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I would like to advise members of our intention to hold a one day conference
workshop here at ECU on the Federal Government's Broadcasting Services
Amendment (Online Services) Act 1999 which commenced operation on 1 January,
2000.   This conference will now take place on Wednesday, 12 April, 2000.
The conference was re-scheduled  to allow for the implications of
implementation of the Act to be assessed.  Since 1 January 2000, a number of
take down notices have been issued to ISPs and a 'co-regulatory' regime has
been established.

The program for ECUBit 2000 is now online at:-

http://www.scis.ecu.edu.au/ecubit/ecubit.htm


ECUBit 2000 will include presentations from:

Australian Broadcasting Authority;
CSIRO
Electronic Frontiers Foundation
the Internet Service Provider Industry
Content blocking solution providers

ABA will be represented by the  Manager of Online Services Content
Regulation Section, Mr Stephen Nugent.  Stephen's section has day-to-day
responsibility for implementing the co-regulatory scheme for Internet
content.  He will give a workshop on procedures, rule making and case
studies based on the first 3 months operation of the Act.

Kim Heitman will represent EFA and Philip McCrae from CSIRO will provide an
update on CSIROs work for NOIE on content blocking.

Concurrent with the conference/workshop, ECU has initiated a research
project aimed at measuring implementation costs incurred by ISPs in meeting
regulatory requirements.  The project is coordinated by MSc student David
Hate, who is responsible for the data collection instrument found at:-

http://www.scis.ecu.edu.au/ecubit/datcol.htm

David is currently piloting this instrument and would welcome feedback from
ISPs.

Mark:-)


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Mark Brogan
Lecturer
School of Computer and Information Science
Edith Cowan University, Mount Lawley Campus
2 Bradford St, Mount Lawley, WA 6050
m.brogan@cowan.edu.au
Tel: +61 8 9 370 6300