Background
RACS has been established as part of a project funded by the National
Office of the Information Economy (NOIE) to provide inputs from
the Australian Civil Society into the World Summit on the Information
Society (WSIS – http://www.itu.int/wsis). RACS has developed
a position paper for submission to WSIS 2003 from meetings with
stakeholders in Canberra and Melbourne and from electronic inputs
from various stakeholder groups.
Appended below is the draft program for the RACS
workshop/meeting to be held at Rydges Resort in Caloundra. The meeting
follows on from the ITiRA conference and you can register for this
at http://www.itira.cqu.edu.au. There is no registration cost for
the RACS workshop/meeting for RACS members and catering will be
provided.
Would you please advise Desleigh Brook (d.brook@cqu.edu.au) of
your attendance so that we can finalise catering.
Roundtable for Australian Civil Society (RACS)
Caloundra 17-18 December - Rydges Resort
DRAFT PROGRAM
17 December |
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| 12 noon - 1:30 pm |
Lunch |
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| 1:30 - 3:30 pm |
Plenary on
WSIS in Geneva 9-12 December |
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Panel:
NOIE – Peter Huta/Ann Marie Landsdowne
RACS – Dr Wal Taylor
CYDN – Mr Sebastian Jake
FDC – Mr Stuart Mathison
IAMCR – Professor Frank Morgan
AusAID- tba |
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| 3:30 – 3:45 pm |
Afternoon Tea |
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| 3:45 – 5:45 pm |
Plenary
on Civil Society as a construct for participation and
engagement |
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Panel:
Duncan McIntyre and Mary Gorman - NOIE
Beris Gwynne – FDC
Michael Hogan/Diane Jeans - Premiers Dept (QLD)
Bev Lauder, Qld Manager, FACS
Professor Don Schauder (CCNR, Monash)
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| 6:30 pm |
Dinner |
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18 December |
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| 8:30 – 12:30 pm |
Planning the way ahead
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| 12:30 – 1:30 |
Lunch |
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Commentators for all Sessions: |
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Prof Michael Gurstein (NJIT, USA; CIRN) and Dr Peter Day (Brighton,
UK; CIRN) |
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For further details contact:
Dr Wal Taylor
COIN Internet Academy
Faculty of Informatics and Communication
Central Queensland University
Rockhampton, AUSTRALIA
email: w.taylor@cqu.edu.au
