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Telecommunications and Community Wellbeing : A review of the literature on access and affordability for low-income and disadvantaged groups

dc.contributor.author Eardley, T en_US
dc.contributor.author Bruce, J en_US
dc.contributor.author Goggin, G en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2021-11-25T15:59:59Z
dc.date.available 2021-11-25T15:59:59Z
dc.date.issued 2009 en_US
dc.description.abstract There has been increasing policy concern in recent years that with rapid changes taking place in communications technologies, a ‘digital divide’ has been opening up between those able to take advantage of technological advances and those who, for a variety of reasons, cannot. This review was commissioned by Low Income Measures Assessment Committee (LIMAC) as a contribution to further debate and public policy development on access and affordability for telecommunications. The report has a specific focus on people with low incomes and other disadvantaged social groups and will form part of LIMAC’s annual report to the Commonwealth Minister for Communications on Telstra’s performance in this field. The report consists of a search and review of the key literature on the relationship between telecommunications and community wellbeing, access and affordability issues for disadvantaged groups and a benchmarking exercise on how Telstra’s programs compare with those in other comparable countries. The report concludes with some recommendations for taking forward practice and policy debates on access and affordability in the light of rapid technological change. en_US
dc.identifier.isbn 9780733427961 en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/1959.4/45197
dc.language English
dc.language.iso EN en_US
dc.publisher Social Policy Research Centre en_US
dc.rights CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 en_US
dc.rights.uri https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/au/ en_US
dc.source Legacy MARC en_US
dc.subject.other Australia en_US
dc.subject.other Communication Technologies en_US
dc.subject.other Disadvantaged Groups en_US
dc.subject.other Affordability en_US
dc.title Telecommunications and Community Wellbeing : A review of the literature on access and affordability for low-income and disadvantaged groups en_US
dc.type Report en
dcterms.accessRights open access
dspace.entity.type Publication en_US
unsw.accessRights.uri https://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2
unsw.description.notePublic Prepared for the Telstra Low Income Measures Assessment Committee (LIMAC). ISSN:1446-4179, en_US
unsw.identifier.doi https://doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/887
unsw.publisher.place Sydney en_US
unsw.relation.faculty Arts Design & Architecture
unsw.relation.ispartofreportnumber SPRC Report Series 9/09 en_US
unsw.relation.originalPublicationAffiliation Eardley, T, Social Policy Research Centre, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, UNSW en_US
unsw.relation.originalPublicationAffiliation Bruce, J, Social Policy Research Centre, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, UNSW en_US
unsw.relation.originalPublicationAffiliation Goggin, G, Journalism and Media Research Centre, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, UNSW en_US
unsw.relation.school Social Policy Research Centre *
unsw.relation.school School of the Arts & Media *
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