KATE CRAWFORD – Will Spatial Innovation Business in Australia Be Like the NBN?

Kate will share with you:

1.The dynamics of innovation in a society

2.Analysis of NBN history,

3.Parallels in spatial innovation

4.NBN as digital applications infrastructure

5.Opportunities going forward

Who will benefit from hearing this presentation?

People in spatial innovation and those dealing with rapid technological change.

Kate Crawford

Kate has been an active researcher, observer and adviser to people using, adapting and adapting to technologies since the first days of the internet in USA, UK Europe and Australia. Most recently she is helping to establish the Digital Earth Node at Griffith University. Her passion is the dynamic ways in which people are enabled and shaped as they interpret the opportunities for problem solving and creating with new tools. She has been an innovator working with the Photonics CRC at the Sydney Technology Park and more recently in engaging a broader community in applications of spatial technologies in association with SIBA.