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ENGAGEMENT THROUGH ICT

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Monday 15 August
S05 ENGAGING COMMUNITIES THROUGH ICT I
Chair: Naida Tattersall Library Services & Cultural Development Branch, Gold Coast City Council, Bundall, Australia
Room: M2
10.40am Websites Facilitating Community Engagement? The Case of the Birmingham City Council Ian Goodwin Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand
11.00am From the Ground up to the Top Down: Local E-Democracy in the UK Holly Robertson Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, Kingston upon Thames, UK
11.20am OcCo – On Line Counselling Client Outcomes Debra Beattie CIRAC/QUT, Brisbane, Australia
11.40am Building up the Bush: An Asset Based Approach to Creating Sustainable Online Access Centres Leanne Wood & Lloyd Lacey Department of Communities, Brisbane, Australia & Melinda Stockwell Queensland Working Women’s Service, Atherton, Australia
S13 ENGAGING YOUNG PEOPLE THROUGH ICT
Chair: Anita Hicks Public Trust Office, Brisbane, Australia
Room: P5
10.40am Online Communities of Interest for Youth Participation Damian Lewis Queensland University of Technology, Kelvin Grove, Australia
11.00am Logan Youth Working Title Production Fran Mitchell Spiral ARTS, Brisbane, Australia & Yarran Johnston Random Outburst, 101FM, Brisbane, Australia & Leila Giaron Making Places, Woodridge State High School, Brisbane, Australia & Jennifer Thanke RDA Program, Loganlea State High School, Brisbane, Australia & Krystle Lee Playgroup, Loganlea State High School, Brisbane, Australia
11.20am Creating Communities: Social Inclusion and Entrepreneurship Through Young People’s Arts and Media Practices Geraldine Bloustien University of South Australia, Magill, Australia
11.40am Engagement Through Creativity: Youth Internet Radio Network Project Tanya Notley Queensland University of Technology, Kelvin Grove, Australia
S31 MAJOR PANEL – BUILDING TRUST AND ENGAGING THE CITIZEN – IMPLICATIONS FOR E-DEMOCRACY PROUDLY SUPPORTED BY THE AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT INFORMATION MANAGEMENT OFFICE
Chair: Meredith Edwards Adjunct Professor – National Institute for Governance, University of Canberra, Australia
Room: GH3/Door 9
  Martin Stewart-Weeks Cisco Systems, Sydney, Australia
  Stephen Coleman Oxford Internet Institute, Oxford, United Kingdom
  Guido Bertucci United Nations Division for Public Administration and Development Management, New York, USA
  Ann Steward Australian Government Information Management Office (AGIMO), Canberra, Australia
S37 ENGAGING COMMUNITIES THROUGH ICT II
Chair: Patrick Bishop Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia
Room: M5&6
4.30pm Creating a Citizen-Friendly City Hall: An Evaluation of the Chattanooga Initiative John Thomas Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA
4.50pm Managing Mountains of Input Allison Hendricks Darzin Software, Lindfield, Australia & Carla Rogers NSW Department of Environment and Conservation, Parks and Wildlife Division, Narooma, Australia
5.10pm Is Good Service a Cornerstone to Good Government? Jane King Smart Service Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

Tuesday 16 August
S58 COMMUNITIES & ICT
Chair: Patrick Bishop Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia
Room: PTR
11.30am The Emerging Role of Civil Society in the Global Information Society – Australian Engagement in the WSIS Process Wallace Taylor Cape Peninsula University of Technolgy, Cape Town, South Africa & Don Schauder Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
11.50am Communities Online: Next Generation Online Community Technologies and How They Can be Used to: Build Social Capital, Restore Natural Capital and Enable Sustainable Development Rolf Von Behrens Australian National Sustainability Initiative, Canberra, Australia
12.10pm Community ICT Transformation: Next Steps Peter Huta & Danielle Farrow Commonwealth Department of Communications, IT and the Arts, Canberra, Australia
S67 ENGAGING COMMUNITIES THROUGH ICT III
Chair: Valentina Lozano Brisbane, Australia
Room: P1
2.20pm Animating Communities and Bringing Learning to Life – The Multi-award Winning MARVIN System, DHCS & the MARVIN Consortium J Easterby-Wood & Jaysin Jones Northern Territory Department of Health and Community Services, Casuarina, Australia
2.40pm A Technological Framework to Support Digital Repatriation Programs Jane Hunter Distributed Systems Technology Centre, Brisbane, Australia
3.00pm Technology and the Resurgence of the Australian Peace Movement Damian Trewhella International Conflict Resolution Centre, Melbourne, Australia

Wednesday 17 August
S95 ENGAGING PEOPLE THROUGH ICT NETWORKS
Chair: Jane King Queensland Dept of Communities, Brisbane, Australia
Room: M2
11.00am Connecting Island Communities: the Emerging “Pacific Telecentre Community” Stuart Mathison Foundation for Development Cooperation, Brisbane Adelaide St, Australia
11.20am Making Connections: A Capacity Building Approach to Health and Well Being Lyn Simpson Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
11.40am It Takes a Community to Bridge a Divide: Fostering Digital Inclusion through Community Technology Learning Centres Roger Boot The Smith Family, Sydney, Australia
12.00pm Enhancing Communities through Ubiquitous Networking Milton Purcell NEC Business Solutions, Brisbane, Australia
 S101 E-DEMOCRACY
Chair: Dianne Jeans Queensland Dept of Communities, Brisbane, Australia
Room: P3
11.00am Engaging Communities Online – A Queensland Perspective Fergus Hogarth Queensland Department of Communities, Brisbane, Australia
11.20am E-Democracy and Public Participation: A Global Overview of Policy and Activity John Gammack & Michelle Barker Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia
11.40am From E-Government to Online Deliberative Democracy Terry Flew Creative Industries Faculty, Queensland University of Technology, Kelvin Grove, Australia & Graham Young The National Forum
12.00pm New Information Technologies in the Service of Global Governance Evika Karamagioli Access to democracy, Athens, Greece
S111 ENGAGING COMMUNITIES: DIGITAL DIVIDE
Chair: Peter Huta Australian Department Of Communications, Information Technology and The Arts, Canberra, Australia
Room: M2
1.30pm Promotion of the Technology Transfer Network for Small and Medium Scale Enterprises in the Asia Pacific Region Rajeev Vijh United Nations Asian & Pacific Centre for Transfer of Technology (UN APCTT), New Delhi, India
1.50pm Bridging the Digital Divide, Engaging Communities through Cross Sector Collaboration Anthony Lupi Positive Outcomes, Petersham, Australia & John Winters Cisco Systems, Brisbane, Australia
2.10pm E-Governance: E-State in Iran: Administrative Reform Plan Ahmadreza Ashrafologhalaei Management and Planning Organization (MPO), Bureau for Economic Studies and International Cooperation, Tehran, Iran
2.30pm E-Governance in Nepal Atma Ram Ghimire High Level Commission for Information Technology, Kathmandu, Nepal