The Victorian Government continues to push its credentials as a technology-savvy government and to ramp up its efforts to promote Victoria as a ‘globally sophisticated ICT market’, to attract new investment in the tech sector and to deliver e-services to the community utilising high-speed broadband and the NBN.

The GreenTouch Consortium - a global research initiative dedicated to dramatically improving the energy efficiency of information and communications technology networks by a factor of 1,000 - says it will reveal a comprehensive roadmap at an Open Forum on 17 November in conjunction with its members meeting, in Seattle.

  Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Minister for Broadband Senator Stephen Conroy were on hand today for the launch of the Australian Broadband Applications Laboratory (ABAL), a center established to assist businesses to develop broadband services.

The Victorian minister for technology, Gordon Rich-Phillips, has opened Juniper Networks' new office in Melbourne and the company is due to move into new offices in Sydney in two months, giving it space for double staff numbers in both locations.

The Victorian Government will stump up $3 million of the $21 million funding for the University of Melbourne's Institute for a Broadband-Enabled Society.

A report prepared by the Melbourne University's Institute for the Broadband Enabled Society (IBES) for Communications Alliance says that the Government's Converge Review Committee may be hamstrung by its own framework.

The Institute for a Broadband-Enabled Society (IBES) and Ericsson have received Global Telecoms Business's 2011 Innovation Award in the remote education category for UniTV, a project that explores the use of an IPTV platform to deliver educational service in a number of fields such as medicine, chemistry and engineering by developing 3D content.

Google has become a platinum sponsor of the University of Melbourne’s Institute for a Broadband Enabled  Society (IBES) and will provide funding for new research grants to drive the development of new broadband applications and services.

Microsoft Australia is to provide $400,000 to fund research at the  University of Melbourne’s Institute for a Broadband Enabled Society (IBES), becoming a platinum sponsor of the institute.

Communications Alliance and the Institute for a Broadband-Enabled Society (IBES) at the University of Melbourne have embarked on a joint research project on communications regulation in the digital economy.