IRC

Internet Reality Check

5:30pm Friday, 7 August 1998

Board Room, National Press Club, Canberra

Topic: E-Govenment - Build or Buy?

Special Guest: Marghanita da Cruz, Ramin Communications

How do you maintain a successful online strategy for government? Buying in services can help when testing new technical innovations or gathering market intelligence to create short and long term objectives. A successful online strategy requires a blend of organisational input and technical competence, where can external consultants and producers contribute and how do you know when they are doing a good job.

Marghanita da Cruz is Principal Consultant of Ramin Communications, an independent consultancy. She will be presenting Build or Buy? in Sydney, Tuesday 11 August 1998 as part of the one day Connecting Government forum for Internet World 98.

How does the modern public sector manager work within the rapid pace of change with the Internet to fulfil the requirements of effective government? How, when and where are government services delivered in cyberspace? Marghanita da Cruz and Australia's leading Internet thinkers (and probably a few technocrats) to discuss the issues.

IRCs are free (but you have to buy your own drinks and one for the special guest) and open to anyone interested: just turn up. Internet Reality Check (not to be confused with Internet Relay Chat) is designed so that members of the 'net community can meet and exchange the small amount of very important information which is not suitable for digital transmission. ;-)