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Each year the Intelligent Community Forum searches the world for those communities that provide a model of economic and social development in the 21st Century using information and communications technology. The Top Seven for this year have just been announced – although unfortunately none of the nominated cities are from Australia (or indeed, from the …

A new report from the Australian Industry Group and Deloitte has highlighted the gap that exists between many Australian business’ awareness of the benefits of broadband and their readiness to take advantage of new broadband networks and technologies. The survey of 540 chief executives in manufacturing, services and construction industries asked about business investment in …

The City of Chattanooga in the US state of Tennessee stands as a beacon to regional centres around the world who hope for a better future for their communities through deployment if high-speed broadband. Chattanooga was the first city in the US to adopt fixed-line broadband at speeds of 1 gigabit per second across the …

In May 2011, Mio Ristic and the team at Digital Video Vault captured part of Brad Howarth’s presentation on A Faster Future to ICT Geelong, and also recorded this interview talking about the impact of high-speed broadband on video marketing. Digital Video Vault is one of the many emerging companies that are taking advantage of …

The latest edition of BRW TV sees co-authors Brad Howarth and Janelle Ledwidge interviewed by BRW’s Jean-Vida Douglas on the topic of the future of sofware innovation in a broadband-enabled society. In the interview we talk about the impact of broadband and the way that more and more of the actions we perform and the …

Last week’s Digital Directions 11 conference held in Sydney by Fairfax Media and X Media Lab lived up to expectations by bringing together many of the world’s leading thinkers in digital media. Prominent amongst them were the American digital media pioneer Robert Tercek and the Australian born entrepreneur Tan Le. Both are also featured prominently …

Brad Howarth and Janelle Ledwidge are pleased to announce the official release of their new book, A Faster Future – The future of broadband: what it means for business, society and you. Featuring insights from more than 100 leading executives, entrepreneurs, researchers and commentators from Australia and around the world, A Faster Future is an …

For most Australians the data speeds promised by the National Broadband Network won’t become a reality for some years yet. But  residents of Point Cook in Melbourne are already getting a taste for a world where connections to the Internet runs at 100Mbit/sec. Point Cook is a test site for Telstra’s fibre-to-the-home trial network, with …

The World Bank’s lead ICT policy specialist Dr Tim Kelly has described investment in broadband infrastructure as a “no regrets” policy where even if the investment does not immediately deliver the direct benefits expected in terms of jobs and competitiveness, it will benefit the economy as a whole in terms of capacity-building, opportunity creation or …

The NSW Government has announced that 40 homes in the Sydney suburb of  Middleton Grange will be the first to experience life connected to the National Broadband Network thanks to a trial service being established in that suburb. The 40 homes are being connected using high speed fibre cabling and will have access to a …