A map of how we're using the Net will help us identify where it can go next, writes JULIAN THOMAS in the CCI's publication Creative Economy.

This report presents findings from the first survey undertaken by the Australian component of the World Internet Project. This survey is a major piece of research undertaken by the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Innovation at Swinburne University’s Institute for Social Research.

Ewing, S., ‘The Australian component of the World Internet Project: Preliminary findings’, World Internet Project workshop, Museum of Melbourne, 10 July 2007.

Ewing, S. and Thomas, J., ‘Downloading, uploading: uses and users of digital content in Australia’, Communications Policy & Research Forum, [September] 2007.

Ewing, S., ‘World Internet Project: A presentation of the Australian results of this multi-year, multi-country survey about Internet uptake and use’, presented to the Telstra Consumer Consultative Committee.

The World Internet Project (WIP) is a collaborative survey-based project looking at the social, political and economic impact of the Internet and other new technologies. Founded by the UCLA Center for the Digital Future in the United States in 1999 (now based at the USC Annenberg Center), the WIP now has more than 20 partners in countries and regions all over the world, including Singapore, Italy, China, Japan, Hong Kong, Macao, Korea, Philippines, Sweden, Germany, Great Britain, Spain, Hungary, Canada, Chile and Argentina.