National information infrastructure ubiquity: enabling evolution

Today's broadband and Internet frameworks enable a wide variety of applications and services; from gaming to banking, distance education to online media, dating services to heath monitoring and the rate of new applications continues to grow in function and volume. Of particular interest here is this rate of service and application creation and how such growth can be facilitated within the Australian environment for the benefit of all Australians, as both consumers and producers of these applications. Copyright 2010 Geof Heydon and Mark Hunter. No part of this article may be reproduced by any means without the written consent of the publisher.