NBN petition and the backlash: when does democracy speak?
This article by EFA Board Member Sean Rintel was originally published at The Conversation. Read the original article. Australian social media users and civil society groups are mobilising against LNP Communication spokesperson Malcolm Turnbull’s claim today that “democracy has spoken” on the issue of the National Broadband Network (NBN). On election day last Saturday, Nick Paine, a self-identifying LNP-voting student […]
New domain names on the way
At last weeks ICANN meeting in Singapore, the ICANN board made a historic decision, to go ahead with a program of creating many new top level generic domain names, and EFA was there. A top level domain is one at the top level of the domain system (a name like .com, or .org, or .au), […]
Your thoughts? "Fast Broadband will be best served by the Market"
In today’s edition of The Australian is an article written by James Massola called Fast broadband best served by market: UN report. Massola quotes from the report by the UN’s Broadband Commission for Digital Development. The report recommends: “a market-led approach facilitated by an enabling policy environment” as the best way to promote the deployment […]
A rising tide lifts all criminals
The Australian reported today on alarm by Federal police at the opportunities the NBN will provide to cyber-crooks. “The inherent risk of the NBN is that it could facilitate the continual growth and sophistication of online criminal syndicates’ ability to commit cyber offences against online systems due to the attractiveness of the increased speed,” they […]
Broadband future conference and local events
Starting Thursday 10 December, the Department of Broadband, Communications, and the Digital Economy (DBCDE) will be holding a two day conference on the future of broadband policy in Australia. A number of local forums are being run in conjunction with the Sydney-based event. Check them out in the following locations: Parramatta Melbourne Brisbane The main […]