At this week's OECD Ministerial Meeting on the Future of the Internet Economy held in Seoul, Korea, 1,500 world leaders, experts and academics from more than 40 countries gathered to work out how the Internet can improve the world and what challenges it faces in the future.

Telstra's Chloe Munro, Executive Director of Innovation Projects for the Digital Future took part in the conference, and addressed the preceding Business Stakeholders Forum on how the internet economy can address global challenges such as climate change.

Fresh from the conference, Chloe talked with nowwearetalking's Martin Barr direct from Korea last night about what it's like to experience the world's fastest broadband, the hot issues at the conference and the international buzz on structural separation.

A demonstration of u-health remote medical care service which allows patients to monitor their own health indicators such as blood sugar levels. The phone is used to transmit results to the doctor real time. From Insung Information Co Ltd., featured at the technology exhibition at the OECD Ministerial Meeting.	Mr Yoo-Kyung Lee with Chloe Munro, demonstrating a world first high-speed NoLA (nomadic/local area wireless access) system which supports 3.6Gbps using unlicensed 606GHz band. Featured at the technology exhibition at the OECD Ministerial Meeting.

Listen to the interview

• Listen to the Chloe Munro Podcast (MP3 - 7.8MB)
  Insights from the OECD Ministerial Meeting, Seoul, Korea.
  17-18 June 2008

Download the speech background paper

• Infrastructure investment, creativity and innovation - How the internet economy can address global challenges (PDF - 759KB)
  Address by Chloe Munro, Telstra's Executive Director of Innovation Projects for the Digital Future to the OECD Business Stakeholders Forum.
  16 June 2008

Watch the video

• View what other participants have to say on the Future of the Internet on YouTube (www.youtube.com)

Learn more

• OECD Ministerial Meeting website (www.oecd.org)