::fc-announce:: Seminar: Broadband Policy: Looking elsewhere Sept 1 2006

[Lisa Gye]

INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH LUNCHTIME SEMINARS 2006

September 1 477 Burwood Rd	1.00-200

Professor Trevor Barr

Broadband Policy: Looking elsewhere

Much attention has been given to the recent decision by Telstra not
to proceed with their fibre-to-the node broadband network. This
represents a serious breakdown of current telecommunications policy
and practice in Australia. Given that more and more of the things we
do
are likely to involve access to the Internet, the question arises as
to whether Australia is capable of building the necessary
communications infrastructure it needs for the future.

Out of frustration with the Australian scene, Professor Trevor Barr,
a Principal Investigator with the ARC Centre of Excellence for
Creative Industries and Innovation, decided to look elsewhere, at
countries that are successfully building high speed user centred
broadband networks for the future. His research has uncovered the
highly innovative Kenniswijk project in the Netherlands, and other
successful models.

Come and hear his take on where we are wrong at present and how we
might  successfully address one of the biggest national issues facing
Australia.

All welcome

Professor Denise Meredyth
Deputy Director
Institute for Social Research,
Swinburne University of Technology
447 Burwood Rd
Hawthorn 3122
ph 0392145738, mob 0410569393
Fax 03 9819 5349
http://www.sisr.net 


Lisa Gye
Lecturer in Media and Communications
Swinburne University of Technology
http://www.fibreculture.org/
http://halflives.adc.rmit.edu.au/
http://www.swin.edu.au/sbs/media/staff/gye/
Tel: +613 92148345
Fax: +613 98196443
Remembering is a malady for which forgetting is the cure - Georges
Perec



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