1. Bandwidth is a political issue
2. Policy makers can't cope with digital convergence, after one hundred years
3. IT developments are not inevitable
4. Urban biases are built into IT development
5. Defence R&D funding can be used for civilian applications
6. Low bandwidth applications can be built for rural and military applications

• Vision for a Networked Nation - The Public Interest in Network Services, ACS 1994
• The Victorian Internet, T. Standage, (1998)
• Internet for C3I at Exercise Tandem Thrust 97
• Visit to Aerosonde Thursday 9 September 1999
• Net Traveller - Exploring the Networked Nation, T. Worthington

Details at: http://www.tomw.net.au/papers/pb.html

For: Community Networking 99: Engaging Regionalism Conference

29 September 1999, Mt Helen Campus, University of Ballarat

Draft 1.0, 28 September 1999: http://www.tomw.net.au/papers/pbs.html

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