Government Policy and the Information Superhighway
Governments worldwide are responding to the challenges and opportunities presented by developments in national and global networking. The move towards establishing national and global information infrastructure policies is reflected in a number of significant government reports and documents.
- Information Superhighway - DW InfoServer
- Australia
- Canada
- Europe
- Japan
- Singapore
- United Kingdom
- United States
Australia
- Improving Access to the Information and Services of Australian Governments: A Report by the Working Group on Government Information Navigation. July 1997
- Address to Internet Industry Association of Australia (INTIAA) / Senator The Hon. Richard Alston, Minister for Communications and the Arts, Sydney, 5 July 1996
- Information Technology & Telecommunciations Policies and Guidelines / Victorian Dept. Premier & Cabinet
- "The Networked Nation" (ASTEC Report)
- National Library Submission to the ASTEC Inquiry into Research Data Networks
- Response to the Report of the Australian Science and Technology Council (ASTEC) "The Networked Nation"
- Networking Australia's Future: Interim report of the Broadband Services Expert Group
- Networking Australia's Future: Final Report of the Broadband Services Expert Group
- National Library Submission to the Broadband Services Expert Group
- National Library's Response to the Interim report of the Broadband Services Expert Group
- Creative Nation:
Commonwealth Cultural Policy, October 1994
NB* Also available from the Department of Communications & the Arts site. - Commerce in Content: Building Australia's International Future in Interactive Multimedia Markets / Cutler and Company
- Excellence in Content:the focus for Australian investment in Multimedia Content
- Information Technology Review - Final Report
- Converging Communications and Computer Technologies: Implications for Australia's Future Employment Prospects / National Board of Employment, Education and Training
- Directions for the Global Information Age: a Strategy Statement issued by the Premier of Victoria on July 27 1995
- Victorian Government Arts Policy Statement - "Arts 21"
- Australian Multimedia: Excellence in Content / Department of Industry, Science & Tourism, Department of Communications & the Arts and Market Australia in the Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade .
- "Communications Futures - Final Report" / Bureau of Transport and Communications Economics Report 89
- "Towards a National Education Network", Wayne Gibbons, Deputy Secretary, Dept of Education, Employment and Training
- Regulation of Computer Bulletin Board Systems Report
- National Information Services Council Meeting, August 1995, Agenda Papers
- Innovate Australia: Information and Communications Services and Technologies
- Framework & Strategies for Information Technology in the Commonwealth of Australia - Exposure Draft (IT Blueprint)
- Brian Stewart's Online Services Resources Page /Brian Stewart
Canada
- Building the Information Society: Moving Canada into the 21st Century
- Building Canada's Information Superhighway
- Canadian Information Highway Advisory Council
- Competition and Culture on Canada's Information Highway: Managing the Realities of Transition
Europe
- Europe and the Global Information Society (Bangemann Report)
- Europe's way to the information society: an action plan (Follow up to the Bangemann Report)
Japan
- Reforms Towards an Intellectually Creative Society of the 21st Century: Program for the establishment of High Performance Info-Communications Infrastructure
- White paper: Communications in Japan 1994
- Program for Advanced Information Infrastructure (MITI)
Singapore
- IT2000 National Information Infrastructure Strategic Framework
- IT2000 - A Vision Of An Intelligent Island
United Kingdom
- Information Society: agenda for action in the UK, House of Lords Select Committee on Science and technology, 23 July 1996
- Information Superhighways - Opportunities for public sector applications in the UK
- Superhighways for Education, a consultation paper on Broadband Communications
- CCTA Report on Information Superhighways
United States
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