I thought I would put down a few thoughts and links while I am at the Broadband Futures Forum….it’s day two and having heard from Premier of Tasmania, David Bartlett. If you want to get an insight into how the speech was recieved, check out the twitter feed.
By the way, you can view all of the plenary session speakers presentations. These links will take you to the video of their speech and if they gave a slide presentation, you can get a .pdf of it. More presentations will be posted as the forum draws to an end.
If you haven’t already, please have a look through or contribute to the forum ‘wiki’, where you can submit comments in any of the streams. A few people have told me that picking the right stream for the general comments or comments they think are relevant to more than one or all is hard. My advice is pick one, and just say in your comment that there are other streams it may be relevant too 
Incredible feedback from Remote nodes too! Thankyou to everyone who made a terrific effort and persisted so we could get the benefit of your insights and experience. I am looking forward to reading the contributions in detail and blog some more about it…. All of the remote node input has now been incorporated in the Forum wiki. We used a temporary wiki to collate the remote nodes input so we could see it altogether and demonstrate the value of the remote nodes. I will post more about this next week…
If what people are hoping comes to pass, this forum will inspire myriad spin off events to follow up on the great work that has been done here collaboratively, between people online and people in the room: there is a really positive feeling!
Finally here is just one pic from the forum….. there will be more to come
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Hi Kate,
When you make further blog entries on the forum, could you give us a big of an insight as to why, despite apparently being a key election promise for the Labor party, its commitment to implement a mandatory ISP-level internet filtering scheme was not mentioned? Surely this would have been an appropriate time for Senator Conroy to announce the results of the live trials of ISP-level filtering conducted several months ago. Indeed, I find the silence on the issue even more odd in light of the implications it has for the NBN, and that concerns regarding it topped, by a substantial margin, several categories of the ‘Open to Ideas’ page. Has the policy been shelved?
Hi Amy,
Basically the Realising our Broadband Future was about building good case studies and understanding about future uses of and business models for high speed bandwidth. The filtering concern was brought up by a few participants, however it was clear that it wasn’t the right forum for that discussion, particularly given the report hasn’t been released yet. As it was the forum had fantastic input from all around the country on different use cases and business models and the outcomes were extremely good.
We understand the concerns, however at this stage we all need to wait for the outcomes of the report. The mentions and voting on the open to ideas page was certainly noticed.
Cheers,
Pia Waugh
Office of Senator Kate Lundy
Thanks for the reply, it’s good to see Kate’s office is keeping an eye on the filtering.
I am somewhat worried that the report isn’t even available internally in the ALP though, given there’s word that non-government organisations are getting personal briefings already.
Conroy is fast eroding my trust in the current government with the games he seems to be playing.