Keynotes

The digital era brings with it exciting new opportunities and can heighten already existing problems. Watch our two keynotes that touch on the issues and opportunities of the digital era, including the chance for communities to get digital inclusion right.

Rural Woman Online 2024 in Yackandandah Victoria.

Keynote by Anna Krien

Delivered 15 September 2024 at the Yackandandah Public Hall in North East Victoria. Following this event, an edited version of Anna’s speech was selected as the cover article of the November edition of The Monthly, ‘The people who mistook their lives for an app’.

Featured speakers (in order of appearance): Mary Crooks AO, Executive Director, Victorian Women’s Trust; Anna Krien, author and journalist; Lisa Ryan, General Manager Digital & Business Innovation, North East Water; and Alana Johnson, Chair, Victorian Women’s Trust. Transcript available here.

Keynote by Prof Julian Thomas

Delivered on 9 August 2024 at the McIntosh Centre in Shepparton. Featured speakers (in order of appearance): Mary Crooks AO, Executive Director, Victorian Women’s Trust; Cheryl Bourke, Corporate Services, Rumbarala; Prof Julian Thomas, Director of the ARC Centre for Automated Decision-Making and Society, RMIT University; Linda Nieuwenhuizen, CEO of the Committee for Greater Shepparton; and Alana Johnson, Chair, Victorian Women’s Trust. Transcript available here.

Thank you

These keynotes were presented as part of Rural Women Online. We thank NBN for their support of each keynote event. Rural Women Online was made possible thanks to support from our major partners, Helen MacPherson Smith Trust, and Bendigo Bank Community Enterprise Foundation.

Rural Woman Online 2024 in Yackandandah Victoria.