Evaluating the economic and social impact of the national broadband network

ACIS 2009 Proceedings - 20th Australasian Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 796-806

  Willson, Phyl ^a,b   Marshall, Peter ^a   Young, Judy ^a   McCann, John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b Tasmanian Electronic Commerce Centre   (Australia)

Author keywords

Broadband; IT infrastructure; Regional development

Indexed keywords

BROADBAND; BROADBAND INFRASTRUCTURE; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL BENEFITS; ECONOMIC IMPACTS; IT INFRASTRUCTURES; REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT; SOCIAL IMPACT;

BROADBAND NETWORKS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; REGIONAL PLANNING;

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS;

EID: 84869144895     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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