The first survey has now been completed. It was administered by the Computer-Assisted Telephone Interviewing team at the Swinburne University of Technology’s Australian Centre for Emerging Technologies and Society. We achieved the 1,000 responses we were aiming for and met quotas in terms of gender, region and age.
We have begun our analysis of the data and will be launching our main report in April 2008. The main focus of the analysis is a close look at broadband uptake, now accelerating rapidly in Australia, and its ramifications for internet content and applications. This report will provide the first detailed, publicly accessible study of Australian internet usage.
We have begun reporting on the project, presenting a paper to the Communications Policy and Research Forum in 2007 [24-25 September] and providing a briefing to Telstra’s Community Consultative Committee in November.