The Open Road: Conference Program

Monday, 30 October

9am-10.15am Registration, Tea and Coffee Urn

10.15am-10.30am Welcome: Professor Don Schauder, Monash University

10.30-11am Hass Dellal, Multicultural Commission, Victoria

11am-11.30am Morning Tea

11.30-am-1pm Panel Session One: "Why E-diversity?" The Policy Imperatives

Chair: Derek Whitehead, Swinburne University

• Phil Rabl, Multicultural Affairs Branch, Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs
• Mile Musovski, Team Leader, Multicultural Services, Centrelink
• George Lekakis, Chair, Ethnic Communities Council of Victoria
• Donna Martin, Manager, Community Development, Multimedia Victoria
• Brad Matheson, President, Municipal Association of Victoria

1pm-2pm Lunch

2pm-3.30pm Panel Session 2: E-diversity and current responses to the challenge

Chair: Professor Don Schauder, School of Information and Management Systems, Monash University

• Gary Hardy, General Manager, Network Services, State Library of Victoria
• Licia Kokocinski, Director, Access for Disabilities in Ethnic Communities
• Trish Love and Dalal Smiley, Darebin City Council
• Sue Scott, Director, Online Legal Access Project, Law Foundation of New South Wales
• Mike Zafiropoulos, Station Manager, Radio 3EA

3.30-4pm Afternoon Tea

4pm Launch of the Open Road multilingual website and project: The Honourable John Pandazopoulos, Minister Assisting the Premier on Multicultural Affairs

5pm Drinks and Dinner

Tuesday, 31 October

9.30am Scene Setting for the Day: Donna Martin, Multimedia Victoria

10am-10.30am Morning Tea

10.30am-12.30pm Parallel sessions: papers and presentations

Session 1:

Wayne Tseng, CEO etranslate.com.au and MultilingualWeb.com.au: Four Effective Ways for Planning and Deploying a Multilingual Web

Dr. Lizhong Zhang, Latrobe University: Building Online English-Chinese Bilingual Databases: Issues in Design and Management

Session 2:

Janice Knuckey, Centre of Excellence for Students Who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing at NMIT and Claudia Slegers (CIRCIT at RMIT): Sign Language Users and Online Services: The Deaf Australia Online II Project

Pino Migliorino Managing Director Cultural Perspectives / Janice Oliver, Australian Quarantine Information Service: Australian Quarantine & Inspection Service and Cultural Perspectives

Session 3:

Francesca Primerano, Deakin University: The Internet, Cross-Cultural Design Issues and First Generation Italo-Australians

Piergiorgio Moro, National Ethnic and Multicultural Broadcasters' Council: The Ethnic News Digest: A Multilingual Website for Community Broadcasters

12.30pm-1.30pm Lunch

1.30pm-3.30pm Parallel sessions: papers and presentations

Session 4:

Massimo Fuchs, CEO, WorldPoint, Hawaii: Managing Modern Multilingual Web Sites

Lise Moody,Womens' Health Statewide, SA: Australia Donna

Session 5:

Ilona Lee, NSW Multicultural Health Communication Service: A Multilingual Health Information Net - A Dream and a Nightmare

Jeff Langdon, Manager, Better Health Channel, Victoria: Multilingual health information on line

Session 6:

Claudia Slegers (CIRCIT at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology): Communication Across Cultures: Signing Deaf Australians and Hearing Australians

Matthew Warren and Shona Warren, Deakin University: Cyber Education: A tool for Multicultural Australia

3.30pm-4.00pm Afternoon Tea

4pm-4.45pmPlenary

Wednesday, 1 November

10am - 2pm +

A a small, intensive, half-day hands-on workshop session for those concerned with language encoding and databasing issues around multicultural publishing, held at VICNET, State Library of Victoria, and hosted by VICNET staff. It requires a high level of technical expertise.

Current: October 25, 2000