Australia's National Broadband Champions participated in the National Telework Forum in Melbourne on 5 December 2012. They also met with the Senator Stephen Conroy. In discussion the follow day the Broadband Champions reflected on their involvement in 2012. Discussions with DBCDE and NBN Co representatives explored how broadband will benefit specialist fields from medicine through to business and education.

1. National Broadband Champion Update
Dr Helen Thompson
13 November 2012
CeCC Success 2/5/12

2. National Broadband Champions
• Broadband Champions
participated in the National
Telework Forum
• They also met with the
Senator Stephen Conroy
• Discussions with DBCDE and
NBN Co representatives
explored how broadband will
benefit their specialist fields
from medicine through to
business and education.
• A shared opportunity for
reflection and future planning
CeCC Success 2/5/12

3. Digital futures and eResearch
• UB has recognised the
need to adopt a more
proactive approach
• CeCC has relocated within
organisation to Office of
DVC Research
• New responsibilities in 2012
include digital futures,
eResearch and the UB
Corporate Website
CeCC Success 2/5/12

4. Regional ICT Strategy and Implementation
• Not just building strategy but
helping regional organisations
to progress staged
implementation
• Assist with securing funding –
grant identification, writing etc
• Represent region and lead
advocacy in many areas
• Ballarat confirmed as Smart 21
finalist in the Intelligent
Community of the Year award.
• Goal is to progress to Top 7 in
January 2013
CeCC Success 2/5/12

5. Visualising Victoria’s Groundwater
• Smartly manage our
environment utilising high
speed broadband
capabilities to capture,
aggregate and spatially
depict Victoria's
groundwater systems for
public access and
sustainable development
and management
CeCC Success 2/5/12

6. Sport and Recreation Spatial
• Bring data together around
active participation, facilities
and club data, population
and health outcomes
together to inform policy
and practice
CeCC Success 2/5/12

7. Dairy Innovation Australia
• An online spatial application
to visualise dairy production
per region and dairy
industry location. The data
used in this prototype
consisted of milk, protein
and fat production levels for
dairy producing regions.
CeCC Success 2/5/12

8. Integrated Fire Management Planning
• A knowledge database and
data portal using web-
based mapping to support
strategic fire-risk planning
using community, regional,
state and commonwealth
data
• Smartly manage our
environment
CeCC Success 2/5/12

9. Central Highlands Digital Enterprise Program
• Increase digital
engagement via two year
public awareness and skills
development program
• Deliver training and advice
for SMEs. NFPs and
cultural organisations
• 150 group session, 660
individual mentoring
session
• Strengthen established
network capacity and foster
local champions
CeCC Success 2/5/12

10. National Telework Week
• 12–16 November 2012
• Telework promotes flexible
work practices and the use of
the latest technologies to
stay connected with
colleagues, clients and
managers
• Spatially mapping the
residential and campus
locations for over 1,000 UB
staff has provided new
insights to help UB plan for
the future
CeCC Success 2/5/12

11. NBN enabled telehealth and 3D medicine
• Department of Business
and Innovation support via
Broadband Enabled
Innovation Program
• Led by UB’s Associate
Professor Andrew Stranieri
• 12 Sites in Victoria
– Tele-dentistry
– Tele-psychiatry
– Tele-oncology
– Tele-wound
– Tele-geriatricsl
CeCC Success 2/5/12

12. Eureka I’ve found it
• NBN enabled skills and
education – funding being
sought from other sources
• Goal is to digitise regional
newspapers, historical
collections and documents
from Ballarat and beyond
• Build regional capacity
• Identify, describe and create
digital repositories of
collections of historical
documents, print resources,
artefacts, images
CeCC Success 2/5/12

13. Online Education
• Boost higher education
participation in regional
Victoria
• Achieve through a
partnership arrangement
between UB and regional
TAFE institutes
• Deliver a suite of the
undergraduate degree
programs
• Supported by Australian
Government under the
Structural Adjustment Fund
CeCC Success 2/5/12

14. Online Education
• Online visitors are led
through a three stage game
process to help make
decisions about the content
of their Will.
• The first step involves
exploring what would
happen if they were to die
without a Will. The second
step collects personal
information. The third step
gives a summary of
decisions.
CeCC Success 2/5/12

15. University of Ballarat Technology Park
• Ballarat, has emerged as the most
competitive location in Australia for the
delivery of IT services
• The University of Ballarat is opening up
of an additional 22 hectare site. Eleven
buildings are planned, with room for
1500 employees.
• Technology Park activities in Ballarat’s
CBD will open to tenants in July.
• State government investment of $2.9
million confirmed paving the way for
more investment and jobs in Ballarat.
CeCC Success 2/5/12

16. Digital Agriculture
• Australian Centre for Broadband Innovation, University of
Ballarat and University of New England are exploring
opportunities
• The idea of a possible Digital Rural Futures Conference in
Armidale in June 2013 is gathering momentum.
• Collaborators include UNE, ACBI, UB and the Regional
Universities Network
• Aim to involve DBCDE, NBN Co, RDA, EDA and others
CeCC Success 2/5/12

17. Broadband Champion Role
• Great personal opportunity
• Benefit of being able to engage Broadband Champions
through visits to regional Victoria – opportunities to build on
this in 2013 are already being explored
• Generation of media stories has extended values of
presentations to regional groups and also provided
opportunities to profile UB activities to broader audience
• Professionalism of people involved – DBCDE, NBN Co,
video production company
• Increasing our own focus on getting more stories out
through UB, CeCC and Digital Enterprise activities
CeCC Success 2/5/12

18. Further information
Contact
Helen Thompson
Director
Centre for eCommerce and Communications
Office of Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research)
University of Ballarat
Email h.thompson@ballarat.edu.au
Web www.ballarat.edu.au and www.cecc.com.au
CeCC Success 2/5/12