A community vision of the Internet
Or: War Comes to Mallacoota
by Tom Worthington, President of the Australian Computer Society
Tuesday 16 July 1996, Canberra, at the Seminar:
INTERNET OPPORTUNITIES FOR AGRICULTURAL PROFESSIONALS
Contents
< Vision for a Networked Nation
>
- ACS submission on Infobhan
- Written in 1994 by Roger Clarke and myself
- Australians would have easy, low cost access to on-line facilities
- Make the Internet an ordinary tool for people to use
- Much achieved, much to do
< War comes to Mallacoota >
- Exercise KANGAROO 95
- Top End of Australia July to August 1995
- 17,000 ADF troops
- Reports and photos transmitted by satellite to ADFA
< What about Farmer Brown? >
< Lots of information already on-line >
< More information will be on-line >
- Various Government and non-Government initiatives
- IMSC-TG draft report
< Australia & global information industry >
< See also >
