Australia and New Zealand Each Celebrate their First National Telework Week

Extremely excited to be a part of National Telework Week in Australia and New Zealand. In Melbourne, we kicked off the week by hosting National Telework Congress (Nov. 12).  Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard opened it up with a live Cisco TelePresence cross between Parliament House in Canberra and the audience attending the Congress at Melbourne University.

Here's a video of the Prime Minister sharing how she uses Cisco TelePresence in Government to the audience (see video here). One of the most interesting anecdotes was when she shared how she was doing a TP session with the Australian Ambassador to Japan right after the 3-11 earthquake when right in the middle of the session he had to take cover under the table as there was an aftershock, but the meeting continued (and he was fine).