[huridocs-tech] 5th Community Networking Conference (Melbourne, 3-5 July 2002)

Electronic Networks - Building Community
5th Community Networking Conference:
3-5 July, 2002, Melbourne

http://ccnr.net/2002/

Why attend?
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The confence has just featured in the Age and Sydney Morning
Herald and is a must is a must for anyone who is interested in
enriching communities through accessible electronic networking.
Previous conferences have been a feature of the electronic community
networking landscape in Australia since 1996.

There will be 70 presentations by Australian and international
speakers; preconference workshops; panel sessions; keynotes; and
social events.

Presentations at the conference include advocacy and political
action; ageing; community building, education, learning, and
community networking; disability; digital divide; government networks
for the community; indigenous and minority networking; library
networking; public policy; theory and small business; and technical
issues.


Where will be conference be held?
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The conference will be at Monash University Caulfield Campus,
Melbourne, Australia, hosted by the Centre for Community Networking
Research and the Conference Advisory Committee. Most
activities will take place in Building K on campus, to the right of
Building N on map. Also refer to map 68 (reference F1) in the
Melways street directory. There is also information on the
registration page about getting to the conference by public transport
(recommended).


Conference Program & Registration
---------------------------------

Please refer to the preliminary program and registration page
for information. Discounted registrations are available before May
22.


Conference Organisation
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The Conference is being organised by the Centre for Community
Networking Research (CCNR), a centre of the Enterprise
Information Research Group, Monash University, the Conference
Advisory Committee, and it is associated with the Global
Community Networking alliance - see www.globalcn2001.org.

Direct phone and registration inquires to Mediawise, e-mail: 
mediawise@vicnet.net.au
61 3 9818 6339 (John Myers), Fax + 61 3 9818 8575. 40 Morang Road Hawthorn, 
Victoria, 3122 Australia.


Preconference workshops

Preconference professional development workshops with a focus on the
needs of community organisations will be held on the morning of
Wednesday 3 July at the Conference Venue. They require separate
registration.

   * Workshop 1: Funding, Developing, and Implementing a Community
     Network Program (Ourcommunity.com.au & Infoxchange).
   * Workshop 2: Web Accessibility for Community Organisations (Vision
     Australia Foundation).
   * Workshop 3: Alberto Escudero-Pascual, IT-universitetet & Kungl
     Tekniska Högskolan/ Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden: Nora
     Wireless: Using open standards for community networking. This is
     being rescheduled for Wednesday afternoon and will take up two
     workshop sessions Information


Sponsors
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Major Sponsors

   * Commonwealth Department of Family and Community Services
   * Multimedia Victoria, State Government of Victoria
   * National Office for the Information Economy
   * TAFE Frontiers


Sponsors

   * Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University
   * Infoxchange
   * OurCommunity.Com.au
   * Telstra Consumer Consultative Council
   * Vision Australia Foundation
   * Vicnet

17 June, 2002.




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