Abstract
Around the world, governments, funding agencies and corporations are working out ways to leverage more effective collaboration. Whether it is solving the fundamental questions of the origins of the universe; investigating the key remedies to address climate change; predicting natural disasters and extreme weather events and implementing mitigation that can save lives and reduce damage, or how to maximise the return on investment from new collaborative infrastructure for innovation - none of these can any longer be undertaken by any one group, country or even
continent.
The Internet is now being used for things it was never designed to do, with many consequential impacts. There are a number of (coordinated) initiatives looking at what might replace it.
More innovation is now being undertaken in industry, commerce and business. There is a whole new set of drivers associated with the massive uptake of social networking and a level of global participation on a scale never before experienced, and not so long ago was never anticipated.
The telecommunications sector, which underpins much of the current innovation, continues to change rapidly, with massive uptake of mobile web2 services, at speeds of 10's of Mbps per user, likely to be key drivers for new services and business models. More new and upgraded
undersea cable capacity will be deployed in the next 3 years than in the entire life to date of the telecommunications industry.
This presentation will cover various aspects and impacts of collaborative infrastructure initiatives, particularly intercontinental ones, and cover actual or potential Australian involvement. as well as some examples involving Australian innovation.
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Bio
A chemist and crystallographer by training, George McLaughlin drifted into computing and then networking by being in the wrong place at the wrong time. He lead AARNet from 1997, overseeing the sale of the
commercial customer base to Telstra, AARNet's incorporation as a company limited by the shareholding of its university and CSIRO members, and
positioned it as a lean-staffed company with a highly respected international reputation for innovation in advanced communications and services.
He is a former recipient of the Sir Ernest Fisk and the ATUG Chairman's awards for services to the Australian Telecommunications Industry. He served on Richard Alston's Broadband Advisory Group; is a board member of the International Education Equal Access Foundation (IEEAF); and has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
He has been Vice Chair of APAN (the Asia Pacific Advanced Network) since 2003. In 2006 he parted company with AARNet and now holds several roles including assisting the European Commission with developing an Applications and Collaboration Framework for the Trans-Eurasian Information Network. (TEIN2) and leads feasibility study into the potential for expanding the next phase of TEIN to cover the countries of South Asia.
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