Keynotes
In 2024, Rural Women Online hosted two Digital Intensives in Greater Shepparton and North East Victoria. Each week featured free workshops on online scams, digital tools for small businesses, and online safety, plus a staffed Digital Help Desk and refreshments.
The programs concluded with a keynote on Challenges and Opportunities of the Digital Era by Prof Julian Thomas and Anna Krien. Catch up on their talks below.
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.
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