Use of assisted reproductive technology treatment cycles There were 61,774 assisted reproductive technology (ART) treatment cycles performed in Australia and New Zealand in 2010 (56,489 and 5,285 respectively), representing decreases of 13.4% for Australia and 1% for New Zealand from the previous year. The substantial decrease in cycles in Australia coincided with a change in...

This background note outlines the types of communications data generated by use of the Internet, email and phones, why law enforcement agencies want it retained, and what existing access law enforcement agencies have to such data. The Government’s interest in establishing a data retention scheme appears to date back to at least early 2010 when...

This volume presents the papers from the fifth biennial Information Systems Foundations Workshop, held at The Australian National University in Canberra from 30 September to 1 October 2010. The focus of the workshop was the foundations of information systems as an academic discipline. The emphasis in the 2010 workshop was on theory building in information...

This report looks at the growth and continuing financial success of most technology, media and telecommunication businesses. Overall, telecom remains the sector’s largest market segment, taking in 32.5 percent of the sector’s total revenues, and making up 43 percent of its enterprise value. Its robust growth in 2011 was helped considerably by continued growth in...

The report talks about eGovernment changes being made in the American state of Utah. The key to this improved service is eGovernment - the process of delivering information and processing government transactions digitally through web, phone, mobile, and point-of-purchase channels. The way government operates is changing. Just as the business sector tapped into technology to...