Information Network Villages

This study examines South Korea?s Information Network Village (INVIL) project as an exemplary policy of building sustainable communities through a digital divide policy implemented in small rural areas.

Telecommunications and disaster management:

This paper offers an overview of participatory approaches to disaster management and climate change adaptation as an introductory framework for the following five papers on the special theme of telecommunications and disaster management

Big Data meets Big Fridge (a frolic)

This article offers a possibly optimistic view of the influence of the new anti-terror laws on the profitability of the telecommunications industry.

Garth Jenkinson (29.12.1938 to 30.01.2013): A great contributor to Australian and international radiocommunications

Garth Jenkinson was a great contributor to both Australian and international radiocommunications. This obituary, describing some of his career achievements, was compiled by former colleagues and friends of Garth at the Telecom Australia/Telstra Research Laboratories in Melbourne, Australia.

Locating disaster communication in changing communicative ecologies across the Pacific

In many Pacific countries mobile phones are emerging as a key element of the local communication systems, and are being be built into disaster management and communication plans. With a focus on mobile and other telecommunications technologies, this paper provides an overview of disaster communication systems and infrastructures, practices and challenges in the region.

Things to learn and things to abandon

This article compares the telecommunications consumer dispute resolution scheme in Australia, Japan and Korea based on the telecommunications consumer policy principles developed by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in 2011 and the guidelines and recommendations developed by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) in 2013. This article concludes that the Australian consumer dispute resolution scheme (the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman scheme)...

Globalisation ? Does it lead to international competitiveness?

Globalisation may not lead to international competitiveness without consideration of the key reason for participation in the global economy and adoption of an approach that provides consistency. How can consumers determine the suitability of what is offered to them and be certain they?re getting what they paid for? And how can suppliers be sure their offering is appropriate for their potential offshore markets? From BICSI?s perspective, the answer is ?standards?.

Affordability and 21st century telecommunications services

One of the central goals of ACCAN?s 2013 Affordability Roundtable was to kick-start a broader discussion around affordability of telecommunications products and services, encouraging new and innovative social programs and industry-wide models which can be employed to alleviate the affordability divide. This paper is intended as a continuation of that broader discussion and builds upon the ideas first developed in the article Improving Affordability of Communications: Research and Policy...

Virtualisation of Network Functions and the SDN

Telcos seek differentiation through network capacity addition, service quality and coverage improvement. Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV) promises to immediately lower the capital and operational cost base. This will set the scene or faster ?software-defined network? (SDN) additions which will improve utilisation of network assets.

Telecommunications and health information for culturally and linguistically diverse communities: A community survey

This paper reports on a community survey which was conducted to explore the extent to which members of a culturally and linguistically diverse community living on a public housing estate in Melbourne?s North, and the health professionals providing local community health services, currently used telecommunications in relation to health information.