INFORMATION POLICY: Asia-Pacific

Australia
Japan
New Zealand
Singapore
Thailand

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AUSTRALIA

Architecture For Access To Government Information.

Report of the IMSC -Technical Group. 25 July 1996.

URL: http://www.defence.gov.au/imsc/imsctg/imsctg1a.htm

Clients First: the challenge for government information technology.

Report of Minister for Finance's Information Technology Review Group 1. March 1995.

URL: http://www.dofa.gov.au/pubs/itrg/itrg-tc.html

Commonwealth Government Activity on the Net.

URL: http://snazzy.anu.edu.au/gov/augov/commonwealth.html

Converging Communications and Computer Technologies: Implications for Australia's Future Employment and Skills.

Discussion Paper. Employment and Skills Formation Council. National Board of Employment, Education and Training.

URL: http://www.nla.gov.au/misc/nbeetrep.html

Creative Nation: Commonwealth Cultural Policy.

October 1994.

URL: http://www.nla.gov.au/creative.nation/

URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/oceania/au-cnccp.txt

Electronic Frontiers Australia.

URL: http://www.efa.org.au/EFA/

Government Policy and the Information Superhighway.

Governments worldwide are responding to the challenges and opportunities presented by developments in national and global networking. The move towards establishing national and global information infrastructure policies is reflected in a number of significant government reports and documents.

URL: http://www.nla.gov.au/lis/govnii.html

Improving Electronic Document Management: Guidelines For Australian Government Agencies.

URL: http://www.defence.gov.au/imsc/edmsc/iedmtc.htm

Information Exchange Steering Committee - Role and Responsibilities.

April 1994.

URL: http://snazzy.anu.edu.au/gov/augov/IESC.html

Innovate Australia: Information and Communications Services and Technologies.

URL: http://www.dist.gov.au/events/innovate/itt.html

National Library of Australia. Government Policy and the Information Superhighway.

URL: http://www.nla.gov.au/lis/govnii.html

Networking Australia's Future.

Broadband Services Expert Group, Final Report. Canberra, December 1994.

URL: http://www.dca.gov.au/

URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/oceania/au-naf.txt

JAPAN

Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications.

URL: http://www.mpt.go.jp/

Program for Advanced Information Infrastructure.

Ministry of International Trade and Industry. May 1994.

URL: http://www.glocom.ac.jp/NEWS/MITI-doc.html

Program for the Establishment of High-Performance Info-Communications Infrastructure.

Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications.

URL: http://www.mpt.go.jp/Report/Report1993No5/contents.html

Reforms Towards an Intellectually Creative Society of the 21st Century: Program for the establishment of High Performance Info-Communications Infrastructure.

Telecommunications Council. Unofficial and tentative translation Ver.1 July 22,1994.

URL: http://www.mpt.go.jp/Report/Report1993No5/contents.html

White paper: Communications in Japan.

Annual since 1994.

URL: http://www.mpt.go.jp/White-Paper/White-Paper-home.html

NEW ZEALAND

Statistics on Information Technology in New Zealand.

April 1999.

URL: http://www.med.govt.nz/pbt/infotech/it1999/

SINGAPORE

IT2000.

URL: http://www.ncb.gov.sg/ncb/it2000.asp

IT2000 - A Vision Of An Intelligent Island.

URL: http://www.ncb.gov.sg/ncb/vision.asp

THAILAND

IT2000

URL: http://www.nitc.go.th/it-2000/index.html