I probably won’t be at ALIA Information Online 2009 today. I’ve got other work commitments. If that changes, I’ll announce it on my Twitter stream.
Conroy’s speech to ALIA Information Online 2009
Senator Stephen Conroy, Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, opened the Information Online 2009 conference this morning. Here’s the full text of his speech.
You can also grab the PDF file, should you want to print it neatly on paper. (Why?)
Personally, I was surprised at how defensive Conroy sounded about the Internet filter — his Rabbit-Proof Firewall, as I call it. I mentioned this in the live blog. But then again, librarians are supporters of open, non-judgemental access to information for all. Perhaps he perceived them as a hostile audience. And he would have been conscious that this was his first speaking engagement for 2009.
Here, then, the full text, as provided by the Minister’s office…
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Live Blog: ALIA Information Online 2009, Day 1
Senator Stephen Conroy is apparently opening today’s proceedings of Information Online 2009, a 3-day conference in Sydney organise by the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA). I’ll be live blogging some of the proceedings here.
I’ll start my live blog at about 9am Sydney time — in just under two and a half hours — on this page. See you then!
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