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discuss proposed tentative meeting on 18 July 1999 - details below?

* International Computer Ethics Conference in Melbourne, Australia -
14 to 16 July 1999 and some other matters arising re: CAB networking
with ACS members and other interested persons in Melbourne

I am getting more and more enthusiastic about the International
Conference on Computer Ethics, being held in Melbourne, Australia,
from 14 to 16 July 1999. Details on the conference are at:
http://www.aice.swin.edu.au/events/AICEC99/index.html

I note that the conference has been endorsed by the Australian
Computer Society (ACS), and attracts 18 Practicing Computer
Profesional (PCP) points.

The conference registration brochure was included in the May 1999
issue of INFORMATION AGE, which goes to all ACS members. The venue for
the conference (Swinburne University of Technology, Lilydale Campus)
sounds ideal for an international conference, in that it is close to
Melbourne (that is, a major Australian city), but also has a
meditative type quality (that is, it is in a semi-rural setting). 

I note that an extremely wide range of papers are being presented
(abstracts are on the above Web page). In note in particular that Dr
John Weckert the Chair of the ELSIC Ethics Taskforce (ET) and a key
organiser of the conference, is speaking on 'Trust in the Information
Age'. I also note that Patsy Segall, a member of the ELSIC ET has
organised a workshop on 'Codes of Professional Ethics: Can they be
useful?' - this sounds like it should be extremely interesting, given
that the panel included both Professor John Hughes, Director, ACS
Membership Board (who is responsible for the ACS code of ethics), and
Professor Gottenbarm, who Chaired a Taskforce on Software Engineering
Codes of Ethics - the results of I understand have recently been
adopted by the IEEE-CS and the ACM.

I think it is really exciting also that some of the best papers
arising from the conference it is hoped to publish in an issue of the
AUSTRALIAN COMPUTER JOURNAL, the ACS's international journal of record
in relation to developments in information technology, which I
understand John Weckert will be the guest editor for.

Given pressures of work, I doubt I will be able to attend the
conference, but do hope to meet with some of the organisers starting
on the morning of Saturday, 17 July 1999, and/or the ELSIC ET
taskforce and other interested ELSIC members, to discuss in particular
developing even closer linkages between the ACS and Australian
Institute for Computer Ethics (AICE). 

I am open also to attending a networking meeting with members of
committees I oversight (ELSIC, Health Informatics, National Computer
Education Committee, Women in Technology) in Melbourne on the
afternoon of Sunday, 18 July 1999, if interest is expressed in such a
meeting, and a member of any of the committees I oversight, living in
Melbourne, offers to organise (if only small numbers involved, could
be at Golden Wing lounge at Melbourne Airport - if larger numbers
involved, better if it held at a University or similar sort of place,
I think).

Regards

Andrew R. Freeman, FACS           Location: Belconnen Canberra ACT Australia
Key e-mail: afreeman@pcug.org.au    Web URL http://www.pcug.org.au/~afreeman
Director,  Community Affairs Board,  Australian Computer Society   (1996/99)
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