Topic: Green ICT Sustainable Future for Australia 2020
Speaker: Tom Worthington, Adjunct Senior Lecturer, ANU Computer Science Department and Char of the ACS Green Technology Group
Venue:
Department of Education Employment and Workplace Relations,
16 Mort St, Braddon, Canberra
Date:
Wednesday 23 April 2008
Time:
12.30pm
Event Prices: Free (but registration essential).
Registration: At the ACS Events System
Summary
The Australian Government is holding the
Australia 2020 Summit at Parliament House on 17 April 2008. One
thousand Australians have been invited to help with a long term
strategy for the Australia's future.
How can ICT be used to help with an economically and environmentally sustainable future, in the face of falling stock markets and rising sea levels?
About the Speaker
Tom Worthington
is Chair of the ACS Green ICT Sig. He recently presented on Carbon Neutral Computing in the ACS Education Across the Nation series and co-chaired the Open 2020 Summit (one of the Australian Government's local 2020 Summites).
Tom is a consulting ICT professional, to government and industry. He has been an expert witness in several court cases involving international patent, computer, web and Internet issues. Tom is a 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. In 1999 he was elected a Fellow of the Australian Computer Society for his contribution to the development of public Internet policy.
Tom is a 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 Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
About ACS Green IT
The ICT Environmental Sustainability Group ("Green IT") brings together professionals interested in balancing economic and environmental aspects of information technology and telecommunications. It is a special interest group of the Australian Computer Society. The group aims to hold joint meetings with other professional bodies interested in technology, the environment and sustainability. Sign up now to get updates on ICT and the environment.