The Issues:
What happened to SET?
Will E-commerce simply deliver an Australian Market to the Internet?
Why isn't their an interest in Digital Signatures?
What will the Internet offer the Australian Citizen?
Is Government helping or hampering?
Australian IT needs to learn from our Agriculture and Medical sectors?
The Speakers:
Kalkman, ACS branch Chairman - what distinguishes an IT professional?
Carnell, Chief Minister of the ACT, - the CLEVER CAPITAL is well
positioned to provide telemedicine services to the surrounding region
and internationally.
Williamson, Information Industries Taskforce - Stocktake of Australia's
Information Industries.
Wilson, KPMG Certification Authority - PKAF has addressed Australia Card
privacy issues. Is Australia loosing its status in International PKAF
through the government's soft touch?
McCullagh, Gadens Lawyer - myriad of trust - Technical, Behavioural,
Product and legal.
Smith, Advantra - impassioned plea to fellow IT lovers, to embrace the
E-Commerce and influence the creation of an informed jurisdiction.
Jentzsch, University of Canberra - can SMEs with less than <499
employees afford the investment in IT & Infrastructure to reach a
marginal market.
Barnes E-Commerce, online sales of event tickets over the Internet,
worked for Bass Online.
Harvey, Deloites echoed the themes of the NOIE proposal for government
policy to sell Australia's language and cultural advantage to US film
makers as a location for competitively priced production!
Talty, Deputy Chair IO 98- two strawpoles of the audience showed low
penetration of digital signatures and equally low perceived need to
obtain one in the near future!
Kelso, CIRCIT - governments need to move beyond broad objectives to
substantial strategies with measurable outcomes to become accountable
for government investment in Multimedia.
Lundy, Shadow Minister for Sport & Youth Affairs, minister
assisting the shadow minister on IT issues -the government had a
responsibility to its citizens, not squander rare opportunities to
harness social progression from technological change.
Worthington, Chair IO99 suggested that Australia's IT industry needs to
learn from the Agricultural and Medical Research Communities and
Cambridge, UK's close links between academic and commercial sector, an
ethos of self confidence the promotion of culture as well as science.
Marghanita
-- Marghanita da Cruz Principal Consultant Ramin Communications http://www.ramin.com.au Tel: (+61) 0414-869202