Courses and Education
- Blended Learning: Using a Learning Management System Live in the Classroom, for the ANU Linking Research and Teaching Swap Shop,
24th October 2008
- Educating ICT Professionals on Energy Efficiency
, for the Symposium on Sustainability of the Internet and ICT, 25 November 2008, University of Melbourne
- Teaching Web Accessibility at an Australian University
, for the Web Accessibility Forum 2007, Canberra, 11 April 2007
- Online Education and Training Technologies
, for the Australian Institute of Management NSW & ACT, Sydney, 23 January 2007
- Professional ethics and the World Wide Web, for "Internet, Intranet, and Document Systems" (COMP3400/COMP6340) students, The Australian National University, 2007
- Website Design, For Information Technology
Professionals, for "Internet, Intranet, and Document Systems"
(COMP3400/COMP6340) students, The Australian National University, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004,
2005, 2006/2007 and
2008
- Metadata for E-commerce, first presented for Computing 3410 Students, The Australian National University, 25 July 2000, revised: 2001, 2003, 2004 and 2005 and 2006.
- Professional ethics and computer
systems, For the ANU Perspectives on Computing (COMP1200), 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, and May 2003).
- Changing geographies of space and information -
An unreliable history of the web, For the course Resources,
Environment and Society (SRES1001), ANU School of Resources, Environment
and Society, 12 March 2002, Canberra.
- An unreliable history of the Internet, 26
April 2004 and 6 May 2002 for Perspectives on
Computing (COMP1200), ANU
- Internet Education and The Potential for
Teaching, for the launch of the book "Digital Hemlock: Internet
Education and The Poisoning Of Teaching" by TARA BRABAZON, Sydney, 11
November 2002
- The Eighteen Character Problem: Metadata,
Electronic Document Management and the Digital Library for
E-commerce, for Computing 3410 Students, The Australian National
University, 24 July 2000
- Re-engineering
IT Education, Seminar, Australian National University, 13 May
1998
- (editor) Qualified for
Success - IT Higher Education in Australia , Communiqué from
the National Council of the Australian Computer Society, 28 March
1998
Communications Technologies
Digital Broadcasting
- ScreenACT Newsletter, web log (blog)
edition of the newsletter of the ACT Government Office of Film,
Television and Digital Media, October 2005
- DIY Movies On Demand , For Beyond The
Internet, Symposium, ANU, 8 September 2003
- Metadata: the 'killer application' for digital
broadcasting?, for the Australian Broadcasting Authority 2002 Conference "What Will
Australian Audiences Want?", 29-30 April 2002, Canberra.
- New Broadcast Technology, Broadcast World
2002, Wednesday 27th February 2002, Sydney. Also available at BROADCASTPAPERS.COM.
Extended version for Faculty
of Information Technology, University of Technology, Sydney, 28th
February 2002. Revised for ACT
Filmmakers' Network seminar 6 March 2002.
- Internet-TV Convergence with the Multimedia
Home Platform, Communications Research Forum, 26 September 2001: Text and Media
Release
E-Government
- Wireless Internet for Emergencies, For the Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute, Bogazici University, Turkey, 15:30 23 May 2008
Preview at MobileMonday Global Summit, 17:00 19 May 2008, WCIT2008, Kuala Lumpur
- Emergency Web Page Design for Local Government, June 2007
- Management of Electronic Records in the Australian Government, 18 October 2006
- ICT Skills in the Australian Public Service, 3 October 2006
- Australian e-Government Guide
: e-government strategy to 2010, Secure Telecommunications, ICT Staff, Online Service Point, Authentication Framework and Emerging Technology, 22 June 2006
- Australian Government Smart Card Project, 16 June 2006
- Access to Government On-line,
speaking notes for an appearance before the Inquiry into Electronic
Democracy by the Scrutiny of Acts and Regulations Committee, Parliament
of Victoria, in Canberra, 1 March 2005
- The E-Government Revolution Yet to
Come, Seminar for the Centre for Public Policy, University of
Melbourne, 19 November 2003
- Establishment and Platform for an E-government System and its Security,
Presentation for a delegation from the Ministry of Information
Industry, November and Zhejiang Provincial
Government Information Development of P.R. China, Canberra, October 2003.
- Policy, Politics & The Web: Same Old
Democracy!, A response to the presentation "Policy, Politics &
The Web - A New Democracy? Technology v Culture", by Victor Perton MP,
Victorian Shadow Minister for Technology & Innovation, Digital
publics debate, 6 December 2002, Melbourne
- Internet
Payments for Government Agencies, Consultancy for the Government
Business Entry Point, May 2000
- (Chair) Connecting Government Forum,
Internet World Australia 2000, 8 June 2000, Sydney
- Commentary on Payment and Billing
Systems, ICA Sydney Seminar, 12 July 2000, Sydney
- World
Tour of Government Online, for Internet World 98, 11 August 1998,
Sydney
- Connecting
Government, Co-Chair's Welcoming Remarks, 11 August 1998, Sydney
- Overview ,
Whole-of-Australian-Government Search Architecture, Presented at VALA98 , 28
January 1998, RMIT Multimedia
Database Systems Group, 26 March 1998, Department of Computer Science,
Australian National University, 15 July 1998 & 24 July 1998, Sydney,
Australian Oceanographic Data
Centre
- Future
Directions in Electronic Service Delivery in the Public Sector , AIC
Public Sector IT Conference, 25 May 1998
- (Project Working Party Member): FEDLINK
Overview: Whole of Government Secure Intranet, The
Australian Federal Government Network & Applications Project ,
Seminar at ADFA, 19 March 1998
- Implications
Of The Internet For Government, 10th National Technology in
Government Conference, Canberra, presented 18 March 1997
- Internet in Government (Presentation ), AUUG ACT Conference 1995
- (Committee Member): Whole-of-Australian-Government Search Architecture
Report , Search Engine
Working Group (SEWG) of the Commonwealth Government Technology and
Telecommunications Committee (GTTC), January 1998
IT Innovation
- Enterprise Systems: Build or Buy is No Longer the Question, for the Division of Information (DoI), Australian National University, 2:20pm August 1 2006
- IT Industry Attraction Project: Information
Technology Enterprise in the Great Southern Region of Western
Australia, an IT Industry Consultancy for the Great Southern Region
Development Commission, 8 December 2000
- Building High Technology Success in
Australia, Submission for the Innovation Summit, 19 August 1999
- Information Technology and the Rural
Sector, Seminar on 'The bush Telegraph for The 21st Century', by the
NSW Liberal Party, 31 July 1999.
- Building
Arcadia- Emulating Cambridge's High Technology Industry Success in
Australia, 7 November 1998
- Guide
to the IT Research Strategy Draft Report, 10 August 1997
- (Project Steering Committee Member): Discipline Research Strategy for
Information Technology, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences
and Engineering, 8 August 1997
IT Policy and Professional
Practice
- A Watershed for the Networked Organisation, For the CIO City Summit, Sydney, 6 February 2008
- Making Information Professionals Accessible, For Web Adaptability for Inclusion Conference 2007, Melbourne, 7 December 2007
- Locating Tasmania in the Global Information Economy, For the ACS Tasmanian Branch, Hobart, Tasmania, 5.30 pm,12 September 2007
- The
accidental expert witness, Information Age, IDG, December 2005
- Ethics and the IT Professional, For a
University of Canberra, Information Sciences and Engineering Seminar, 13
May 2005
- Free as in Software, For the talk by
Richard Stallman on "The Free Software Movement and the GNU/Linux
Operating System", 13 October 2004
- Making The Internet Ordinary, A demonstration of
low cost videoconferencing, for the Third National Local Government
Online Demonstration Conference, 11 September 2003, Melbourne.
- Internet Mobility - A report from the
Internet Global Summit, Canberra, Department of Computer Science
Seminar, Wed, June 20, 2001 4:00 pm to 5:00pm, Room N101, CSIT Building
[108], Australian National University
- Exploring Australia's IT Landscape,
Keynote Address for the Third Australian IT Directors' Summit, 1pm 6 July
2001, Hyatt Regency, Coolum, Australia
- B2B-or-not-B2B? IT Strategies for
Surviving Recession, Workshop for the Third Australian IT Directors'
Summit, 6 to 8 July 2001, Hyatt Regency, Coolum, Australia
- e-Commerce for Small Business,
seminar sponsored by the Business Entry Point in association with
Queanbeyan Business Enterprise Centre, 21 May 2001, Queanbeyan, NSW
- The Network Becomes the Library: The need for
Supportability, for ALIA2000,
Australian Library and Information Association 6th Biennial Conference,
Canberra, 25 October 2000
- Electronic Futures in the 21st Century,
IIM 2000 Global Information in the 21st Century Conference, 1.30pm Monday
15th May 2000, Melbourne Convention Centre
- The Internet - Revolution through
Evolution, for Councils, Communities and the IT Revolution
Conference, 13 December 1999, Brisbane
- Building Project Team for Web
Development, Government Online 99, 10 November 1999, Sydney
(Reprinted in "Projects and Profits", Volume 111:9, September 2003, ICFAI
Press, URL: http://www.icfaipress.org/newpress/903/pp.asp)
- Outsourcing the management of information
systems and utilising industry expertise, Developing and Implementing
Profitable Government Strategies for Trading on the Internet Conference,
16 June 1999, Canberra
- Report
on the 1998 Information Industry Outlook Conference , 18 November
1998, ANU
- Internet in
Outsourcing , AIC Outsourcing Government IT Conference, 9 December
1997
- The
Professional's view of IT Outsourcing, Keynote Address, Canberra
Branch 1997 ACS Conference, 1 November 1997
- (Editor): Outsourcing
and contracting out of IT products and services , ACS Paper, 6 August
1997
Electronic Document Management, E-Publishing and E-Commerce
- Enterprise 2.0 Providing Solutions to Wider Business Needs, for Enterprise 2.0: Collaborative Web 2.0 into your organisation, Sydney, 3 December 2007
- Web advertising on Mobile Phones, 26 September 2007. Notes for the seminar "Google Ads on Mobile Phones: Accessibility, Standards and Implementation", Australian National University, Canberra, 15 October 2007
- Tag Clouds, 18 May 2007
- Google Apps, 30 May 2007
- Making money from Web Publishing with XML Technology, For Australian Computer Society (ACS) National Young Professional Conference 2007, Melbourne, 19 April 2007
- Quality e-Publishing Support for the ICT Profession: Open Access Publishing with The Open Journal System, For the ACS Software Quality Assurance Sig, 18 October 2006, Australian National University, Canberra
- ACS Publishing, 25 September 2006, For the ACPHIS Workshop 2006, Canberra
- e-Publishing Support for the ICT Profession, 18 October 2006, For the ACS Software Quality Assurance Sig, Canberra
- Electronic publishing for Editors, 25 October 2006, For the Canberra Society of Editors
- Online Selling with Amazon.Com, 20 February 2007
- Web advertising with Google AdWords, 4 April 2006
- Web advertising with Google AdSense, 1 April 2006
- Computers in the Courtroom, February 2006
- (Editor) Electronic
Commerce: Net Benefit for Australia?, Proceedings of the 1998
Information Industry Outlook Conference, 7 November 1998, ISBN
0909925720
- XML and Office data , Open Publish 2003,
Sydney, 29 July 2003
- XML for Skeptics: An Introduction to XML
Technologies, for ACS Canberra Branch meeting, 21 May 2003
- Quick Evaluation of MS-Word 11 XML
Features, for ACS Canberra Branch meeting, 21 May 2003
- XML for Skeptics: An Introduction to XML
Technologies, 21 May 2003
- Quick Evaluation of MS-Word 11 XML
Features, 21 May 2003
- Who is this Web Site From? , 29
December 2002
- Documents or databases? Making sense of
developments in eBusiness, eCommerce, ePublishing and eLaw, Canberra,
4 December 2002.
- The Power of Data , For Enterprise Data
Management , 23 July 2002, Sydney
- Metadata
management in New Zealand, Business Entry Point News, Department of
Industry, Tourism and Resources, Issue 4, February 2002
- YXML? - Why the Extensible Markup
Language?, 3 August 2000. Published in Information Age magazine, September
2000 with a Revised version YXML? - What is
wrong with PDF? for Open Publish 2001 , 31 July 2001, Sydney
- Metadata for E-commerce, first presented for Computing 3410 Students, The Australian National University, 25 July 2000, revised: 2001, 2003, 2004 and 2005 and 2006.
- Tips and Traps With Electronic Presentation
Tools for Computing
1900 Students , The Australian National University
- The Internet for Information Professionals - Back
to Basics, for the DAMA 1998 National Conference ,
Canberra, 23 October 1998
- New
Technologies in Information Management, AIC Electronic Document
Management 1998 Conference, 29 June 1998
- Using
the Internet and Intranets to Expedite Business Solutions , AIC
Insight'98 Symposium, 26 February 1998
- Information
Professions Working Together, VALA 1998 Biennial Conference,
Wednesday 28 January 1998, Melbourne
- How
the Internet and Intranets Help Expedite Business Document Solutions
, AIC Integrated Document & Workflow Management Systems Conference,
12 December 1997
- Seminar on
International Metadata Developments, 6 March 1997
- (Committee Member): Architecture
For Access To Government Information , Information Management
Steering Committee Technical Group, Office of Government Information
Technology, 1996
- (Committee Chair): Improving
Electronic Document Management: Guidelines for Australian Government
Agencies, Office of Government Information Technology, 1995
- Avoiding Litter on the Information
Superhighway: Electronic Document Management in Australian Government
Agencies, Playing for Keeps Conference, Australian Archives, Canberra
1994 (proceedings 1995)
- (Committee Chair): Pocket Guide To The
Management Of Electronic Documents In The Australian Public Service ,
Information Exchange Steering Committee, 1995
- Management of Electronic Records ,Commonwealth Government
IT News, Vol 5. No. 1, January 1994
Information Technology
Social Policy
- The Personal Computer and Monitors Energy Efficiency Strategy, Report and Recommended Plan of Action,
prepared for the Department of Environment, Heritage and the Arts, Version 1.0, 23 September 2008.
- Green ICT Sustainable Future for Australia 2020, for the ACS Green IT Special Interest Group, 23 April 2008, Canberra
- Carbon Neutral Computing, for the ACS Education Across the Nation Series: Perth, 15 April and Bunbury, 16 April 2008, Western Australia
- Reducing Australia’s ICT Greenhouse Emissions and the Role of Labelling, for For Labelling Workshop - Computers and Monitors, Equipment Energy Efficiency (E3) Team, Department of Climate Change, Sydney, 8 February 2008
- Carbon Neutral Linux Computers, for ACS
Green IT Special Interest Group, 21 November 2007
- Understanding the need to reduce the IT carbon footprint, for Green IT, Sydney, 6 December 2007
- ICT for Reducing Australian Carbon Emissions: One Computer at a Time, for the UniSA/ACS “Greening Your IT Seminar”, Adelaide, South Australia, 12 November 2007
- Government services via the web in regional Australia,For the 4th Annual Web Content Management for Government, Canberra, 17 September 2007
- Reducing Australian ICT Carbon Emissions, For the Influence 2007 Forum, Hunter Valley, NSW, 9 September 2007
- Electronic Guantanamo Bay Cell, 2 May 2007
- Issues with the Australian Spam Act 2003, February 2006
- Home Technology Convergence, for the
Face the IT Media Forum 2004, 20 September 2004
- Technology for Competition in Broadband
Services (or "Never mind the bandwidth, feel the quality"),
Submission to the Australian Senate Inquiry into competition in broadband
services, November 2003
- The Most Interesting Woman in Canberra,
Introduction to a talk by Lynette Chiang, Author of "The Handsomest Man
in Cuba", ANU, Canberra, 6 August 2003
- Filtering
Porn on the Internet: Imperfect by Necessity, (Radio Talk Transcript,
Audio
also available), Perspective, Presented by Sandy McCutcheon, Producer
Keri Phillips, ABC Radio National, Friday 11 February 2003. Also Drafts
and discussion .
- Policy, Intellectual Property Rights,
Commercial Practices, Thursday 6 December 2001, Digital publics: a debate ,
Melbourne. A response to the presentation "Policy, Politics & The Web
- A New Democracy? Technology v Culture", by Victor Perton MP , Victorian
Shadow Minister for Technology & Innovation.
- Setting
Standards for the On-line Community, A Comment On The W3c Patent
Policy Framework Working Draft, 11 October 2001
- Socializing the Internet: University education
online: can it work?, forum on Connecting Society, 7th March 2001,
Canberra. Later draft published as Online
education requires more than technological innovation , 15 March
2001, On Line Opinion
journal
- The Politics of Bandwidth at Community Networking 99:
Engaging Regionalism Conference, 29 September 1999, University of
Ballarat
- Index Postings to the Link Mailing List from 1995
to 1999
- Review:
The Elsewhere Community, 23 Jan 1999
- Hot
Topics on Link in 1998, 31 December 1998, Link Mailing List
- Privacy
- a Public Good, Australian Communications, April 1998
- Learning,
Managing & Technology - Launch of the PAGE IT Management Program
, 3 December 1997
- Galileo play in Sydney parallels
Internet regulation debate?, Play Review, 9 June 1996
- (Director of the ACS Community Affairs Board): Submission on the Regulation of the Internet ,
Select Committee on Community Standards Relevant to the Supply of
Services Utilising Electronic Technologies, 21 September 1995
- Photos of Down by the Lake with Liz and Phil - A
sculpture by Greg Taylor, April 1995
- Submission on the Regulation of Bulletin Board
Systems,Australian Computer Society and Electronic Frontier's
Australia to the Select Committee on Community Standards Relevant to the
supply of Services Utilising Electronic Technologies, 30 March 1995
- Government and the
Internet ,Proceeding of the Workshop held on 22 November 1994, Public
Affairs Research Centre, University of Sydney, published May 1996
- (With R.
Clarke ): Vision for
a Networked Nation The Public Interest in Network Services ( Abstract ), ACS
submission to ASTEC Working Group on Research Data Networks, Broadband
Services Expert Group, Bulletin Boards Task Force, Senate Standing
Committee on Industry, Science, Technology, Transport, Communications and
Infrastructure, 17 May 1994
- Submission to the Chief Censor on the Regulation of Computer
Games and Computer Software ,Australian Computer Society, 19 July
1993
- Avoiding 60's
Regulations for 90's Technology, Australian Computer Society
Submission to the Senate Select Committee on Subscription Television
Services,25 August 1992
- Discussion Paper on Telecommunications in the
Draft ACT Territory Plan ,Australian Computer Society, 19 March
1992
Accessibility and User Interfaces
- Adapting web pages for the Apple iPhone, 7 July 2007
- eCensus: Australian Bureau of Statistics Web Based Population Census Form, 11 August 2006
- Adapting web pages for Smartphones, PDAs and Ultra-Mobile PCs, 16 May 2006
- (Editor) Universal Service? -
Telecommunications Policy In Australia and People with Disabilities,
by Michael J Bourk, 2000, ISBN 0646391593
- Accessibility Report on Australian
Government Web Pages, 4 December 2001
- Macromedia Accessibility Solutions for
Australia, a consultancy for Macromedia Inc. - Australia & New
Zealand, 30 November 2001
- Making Accessibility Accessible , for Open
Publish Asia Pacific 2002, 30 July 2002, Sydney
- What comes first? The Design or the
Technology For Internet World Australia 2001, Sydney, Thursday, 19
July 2001.
- Smart Apartment Design Project for
University of Canberra interior design students, second semester 2001
- Issues in the Wireless Internet , For The
Art and Science of Computing (COMP2800/COMP3800) students, 2 April
2001
- Scholarly Communications System Prototype
Proposal, Proposed Project Topic For Honours, Department of Computer
Science, the Australian National University, 14 November 2000
- Not Just Text: Making the Web Accessible, 6
September 2000
- Olympic Failure: A Case for Making the Web
Accessible, for RNIB 1 June 2001,
London, INET 2001: Internet
Society Conference, 8 June 2001, Stockholm. Original version , 20 October 2000, Oxford
University Computing Laboratory, UK
- Complaint Between Maguire and SOCOG - Statement
of Tom Worthington, Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, 8
August 2000
- Designing a Graphical User Interface for
an Australian database product: background to the development of DBQ
Windows, ACS Canberra Branch Newsletter, April 1994
- The Client - Server Model Applied to the User Interface,
ACS Canberra Branch Newsletter,April 1991
Canberra
General IT
- Net Traveller - Exploring the Networked
Nation (book), ACS 1999, Edition 2, ISBN 0909925771 (Edition 1, 21 July 1999
was ISBN 0909925747). Electronic
Edition: ISBN: EB00011118
- The Future of IT: What's next? , 23 July
2002, Sydney, Australia
- The World Will Go Wireless , Notes for ACS
Branch Forum 2001, 28 February 2001, Canberra
- Internet Publication Marketing Strategies,
Australian Computer Society, Canberra, 19 April 2000 (Previews to the
University of Canberra Senior Staff, 17 March & ANU Engineering
students, 30 March)
- Re-engineering the ACS Journal, Launch
Presentation, 17 April 2000
- Ethics For Program Builders , For the ANU
Construction of Program Systems course (COMP2031 &
ENGN2003), first presented 19 May 1999
- IT Professionals Need
to Learn from History, The Australian, Tuesday 27 April 1999
- Unix - The OS for all Seasons? ,ACS Canberra Branch
Newsletter, April 1992
- Proposal for Low Cost LAN Bridges:Part 3 , ACS Canberra
Branch Newsletter, June 1991
- Proposal for Low Cost LAN Bridges:Part 2 , ACS Canberra
Branch Newsletter, April 1991
- FaxMail: Proposal for an electronic mail Option to be Added to
CCITT Group 3 Facsimile Standard,ACS Canberra Branch Newsletter,
February 1991
- Proposal for Low Cost LAN Bridges:Part 1 , ACS Canberra
Branch Newsletter, February 1991
- Terminals on way out? Not by a long chalk, Computerworld,
2 February 1990
- What is the CASE against CASE? ,Computerworld, 8 September
1989
- The Mythical applications backlog ,Computerworld, 1
September 1989
- DTV is likely to change computertraining , Computerworld,
18 August 1989
- Mid range debate flares up ,Computerworld, 7 October
1988
- Super programmers not needed for Ada, Computerworld, 1
April 1988
- A Date with Ada in the year 2000 ,Computerworld, 6
November 1987
- What standard Ada has to offer ,Computerworld Government
Computer News Supplement, 13 October1987
- Suggestions for the Use of Bethesda* Programming Language in the
Australian Public Service ,Australian Computer Society Inc.
Canberra Branch Newsletter, April1987
- Proposal for an Australian software components Industry ,
Submission to the Industries assistance commission Enquiry into Computer
Hardware and Software, March1983
Presentations
- From Arcadia to Zeus: my first year on the
Web,Chair's Closing Address, ACS Canberra
Branch Conference, 13 May 1995
- Hi-tech Tourist on the European Information
Highway,ACS Canberra Branch Meeting, 21 July 1994
- ACS Code of Ethics , ACS virtual ethics
Symposium 1993
- NETIQUETTE: Road Rules for Australia's Data
Super-Highways, Address to the ACS Victorian Branch Lorne'94
Conference
- Ethics and network security , For the
ANUtech Internet for IT Professionals course, First presented 25 August
1995
- Defence
Web, Issues of Access to Public Records and Information via the
Defence Department's Internet information service, IPAA Conference
"Internet - Superhighway or Goat Track?", 26 February 1996, Canberra
Presentations as ACS Immediate
Past President 1998-99
1998
Presentations as ACS President
1996-97
1997
- Final Report - ACS President 1996-97 , 30
December 1997
- Learning,
Managing & Technology - Launch of the PAGE IT Management Program
, 3 December 1997
- Northern
Territory Visit, September 1997
- ACS President's Report to Council , September
1997
- ACS
Submission on Government IT Outsourcing to the Senate Finance and Public
Administration References Committee, 6 August 1997
- MSN broadcast 8 May (Starts 1
hour 49 minutes into recording )
- Five
Minute Tour of Australia for the opening of Interact 97, 16 July
1997
- Report on
Visit to ACS Victorian Branch, 16 May 1997
- Wake Up to 'Net
Benefits, ACS Tells Legislators, Media Release, 29 June 1997
- Visit to
South Australia, May 1997, 29 May 1997
- ACS Seeks Input for
Australian IT Research Strategy, 18 April 1997
- Canberra:
Cambridge or Thebes?, 12 April 1997
- To USS Blue
Ridge by Helicopter, 20 March 1997
- US Navy to Demonstrate
On-Board Systems to Web Warriors, ACS Media Release, Monday 31 March
1997
- ACS President's Report to Council , February
1997
- ACS
President's 1997 New Years Message to Members, 5 January 1997