The Australian Computer Society has organised an 2010 Federal Election Forum at the National Press Club in Canberra, from 1 to 2pm AEST, 10 August 2010. This will be live on Sky News and YouTube. You can comment via the ACS Blog, or Twitter using the tag #ITElectionForum.
The forum will feature Senator Stephen Conroy, Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy (Labour Party), Tony Smith MP, Shadow Minister (Liberal Party) and Senator Scott Ludlam (Greens ICT spokesperson). Issues to be discussed include the Digital Economy, High Speed Broadband, Professional certification, ICT Skills, and no doubt Internet censorship. More details in my blog at: <http://blog.tomw.net.au/2010/08/election-ict-policy-forum.html>. -- Tom Worthington FACS CP HLM, TomW Communications Pty Ltd. t: 0419496150 PO Box 13, Belconnen ACT 2617, Australia http://www.tomw.net.au Adjunct Senior Lecturer, School of Computer Science, The Australian National University http://cs.anu.edu.au/courses/COMP7310/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
