Digital communications
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Developing the workforce for a digital future
The fourth industrial age rolling out across the globe is creating a digitally-enabled environment that will affect every company. Digital innovation has the capacity to transform practices, raise performance and increase growth across all industry sectors. The pace of change in digital technologies continues to increase and become more embedded in the economy.
Discussion paper
Registrant policy: Enabling Australia’s digital economy and society
This issues paper looks at issues around the structure of the .au namespace, reserved or prohibited domain names, and eligibility for and allocation of domain names including what rules should apply to direct registration of .au domain names. The auDA 2017 Policy Review Panel has produced this issues paper as part of its work on...
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Investment timeframes and spectrum licensing: licensees look to minimize their spectrum risks
Regulators around the world are looking for ways to maintain flexibility in radio-communications licensing while giving investors some certainty about spectrum tenure. One of the issues raised in this context is the duration of licenses. All things being equal, a longer license provides more certainty. However, there are many other factors that affect the investment...
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Administration of Medicare electronic claiming arrangements
The objective of this audit was to assess the effectiveness of Medicare electronic claiming arrangements, including an assessment of the extent to which claiming and processing efficiencies for the Government, health professionals and Medicare customers have been achieved.
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Technology, media and telecommunications predictions 2018
The technology, media and entertainment, and telecommunications ecosystem remains as fascinating as ever in 2018. Will augmented reality become mainstream? How will machine learning affect the enterprise? What's the future of the smartphone? This predictions report provides insight into transformation and growth opportunities over the next one to five years.