The Government 2.0 Taskforce has invited public collaboration on a government document by launching a beta version of their issues paper, in one of the first major Australian government initiatives to utilise collaborative Web 2.0 technologies.
The first stage of the National Broadband Network has begun in Tasmania with an open competitive tender for fibre optic cable by Aurora Energy.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has denied Telstra’s attempt to prevent competitors from utilising their copper networks to provide broadband and fixed voice services, extending their May determination on the issue for a further five years.
A new federal government paper that outlines goals for Australia’s digital economy following the roll out of the National Broadband Network (NBN) has been well received by peak industry bodies.
The federal government’s proposed ‘clean feed’ Internet censorship scheme does not account for trends in social networking communities and will easily be circumvented by savvy Gen-Yers, according to a prominent network engineer.