FttH Applications Roundtable with Paul Budde and Industry Experts - Wednesday 28th May 2008
And FttH Applications Work Group Industry Dinner 27th May
The debate around e-health and e-learning took a very interesting turn at the Fibre-to-the Home (FttH) industry meeting with the Minister on 6 March.
At this meeting The Hon Stephen Conroy, Australian Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, urged the industry, several times, to put maximum effort into e-health and e-learning developments as key applications over the new National Broadband Network.
While many of our leaders fully understand their benefits, to date it has not been possible to use the concept of new fibre networks as an ICT tool to address problems such as home-care, HD video consults, training, remote diagnostics, etc.
In consultation with the Minister de industry decided to start a plan of action on how best to lobby, inform and educate related Federal Departments, State Government and Local Councils.
The Minister's office has pledged to assist us in making contact with advisors and bureaucrats who are critical in this process. The aim of the FttH Applications Workgroup is to canvass these key people, and enunciate clearly that the NBN can be an excellent tool to solve contemporary problems in their own domain. The NBN will enhance, and in some cases, facilitate the projects that they each administer.
Through the NBN/ICT approach we hope to highlight applications which immediately lend themselves to an NBN model, and thereby allow those involved to score some early wins in championing that model.
Paul Budde
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GENDA
09.30 – 10.00 |
Arrival and coffee |
10.00 – 10.30 |
Welcome and introduction of delegates Paul Budde |
10.30 – 11.00 |
FttH Applications are needed for new NBN Chris Worrad – MD Consultel and Chairman FttH Applications Group |
11.00 – 11.30 |
Morning coffee |
11.30 – 11.50 |
Key FttH Application #1 – E-Health Professor Branko Celler, Professor in Systems & Control, UNSW School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications |
11.50 – 12.10 |
Key FttH Application #2 – E-Education - Fibreing up Schools Dr Evan Arthur - Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations |
12.30 – 13.30 |
Light lunch |
13.30 – 13.50 |
Reframing the Sustainability Challenge - Knowledge, Information and Collaboration Martin Stewart-Weeks - Director, Public Sector (Asia-Pacific) Internet Business Solutions Group, Cisco - Cisco |
13.50 – 14.10 |
Key FttH Application #4 - Entertainment and Media Pippa Leary - Managing Director, Media, Fairfax Digital |
14.10 – 14.40 |
Afternoon coffee |
14.40 – 16.30 |
Roundtable Discussion |
16.30 |
Close |
E-Health and E-Learning Forum
We will use the Roundtable in the afternoon for an E-health and E-learning Forum.
As Minister Conroy has personally told us, it is essential that we start looking at these applications in relation to the National Broadband Network. We have his support in exploring ways to make this happen and the FttH Application Group is working on a submission for that purpose.
I believe that the main issue is end-to-end independent network access for telemetry-type IP applications, such as video monitoring of patients and older people (video nursing), as well as diagnostic functions. In Japan over a dozen medical diagnostics are performed over their broadband networks.
It should be possible to stream a range of e-learning programs to both classrooms and homes.
In order for these applications to take off on the NBN a utility-type access regime is required.
If health and education authorities were forced to use the infrastructure under the current regulatory conditions the costs of providing these services could double.
At the Roundtable we will explore your ideas and suggestions in support of the use of the NBN for e-health and e-learning purposes.
Paul Budde
Presentation Outlines:
Dr Evan Arthur - Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations
Evan Arthur will outline the approach which the Australian Government is taking to implementing its election commitment for a Digital Education Revolution. He will set out the general strategy behind the implementation approach, briefly describe where the roll out of computer hardware is up to and identify the crucial role which fibre to the premises connections to schools will need to play. The presentation will contain an overview of current fibre connections to Australian schools and will set out the methodology which the Government will employ to roll out its commitment to provide fibre connections to Australian schools.
Pippa Leary - Managing Director, Media, Fairfax Digital
Pippa is going to discuss how from a digital media perspective broadband changes everything. The availability of cheaper broadband has seen a direct rise in the amount of video content consumed online. This particularly affects Fairfax Media - a company that has traditionally relayed news stories through text and static pictures. We have seen an explosive increase in the demand for "motion media" that is changing not only how we organize our newsrooms but how we present stories "interactively". These tendencies are even more marked in the younger generations - and in order to "future proof" Fairfax and ensure that we have a place in the media cycle of the future we are making substantial changes in our current organization.
Martin Stewart-Weeks - Director, Public Sector (Asia-Pacific), Internet Business Solutions Group, Cisco
The ability to create, store, share and use knowledge quickly, easily and safely is at the heart of the sustainability challenge. If we are going to imagine new ways to tackle the problems we face and innovate the solutions that will make a difference, we need to get much better at the way we connect people, ideas and resources. Suddenly, collaboration has moved from the edge to the centre as a critical capability in our search for social, economic and environmental sustainability.
But even more importantly, the type of information and knowledge we need to create and share – distributed, experiential, contextual and rapidly changing - demands a quantum leap in our ability to communicate and collaborate. This presentation will explore why we need to reframe the sustainability challenge in terms of the way we use information and knowledge and build the platforms and tools that dramatically improve our capacity to do that well.
Cost:
Roundtable:- $450 per person (excluding GST) – this includes morning/afternoon coffee and lunch
Pre-Dinner Drinks and Dinner: $175 per person (excluding GST)
Venue:
The Observatory Hotel, 89-113 Kent Street, Sydney
FttH Applications Workgroup Industry Dinner - Tuesday 27th May 2008 – the evening before the Roundtable
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