'Update:' PDF generated and handed over to Minister Carr on the 1st December 2009.

This Public Sphere engages with the ICT and creative industries, as well as the broader community to identify areas where government policy can be developed or enhanced to better facilitate the growth and development of these industries in Australia. The ICT and creative industries have been shown around the world to be a massive contributor to national and global economic and productivity growth. It is extremely important – particularly given the current global climate – that we prioritise support for ICT industry growth and development in Australia.

Discussion on this Public Sphere topic opened on 24th July 2009 via a blog on Senator Lundy's site. The Public Sphere Camp was held on 28th August 2009 in three simultaneous locations. All proceedings were directed from the Wollongong location, with two remote nodes in Brisbane and Melbourne. There were of course also many other remote participants however we wanted to experiment with scaling by incorporating remote simultaneous events. This draft briefing paper, was opened for public contributions via this Wiki on 10th September 2009 and closed for finalisation on the 24th November 2009 after several community requests to keep it open for further edits. The briefing paper will be submitted to the Information Technology Innovation Council and the Commonwealth Commercialisation Institute, both initiatives under Minister Kim Carr, Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research.

Please try to stick to the basic format we have outlined for ease of reading. You can see a previous Public Sphere briefing paper on Gov 2.0 as an example.

All document edits can still be accessed and viewed in the RecentChanges page for PublicSphere3 for full transparency to the process of creating this briefing paper.

Structure

Please note, we have created sub pages for each section of this topic, as well as a miscellaneous page for any new ideas. Please try to not replicate data across sections. We have a single recommendations page to try to avoid the duplication of recommendations that may cross different areas. This introduction and main page is not editable, but please click through to the editable pages.

Please also note that due to the large number of papers written and submitted, we have not always had peer review of ideas presented within this paper, so please do leave your responses to ideas as well as ideas themselves. The peer review of ideas put forward it vital in us understanding and prioritising ideas and recommendations.

Topic Briefing

• Funding & Startups

• Finding & developing talent

• Government procurement

• Mobile & Web 2.0

• Infrastructure

• Creative Industries

• General & Miscellaneous

• References & Case studies

Recommendations

• Recommendations from all topics discussed.

Event overview

• Event Overview - statistics, participation and other information.

The briefing paper has been collated from ideas put forward in:

• the talks, blog posts and comments linked on the Public Sphere #2 - Government 2.0 page

• the community liveblogging on the day

• the Silicon Beach Lifeguard paper created for this Public Sphere discussion. This has been heavily drawn from.

• the transcription of the #publicsphere tag for the week including the event

• the in person discussions from Melbourne, and from Brisbane & Wollongong. These were facilitated by Zing.