The Innovation Policy Report aims to highlight developments in the innovation policy area. It also includes reference to relevant innovation documents and events.

This report assesses the effectiveness of the Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy’s administration of the Regional Backbone Blackspots Program, including the establishment and ongoing management of the program.

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...

For young Aboriginal people new technology enables creative engagement and provides a means for negotiating and developing their identities, asserting and affirming their Aboriginality within an urban environment. In this report, although young people’s responses indicate the central role of mobile phones as interactive communication devices, they also acknowledged their limited experiences with new technology...

This report argues that while email continues to be the most common method by which scams are delivered, the use of landline and mobile telephones, including SMS, to target potential scam victims, has increased. The Australasian Consumer Fraud Taskforce (ACFT) includes 22 government regulatory agencies and departments in Australia and New Zealand that work alongside...