Internet Society of Australia
A Chapter of the Internet Society
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Minutes of Directors' Meeting 13 October 2003The meeting started at 5:45pm AEST on 13 October 2003 and took place by way of teleconference in accordance with the Articles of Association of the Society. 1. Hon Marsha Thomson, Minister for ICT & Small Business, Victoria Shaun Thomas accompanied the Minister from the Victorian office. Also in attendance for this section of the meeting were: Mark Gibson, Rob Cook & Liz Armstrong (DSTC Brisbane), Mark Needham (National Farmers Federation), Bruce Tonkin (Melbourne IT), Darryl Williamson (Smart Internet Technology CRC). The Minister addressed the following issues affecting ICT in Victoria. Broadband and access -------------------- There was some concern about the ad hoc way in which broadband was being implemented nationally and the lack of technical support available The Victorian broadband strategy has three parts: * Access to telcos and governments needs to happen before a strategy can be developed. There would appear to be no reliable information from the national government or Telstra. * There is a need to stimulate competition but this is difficult when there is no reliable data. A tender has gone out for the supply of government services which will benefit Vic Trac to make bandwidth available * There is a need for a national strategy to enable provision of infrastructure taking into account ways of maximising the use of new technologies Victoria is looking to aggregate government supply A broadband framework is being developed with special emphasis on health and education. Funding ------- $10m has been allocated for innovative solutions to kick start communities to become commercially viable. Results of programs will need to be publishable. $3m has already been spent. $15m has been made available for the innovative uses where money can be spent strategically. Priorities ---------- The Minister would like to see Federal priorities established to: * determine access needs and spending * form strategic partnerships (The Federal Government needs to talk with the States about filling the gaps instead of coming 'over the top.') * provide transparent information for communities * determine the value of content * encourage infrastructure competition with an understood methodology. Policy ------ Victoria has released a Government policy about using web-based services to open government services to the public via a gateway, called "Putting People in the Centre". Education will be aggregated with all government business. Darryl Williamson suggested the need for a national strategy to gain a better collective outcome and also that there was a need for good advice in relation to wireless networking. The Chair thanked the Minister for attending and her stimulating talk. Guests of the meeting then left with Directors remaining. 2. Attendance Attendance: Tony Hill (Chair), Kate Lance, Jeremy Malcolm, Cheryl Langdon-Orr, George Fong, Ross Kelso, Gunela Astbrink, Craig Ng, Narelle Clark, Gerry White. Apologies: Andrew McRae, Anne Greiner. 3. Minutes of previous meeting Moved Cheryl Seconded Craig: That the minutes of 22nd September be approved. CARRIED. 4. Actions arising from the minutes Cheryl Reciprocal membership with Australian Services Roundtable organised. Details to be sent to Kate Membership processing and invoices has been done. Unpaid invoices to be sent with AGM advice asap. Craig will help to do this. Relationship with IBM is pending George Martha Thomson has been organised to speak at the next meeting. Kate Membership card has been designed Organisational membership certificates have been sent to Cheryl CTF03 publicity information has been sent to Directors Narelle Future Leaders Forum notes have been distributed Craig: Assist Cheryl to send out AGM notices 5. Reports 5.1 Executive Director's report written report available. Presentations and papers from CTF Forum are being ported to website. 84 people attended Forum. Availability of online chat rooms discussed. Web form information will be sent to Cheryl. Moved Craig Seconded George CARRIED 5.2 Financial report Cheryl reported. Tony to follow up on Telstra sponsorship. Professional budget considered from CTF. Single sign-on account not yet set up. Moved Ross Seconded Craig CARRIED Vote of thanks moved to acknowledge Cheryl's extraordinary work in moving the accounts online with Bendigo Bank and making the financial operations simple and transparent. Moved Craig Seconded Gunela CARRIED 6. Membership Unpaid membership invoices to be sent out with AGM information. 7. Resolutions on notice None. 8. Discussion Meetings * Cheryl met with auDA on 13th October. * Cheryl and George attended auDA National Reference Group on 9th October to discuss geographic naming in DNS. * Latif Ladad, global ISOC chairman, consultations held in Melbourne on 23rd and Sydney on 24th September. * Kate is preparing for the consumer consultations in Perth for the 5th November and Broome for the 11th November. * Ross and Gunela interested in TCCC. * Tony will discuss attendance at Director's meetings with Anne. * Ewan may nominate for the Board. * A number of Directors term has expired and will need to renominate if they wish to continue. Process is proposer, seconder and signature of nominee on the distributed form. * Venue for the AGM will be Maddocks in Melbourne on Wednesday 10th December. * Selection of speakers discussed. 9. Any other business None. 10. Next meeting Meeting closed 7:00pm. Next meeting 10th November by teleconference at 5:45pm ESST. 11. Confirmation Signed as a correct and complete record of the above meeting. Tony Hill President, ISOC-AU