Latest posts about: DBCDE

High-Wire Act: cybersafety recommendations

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High-Wire Act: Cyber-Safety and the Young, the block-buster report of the Joint Select Committee on Cyber-Safety, was tabled in parliament by Senator Dana Wortley on 20 June, after 13 months of hearings, and 153 submissions including one from… Read more »

Hackers, Fraudsters & Botnets: Tackling the Problem of Cyber Crime

Hackers, Fraudsters & Botnets

Roar’s submission to the Australian Government’s cyber crime inquiry proposed the development of a national system of certifiable skills standards. Roar also argued for broad-based digital literacy training to span cyber safety, e-security, and digital citizenship. Both points have been… Read more »

Cyber-Safety education: where does it fit?

In Australia cyber-safeguarding straddles the mega federal departments of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR), and Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy (DBCDE) and their tangle of national policy initiatives. Cyber-safety also gets pulled across the federal-state divide, with responsibility… Read more »

Australian Government Cyber-Safety Inquiry

Roar is preparing a submission to the Government’s Joint Select Committee on Cyber-Safety, due 25 June 2010. The terms of reference for the submission are as follows. (a) That a Joint Select Committee on… Read more »

Review of cyber-safety research

The Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy (DBCDE) commissioned the Child Health Promotion Research Centre at Edith Cowan University to conduct a ‘major review’ of Australian and international research on cyber-safety. The project reviewed current research on matters… Read more »