[LINK] NBN, education and health

[Bernard Robertson-Dunn]

On 5/04/2011 8:48 PM, Robin Whittle wrote:
> There are several tragic ironies regarding education and the NBN.
>
> One of the big reasons the government gives for spending tens of
> billions of dollars on the NBN is to improve education for people in
> general, especially outside the major population centres.
>
> Yet the plan was devised by people who were uneducated in IT and
> infrastructure planning matters - the prime minister and the minister
> for (censored) communications.
>
> Now a bunch of bright, hard working, people at NBNCo now have the job of
> achieving the outcome, according to the timetable, and within the $43B
> cost - all of which were decided largely or entirely by the two
> insufficiently qualified people who devised the project.


This was discussed on link almost exactly two years ago
http://mailman.anu.edu.au/pipermail/link/2009-April/082845.html
<quote from me>
At the moment, this project looks exactly like every other government
initiative that ended up being late, costing more and not delivering to
its expectations. I'm not suggesting it will fail, I just don't see
anything different from those projects that have failed.
</quote>

http://mailman.anu.edu.au/pipermail/link/2009-April/082846.html
<another quote from me>
The project so far seems to have been all about politics and finance -
business as usual.
</quote>

As I have said before, every solution creates new problems. It's a good 
idea to put some thought into what those new problems might be when 
planning a project.

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Regards
brd

Bernard Robertson-Dunn
Canberra Australia
email:	brd at iimetro.com.au
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