Title: Department of Computer Science Seminar
Date: Wednesday, May 10, 2000
Time: 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Venue: Room N101, CSIT Building [108]
Speaker:  Tom Worthington (Visiting Fellow in DCS at ANU)
Description: "Internet Payments for Government Agencies"


                        Abstract



The presentation will feature material Tom has prepared for key decision
makers in government agencies on how to accept payments from business online
and determine the inhibitors agencies face in becoming Internet payment
enabled. This is part of a Government commitment to encourage all Federal
government agencies to place appropriate transactions online by the end of
2001. The Business Entry Point is an initiative of the Commonwealth
Government in partnership with State, Territory and local governments. Paper
at: http://about.business.gov.au/ipp/ipga.html

URL: http://cs.anu.edu.au/lib/seminars/seminars00/dept20000510


Biography: Tom Worthington (http://www.tomw.net.au) is a Visiting Fellow in
the Department of Computer Science at the Australian National University. He
is an independent electronic business consultant and author of the book Net
Traveller. The first Web Master for the Australian Department of Defence, in
1999 he was elected a Fellow of the Australian Computer Society for his
contribution to the development of public Internet policy. Tom is a director
and past President of the Australian Computer Society and a voting member of
the Association for Computing Machinery. He is currently consulting to the
Commonwealth Government on Internet Payments and is assisting with the ANU's
new e-commerce unit for semester 2:
http://cs.anu.edu.au/displayUnit.html?unitCode=comp3410