IRC

Internet Reality Check

5 to 7pm Drinks on Friday 1 November 1996

Kurra's Bar - Hotel Kurrajong

Topic: World Wide Wealth?

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1. Dr. Bernard Robertson-Dunn, our Special Guest, sporting an ACS Cap
2. Eric Wainwright, IMSC Chair & Commodore Shackleton, Director General Information Management
3. John Larocque, SMS & John Langmore MP, Member for Fraser
4. Interactions (the band)
5. Tom Worthington, ACS President
6. Lynnette Taylor, testing pager to phone data transmission

Internet Reality Check (not to be confused with Internet Relay Chat) is designed so that members of the 'net community can meet and exchange the small amount of very important information which is not suitable for digital transmission. ;-)

Topic:

World Wide Wealth?

Special Guest: Dr. Bernard Robertson-Dunn, Azimuth Consultants Australia Pty & member of the IT R&D Working Party

How can we make money out of the Web? A question many people have been asking. The question for this IRC is the broader one of how our economy (in Canberra, Australia and the World) can benefit from use of the web. Will a few countries and companies gain all the benefit and reduce the rest of us to web consumers, or can the benefits be more widely distributed? What do our researchers, our governments, our companies and ourselves have to do to make this happen?

Background:

• Audio recordings of sessions at Interact96 from Wired Audio.
• Call for Broader Representation on Government Information Committees, ACS, 25 October 1996
• W3C Conference Day, 23 October 1996, Roger Clarke
• Discipline Research Strategy for Information Technology, AATSE

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See also:

• IRC Home Page

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By Tom Worthington.

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