Access to information
Report
Australia's future workforce?
This focuses on what jobs and skills we need to develop to ensure our economy continues to grow and diversify. Discussion around jobs often focuses on the here and now. However, if Australia is to maintain a robust economy that is internationally competitive, we must plan now for the changes, challenges and opportunities we face...
Report
A primer on digital productivity: an introduction to some of the basic concepts of how digitisation affects productivity growth
As part of its work on analysing digital productivity, the Bureau of Communications Research (BCR) has released the first part of a leading project to understand how digitisation affects Australia’s productivity and the nation’s economy.
Report
Keystones to foster inclusive knowledge societies: access to information and knowledge, freedom of expression, privacy, and ethics on a global internet
The transnational and multi-dimensional nature of Cyberspace and its growing importance presents new frontiers with unparalleled opportunities and challenges for access to information and knowledge, freedom of expression, privacy and ethics. The Internet Study being undertaken by UNESCO is seeking to provide the necessary clarity to support holistic approaches to addressing this broad range of...
Report
The net effect: using social media data to understand the impact of a conference on social networks
The research uses social media data from Twitter to develop a methodology for understanding the effects of events and conferences.
Case study
Opportunities for information sharing: case studies
The NSW Department of Premier & Cabinet engaged the Social Policy Research Centre at University of New South Wales to develop three case studies that identified the challenges to sharing information appropriately, and the opportunities for better personal information sharing between government agencies and non-government organisations.