Belconnen ACT 2617, Australia
http://www.tomw.net.au
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