Martin

To address the topic at hand first the benefit to Australia of a digital economy will be great. Most likely we will not fully realise many of the benefits until we are actually there. As many of the benefits have already been mentioned or are extremely obvious I’ll list a few points that need to be overcome in order to truly enter a digital economy. 1) All households and businesses must be connected to the internet. Whilst government and business need to cater for both those with internet and those without administrative cost will remain prohibitively high. 2) Connection needs to be at > 100mb/s. Whilst the 30mb/s connection maximum at present suffices for most in the near future the shear volume of information that needs to be transmitted will greatly increase, especially with more and more talk of ‘cloud computing’. 3) Dismissal of this censorship idea. It’s a Draconian plan with no fundamental benefits to support its enactment. It’s an affront to democracy and will hold Australia back. 4) Revision of current Intellectual property and Piracy laws. Whilst the laws may have been appropriate back in the 80s times have changed a great deal.