Digital Economy Strategy

It is a slow start but within 10-15 years a majority jobs around me will be eliminated...unskilled, skilled, middle management, senior management, jobs at the 'coal face', jobs in the 'back office'...no existing employment area is safe from significant change/being partially/fully elimination.

We maximize our use of digital technology so as to maximize production/productivity yet minimize physical wastage...save paper/trees...save on farming/manufacturing wastage...save transportation/distribution/travel wastage...but at the same time maximize local human physical interactions

We need a information superhighway in place across the whole of Australia as soon as possible...we cannot build our IT communications pathways life we build our physical road networks...

Governments must provide the underlying Australia wide communication infrastructure and continue to maintain such...and to handle ever increasing data volumes. We cannot have data congestion points bottlenecks ever occurring at any future point. We must be extremely proactive and never fall behind demand.

As significant change come we must have proactively re-skilled our workforce well ahead of time to seamlessly move to these new employment areas...we must provide meaningful work for the very young, the disabled, and the very old...no one must be left behind

We have to develop a single communication structure (no wasteful duplication) that is currently being utilized by significant overseas developed countries so we have no 'glitches'.

We need to provide real economic incentive (taxation/training subsidy, incubation, etc) for small/medium/large business to take up the digital challenge

Many businesses here are too small for the international stage. This is a quantum leap for many business in their initial stages of growth...it is a whole new ball game...as very few have gone before them...it is also harder to understand your market when you want to play on the international stage.

Most businesses have to become internally digitalized before them can become externally digitalized for their customer benefit. Cost of hardware/software/IT specialists are major inhibitors.

All areas are digital growth areas...do not focus on any one area...do not just focus on only being a creator/inventor/re-inventor/a leader/a follower...just move into an area where we need to be better/more efficient at something than we currently are.

We need someone to organize regular local brainstorming sessions and link ideas people with entrepreneurs and IT developers. So many people out there have so many good ideas but no money or contact...and no one is hearing them.

We also need all businesses to really listen to their employees and their customers for feedback and initiatives...those people at the 'coal face' each day know what work, what doesn't, and generally how it can be made to work. We all need to listen to these little voices...no idea is a crazy idea today