Dominic Schipano, Executive Officer, CITT opening the National NBN-enabled Digital Economy Forum on 30.7.13.

1. National
NBN-enabled
Digital Economy
Forum
30.7.13
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2. Communications and Information Technology Training Ltd (CITT)
• National “not-for-profit” Company established in 1995
• Assists ICT industry, RTO‟s and Governments in implementing national
VET ICT Training Packages, industry training standards and employment
programs
• Manages TITAB – ACMA approved Cabler Registrar with over 26,000
registered Telecommunications cablers
• CITT National Executive Officer is Dominic Schipano and has over 35
years experience in training and employment programs, assisting ICT
enterprises, Boards, ICT committees and working parties including:
 Australian Digital Television Industries Association (ADTIA)
 COSBOA (Council of Small Business)
 NBNCo
 DST, DBCDE and related state and territory Government departments

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Digital Economy
• The Australian Government defines digital economy to be:
„the global network of economic and social activities that are
enabled by information and communications technologies…”
– it is an enabler to take up opportunities provided by the
digital and broadband platforms
• Many businesses are incorporating digital tools necessary to
make their business more productive and efficient.
• The digital economy is about the activities that networked
technology makes possible in areas such as health,
education, water, transport etc
• Access Economics report estimates that adoption of smart
technology in energy, water, health and transport, and the
roll–out of high–speed broadband could result in thousands
of jobs being added to the Australian economy and 1.5 per
cent to Australia‟s Gross Domestic Product

4. Telecommunications and Digital industries Rollouts
There are two major changes within the “Digital Economy“ affecting the
Technical industries in Australia which include:
1. The build phase of the Digital Economy is the
NBN to over 11 million Premises in 8 years
involving Fibre, Wireless and Satellite
2. TV migration from Analogue to Digital
Completion date 31st Dec 2013

5. Govts. Digital Economy Goals
The government has set eight Digital Economy Goals that focus on
the areas of:
• online participation by Australian households
• online engagement by Australian businesses and not-for-profit
organisations
• smart management of our environment and infrastructure
• improved health and aged care
• expanded online education
• increased teleworking
• improved online government service delivery and engagement
• greater digital engagement in regional Australia.

6. Digital Economy Models
Health
• Tele-medicine
• Tele-care
• Video Consultations
• Monitoring
• Records
Education
• Virtual
Classroom
Multi-point to Multi-
point
Dynamic
Classrooms
More students =
More bandwidth
Business
• Tele-working
• Cloud Services
• Flexible Workforce
• Collaboration
Community
• Government
• Social Inclusion
• Communications
• Regional
Development
• Collaboration
• Access
• Research
Entertainment
• Social TV
• Video on Demand
• IPTV
• Games
• Video Conferencing

7. Today’s major issue is:
How can we connect with Australian Micro, Small and
Medium Enterprises (SaM’s) to engage in the Digital
capability to take advantage of the Digital Economy?
This webinar will present us with opportunities in:
• Sharing connections, practices and case studies on
how, what and where the NBN is working well
• Assisting business owners, managers, stakeholders
and SaM’s to maximise the use of the NBN
• Providing SaM’s with information and awareness
programs that they can be digitally enabled and
driving their business opportunities before the NBN
is available to them
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8. Useful Website:
www.titab.com.au
www.dbcde.gov.au
www.nbn.gov.au
www.nbnco.com.au
www.deewr.gov.au