The Australians are light years ahead of the rest of the world in terms of their world view of interactive gaming as evidenced by the rash of conferences being produced there on the topic. Here's a peek at the next one coming up in May.
You'll find May in Sydney to be the site of what looks to be an excellent conference called Gambling, Technology & Society: Regulatory Challenges for the 21st Century.
The topics to be covered include the following presented by a sterling conference faculty:
- Responses to the Internet, electronic commerce and interactive gambling
- Gambling and Australian society
- The Market: sportsbetting and racing, lotteries, registered clubs, gaming
- Criminal applications to interactive and Internet gambling
- Controlling the technology
- Privacy and freedom of information v's the public good
- Towards smarter regulatory strategies
- Legal issues and options
- Taxing cross-border gambling
- Financial transactions
- Money laundering
For a full view of the information on this conference, you can get the info at
http://www.aic.gov.au/conferences/gambling.html