He established the first web home pages for the ACT Government, the Special Broadcasting Service, Australian Information Industry Association and the National Press Club. The content of this talk will be developed here. This ability to access information from military and civilian sources throughout the world gives Blue Ridge a global command and control capability unparalleled in Naval history. The Blue Ridge is essentially a floating web server. Military personnel sit at PCs and laptops, using mostly ordinary office automation and internet software.
Equipment is tied down using webbing straps, rack mounting and in some cases adhesive tape.
We are in a transition period, between the use of paper and electronic documents. That transition has been accelerated by the Internet, but will still be a painful process. This is not just a matter of information management, but a change in the way organisations operate. One aspect of the change is that computer applications become more standardised. What once required an expensive new system design and development by experts, can now be done with low cost standard components, downloaded from the 'net.