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Welcome to the Network Insight Institute

The Network Insight Institute is an independent non-profit centre of ideas and information, focused on communications. We harness valuable market information for leading corporations in media, telecoms and e-commerce; and for the community.  We provide seminars, workshops, briefings and publications.

The Institute takes a broad, cross-platform view on the future of the ICT industries – drawing together the diverse sub-sectors such as telecommunications, platform technology, the press, broadcasting, publishing and online services.

Upcoming events, current projects and recent events

  • The digital dividend: reaping the benefits of analogue switchoff
    8 July 2009. How to make the best use of the spectrum space freed up when TV stations finish their move to digital? This seminar is about the big choices and priorities.
  • The Future Communications Policy Matrix
    This project opens the way for fresh thinking about communications policy with a focus on the years beyond 2010. Its purpose is to provide a repository for ideas to implement in future, and to encourage debate about proposals that could become law in a future Communications Act.
  • Communications Policy & Research Forum 2009
    19-20 November 2009. The CPRF is a research-oriented forum open to all viewpoints; a co-operative effort by policy and research centres.
  • The Year Ahead in Communications 2010
    12-13 February 2010. Every year, we organise a workshop to offer our sponsors and advisers the best possible insight into issues which will affect them in the next 12 months. It is an agenda-setting event, and the only one of our events held behind closed doors, to preserve candour in business projections. We shall post more information about the workshop soon.
  • ABC and SBS: lessons from the front line
    8 December 2008, half day seminar held to share the insights of public broadcasting leaders about how the national broadcasters can make the best contribution to Australian society. Obvious issues included: new or different services in the multi-channel, digital environment; support for innovative services in Australia and its region; how to achieve stable, efficient funding; independence and relations with Parliament and executive government.
  • Digital TV conversion: past the tipping point
    18 August 2008, half day seminar. Over 42 per cent of homes now have digital receivers. The analogue switch-off is likely to start in 2010, ending in 2013. How to finish this, the largest consumer switchover of anything since decimal conversion in 1966? What about the new digital channels and the appeal of HDTV? What of Freeview, TiVo, subscription networks and other platforms? What program innovations will there be?

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