Media Release: Inventor of the Web first visit in 15 years to Australia

PRESS RELEASE

For immediate release

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Inventor of the Web first visit in 15 years to Australia

3 Cities Canberra, Melbourne and Sydney

Tuesday 29th January to Wednesday 6th February 2013

About the Australian 3-City Tour

Sir Tim Berners-Lee is coming to Australia for the first time in over a decade from January 27th – February 5th on a three city tour. Sir Tim Berners-Lee Australia, 3-City Tour, will commence at Canberra and continue to Melbourne and Sydney.

This tour was initiated with a request from the Linux.conf.au to have Sir Tim Berners-Lee as the keynote presenter at their conference on Thursday 31st January 2013, in Canberra. This will be his first visit in over a decade and he is delighted to accept the invitation primarily because it will support the awareness of the Web throughout the community, business, government and the whole of society.

This is not your typical celebrity tour, it will consist of a series of events over 8 days comprising of private corporate events and public open-university hosted events which will be free to the public.

iiNet is proud to present Sir Tim Berners-Lee and with the additional support of a number of Consortium and Private Sponsors, this visit is now a reality and without whom this unique opportunity would not have been possible.

Details of the tour are at http://tbldownunder.org/

There is still one opportunity for a private event available, so please contact us if your organisation would be interested in a private event.

Quotes of Sir Tim Berners-Lee

‘The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past’.
‘Data is a precious thing and will last longer than the systems themselves’. ‘You affect the world by what you browse’.

This tour is co-ordinated by Pia Waugh Open Government Expert and Partner&Prosper in collaboration
with Celebrity Speakers Ltd. For information about the tour and its events or media please contact:

Jan Bryson, Partner&Prosper
E: jan@partnerandprosper.com.au
P: 08 9443 3468, M: 0403 444 044