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.