EFA calls for public inclusion in any upcoming NBN review
New Minister for Communications, Malcolm Turnbull, MP, yesterday held a media conference (see also the official media statement) in which he announced the new NBN Co interim statement of expectations. In the conference Mr Turnbull reiterated that the government will institute a strategic review of the NBN. Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA) calls on Mr Turnbull to include […]
NBN petition: Saga Continues as Turnbull attacks lecturer and EFA Board Member
Electronic Frontiers Australia today supports Board Member and University of Queensland lecturer Dr. Sean Rintel’s argument for increased public consultation in the upcoming NBN strategic review in the face of criticism from Minister for Communications Malcolm Turnbull. Dr. Rintel made his argument in a piece for the The Conversation discussing the recent online petition calling […]
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 […]