This is the latest report of the CCi Digital Futures Project.

Telecommunications connectivity plays a crucial role in the lives of refugees and new migrants as the settlement process involves building an identity within a new community in Australia while maintaining contact with family, culture, and community overseas. Furthermore, communications are becoming increasingly essential in facilitating access to essential services, and in enabling social inclusion. A...

This report makes the economic case for flexible copyright exceptions and extended safe harbour provisions.

In the UK, the Internet has become an important feature of the lives of the majority of young people. However, there is a significant minority of young people who are not able to navigate or connect properly with the online world. They are, in other words, outside the digital mainstream. Evidence for this group has...

This preliminary report is based upon a desktop search of apps (completed in two stages during Feb-June 2012), some extracts from the draft discussion paper From explanation to engagement: Application and use of social media to enhance local government performance (Anne Howard, ACELG-University of Canberra December 2011) and conclusions of the co-authors.