About the speaker Tom Worthington is Immediate Past President of the Australian Computer Society. 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.
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We are at the beginning of the end of a revolution in the way organisations operate. That revolution is the Internet. The effects of that revolution are rippling through government and private organisations, effecting the way they work. Last year it became fashionable for your organisation to have a web page. By the end of this year it will be fashionable to run your organisation via the Internet.