The Australian Department of Broadband, Communications, and the Digital Economy is holding a forum called Realising Our Broadband Future; We congratulate the government on taking a proactive democratic approach to the issue and involving many thinkers and doers in the process.

Everyone in Australia and many oversees will be affected by the NBN rollout and consequential policy and ideas, this is an event not to be missed if you have anything to add.

Multiple locations

The conference will be held in Sydney, with video streaming to multiple locations around the nation; discussion will be held in remote groups and contributions will be made to a wiki.

Speakers

Senator, the Hon. Stephen Conroy

Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy

Senator Kate Lundy

Vinton G. Cerf

Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist Google

Jeffrey Cole

Director USC Annenberg School

Five streams of discussion

After various keynotes and discussions, from people from organisations such as Google, and ICANN the will divide into five groups

Smart infrastructure

Digital Education

e-Community

e-Health

e-Business

Once again the website is http://broadbandfuture.gov.au, if you can’t make it to Sydney, sign up to one near you.