Organisation
Australian Communications Consumer Action Network
Acronym:
ACCAN
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Report
The digital age project: strategies that enable older social housing residents to use the internet
This publication provides insights into the factors affecting technology adoption for older and disadvantaged people, and provides training and interface guidelines and a potential model for other public housing communities to become more digitally aware.
Submission
Home internet in remote Indigenous communities
The project aimed to inform the successful provision of internet infrastructure, maintenance and training in remote areas by providing detailed qualitative analysis of how households in the three communities experienced the internet.
Submission
Copyright Amendment (Online Infringement) Bill 2015 submission
This submission from the Australian Communications Consumer Action Network (ACCAN) is about steps to prevent online piracy using systems such as geoblocking.
Report
What’s ya story: the making of a digital storytelling mobile app with Aboriginal young people
The majority of the Aboriginal population in Victoria is aged 25 and under and among the highest users of mobile phones: actively engaging in social media and using digital technologies, especially mobile devices and the internet, to produce and tell their stories in ways determined by them. In 2013-2014, the Australian Communications Consumer Action Network...
Report
Mobile app consumer attitudes and experiences
This research into Australians' use of mobile applications explores user sentiment towards paying for features and services and data privacy in the app ecosystem. Introduction Observation of overseas attention to issues of in-app information privacy and purchase issues suggested the potential for consumers to be affected by apps’ access to information on devices, and by...