ACCAN believes it's time to get smart about regulation in the communications sector by putting consumers first in the regulatory equation. ACCAN has published a report by the Communications Law Centre, University of Technology Sydney titled Consumers First: Smart Regulation for Digital Australia that investigates a principles-based approach to regulation. ACCAN commissioned this report to...

This report is the product of a JISC funded project to investigate the values, benefits and impacts of digitised resources. It performs the task of synthesising information relating to the benefits of digitisation and helps to provide a compelling argument for future digitisation work. The opportunity to engage actively with British content that is educational...

The two critical needs that underlie this study are "the need to recognize the risk to a literal and metaphorical recording of our society, culture, and heritage, and the need to fashion a coordinated response to save and preserve sound recordings," according to this US report. The National Recording Preservation Act of 2000 sets up...

This report provides an overview of the World Internet Project, presenting a broad picture of the Internet in Australia, with comparisons to our earlier 2007 study, and to the international findings of our partners in the World Internet Project.

For most Indigenous people in central and northern Australia the encounter with the western world has been relatively recent. Yet even in the most remote Indigenous communities, global influences pervade everyday life and new forms of media and communications are reshaping youth culture. This paper draws on ethnographic case study data from research with Indigenous...