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Intro. Australia's project for universal broadband access: from policy to social potential Marcos P. Dias School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne Twitter: @mpdias RIPE 66 Meeting - Dublin, Ireland 13 May 2013. INTERNET. AS BASIC CITIZEN RIGHT

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  1. Intro Australia's project for universal broadband access: from policy to social potential Marcos P. Dias School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne Twitter: @mpdias RIPE 66 Meeting - Dublin, Ireland 13 May 2013

  2. INTERNET AS BASIC CITIZEN RIGHT (France, Greece, Spain, Finland...) VS. DIGITAL DIVIDE POLICY INFRASTRUCTURE DIGITAL LITERACY (FUTURE APPLICATIONS) = SOCIAL POTENTIAL

  3. UNIVERSAL HIGH-SPEED BROADBAND ACCESS AUSTRALIA'S NBN 93% FIBRE-OPTIC 100 Mb/s – 1 Gb/s 7% FIXED WIRELESS + SATELLITE FTTP (FIBRE-TO-THE-PREMISES) LONG TERM SOLUTION / UPGRADEABLE SYMMETRICAL DOWNLOAD / UPLOAD SPEEDS WHOLESALE PRICING

  4. SELECTIVE HIGH-SPEED BROADBAND ACCESS GOOGLE FIBER 100% FIBRE-OPTIC 1 Gb/s 'WE WILL BUILD FIBRE WHERE PEOPLE ARE MOST EXCITED ABOUT IT' $70 per month = 1 Gb/s 'FREE' INTERNET ($300 one-off payment) = 5 Mbp/s (download) / 1 Mb/s (upload) U.S. NBP goal: 100 million U.S. Homes with 100 Mb/s (download) / 50 Mb/s (upload) by 2020 (HOW?)

  5. SOCIAL BENEFITS ARE THEY MEASURABLE? INTRODUCTION OF BROADBAND = NEW APPLICATIONS (e.g. youTube, IPTV) EXTRA 10% BROADBAND PENETRATION = 1.2% INCREASE IN GDP PER CAPITA (font: World Bank) YET HOW TO PREDICT SOCIAL BENEFITS OF FUTURE INTERNET APPLICATIONS?

  6. AND CURRENT NETWORKED PRACTICES FUTURE POTENTIAL - “INFORMATION IS RAW MATERIAL OF NETWORKING SOCIETY” (CASTELLS) - WHO CONTROLS INFORMATION FLOWS? - INFORMATION AS BASIC CITIZEN'S RIGHT - ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL BENEFITS POLICY + INFRASTRUCTURE + DIGITAL LITERACY + LONG TERM VISION = SOCIAL POTENTIAL TELE-HEALTH AGED CARE EDUCATION E-GOVERNMENT TELE-WORKING ART

  7. Intro Marcos P. Dias School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne Twitter: @mpdias Australia's project for universal broadband access: From Policy to Social Potential Paper available online (open access): www.firstmonday.org (vol. 17, number 9) (Google keywords: dias first monday)

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