OzHub, the Macquarie Telecom-led cloud computing alliance, has come down firmly on the side of Optus over the copyright controversy surrounding Optus TV Now, warning that any moves to change the law "risk branding Australia a global luddite state."
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Renai LeMay
Thursday, 29 July 2010 16:15
IT Policy - Government Tech Policy
Communications Minister Stephen Conroy did not outline any new significant election policies in the technology field during a speech to the cream of Australia’s technology sector in Melbourne today — promising instead “more of the same”.
“I was interviewed recently for one newspaper, and the interviewer started off by saying what are you going to be doing, more of the same? Or you got a few new ideas?” said Conroy. “And I thought — more of the same. Introduced micro-economic reform, analogue switch-off — no we’ve not been up to much.”
Conroy said the National Broadband Network and the digital television switchover were enormously challenging projects that would require detailed attention.
The Opposition has not yet released any broadband policy as part of the election policy, nor clarified its policy on key issues such as the internet filter. However, it has pledged to cancel the NBN in general if elected.
The lunch was attended by a number of top-ranking local technology executives – including local HP chief Paul Brandling, for example, and SMS Management & Technology industry director Paul Cooper, both of whom asked Conroy questions about how the technology industry and government could work better on outcomes.
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