Information Industries Competitiveness Study

[Roger Buckeridge]

Before having undertaken much work for this project, my view is that the
widest vendor perspective has to be taken: "from components to content" is
the scope. Any member of the trade associations, such as AIIA, AEEMA/ATIA,
IntIAA, AIMIA, should be interested in the policy outcomes of the
Information Industries Taskforce's deliberations. A significant issue to be
explored is understand the requirements of applications industries, that
are highly dependent on IT&T and multimedia inputs for both domestic and
export market success (such as education, tourism, health care/remote
diagnostics, logistics and any number of ecommerce services now in design
phase) - in terms of advanced functionality at world competitive prices.
The IT&T&MM industry policy mix will need to deliver such inputs to the
trade exposed service industries.  

Roger Buckeridge         rogerb@world.net
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> From: Bernard Robertson-Dunn <brd@netinfo.com.au>
> To: link@charlotte.anu.edu.au
> Cc: Roger Buckeridge <rogerb@world.net>
> Subject: Re: Information Industries Competitiveness Study
> Date: Saturday, 14 September 1996 9:44
> 
> >For my sins I am the project director for the consultancy consortium
that
> >will undertake the Competitiveness Study for the Australian Chamber of
> >Commerce and Industry, that has been funded by the Commonwealth
Department
> >of Industry. See the DIST website [www.dist.gov.au ] for ministerial
media
> >releases on the objectives of the project and the formation of the
> >Minister's Information Industries Taskforce, to which we will report
prior
> >to Christmas, with a public report to come in the new year.
> 
> Have you defined what the Information Industries are, or is that part of 
> your scope?
> 
> One reason that I ask, is that I am on the working party looking at IT
research
> and there seems to be a major problem in defining what IT is.
> 
> regards
> brd
> 
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> |Bernard Robertson-Dunn                   |
> |Canberra                                 |
> |Australia                                |
> |brd@netinfo.com.au                       |
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