Submissions in response to the ‘consultation draft’ for the Digital Economy Future Directions Paper

A 'consultation draft' of the digital economy future directions paper was released in late 2008. The consultation draft aimed to identify the themes and suggestions that will inform the action plan of the future directions paper. The consultation draft sought targeted input on specific implementation steps for maximising the benefits to Australia from the digital economy.

Submissions to the paper were due by 11 February 2009 and those that were received have now been reviewed. Those submissions for which permission was received by the Department for public release are available below.

Submissions

Please note: Submissions are listed alphabetically by publication name.

.au Domain Administration auDA (PDF, 146.9 KB)
Abigroup Telecommunications (Word, 365.5 KB)
Alcatel Lucent (PDF, 99.7 KB)
American Power Conversion APC (PDF, 77.1 KB)
AUSTAR (PDF, 62.9 KB)
Australasian Performing Right Association APRA Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society AMCOS (PDF, 889.3 KB)
Australia Council Australia Council for the Arts (Word, 200.5 KB)
Australian Association of National Advertisers AANA (PDF, 229.7 KB)
Australian Broadcasting Corporation ABC (PDF, 101.1 KB)
Australian Bureau of Statistics ABS (Word, 164.0 KB)
Australian Computer Society ACS (PDF, 77.9 KB)
Australian Copyright Council (PDF, 313.0 KB)
Australian Digital Alliance ADA (Word, 114.0 KB)
Australian Direct Marketing Association ADMA (Word, 147.5 KB)
Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft AFACT (PDF, 959.6 KB)
Australian Industry Group Ai Group (Word, 78.5 KB)
Australian Information Industry Association AIIA (PDF, 495.9 KB)
Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies AIATSIS (PDF, 56.0 KB)
Australian Interactive Media Industry Association AIMIA (Word, 103.0 KB)
Australian Libraries Copyright Committee ALCC (Word, 94.0 KB)
Australian Library and Information Association ALIA (PDF, 316.3 KB)
Australian Local Government Association ALGA (Word, 36.0 KB)
Australian Mobile Telecommunications Association AMTA (Word, 144.5 KB)
Australian National Data Service ANDS Monash University (Word, 312.5 KB)
Australian Privacy Foundation (PDF, 100.8 KB)
Australian Publishers Association APA (PDF, 168.6 KB)
Australian Recording Industry Association ARIA (PDF, 117.8 KB)
Australian Spatial Information Business Association ASIBA (PDF, 453.6 KB)
Australian Subscription Television and Radio Association ASTRA (Word, 637.5 KB)
Australian Visual Software Distributors Association AVSDA (PDF, 109.7 KB)
Australias Academic and Research Network AARNet (PDF, 208.9 KB)
Broadcast Australia - via Government Relations Australia lobbyists (Word, 341.5 KB)
Business Information Systems, Faculty of Economics and Business, The University of Sydney (Word, 79.0 KB)
Cisco (Word, 56.5 KB)
City of Bunbury (Word, 39.0 KB)
Collections Council of Australia CCA (Word, 184.5 KB)
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation CSIRO (PDF, 129.2 KB)
Communications Alliance (PDF, 79.9 KB)
Communications Expert Group (PDF, 80.9 KB)
Computers Off Australia (Word, 62.0 KB)
Computing Research and Education Association of Australasia CORE (Word, 46.0 KB)
Connecting Up Australia (PDF, 70.4 KB)
Consumers Telecommunications Network (Word, 363.0 KB)
Cooperative ResearchCentre- Spatial Information CRCSI (Word, 32.0 KB)
Copyright Advisory Group of the Ministerial Council on Employment, Education, Training and Youth Affairs (PDF, 106.6 KB)
Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) (PDF, 398.4 KB)
Dean Economou (Word, 92.0 KB)
Digital Economy Industry Work Group (PDF, 519.1 KB)
Dr Paul Scully-Power (Word, 44.0 KB)
Electronic Frontiers Australia (PDF, 127.8 KB)
Engineers Australia (PDF, 239.0 KB)
ET Corp (Word, 31.5 KB)
Google (PDF, 189.4 KB)
Government of South Australia Department of Further Education, Employment, Science and Technology (PDF, 132.1 KB)
Government of South Australia Department of Further Education, Employment, Science and Technology Attachment (Word, 444.5 KB)
Hitachi Data Systems (PDF, 1.2 MB)
IBM (Word, 35.5 KB)
IBM Attachment - smarter energy grids ideas (PDF, 168.4 KB)
IBM Attachment - smarter food ideas (PDF, 931.2 KB)
IBM Attachment - smarter IT infrastructure ideas (PDF, 1000.2 KB)
IBM Attachment - smarter planet ideas (PDF, 28.7 KB)
IBM Attachment - smarter retail ideas (PDF, 625.3 KB)
IBM Attachment - smarter traffic ideas (PDF, 345.3 KB)
International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical STM Publishers (PDF, 156.2 KB)
International Intellectual Property Alliance IIPA (PDF, 249.5 KB)
Internet Industry Association IIA (PDF, 66.4 KB)
Internet Society of Australia ISOC-AU (PDF, 202.5 KB)
Juniper Networks (PDF, 77.5 KB)
Kidnapillai Selvarajah (Word, 45.5 KB)
Lockstep (PDF, 105.6 KB)
Lonely Planet (Word, 79.0 KB)
Microsoft (PDF, 716.5 KB)
Microsoft Attachment -Laws of Identity (PDF, 328.0 KB)
Microsoft Attachment- Establishing End to End Trust (PDF, 106.0 KB)
Multimedia Victoria (Word, 107.5 KB)
Netchoice (PDF, 61.5 KB)
NICTA (Word, 89.5 KB)
NT Department of Business and Employment (PDF, 229.5 KB)
Office of the Privacy Commissioner (PDF, 266.9 KB)
Open Source Industry Australia (PDF, 372.8 KB)
Owen Thomas (Word, 33.5 KB)
Paul Budde Communication (PDF, 58.4 KB)
Pearcey Foundation (PDF, 415.1 KB)
Professor Caelli (PDF, 437.5 KB)
Public Sector Mapping Agencies PSMA (Word, 72.5 KB)
Qualcomm (PDF, 148.8 KB)
Queensland State Government Chief Information Office (PDF, 43.3 KB)
Queensland University of Technology QUT Law Faculty (PDF, 334.4 KB)
Screen Australia (Word, 220.0 KB)
Screen Producers Association of Australia SPAA (Word, 163.5 KB)
Screenrights (PDF, 89.3 KB)
Sensis (PDF, 49.3 KB)
Simon Fenton - Jones (Word, 35.5 KB)
Smartnet (PDF, 269.9 KB)
Society for Knowledge Economics (PDF, 416.0 KB)
SONY (PDF, 165.8 KB)
Special Broadcast Service SBS (PDF, 43.1 KB)
Standards Australia (PDF, 61.1 KB)
State Library of Queensland (Word, 42.0 KB)
Switch Media (Word, 36.5 KB)
TAM Computing (Word, 26.5 KB)
Telecommunications and Disability Consumer Representation TEDICORE (Word, 140.0 KB)
Telstra (PDF, 131.3 KB)
Telstra Attachment - Joint submission 1 Telstra, Verizon business, Internode, iinet, Optus and Westnet (Word, 295.0 KB)
Telstra Attachment - Joint submission 2 Telstra, Optus, Verizon, Unwired, Google, Westnet, iiNet, Internode (Word, 1.0 MB)
Tom Koltai (PDF, 458.1 KB)
Tom Worthington (Word, 37.5 KB)
Universities Australia (PDF, 69.0 KB)
University of New England (Word, 733.5 KB)
Unwired (PDF, 323.7 KB)
Vision Australia (Word, 80.5 KB)
WA Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PDF, 384.9 KB)
WebSafe Security Pty Ltd (PDF, 33.8 KB)
West Gippsland Regional Library Corporation (Word, 35.0 KB)
Wikimedia Australia (PDF, 136.0 KB)
Yahoo! (PDF, 740.9 KB)