Digital media companies in NSW are set to get a boost with funding of $3 million over the next two years while an ICT industry taskforce has been developed by the state government to create a NSW Digital Economy Industry Action Plan.
Despite the announcement overnight of the [[artnid:392162|National Broadband Network’s (NBN) interim satellite services|new]], the NSW Farmers Federation has cast doubt over the extent to which these will be adopted by regional and rural Australians.
The federal government will provide $21.7 million in funding for its National Broadband Network-enabled education and skills services program. The Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Senator Stephen Conroy, announced the funding at the CeBit tradeshow and Sydney, saying the NBN will be vital to the delivery of online education.