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From: Wal Taylor [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 22 September 2000 07:37
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: [CI]: An exciting conference in Australia after ICIS in
December
Get Smart 2000
Community Informatics for Regional Transformation
14-15 December, 2000,
Rockhampton, QLD, Australia
The second Get Smart Conference (the first took place in Rockhampton,
Australia, in November, 1999) will take place immediately AFTER the ICIS
and ACIS conferences in Brisbane (including the many conferences that are
affiliated with ICIS).
The location for the conference is Rockhampton which is on the Tropic of
Capricorn on the East Coast of Australia and is were the outback meets the
Great Barrier Reef. It is just an hour away by plane from Brisbane. The
conference will be organized around a series of invited lectures from
guest speakers who have special expertise in areas related to Community
Informatics, including:
* on-line communities
* telecentres
* teledemocracy
* telehealth
* community portals
* learning communities
The conference will be hosted by Central Queensland University and will be
accompanied with an exciting social program that will introduce delegates
and their partners to the many attractions of the Queensland region.
The Get Smart 2000 Conference will feature several international key-note
speakers, including, Royal D. Colle (Cornell), Jennifer Preece (University
of Maryland), Bijan Gillani (California State University), Paul, S. Licker
(University of Cape Town), and Dineh Davis (University of Hawaii). Other
presenters at the conference will be local and national experts in areas
related to Community Informatics.
All papers presented at the conference will be invited ones. Speakers will
be allocated between forty five minutes (for the key-note addresses) to
twenty minutes (to panel presenters), with ten to fifteen minutes reserved
for discussion with the audience. The last half an hour of each panel will
be dedicated to an open discussion with the audience.
All participants are invited to submit an outline for a presentation if
they wish to make one. Following the conference, presenters will be
invited to re-submit their FULL papers to be included in a book on On-line
Communities (forthcoming through Idea Publishing Group). The book will be
refereed and will include in addition to the conference papers, papers
solicited from other sources.
The format of the conference will be relaxed and informal, with lots of
opportunities for socialising and networking. The highlight of the social
program will be the conference dinner. It will be held at the Crocodile
Farm near Rockhampton. The dinner will be an opportunity for conference
delegates to inspect the crocodiles, enjoy crocodile meat delicacies (an
option only) and listen to an inspiring speech by the Crocodile Farm
owner, John Lever, who is one of the early pioneers of Electronic Commerce
in Queensland.
The conference will be concluded with a night at the Rockhampton Rodeo,
followed with a full day of tours to the Barrier Reef Islands or other
attractions of the Central Queensland Region. For more information to do
with registration, accommodation, etc, please see the conference web site
at <http://getsmart.cqu.edu.au/>
For more information about the conference please contact:
Cheryl Scott- Conference Secretary ([log in to unmask]
<mailto:[log in to unmask]>)
phone: +61-7-49306995
Wal Taylor - Conference coordinator ([log in to unmask]
<mailto:[log in to unmask]>)
phone: +61-7-49309472
Celia Romm - Conference Chair ([log in to unmask]
<mailto:[log in to unmask]>)
phone: +61-7-49309949
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