Dear Jen and Gene, Melissa Gregg and Jason Wilson have done a baseline NBN study of a small Australian town called Willunga, pop 2,100+. You can download the report via Mel's blog: http://homecookedtheory.com/archives/2012/01/12/willunga-connects-public-rel ease/ regards, Fiona DR FIONA MARTIN | Senior Lecturer in Convergent and Online Media Postgraduate Coursework Coordinator and Degree Director: Master of Media Practice; Master of Publishing; Master of Health Communication Department of Media and Communications | School of Letters Arts and Media Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY Rm 205, Holme Building A09 | The University of Sydney | NSW | 2006 T +61 2 9036 5098 | F +61 2 9351 5444 | M +61 428 391 122 E fiona.martin@sydney.edu.au W http://sydney.edu.au/

Message: 1 Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2012 17:09:21 -0500 From: gene loeb <geneloeb@gmail.com> To: air-l <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: [Air-L] Fwd: [ciresearchers] New Zealand and Australian policy comparision Message-ID: <CANE7V6rXVeUWp=DHTVeT0ahW06qS2DqG+zWMptTVv2wg6SYoEg@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1

Hi all, I thought some from this list might also be of assistance. Gene

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: gene loeb <geneloeb@gmail.com> Date: Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 5:08 PM Subject: Re: [ciresearchers] New Zealand and Australian policy comparision To: ciresearchers@vancouvercommunity.net, Jennifer Mitok <mitok@ualberta.ca>

Jen, I am also interested in the connectivity issues on a worldwide bases and would be interested in your results. You are doing important work in an increasingly significant area. Pual budde and don cameron from Australia know a lot from Australia and should be a good source of information.. Let me know about your results or further information. I am also forwarding this to the Association for Internet researchers who may also be of help. gene Gene Loeb, Ph.D.

On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 4:46 PM, Jennifer Mitok <mitok@ualberta.ca> wrote:

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Hello, I am a student in Dr. Gurstein's University of Alberta course on Community Informatics. I am doing a research paper analyzing the policy differences between the New Zealand Digital strategy (2005) and Australia's NBN initiative. I'm looking for any research that has been done on the 'community' impact of these strategies, if anyone on the list has any recommendations, I would greatly appreciate it.

Many thanks,

Jen Mitok