As was predicted in the ‘Multimedia’ section of Creative Nation 1994 The Internet now allows us to ‘enable people and organisations to send almost any communication, information or entertainment from anywhere to anywhere.’ In AustraliaRead more

Why high information-flow is changing the relative value of regions and locations and how National Cultural Policy can take this into account. Our societies are forming in new ways. The ability to communicate remotely inRead more

Cloud computing is the delivery of computing with shared resources, software, and information that are provided as a utility or service through the Internet. Many of us use cloud computing daily for example when weRead more

By increasing information-flow at a location, we can now change time, space, and value. Information has quality, reliability and also flow-rate. 3G wireless cell-phone Internet access may be relatively high-flow, but low reliability, as itRead more

Old broadcast media goes mostly in one direction. Out from the radio station or TV tower, conceptually downhill and the reception gets worse on the fringes. By contrast the Internet is based on interconnected loops,Read more

Goal 2:To encourage the use of emerging technologies and new ideas that support the development of new artworks and the creative industries and that enable more people to access and participate in arts and culture.Read more

Australia is not just an island nation, Australia is a nation of islands in a neighborhood of Oceanic nations including Indonesia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, East Timor and other Pacific nations too numerous toRead more

All, societies and nations define themselves by their ongoing creative arts and cultural activities, for example languages, music, debating, images and writing. Now is the right time for Australian Cultural Policy to assert that cultureRead more