[LINK] CFP: eDependency

Kim Holburn kim at holburn.net
Fri Nov 12 22:19:47 AEDT 2010


Bled - awesome.
http://www.google.com/images?q=bled

On 2010/Nov/12, at 2:03 PM, Roger Clarke wrote:

> The annual eConference in Bled (Slovenia) is here:
> http://www.bledconference.org/index.php/eConference/2011

....

> Many corporations and government agencies are now heavily dependent 
> on IT, and have no fallback mechanism available in the event of 
> unavailability for an extended period of the Internet, of the 
> corporate network, or even of the electricity supply.  This has given 
> rise to the notion of Critical Information Infrastructure.


It's not just IT though is it? :

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1024833/Nine-meals-anarchy--Britain-facing-real-food-crisis.html

> Nine meals from anarchy - how Britain is facing a very real food crisis 
> 
> By Rosie Boycott
> Last updated at 1:41 AM on 07th June 2008
> 
> The phrase 'nine meals from anarchy' sounds more like the title of a bad Hollywood movie than any genuine threat.
> 
> But that was the expression coined by Lord Cameron of Dillington, a farmer who was the first head of the Countryside Agency  -  the quango set up by Tony Blair in the days when he pretended to care about the countryside  -  to describe just how perilous Britain's food supply actually is. 
> 


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