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NET TRAVELLER - Exploring the Networked Nation

By Tom Worthington

PUBLICATION DATE:
October 1999 (First published August 1999)
PRICE:
AU$24.95
FORMAT:
Paperback, 2nd ed., 167 pages, 32 Illustrations ISBN 0 909925 77 1
TOPICS:
Electronic commerce; Internet (Computer network).
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SYNOPSIS:
Come on a net journey through five years with one of Australia's most acclaimed Internet exponents. For business people, government policy makers, educators, or anyone who has struggled to understand how to use this powerful new communications tool. Learn: Why simple text, not multimedia, is the key to the 'net; How to run an organisation, or a country, on-line; Where the technology came from; How to log-on from a flagship or a hot air balloon. Or just relax, look at the photos and learn to live on-line.
AUTHOR BIO:
Tom Worthington is a Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University. An electronic business consultant, author and information technology professional. He established the first web home pages for the Defence Department, ACT Government, the Special Broadcasting Service and the National Press Club. Information Age magazine listed him as one of the 10 most influential IT&T people in Australia. In 1999 he was elected a Fellow of the Australian Computer Society for his contribution to the development of public Internet policy.
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
  1. Introduction
  2. Hi-Tech Tourist
  3. Vision: Networked Nation
  4. Web Reports from Exercise Kangaroo 95
  5. Hot Air Balloon Over Canberra
  6. The Networked Nation
  7. How to Read and Write E-mail
  8. USS Blue Ridge by Helicopter
  9. Privacy and The Public Good
  10. Cambridge Live
  11. Building Arcadia
  12. Postscript
  13. Appendix: The Cambridge Phenomenon

Royalties from this edition are donated to the charity, Technical Aid to the Disabled.

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