Hi all,
I thought this might potentially be of interest to SLUG members. Bjorn
Landfeldt, the speaker, was part of the team that conducted the feasibility
study into Internet filtering for the Howard government.
It will be streamed on the web.
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From: Andrew Lampert <andrew.lamp...@csiro.au>
Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 17:34:07 +1000 (EST)
To: Hail Seminars <hailsemin...@nsw.cmis.csiro.au>
Subject: HAIL Seminar (16th June): Associate Professor Bjorn Landfeldt,
University of Sydney
H.A.I.L. Seminar series
CSIRO ICT Centre
http://www.ict.csiro.au/HAIL/
Title: Do we simply accept the Australian Internet filtering scheme
or do we need to ask hard questions?
Speaker: Associate Professor Bjorn Landfeldt
School of Information Technologies
University of Sydney
Date: Tuesday 16th June 2009 at 11am
Location: CSIRO ICT Centre,
Building E6B, Macquarie University.
See <http://www.ict.csiro.au/HAIL/location.htm> for details.
Video: We usually stream live video of seminars.
At the seminar time (see above), point your browser at:
<http://webcast.nsw.csiro.au/httpfs/ICT/HailSeminar/live.asx>
Slides: http://www.ict.csiro.au/hail/Abstracts/2009/BjornLandfeldt.htm
Where possible, we make slides available prior to the seminar at the
above URL.
Abstract
The Australian government is currently planning to introduce mandatory Internet
content filtering. The move would clearly set Australia aside from all other
democratic nations in the world. The initial purpose of this scheme was to
protect Australian children from accessing unsuitable material such as child
pornography.
Even though there is widespread consensus in society that such material is
undesirable and potentially harmful, the issue of filtering is extremely
complicated and it is far from evident that the proposed scheme will achieve
its goal. In addition, over the past few months evidence has been presented
indicating that the side effects of such filtering could have severe negative
impact on society.
Associate Professor Bjorn Landfeldt was part of a team that studied the
feasibility of implementation of Internet filtering at the ISPs. The report was
commissioned by the Howard government and handed to the current minister in
charge of this issue, Senator Stephen Conroy.
In this talk, Professor Landfeldt will detail some of the major difficulties
associated with ISP level content filtering, some of the possible side effects
and discuss why such filtering may not be effective. He will also give examples
of the many difficult moral questions such filtering inevitably raises and
demonstrate the need for a comprehensive public debate an the issue before
legislation and implementation takes place.
Short resume
Professor Landfeldt was born and raised in Sweden where he studied electrical
engineering at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. In parallel with
his studies he also ran a communication systems consulting company. After
moving to Australia he completed a PhD in telecommunications at UNSW, before
moving back to Europe and working for Ericsson Research, Networks and Systems,
for 2 years. During his time with Ericsson, Professor Landfeldt worked on
system aspects of content adaptation and filtering, mainly in cellular
networks. He returned to Australia in 2001 as a CISCO Senior Lecturer in
Networking at University of Sydney. He has been with the University of Sydney
since then and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2008.
Professor Landfeldt has published over 80 publications in international
journals and conferences on different issues in computer networks and he also
holds over 10 patents in this area. He is also an associate editor for two
international journals, a frequent guest editor, technical program chair or
technical program member for international IEEE and ACM conferences and
symposia. He is also a frequently invited speaker to industry events.
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