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IT lecturers to advise world summit on information society

2 November 2005

Two Faculty of Information Technology staff will join the Australian government delegation to the United Nations Second World summit on the Information Society in Tunis, Tunisia, later this month.

Professor Don Schauder (left) and Dr Graeme Johanson.

Professor Don Schauder and Dr Graeme Johanson, as chairman and director of the Centre for Community Networking Research in the faculty, have been invited by the Australian government to take part in the week-long summit.

The pair will represent the views of Australian civil society on Internet governance and digital inclusion.

In 2003, the centre formed the Roundtable on Australian Civil Society to elicit the opinions of Australians about the impact of information and communications technologies on their lives.

The centre formulated a statement for the first World Summit in Geneva in 2003.

This year, with the help of the federal Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts, the centre consulted groups across the country to form a strategy for civil society input to the global discussions.

In Tunis, Professor Schauder and Dr Johanson will liaise with associates from other countries, attend official functions and participate in debates.