Ken has 25 years? experience in broadband networks and applications, as well as telecoms technology from high-level R&D, through product commercialisation, to expert advice for field deployments. Much of this experience was gained from 1990-2005 when he worked at Telstra?s Research Laboratories in a wide variety of roles. He has authored over 30 journal articles and conference papers, including several invited ones.

Kate is the Executive Director of the Institute for a Broadband-Enabled Society (IBES) - an interdisciplinary research institute at the University of Melbourne focusing on broadband applications and uses with societal benefits. The Institute actively engages industry with academia in its research that focuses on health, education, social inclusion and community infrastructure. In July 2011 she was awarded the prestigious Australian Communications Industry Young Achiever Award in recognition of her work at IBES.

Doug is AARNet?s Project Development Manager, responsible for project management across the organisation. He recently managed the implementation of the AARNet Optical Network linking Brisbane, Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne and Adelaide. Prior to joining AARNet, Doug spent 12 years with Optus, involved in strategic consulting and project management across a range of industries.

Julie Freeman is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Communication and Media Studies at the University of Canberra, Australia. Julie received her PhD from Monash University in 2011 for a thesis entitled ?Local E-Government: Politics and Civic Participation?. Her research focuses on local e-government, citizen engagement, political representation, digital democracy, and the policy contexts of e-government.

Dr. Julie Green is currently Executive Director of the Raising Children Network and a member of the Raising Children Network Board. Julie is an experienced lead investigator on studies with children, young people and families that focus on understanding social and cultural factors important to health, development, learning and wellbeing. Julie has extensive experience in research with Government, Catholic and independent primary schools in Victoria.

Dr. Julie Green is currently Executive Director of the Raising Children Network and a member of the Raising Children Network Board. Julie is an experienced lead investigator on studies with children, young people and families that focus on understanding social and cultural factors important to health, development, learning and wellbeing. Julie has extensive experience in research with Government, Catholic and independent primary schools in Victoria.

Andr? Gygax is on the faculty in Finance at the University of Melbourne. His research focuses on corporate finance, financial markets, and network analysis. He has been a visiting research scholar with the Vienna University of Economics and Business (Austria), the WHU Otto Beisheim School of Management (Germany), the University of Colorado (USA), and the University of St. Gallen (Switzerland).

Bob Hayward is the Chief Technology & Innovation Officer for CSC Asia/Pacific. In this role, he is responsible for the overall direction and business management of CSC?s technology offerings, product strategies and innovation programmes in the Asia/Pacific region.

Kerry Hinton received an Honours Bachelor of Engineering in 1978, an Honours Bachelor of Science in 1980 and Master of Science Degree in Mathematical Sciences in 1982, all from the University of Adelaide. He was awarded a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, U.K., and the Diploma in Industrial Relations from the Newcastle Upon Tyne Polytechnic, U.K., in 1984.

Simon Lake is Chief Executive of Screenrights, a non-profit company that distributes royalties to filmmakers for educational copying, retransmission, and government copying.   Simon is on the board of the Australian Copyright Council and Enhance TV Pty Ltd.  Simon is on the board of the international collecting society AGICOA based in Geneva.

Kursten is General Manager of Strategy & Government Affairs at Ericsson Australia & New Zealand.  He has over 14 years experience in the telecoms industry, including marketing and strategy, providing an extremely strong basis for advising operators on relevant strategic, technology and commercial aspects of their business.

Robert Morsillo is a Research Fellow at Swinburne University focussing on the CCI-funded Broadband Services 2015 project. He has a background in electrical engineering, computer science, theology, community development, public policy, communications and consumer affairs. He is particularly interested in the role of technology in encouraging a sense of connectedness, and in encouraging user innovation within the communications industry.

Professor Ampalavanapillai (Thas) Nirmalathas is currently the Head of Department of the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at The University of Melbourne, Australia. He is also the Director of Melbourne Engineering Research Institute (MERIT) which brings the entire research activity of the Melbourne School of Engineering under one research institute. He also leads and directs the Melbourne Accelerator Program at the University of Melbourne aimed at promoting entrepreneurship on campus.

Amy Nisselle was a Research Fellow at the Royal Children's Hospital Education Institute when this research was conducted and is now Multimedia & Evaluation Manager, DNA Learning Center, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York. Amy's current research centres on the use of educational technologies to teach and learn science, and she has a background in public health, education and medical research using mixed methodologies.

Debra Panizzon is an Associate Professor at Monash University with specialisations in biology and general science education. In prior positions she coordinated a number of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) projects (research and consultancies) involving collaborations with government departments and various types of industry in South Australia. With a substantive background in secondary science education she brings valuable classroom and research expertise to her role of project director for NVSES.

Mandy Salomon is a senior researcher at Smart Services Cooperative Research Centre. She is currently doing her PhD on the optimisation of immersive digital environments for people with dementia

Dr Gil Tidhar has over 20 years of experience in research, development, and commercialisation, of advanced software technology. Gil is a Founder and Director at SeeCare. SeeCare's charter is the development of new software and services solutions that provide social benefit. This includes the development of Consumer-led Care and Support Coordination web sites (http://www.seecare.net.au).

Elaine Wong received her Ph.D. degree in electrical and electronic engineering from The University of Melbourne, Australia, in December 2002. Her Ph.D. dissertation was on the topic of collision avoidance in all-optical WDM packet networks. Since the completion of her Ph.D. degree, she has continued to work at the University of Melbourne, where she is currently an Associate Professor and an Australia Research Council funded Future Fellow. In 2006, she was a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, The University of California, Berkeley.

Dr Tsharni Zazryn is a Research Fellow at the RCH Education Institute. She is currently working on a number of projects including: the development of an evidence-based hospital-wide best practice guide for children's learning at The Royal Children's Hospital; a project to increase connections and presence for children and young people with health conditions and their schools and families; and a project to link arts, health and education within the hospital setting.

Neil Gane is the Managing Director of the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT), an organization established in January 2004 by the Motion Picture Association International (MPA) to promote and protect its members' films and television programs in Australia as well as the commercial and creative interests of the local screen communities.

Peter Gerrand was awarded the Charles Todd Medal by ATUG in 1998 'for outstanding contributions to the telecommunications industry', an Australian Government Centenary Medal in 2003 'for outstanding service to science and technology particularly to public science policy', and Life Membership by the TSA in 2003.

Dr Rebecca Giblin has recently returned to Monash University after spending part of 2011 at Columbia Law School as the Kernochan Visiting International IP Scholar.

Dr Clare Lloyd joined the Department of Internet studies after teaching communication and media studies at the University of Newcastle. Her publications include a co-authored book chapter on identity practices and the mobile phone (in Handbook of Research on Discourse Behaviour and Digital Communication: Language Structures and Social Interaction).

Scott Rickard was a Senior Researcher at the Smart Services CRC at Swinburne University of Technology investigating end user adoption and usage of wireless technologies. She now holds a position as an Assistant Professor in Communication at the University of Canberra and her current research includes end user investigations into video-calling practice. In the past Scott worked in communications, public relations and multimedia in the private and not-for-profit sectors in Melbourne

Kimberlee Weatherall is an Associate Professor at the Sydney Law School. Prior to joining the School in 2012, Kimberlee held positions at the University of Queensland, the University of Melbourne and the Intellectual Property Research Institute of Australia. Kimberlee teaches and researches in intellectual property law, with a particular interest in digital copyright, the relationship between international trade and intellectual property, and the systems for administration and enforcement of intellectual property rights.

Matthew Allen is the incoming Head of School, Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University, having previously been Professor of Internet Studies, Curtin University. Matthew worked at Curtin University since 1994, establishing and sustaining a program of Internet research and education from 1999 onwards. Matthew is the author of various articles and papers on things Internet, as well as online learning, television, popular culture and Australian history, most recently focusing on Web 2.0 both as a social construct and as an opportunity for innovative teaching and learning.

Amie Bingham is a socio-epidemiologist.

Dr Marcus Bowles is a consultant, researcher, entrepreneur and author; he holds a fractional academic appointment with the University of Tasmania and sits on a number of public and private boards. His main focus is on building strategic capabilities required to achieve desired futures.

Stuart Corner is one of Australia's most experienced writers and commentators on telecommunications. He started his career in journalism in 1984 with IDG working on Computerworld Australia, and in 1986 co-founded C&C News Pty Ltd which launched Australia's first weekly newsletter on telecommunications and Australian Communications as a full colour monthly magazine.

For more than 20 years he wrote and published the weekly, and later daily, newsletter Exchange. He is now a freelance writer covering all aspects of the telecommunications industry.

Dr. Kristine Elliott is an educational technologist and researcher of eHealth in health profession education.

Marianne Gloet is a Research Fellow in the Department of Management and Marketing and also conducts research through the Institute for a Broadband-Enabled Society at the University of Melbourne. Marianne also consults widely to a range of private and public organisations both in Australia and abroad.

Mick Grimley is an Associate Professor of Education at Swinburne University of Technology. He commenced his appointment in April 2012. Prior to joining Swinburne, Dr Grimley taught at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand for 10 years. He was a Senior Lecturer and then Associate Professor in Education. He is a former primary school teacher and has been employed within the education sector for more than 20 years. His research interests include digital technologies and how they can be leveraged to enhance human learning and cognition.

Sherah Kurnia is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Computing and Information Systems. Her main research areas are electronic commerce, supply chain management and the adoption of technologies including inter-organisational systems, mobile commerce, sustainable supply chain management and social technologies.

Antonette Mendoza is an associate lecturer in the Department of Computing and Information Systems. Her main research interests are in the area of process modelling, development and implementation of emerging ICT that support adoption, adaptation and longer-term use, termed as technology appropriation.

Professor Mike Miller spent nine years with Telecom Australia and 35 years in the University of South Australia, where he was Professor of Telecommunications and Foundation Director of the Institute for Telecommunications Research (ITR).

He is Professor Emeritus at UniSA, and serves on several government advisory bodies and is a Director of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering.

Dr. Lucio Naccarella is a health workforce researcher exploring the sustainability of the health workforce and health system.

Sora Park (PhD, Northwestern University) is Associate Professor in Communication and Media Studies at University of Canberra, Australia. Her research focuses on the digital media, media markets and media policy and has written widely on the economics of television, newspaper markets and other information industries.

Giles Tanner is the General Manager, Digital Transition Division, at the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA). A lawyer by training, he is currently leading all ACMA work related to the digitisation of television and radio broadcasting, including the 'restack' of digital television services to clear spectrum in the 700MHz band for reallocation. He is also responsible for the conduct of an auction of spectrum licences, scheduled for April 2013, relating to the re-allocation of spectrum in the 700MHz and 2.5GHz bands.

Dr. Robyn Woodward Kron is a linguist and researcher in the areas of cross-cultural communication in health care.

Gunela Astbrink has worked in disability and technology policy and research for 25 years both in Australia and internationally.

She led projects at the Telematics and Disability Centre of Telia (Swedish Telecom) and the European Union-funded project, COST 219 (Telecommunications: Access for Disabled and Elderly People) in the 1990's. Gunela was part of the Smart Internet Technology Cooperative Research Centre's user-centred design group and led a project on multi-modal mobile devices.

Dr Robert Campain is a Research Fellow with Scope (a disability services provider in Victoria, Australia) and an Honorary Research Fellow with Deakin University. He holds a doctoral degree in sociology. He has conducted research into a number of areas related to disability, particularly in relation to the social inclusion of people with disability, person centred approaches, and outcomes measurement for people with disability and their families as a result of service provision.

Margie Charlesworth has worked for many years in the fields of disability advocacy, receiving many awards for her work with various disability services groups. Through the organisation 'Women with Disabilities', Ms Charlesworth is the project co-ordinator for the 'Don't Cross the Line' project, preventing violence against women with disabilities.

Caitlin Fry graduated from the University of South Australia with a Bachelor of Psychology and Bachelor of Arts (Honours), where she is also a current PhD candidate. She currently tutors at the University of South Australia in their School of Communications, International Studies and Languages, and she currently provides ongoing administrative and research support to the 'Private Lives and Public Policy' project.

Dr Nick Hagiliassis is Research Coordinator and a Consulting Psychologist with Scope (a disability services provider in Victoria, Australia) and an Honorary Research Fellow with Deakin University. He holds a doctoral degree in psychology. Nick has an interest in research that aims to improve the lives of people with disabilities through influencing practice and policy. His special interests include mental health and disability, measuring outcomes associated with disability services, and tracking and improving social inclusion.

Mr Kirk has formally worked in rural news media, while pursuing an interest in word prediction programs, including developing his own. He has sat on many disability-related boards and consumer groups, and is a Life Member of Technical Aid to the Disabled

Lareen is a Senior Researcher in the Southgate Institute for Health Society & Equity at Flinders University ? a national centre for research on the social determinants of health. She is a social geographer whose work is increasingly focusing on the digital divide impacts on public access to services, particularly for disadvantaged and marginalised groups. Since 2008 she has led a range of research for the SA Government's Health In All Policies program. Lareen previously worked for the Australian Bureau of Statistics and Uniting Care Wesley.

Janelle has worked as a speech pathologist in the area of Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) for over 20 years with both adults and children. Much of this work has been around assessing and prescribing AAC systems, and consultation to state run equipment programs for the provision of AAC devices.

William is currently a Lecturer in the School of Information Systems and Technology at the University of Wollongong. He has recently completed his PhD which investigated community technology centers (CTCs) in regional NSW Australia. Previous to his current role, Will worked in broadcast technical training roles in the Pacific during the 1990s ? 4 years with the Samoa Broadcasting Service and periodic assignments for Pacific Islands Broadcasting Association (PIBA). Prior to this Will worked for the ABC in both radio and television in Sydney for 12 years.

Associate Professor Denise Wood is the Associate Head of School: Teaching and Learning, and a researcher in the School of Communication, International Studies and Languages at the University of South Australia (UniSA), and an Extraordinary Professor (Adjunct) in the Faculty of Education at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. Her research focuses on the use of accessible information and communication technologies (ICTs) to increase social participation, as well as the pedagogical benefits of social media in teaching and learning.

Megan is a lecturer in the area of Disability in the School of Health and Social Development at Deakin University. She teaches at undergraduate and postgraduate level. Megan has actively been involved in a variety of research areas including acquired brain injury, substance abuse and offending behaviour among people with disabilities, intergeneration program evaluation, and the link between human health and the ecology.

Daniel Gottliebsen is the director and senior consultant at Momentech Software Services.

Michelle Caldwell is the Research Project Coordinator of the 1 in 4 Poll (a national online survey designed for people with a disability) within the School of Psychology. A member of the steering committee, comprising Deakin University and Scope (Vic) Ltd staff, Michelle is responsible for coordinating activities relating to this project. Scope (Vic) Ltd is a partner with Deakin University on this project.

Professor Joe Graffam is currently Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research Development and Training) of Deakin University. Prior to this, Joe was Pro Vice-Chancellor (Academic). Joe is also Professor and Chair in Psychology. He has worked in higher education for more than 30 years. Joe held early career positions as a researcher in the Neuropsychiatric Institute, School of Medicine, UCLA. Since commencing with Deakin University, Joe has filled several senior academic positions within the Faculty of Health. More recently, he served as Chair of the Academic Board of the University.

Arul Baskaran heads the Multiplatform Production department within ABC TV. Arul is responsible for ABC TV's vision, strategy and execution around four areas: Internet broadcasting; online content, development of new services, tools and applications, and social media and communities around ABC TV content.

Arul is responsible for ABC's industry leading iview on-demand internet television service as well as Australia's leading video podcasting service.

Since October 2000, Chris has been the Chief Executive Officer of .au Domain Administration Ltd (auDA), a non-profit company that is the independent, not-for-profit manager of the Australian Internet domain name space (.au).

Until he stood down in March 2011, Chris was the Chair, since its foundation in June 2004, of the Country Code Name Supporting Organisation (ccNSO), the body that represents the interests of and sets global policy and best practice for country code top level domains (ccTLD) within ICANN.

Heather Forrest is a Senior Lecturer and the Associate Dean, Learning & Teaching in the Law Faculty of the Australian Catholic University, Melbourne. She has lived, studied and worked in the United States, England, France, Switzerland and Australia. She is a member of the New York State Bar Association and is licensed to practise law by the State of New York, USA. Heather is proficient in English and French and has basic Swedish and Spanish language skills.

Mark A Gregory is an Associate Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia.  He was born in Melbourne, Australia and received a PhD and a Master of Engineering from RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia in 2008 and 1992 respectively, and a Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical) from University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia in 1984. 

Jordi has a degree in Computer Science from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, a Masters of Business Administration from ESADE, and a pre-doctoral Master's degree in Knowledge and the Information Society from the Open University of Catalonia (UOC/IN3). He is a former director of the puntCAT Foundation and a former executive director of the .cat TLD Registry (2006-2013). He is the current Chair of the Catalan chapter of the Internet Society (ISOC-CAT) and is a director at Iparraguirre.net Internet services and consulting.

Sally joined ABC TV in June 2011 as Manager of iview and Internet Broadcasting. Prior to this appointment Sally worked in the United Kingdom for five years in senior editorial roles with British Sky Broadcasting and Virgin Media, assisting with the launch and development of internet television services including Sky Anytime / Sky Go and Virgin Media Player.

Paul Szyndler is auDA's General Manager of International and Government Affairs.

He represents auDA and ".au" on ICANN's Country Code Name Supporting Organisation (ccNSO), where he contributes to a wide range of policy processes, including serving as Chair of the ccNSO's Country and Territory Names Study Group. He was also part of Australia's delegation to WCIT in 2012.

Domestically, he has coordinated auDA's efforts in convening both the Australia and New Zealand Internet Awards (ANZIAs) and the Australian Internet Governance Forum (auIGF).

Professor John Wilson is a respected clinical leader in the Australian health sector and champion for the application of technology to enable effective delivery of health services. He qualified BSc(Hons) with a focus on IT before completing his medical training. John is currently Head of the Cystic Fibrosis service at Alfred Health Melbourne, Chair of the College Education Committee, Royal Australian College of Physicians (RACP) and an RACP Board member.

Peter Walton became Chief Executive Officer of Infoxchange in February 2012. He has over twenty years international experience working in multi-sector community development in both not-for-profit organisations and the private sector. During his career he has undertaken assignments in over 30 countries, including being based for seven years in Hanoi, Vietnam where he managed social and economic development operations across the Mekong region for ChildFund Australia.

Marta Poblet is an Associate Professor and Vice Chancellor's Senior Researcher at RMIT University. She is one of the co-founders of the Institute of Law and Technology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and past researcher at ICREA (Catalonia). She holds a Juris Doctorate from the Stanford University (2002) and a Master degree in International Legal Studies (Stanford Law School, 2000).

Robin Eckermann is an independent telecommunications consultant and an Adjunct Professor in network/communications technologies, business models and project management at the University of Canberra. From 1996 to 2000, he led the development of TransACT through its incubation phase, and from 2000-2003 during the rollout of TransACT's FTTK/VDSL network, served as the Company's Chief Architect.

Jonathan Gadir is a Senior Policy Adviser at ACCAN.

He is a lawyer and previously worked as a producer-researcher at the ABC.

David Vaile is Executive Director of the Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre at the University of New South Wales, in Sydney.

Dr Surya Nepal is a Principal Research Scientist at Information Engineering Laboratory of CSIRO Computational Informatics. 

Katerina Pavlidis joined the Australian Communications Consumer Action Network (ACCAN) as a Grants and Research Assistant in October 2012 after completing her honours thesis in sociology at the University of Technology, Sydney. Katerina has previously interned at the Parliament of NSW, the NSW Native Title Services Corporation and the Australian Human Rights Commission.

Trevor Barr is Professor of Media and Communications at Swinburne University and Principal Investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries. He was a Program Manager for the Smart Internet CRC where his research work included the futures review "Smart Internet 2010".

David has over 20 years of experience working in senior management positions in the not-for-profit and technology sectors. He joined Infoxchange in 2009 from Kronos, where he led the Australian government and healthcare team and later was responsible for business partner operations across Asia  Pacific and Europe.  He started his career with CiTR, where he held a range of senior roles in software engineering, project management and business development.  David chairs the Workforce Participation and Social Inclusion Working group as part of the DBCDE?s National Telework Advisory Panel.

Advokat Lars Perhard is a partner in the Swedish law firm Wers?n & Partners. He specialises increasingly in commercial arbitration and litigation as well as in IT/ITC/IP related matters. Since the early eighties he has devoted considerable time to legal issues related to IT/ITC/IP and he is considered to be a specialist in the field. He assists players on both sides, i.e. both customers and suppliers.

Dr. Stan Davies has professional engineering experience in Rural Lines Divisions and in the Transmission and Advanced Technology Branches of the Telstra Research Laboratories of Telstra (formerly Telecom Australia; formerly the Post Master General?s Department).  His latter research experience included antennas and propagation, optical fibre transmission, microwave radio and cellular mobile radio systems, electromagnetic compatibility and broadband digital subscriber line systems.

Margie Comrie is an Associate Professor in the School of Communication, Journalism and Marketing at Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand. A former newspaper reporter and radio current affairs producer, she has taught public relations and journalism studies since 1990. She is a Fellow of the Public Relations Institute of NZ and her research interests include news media, political journalism and health communication.

Shara Evans is a well-known technologist, futurist and opinion leader in the Australian telecommunications market, as well as the Founder and CEO of Market Clarity, an award-winning telecommunications analyst firm that provides insight, intelligence and advice on all aspects of the Australian telecom market.

Chris Chaplow is the founder and Managing Director of andalucia.com, a tourism portal for Southern Spain, with 400,000 visitors a month.

Chris was awarded an honours degree in Civil Engineering at Kings College, London. In 1993 he created the first digitized database of Spanish images capable of being transmitted to the worldwide media.

Andalucia.com was founded in 1996, and in 2008 was awarded the inaugural ?Costa del Sol - Business of the Year? by the Junta de Andalucia (regional government).

Jason Potts is Professor of Economics at RMIT University. He writes on issues of economic evolution, technological and institutional change, and innovation policy

He is an evolutionary economist, specialising in the economics of innovation and growth through technological and institutional change. He has developed the analytic basis for the use of complex systems theory and population dynamics in modelling evolutionary economic processes. His current work focuses on the economics of creativity.

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Dr Peng Cheng received the B.S. and M.S degrees with great honors in communication and information systems from University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), Chengdu, China, in 2006 and 2009 and the Ph.D. degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, in 2012. From August 2011 to August 2012, he was a Visiting Student with CSIRO Computational Informatics, Australia, where he is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow. His current research interests include cooperative communications, network MIMO, OFDM and compressive sensing theory.

Alex Reid provides input into AARNet?s eResearch program as Advisor, eResearch and Middleware, which he undertakes on a part-time basis. He has had over 50 years? experience in the IT industry, 45 in Higher Education, where most recently he was IT Director, at the University of WA and previously at Oxford University, UK.

Dr Claire Mason currently leads CSIRO?s multidisciplinary research project investigating social and economic outcomes associated with Next Generation Broadband. Her research spans a range of topics including the social value of welfare service delivery in Australia, the social viability of seafloor mining in Australia and national objectives for mining. She has served as the Organizational Behavior editor for the Australian Journal of Management and is on the editorial review board for Group and Organization Management.

Dr Leith Campbell is an Honorary Fellow, Melbourne School of Engineering, University of Melbourne.  He has spent more than 30 years in the telecommunications industry, both in research and development and as an international consultant on telecommunications regulation.  He serves on the Editorial Board of this Journal and on the Council of the World Telecommunications Congress.

Dr Beth O?Brien-McInally is a graduate of the University of Queensland with a PhD in Social Psychology. In her previous role at CSIRO her research was largely focused in the area of Next Generation Broadband and understanding its implications for Australian business as well as for the community in terms of social inclusion and well-being. She currently works for the Queensland Department of Education, Training and Employment in Brisbane. 

John has over 40 years experience in the Radio, IT and Telecommunications, and HFC CATV industries;  with fifteen years in direct engineering/support roles in Radio, Voice, Data and HFC networks including both Hardware and Software solutions; and more than twenty five years in Senior Management/ Executive and Executive Director roles.

Dr Andrew Kerans received a PhD degree in radio physics from James Cook Univerity, Townsville Queensland Australia (JCU) in 2011.  He is currently an Adjunct Associate Professor at James Cook University, an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Canberra. Andrew is also a member of the Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency (ARPANSA) Radiation Health Committee. Andrew is Principal of Spectrum Management Associates and currently works in East Timor.  In addition to his PhD he holds a Masters?

Stephen Wilson BSc BE Elec (Hons) is a researcher, consultant, analyst and inventor, who specialises in digital identity and privacy. Since 1998 he has been involved in privacy and cyber security policy development around the Asia Pacific.  He was a member of the APEC eSecurity Task Force (1998-2001), the National Electronic Authentication Council (1998-2001) and the Australian Law Reform Commission Technology Committee (2007-08). Since 2012, he has been a member of the US National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace Privacy Committee.

Peter Hormann has been a professional engineer for more than 25 years. He is currently an Environment Engineer within NBN's Environment and Sustainability team and focused on network energy efficiency, carbon emissions, renewable energy and climate change resiliency. He is also an Honorary Enterprise Fellow at the Melbourne Networked Society Institute (MNSI) at the University of Melbourne, and a Director and Victorian Chapter Chair at the TelSoc. 

Peter Hormann has been a professional engineer for more than 25 years. He is currently an Environment Engineer within NBN's Environment and Sustainability team and focused on network energy efficiency, carbon emissions, renewable energy and climate change resiliency. He is also an Honorary Enterprise Fellow at the Melbourne Networked Society Institute (MNSI) at the University of Melbourne, and a Director and Victorian Chapter Chair at the TelSoc. 

Jan Lambrechts is an accomplished legal technologist with over 14 years? experience in a number of top tier Australian law firms. In roles as eDiscovery and Privacy Specialist, Legal Technology Consultant and Manager he assisted customers with developing strategies for management of electronic information, collection of content, analysing large volumes of data and advising on the impact of privacy requirements on organisations? information management policies, procedures and systems.

Matthew Zwolenski is Chief Technology Officer, Australia & NZ at EMC and Senior Manager, Presales, Australia & NZ at EMC.  He works with customers to help drive both their IT and Organisational Strategy, looking at how new and evolving technology and trends impacts their competitiveness and operations. A key part of his role is to lead the Australia & NZ team of Technologists and Specialists that work with Customers to define their strategy.

Alex Lambert is a research fellow at the Public Cultures Research Unit, based at the University of Melbourne. Alex specialises in digital ethnography and the study of social and mobile media. He is also interested in critiquing media discourses which involve social capital, intimacy, and psychological well-being. Recently his research into the relationship between Facebook and cultural constructions of intimacy was published by Pelgrave MacMillan as a monograph entitled Intimacy and Friendship on Facebook.

Nikos Papastergiadis is the Director of the Research Unit in Public Cultures, based at The University of Melbourne. He is a Professor in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne and founder - with Scott McQuire - of the Spatial Aesthetics research cluster. He is Professor Nikos Papastergiardis is Project Leader of the Australian Research Council Linkage Project, 'Large Screens and the Transnational Public Sphere', and Chief Investigator on the ARC Discovery Project 'Public Screens and the Transformation of Public Space'.

  Dr. Shuangfeng Han is currently a senior project manager in green communication research center of china mobile research institute. His research interests are mainly focused on green technologies R&D in 5G wireless communication systems, including large scale antenna system (LSAS), active antenna system (AAS), co-frequency co-time full duplex, non-orthogonal multiple access scheme, energy efficiency and spectrum efficiency co-design, and beyond cellular green generation solutions. Prior to joining CMRI, Dr.

  Dr. Pan Zhengang (IEEE Senior Member), principal staff of Green Communication Research Center (GCRC) of China Mobile Research Institute (CMRI), is now leading a team working on the key technologies of next generation (5G) wireless communication systems, including new network architecture/protocol framework, large scale antenna system, new air interface design in high frequency, etc. Dr. Pan received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Hong Kong University.

Dr Scott Ewing is a Senior Research Fellow at Swinburne University of Technology?s Institute for Social Research. He has more than twenty years? experience as a social researcher, both at Swinburne and in the private sector.  He is currently managing the Australian component of the World Internet Project, a global survey of internet use and non-use. Scott has considerable expertise in information policy, the social impact of new technologies, the use of quantitative data and economic evaluation.

Dr Greg Austin is the author of Cyber Policy in China (Polity 2014) and a recent article, ?Managing Asymmetries in Chinese and American Cyber Power? (Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, October 2014). He has published several books on China?s strategic policy and one book on the Russian armed forces. He is a Professorial Fellow with the EastWest Institute (New York/Brussels/Moscow), and has held posts in defence intelligence, diplomacy, academia and NGOs.

Dong Chen received his MPhil in Computer Networks from the School of Computer Science and Technique, Jilin University, China, in 2011. Since late 2011, he has been enrolled as a Ph.D candidate in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, The University of Newcastle, Australia. Currently he is working on the heterogeneous network architecture for M2M Communications and IoT Systems. His research interest includes wireless sensor networks, wireless local area networks, smart grid communication and the Internet of Things (IoT).?

Kate Carruthers'  current role is Manager of Data Governance and Business Intelligence for UNSW Australia.  She is a business leader who has delivered strategic IT, marketing, web and e-commerce solutions for diverse organisations across the private sector and government. She is deeply involved with social media and the digital revolution.  

She has worked in senior executive roles with a broad range of organisations including ? UNSW Australia, Westfield Ltd (Scentre Group), NSW State Treasury, General Electric, AMP Limited, and Citibank. 

Professor John Handmer leads RMIT University?s Risk and Community Safety research group, and is Deputy Head of the School of Mathematical and Geospatial Sciences.  He is a member of the Australian National Flood Risk Advisory Group, and the national committee revising the Australian Emergency Risk Assessment Guide.  He has undertaken research on warning systems and risk communication in Australia and Europe.  He co-authored the first two editions of the Australian Flood Warning Guide, and retained by the 2009 Victorian Bushfires Royal Commission to provide advice on warning

Dr Naohiko Kohtake is an associate professor and current director of Smart System Design Laboratory at Keio University, Japan where he is responsible for space system engineering and intelligent systems. He has worked in research and development on avionics systems for the H-IIA rocket at Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, ubiquitous computing systems at Keio University, and on-board software at European Space Agency.

Dorothy McLaren is in the final stages of a PhD in applied social science research at RMIT Hamilton.   Her project has collected data about the social and economic costs experienced by rural patients travelling for surgery.  Working with a project steering team from the Western District Health Service, this data will be analysed as a case study in rural issue identification and response.

Khandakar Ahmed received his PhD from School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia in October, 2014. He achieved his M.Sc. in Erasmus Mundus Networking and e-Business Centered Computing (EMNeBCC) in 2011 under the joint consortia of University of Reading, UK; Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece and Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain and B.Sc. (Engg.) degree in Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) from Shahjalal University of Science & Technology, Sylhet, Bangladesh in 2006.

James Williams supports research data collection and analysis at RMIT University's Regional and Rural Futures Research Group. James specialises in social enterprise action research.

Dr Jessica Noske-Turner is a Postdoctoral Fellow at RMIT University, with research interests in media, communication, development and social change. She recently completed her PhD at Queensland University of Technology. She is now involved in research projects focusing on communication for development projects in the Pacific region, and evaluation of communication for development within UNICEF.

Associate Professor Heather Horst is a Vice-Chancellor?s Senior Research Fellow and Director of the Digital Ethnography Research Centre in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University. An anthropologist by training, Heather?s research focuses upon understanding how digital media, technology and other forms of material culture mediate relationships, communication, learning, mobility and our sense of being human. See more at: http://heatherhorst.com/about/#sthash.duf84ELe.dpuf

Edouard Estauni? is Writer-in-Residence at the West Melbourne Institute.

Dr Ian McShane is a Senior Research Fellow at RMIT University?s Centre for Urban Research. His research focuses on informal and formal education systems (especially museums, libraries and schools), local infrastructure and community services, and digital technologies. Current research projects are on shared use community infrastructure and service co-ordination, the development of publicly accessible wireless networks in Australia and internationally, and the representational politics of cultural diversity in Australian museums.

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Andrew Bettison's quixotic career has led him to hand craft real-time sampling and sequencing software for computer musical instruments, fair-share the Unix kernels of American and Japanese supercomputers, synchronise digital audio with motion pictures, ride a Swedish dot-com through the Spanish and Portuguese economies, fuse tactical sonar, trace infra-red rays over tropical seas, deliver mobile phones to Spain's socially-networked teenagers, and mesh-network smart-phones during disasters. 

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Dr. Rowan Gilmore is CEO of EM Solutions Pty Ltd, an Australian designer and manufacturer of advanced microwave components, systems and terminals used for satellite and wireless broadband communications networks.

Xiaojing Huang  received his Bachelor of Engineering, Master of Engineering, and Ph.D. degrees from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, in 1983, 1986, and 1989, respectively, all in electronic engineering. With over 26 years of combined industrial, academic, and scientific research experience, he has published over 230 book chapters, refereed journal and conference papers, and major commercial research reports, and filed 29 patents.

Matt Tett has been the consummate entrepreneur from an early age.

He has a deep technical background in ICT networking and security, and combines this with decades in high-level management and global business development.

Matt is a founding member of Enex TestLab, and its Managing Director. He is responsible for establishing and overseeing all eight operational divisions across a number of international locations.

Wayne Hawkins joined ACCAN in 2010 as Disability Policy Advisor, and has led ACCAN?s work on telecommunications access for consumers with disability, telecommunications affordability and emergency services. Prior to joining ACCAN Wayne was National Policy officer with Blind Citizens Australia. Wayne is a doctoral candidate at Sydney University researching Australian telecommunications and disability policies.

Paul Stathis is the CEO of BICSI South Pacific, an industry association promoting best practice amongst ICT infrastructure professionals.

Paul has been involved in the communications, ICT infrastructure and building services industries for over 30 years, in a variety of roles that include design and project management at consulting engineering firms; sales, marketing and product development in cabling manufacturing firms and fire service providers; and as an editor for a publishing company.

Vijay Sivaraman received his B. Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi, India, in 1994, his M.S. from North Carolina State University in 1996, and his Ph.D. from the University of California at Los Angeles in 2000. He has worked at Bell-Labs as a student Fellow, in a silicon valley start-up manufacturing optical switch-routers, and as a Senior Research Engineer at the CSIRO in Australia. He is now an Associate Professor at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.

Ian Watson is a journalist, communications professional and journalism teacher and tutor, and a member of the Griffith Centre for Cultural Research. Ian focuses strongly on communicating through Indigenous and community media networks and developing major communications projects focusing on issues such as telecommunications, sustainability, energy savings, health, mental health and legal issues.

Warren is a regional Chief Technology Officer (CTO) with Alcatel-Lucent. Warren has over 35 years industry experience and for the past 11 years has consulted extensively across Asia-Pacific. He specialises in transformational digital services solutions for Communication Service Providers, Media and ICT businesses. In early 2015 Warren became CTO for the Oceania Region as part of Alcatel-Lucent?s global SHIFT toward strategic markets. Warren is a member of the Oceania Senior Leadership Team.

Dr Eunice Sari is a Lecturer and Researcher in E-learning and M-learning

Thesis Title

Wellness Sensors Networks: A Proposal and Implementation

Currently I am working to develop a sensor node to upload the data to cloud server.

Developing an efficient sensor for human fall detection which is to be incorporated in a smart home.

Kayne Naughton is a technologist and security researcher with 15 years' experience across the education, government and finance industries. Since 2013 he has been running Asymmetric Security, focused on making security easier for the good guys and more difficult for computer criminals. He also recently co-founded Cosive, a threat management company. Kayne is a volunteer with the Shadowserver Foundation, a US based non-profit dedicated to keeping the internet safe.

For over 20 years Andreas has been working in IT and during that timeframe he has worked as a Consultant for all kinds of organisations, across various industries, including the public sector. Starting of with research in the area of Open Communication Systems, then focussing on IT Infrastructure and lately concentrating on IT audit, security and risk management.

As president of the ISACA Melbourne Chapter he is responsible for managing and leading the chapter as a whole. You can contact him using the Melbourne Chapter Board contact form.

Subject matter expert advising in the following fields:

• Wireless technologies and spectrum management
• Telco regulation and policy
• The Australian broadband industry
• IP strategies, innovation amd commercialisation
• Expert witness
• Board advisor

Professor Reg Coutts combines a deep commercial knowledge with academic achievement. 

Reg leverages his experience with large public companies such as Telstra, and works with small innovation companies fighting to gain traction in the market place.

Phil has been President of the Wireless Institute of Australia since 2012, Vice President immediately before then and WIA director since 2004.

He has held a passion for electronics from early primary school. Along with expanding his interests in radio and electronics while at Sydney Grammar School, he took out an Amateur Radio licence in 1968, a hobby which set the course of his career. Along the way he discovered the delights of sailing. 

Dr. Nulty has recently retired from the position of CEO (but remains as Chairman of the Board) of ValleyNet, Inc. a non-profit corporation building and operating a fiber-to-the-premises fiber-optic telecom network for and on behalf of East Central Community Fiber-Optic Network (www.ecfiber.net), ?ECFiber.?  Mr.

Brett Bowden is Professor of History and Politics at Western Sydney University and Visiting Professorial Fellow at the University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra.

Supriya Singh is Professor, Sociology of Communications at RMIT University. Her research interests cover financial inclusion, the sociology of money and banking; communication, globalization, migration and the transnational family.

Shui Yu received his B.Eng (Electronic Engineering) and M.Eng (Computer Science) degree from University of Electronic Science and Technology of China , P. R. China in 1993 and 1999, respectively. He also obtained an Associate Degree in Mathematics from the same university in 1993. He received his PhD (Computer Science) from Deakin University in 2004.

Richard works as a Research Data Analyst, at Australian National Data Service (ANDS), a joint project led by Monash University, with Australian National University and CSIRO. ANDS, a $100M NCRIS innovation project, encourages Universities to manage, share, reuse and add value to data. Richard also separately pursues Innovation and Value research, as ANDS funding precludes research. Richard has a particular interest in broadband and telecommunications as an area of significant innovation and value creation.

Rene Sugo is the CEO and co-founder of MNF Group (ASX:MNF), an integrated telecommunications software and network provider, specialising in IP voice communications. Rene also sits on the Group?s Board of Directors. Rene?s wealth of industry experience is evident in the MNF Group?s successful navigation of the telecommunications landscape.

Dr. El-Moghazi is the spectrum management research and studies director at the National Telecom Regulatory Authority (NTRA) of Egypt. He was awarded the British Chevening Scholarship to join the Master of Communications Management (MCM) program at the University of Strathclyde. He has also obtained his PhD degree from the University of Strathclyde on the interaction between international spectrum regime and national spectrum management policies.Throughout his career at NTRA, Dr.

Dr. James Irvine is a Reader at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, where he leads the Mobile Communications Group. Currently working on security for IoT applications, his recent projects have included secure peer to peer storage on mobile networks, and detecting social networks through mobile phones. A past President of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society, he was a Vice Chair of WG1 of the Wireless World Research Forum for 5 years, and is currently on the Steering Committee of the IEEE 5G Initiative. He is a co-author of two text books, 7 patents, and over 150 research papers.

Luke is Co-Chief investigator on the 3D Printing grant that funded this paper and recently completed a PhD at the University of Melbourne. Luke researches how technology and the political collide to shape our lives. Before a career in academic research, he consulted in both the public and private sectors in Canada and beyond.

Michael is Associate Professor and Head of Discipline in the History and Philosophy of Science Programme. His on-going research activities involve studies of contemporary technologies and daily life. Michael is also interested in theoretical approaches to technologies, in particular, Actor Network Theory and Object Oriented Ontology. Michael has published research books and over 100 peer reviewed papers.

Bjorn is a Lecturer in Media and Communications at The University of Melbourne, Australia. His research interests include media adoption, children?s media use, and interface studies. He currently holds an Australian Research Council funded Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA), to study young children?s use of mobile and interactive media.

Philip Branch is an Associate Professor in Telecommunications Engineering at Swinburne University of Technology. Before joining Swinburne he was Development Manager of Interception Management Systems with Ericsson AsiaPacific Labs, responsible for the development of key interception systems sold by Ericsson worldwide. His research interests are in the broad area of distributed applications and the network architectures necessary to support them, which he investigates within the Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures (CAIA)

Stanley Shanapinda is a Ph.D. Research Candidate with the Australian Centre for Cyber Security (ACCS), Australian Defence Force Academy (ADFA) at the University of New South Wales (UNSW). He is affiliated with the Data to Decisions Cooperative Research Centre (D2D CRC) research institute, South Australia. He holds a Master?s of Management degree in ICT Policy and Regulation (MM ICT PR) from the University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg, South Africa).

David Rogerson is a founding Director of Incyte Consulting, based in Scotland. 

Gwangjae Kim (Ph.D.) is Associate Professor in the Department of Advertising & Media at Hanyang Cyber University, South Korea. He earned Ph.D. at Sogang University, South Korea. Before Ph.D., He had worked as a reporter at Kwangju Daily Newspaper and as a researcher at Sophia University in Japan.

Dr. Sonia Gul is a Lecturer at Cornell Institute of Technology, Auckland. She is also a member of Network and Security Research Group (NSRG), Auckland University of Technology. Her research focuses on Wireless Networks, Telecommunications, Emergency/Disaster Communications and ICT.  Sonia is also involved in Program Development for Tertiary Education (Computing). She has published a number of refereed articles in reputable journals and conferences.

Dr Rob Nicholls is a lecturer in business law at the UNSW Business School and a visiting research fellow at the Centre for Law, Markets and Regulation in the UNSW Law School. He is also a visiting fellow at UTS Sydney Law. His research interests focus on regulation including regulation of networked industries, the financial services sector and regulatory interactions with competition law and policy. Before this appointment, Rob was a research fellow at the Centre for International Finance and Regulation and at Swinburne University of Technology.

Zbigniew Hulicki  received the M.S. degree in electrical and electronic engineering from the Technical University of Moscow, Moscow, Russia in 1978 and the Ph.D. degree in telecommunications from the AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland in 1983. In 1978, he joined the Telecommunications Department at the AGH University, where he is currently an Assoc. Professor. He spent his sabbatical leaves at the universities in Australia, USA, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy the Netherlands and in Switzerland.

Golnoush Soroush is a PhD candidate in Management, Production and Design at Politecnico di Torino, Italy. Her general field of research is regulation of infrastructure industries with a focus on telecommunications as well as electricity sector. Her current research activities mostly cover energy economics and grid tariff design.

Dr. Arturo Robles Rovalo works as a researcher for the Research Center (Centro de Estudios) of the Mexican telecommunications regulator (Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones). He is a member of the International Telecommunications Society. His research interests include spectrum management, broadband universalization, digital inclusion and the competitiveness of converging and digital industries. His doctoral research addressed regulation and public policy for telecommunications universal service in Latin America.

David Airehrour is a PhD student at the Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand. He received his BSc and MSc degree in Computer Science from the University of Benin and the Bayero University, Nigeria respectively. His current research focuses on secure trust-based routing for Internet of Things, attacks mitigation in sensor networks and trusted routing for sensor networks. His other research interests include mobile computing, network security, wireless sensor networks, information processing and trust management.

Sayan Kumar Ray received the Bachelor of Computer Science and Engineering from Gulbarga University, India, Master of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Calcutta, India, and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. He was a Design Engineer with Tait Communications, New Zealand, where he was involved in researching on the LTE and 3GPP Evolved Packet Core network.

Farzaneh Pakzad is a PhD student at the School of Information Technology & Electrical Engineering at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. Farzaneh has an MSc degree in Computer Engineering from the Islamic Azad University, Arak, Iran.

Her main research interests include wireless networks, Software Defined Networks and Network Security.

Tyler Steane completed a BSc in Applied Physics and a BEng (Honours) in Electronic and Communications Engineering in 2015 at RMIT University in Melbourne.

In 2016, he began work on a MEng in electrical and electronic Engineering. In Feb 2017 his work was recommended for a PhD program and he will re-enrol into the PhD program in mid 2017. His research is focused on home automation and how ubiquitous smart homes might be realised.

Rod Tucker is Laureate Emeritus Professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Melbourne. He has previously held positions at the University of Queensland, the University of California, Berkeley, Cornell University, Plessey Research, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Hewlett Packard Laboratories, and Agilent Technologies.

Jean Armstrong is a Professor at Monash University, Australia, where she leads a research group working on topics including optical wireless, radio frequency and optical fiber communications. She has published numerous papers including over seventy on aspects of OFDM for wireless and optical communications and has six commercialized patents. Jean Armstrong was born in Scotland and before emigrating to Australia worked as a Design Engineer at Hewlett-Packard Ltd., Scotland.

Jan de Nijs is Senior Consultant at TNO in the Netherlands (since 2003), with a specialization in fixed broadband networks (fiber, DSL and coax), network roll out strategies and network regulatory policies such as third party access.

GRENVILLE ARMITAGE earned a B.Eng. in electrical engineering (Hons) in 1988 and a Ph.D. in electronic engineering in 1994, both from the University of Melbourne. He is a full professor of telecommunications engineering, was founding director of the Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures, and is founding Head of the Internet For Things (I4T) Research Lab at Swinburne University of Technology. He authored ?Quality of Service In IP Networks: Foundations for a Multi-Service Internet?

Julian Thomas is the Director of the Technology, Communication and Policy Lab at DERC and the Director for the Enabling Capability Platform for Social Change at RMIT. He is a researcher in digital media and the internet, including media, communications and information policy and the history of communications technologies. Julian?s recent work includes the Australian Digital Inclusion Index (2016), Internet on the Outstation (Institute of Network Cultures, 2016), and The Informal Media Economy (Polity, 2015).

Mostfa Mohsin Albdair was born January 1, 1974 in Thi-Qar, Iraq. He did his undergraduate work at College of Education for Pure Science / Ibn al-Haytham - University of Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq in 1996. After college he got a job as physics teacher in Yemen from 2001 to 2005. Then he came back to Iraq and worked as physics teacher between 2005 and 2008.  After that he received his master degree from Malaysia in 2010 in Information and communication Technology he began work on his Master of ICT in Mesan University, Iraq as assistant Director of Computer Center.

David Fatseas was born in Brisbane, Australia in 1963.

Kautsarina is a member of the Indonesian Researcher Association and a government researcher at the Agency of Human Resources and Research Development, Ministry of Communication and Information Technology (MCIT), Republics of Indonesia. Her background study is informatics engineering and information technology management. She is involved in developing policy research and ICT master plan. Her current research is about information technology, telecommunication and information security management. She also works as an ISO 27001 Lead Auditor for public institution since 2011.

Dr. Ashwin Sasongko Sastrosubroto is a senior researcher with ?Pusat Penelitian Informatika ? Lembaga Ilmu Pengetahuan Indonesia?, Information Technology Research Center - The Indonesian Institute of Sciences. The center is a Government Research Center located in Bandung. He also serves as a member of ?Dewan TIK Nasional?, The Indonesian National ICT Council (ICT ? Information and Communication Technology).

Dr Suella Hansen, Director of consultancy company Network Strategies Limited, has been active as a telecommunications economist over the past 20 years, working in numerous regulatory regimes across the globe. With a PhD in economics from the University of Cambridge, she has extensive experience in examining the regulatory, financial and economic aspects of the telecoms industry. Her clients include regulators, policy-makers, operators, vendors and other international organisations.

I am currently researching a Doctorate investigating the creation of Art using immersive Virtual Reality at the Auckland University of Technology. I undertook a Master?s degree in Digital Media Art at the University of Brighton in 2014. Previously I engaged in a career as an IT Professional for around 30 years and spent some years as a secondary school teacher. A photographer from the age of eleven I became fascinated in creating digital art pieces from photographs.

John Burke (BSc, Melbourne; BEd, Monash; MA(Ed), Stanford) has taken a number of strategic and development roles in corporate, community and government organisations, including: 

National University of Mongolia

National University of Mongolia

National Research Council CNR, Italy

Denis Cryle has published widely in the fields of Australian colonial history and biography, as well as on Commonwealth communications, telegraphy and the newspaper press. His books and edited collections include: Murdoch's Flagship (2008), Consent and Consensus (2005), Disreputable Profession (1997) and The Petrie Family (1992). He is an Emeritus Professor at Central Queensland University.