The core part of the project process was the conduct of a series of workshops involving representatives from each State/Territory.
Consultation Papers
The Project Team prepared briefing papers for each of
the technologies listed above. These papers served as inputs to
stimulate discussion at the workshops, and in some cases, were
modified in the course of the workshops. The papers - as modified
in the light of the comments at the workshops - are attached to
this report.
Web Site and Discussion List
In addition to the website developed for the previous project, a
password-protected website was set up. It contained an archived
discussion group. This discussion group was active – before
and after the workshops – from mid September to the end of
October, 1998.
Workshops
As part of the consultative process of the project,
seven workshops were conducted over the period 6th to 14th
October, 1998. Good representation from the States/Territories
was obtained and constructive discussions occurred during the
course of the workshops. The workshops considered the briefing
papers and inputs from the discussion group. The facilitators
allowed representatives to express their views as fully as was
possible within the necessary time allotted. The objective was to
ensure that the outputs of the workshop represented the views of
the States/Territories Representatives rather than those of the
Project Team.
Because of the differing states of development of the various technologies, the recommendations vary in level of detail. In order, however, that the outputs represent the consensus obtained, it is not regarded as necessary to harmonise the degree of detail across the Recommendations from the different workshops.
The workshops had an additional benefit. In the course of the proceedings, and afterwards, it was clear that relationships had been established between the attendees which should result in useful networking in the future. In the short term it is hoped that these links will facilitate the resolution of subsidiary issues which are being considered in the discussion group.
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