[LINK] Future of IT in the Australian Government

[Tom Worthington]

Greetings from the Australian Computer Society 2013 Canberra Conference 
at Old Parliament House in Canberra. The conference topic is "ICT 
Shaping Our World", but as always the topic of the ACS Canberra 
conferences is IT in the Australian Government and in organizations 
supporting government: 
http://www.acs.org.au/branches/canberra/2013Conference/conference-program

The conference comes at an interesting time for Canberra, with the 
public service adjusting to a new government which has an agenda to 
reduce cost by working in new ways. This is one of the few general 
computing conferences still run, which is not about a particular 
company's products or piece of software. This is a place to take the 
temperature of the IT industry and see what the trends are. It is also 
an opportunity for academia to report what they have been working on and 
is ready for transfer to the workplace. First speaker for the day is 
Nick Tate, President of the ACS, on big data and edible computers (a 
serious medical application). MOOCs at ANU also got a mention as part of 
the trend to on-line education.

The hashtag for the conference is "acscancon": 
https://twitter.com/search?q=%23acscancon&src=hash

I will be blogging during the day at: 
http://blog.tomw.net.au/search/label/ACS%20Canberra%20Conference

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