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Three major reports were issued in the
development and updating of the National Digital Economy Strategy under
the Rudd-Gillard Governments.
Australia's Digital
Economy: Future Directions (July 2009)
#au20 National Digital
Economy Strategy (May 2011)
Advancing Australia as a
Digital Economy (June 2013)
Other relevant documents
National Cloud Computing
Strategy (May 2013)
Status of the 34 digital productivity
initiatives at Appendix C of Advancing Australia as a Digital Economy
(May 2014 QoN) [PDF]
Status of the 24 actions at Appendix B
of Advancing Australia as a Digital Economy (Feb 2014 QoN) [PDF]
Digital Economy strategy regularly
refers to the importance of innovation, and the Government has
released a number of innovation papers (that don't always address the
issue as it relates to the Digital Economy). These are the significant
reports found.
Venturous Australia:
Building strength in innovation (August 2008)
Powering Ideas: An
Innovation Agenda for the 21st Century (May 2009)
This document was the
Government's response to Venturous Australia. It was
followed by a series of annual Innovation System reports:
Annual
Innovation System Report 2010
Annual
Innovation System Report 2011
Annual
Innovation System Report 2012
Annual
Innovation System Report 2013
Annual
Innovation System Report 2014
In February 2013 The Gillard
Government released an Industry and Innovation Statement under the
heading
A Plan for
Australian Jobs (Feb 2013). This was the Government's response
to Smarter
Manufacturing (Aug 2012) the report of the non-Government
members of the Prime Minister's manufacturing taskforce.
(Politically interested readers should read the comments on this
response by Michael Cooney in The Gillard Project).
Coalition Digital
Economy Policy
In September 2013 (just before the
election) the Coalition released its Digital Economy (and e-government)
policy document. They have also subsequently released an Industry
Innovation and Competitiveness Agenda. The policy stares the Coalition
Government will release an updated Digital Economy Strategy in its first
term.
The Coalition's
Policy for e-Government and the Digital Economy (Sept 2013).
Industry Innovation
and Competitiveness Agenda: An action plan for a stronger Australia
(Oct 2014)
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