[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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