Conroy waxed eloquent. "The digital economy is our entire economy," he said, with the ICT industry "the engine room".
"It did not escape our attention that there's a certain irony on releasing a government paper on the digital economy," he said, joking that government was slow while developments in the digital realm were constant and instantaneous.
He went on to describe the various aspects of the paper, which was published under a Creative Commons licence with cloud and social bookmarking tags. "I realise that these may not be significant things for many of you in the industry. I hope you will appreciate them in the spirit they were intended."
(Credit: Suzanne Tindal/ZDNet.com.au)
