Have a say in your Broadband Future

The Australian Government is holding an event, Realising Our Broadband Future, at UNSW in Sydney this week to talk about the applications and business models that will thrive in Australia's high speed broadband future. At Google we've been very supportive of the vision for ubiquitous high-speed Internet access in Australia for driving innovation and stimulating the digital economy and we'll be presenting in various sessions at the conference.

On Thursday morning Vint Cerf (our Chief Internet Evangelist) will be giving a keynote address, to be followed by David King (Senior Product Manager at YouTube). David will talk about new business models that are emerging for media companies in the digital economy. I'll be chipping in as Lead Editor on a stream focusing on Smart Infrastructure.

It's great to see Government opening up the event for participation online for everyone in Australia. The Open To Ideas forum lets you submit questions and ideas for discussion as well as voting on other people's ideas - this uses Google Moderator. Make sure you submit your vote today. You can watch live webcasts of the event here.

Posted by Alan Noble, Head of Engineering Google Australia and NZ