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The Overseas Telecommunications Commission (OTC): a 1960s trend setter for GBE reform
Microeconomic reform is often dated to the 1980s and occasionally to the mid 1970s picking up important reforms from the Whitlam era. A key phase in this reform period was the corporatisation of Government Business Enterprises (GBEs) which commenced from about 1985. These reforms had efficiency as their core objective and were a necessary precondition...
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Disruption revisited: Netflix, Apple TV, Google TV, Facebook TV
Historically, television and media content have generally been tied to specific distribution platforms or outlets. However, multiple new players and new forces are at work now driving significant changes. Four business models have been constructed in this paper, about current initiatives for Internet based television in the USA, which have the potential to challenge the...
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Sharing more than bandwidth: online collaboration in the era of the National Broadband Network
This paper positions the software tool Adobe Connect, one of a suite of web services provided by the Adobe technology company, within the NBN-enabled services paradigm, and reports on the way it is being used to extend classroom learning in a NSW high school.
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Community participation in the development of digital radio: the Australian experience
This paper filters recent developments in digital radio policy and implementation through the perspectives of community radio stakeholders, obtained through interviews, to describe and analyse these constraints.
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Purpose driven productivity: digital case studies in social innovation
This paper assesses some of the characteristics of the relationship between social innovation and the evolving digital economy. It is based on a study of several not-for-profit organisations, who, as part of their operation, have implemented Web 2.0 solutions utilising resources made available under the Victorian Government Innovation Statement (2008).