Green ICT
Our first EdXN series for 2008, “Green ICT" - with Professor Robin Eckermann,
touches on one of the hottest topics in ICT right now – just how ICT
can help make a positive contribution toward environmental
sustainability. Canberra
5 February 2008, Melbourne 26 February 2008, Sydney, 31 March 2008, Brisbane 5 March 2008, Adelaide 26th March, Gold Coast Qld 6th March. Talk by Tom Worthington: Bunbury WA 16th April, Perth 15th April.
Robin Eckermann has been a passionate advocate for the socio-economic benefits offered by broadband for some 15 years now. However, only in recent years has the threat of climate change come onto the radar as one of the most serious threats ever to face humanity. Having three grandchildren has sensitised him to the responsibility of the current generation to become better custodians of the planet.
Robin Eckermann has been a passionate advocate for the socio-economic benefits offered by broadband for some 15 years now. However, only in recent years has the threat of climate change come onto the radar as one of the most serious threats ever to face humanity. Having three grandchildren has sensitised him to the responsibility of the current generation to become better custodians of the planet.
In this presentation and
discussion, Robin will start by summarising the threats that are posed
by climate change, and the recommendations of the world's leading
scientists in terms of the action that needs to be taken to avert the
most serious of consequences. Changing lifestyles and applying
technology figure prominently in these recommendations.
Robin
will then take an entertaining look at the way in which broadband has
begun changing lifestyles - leading into a discussion about the state
of Australia's network infrastructure and the major investment
challenges that lie ahead if Australians are to have access to the best
that technology can offer.
To bring the two themes of the talk together, Robin will look at some of the ways in which broadband and ICT more generally can be exploited to help address the challenges posed by climate change - featuring ideas presented by the winners of the Telecommunication Society's "Broadband for Environmental Sustainability" Challenge in 2007. It is hoped that this challenge will be repeated in 2008.
Robin Eckermann
After more than 20 years as an IT professional, Robin Eckermann discovered broadband in the early 90's and became convinced that the world sat on the threshold of a communications revolution that would transform the way that people would work and live. From 1996 he led the establishment of what became recognised as one of Australia's most advanced broadband initiatives - TransACT's fibre-to-the-kerb network - delivering triple play services (phone, video and data) to tens of thousands of users in Canberra since 2000. More recently, he has been involved in leading-edge broadband infrastructure developments (especially fibre-to-the-building) throughout Australia and abroad. Robin has been an Adjunct Professor in network & communications technologies, business models and project management at the University of Canberra since 2005. He is a popular speaker on all matters relating to broadband.
Biography:
Tom Worthington (For WA Presentations)
Tom Worthington is a consulting ICT Professional who represents his clients interests with software engineers, hardware suppliers, contractors and other suppliers engaged on a computer project. He is an Adjunct Senior Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology at the Australian National University where he teaches the design of web sites, e-commerce and professional ethics and in 1999, was elected a Fellow of the Australian Computer Society for his contribution to the development of a public internet policy. Tom is the founding chair of the ACS Green ICT Group, past president, Fellow and Honorary Life Member of the Australian Computer Society, a voting member of the Association for Computing Machinery and a member of the Institute of Elecrical and Electronics Engineers.
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