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     chronology

This page provides a chronology of Australian ICT agencies and key initiatives, in particular the history of NOIE.

Context is provided by the broader timeline elsewhere on this site

     precursors

1983 Barry Jones' Sleepers Wake!: Technology and the Future of Work

1985 federal Department of Science's A National Information Policy for Australia discussion paper

1987 launch of joint Japan-Australia Multi Function Polis (MFP) project

1989 Australian Academic Research Network (AARNet) established

1991 federal House of Representatives Standing Committee for Longterm Strategies report on Australia as a Information Society: Grasping New Paradigms

1992 federal Broadcasting Services Act

1992 establishment of MFP Development Corporation signals end of Multi Function Polis project

1993 federal Bureau of Transport & Communications Economics (BTCE) launches Communications Futures Project

1993 Federal Libraries Information Network established

1993 Broadband Services Expert Group (BSEG) established by federal government

1994 federal Creative Nation cultural policy statement

1994 federal Australia on CD multimedia initiative

1994 federal Minister of Finance commissions Information Technology Review Group to identify ICT opportunities for Commonwealth Government

1994 US national Information Infrastructure Task Force (IITF) established

1994 US national Advisory Council on the National Information
Infrastructure established

     a networked nation?

1994 Australian Science & Technology Council (ASTEC) report on The Networked Nation

1994 Commonwealth-State Internet Working Party (CSIWP)
established by joint Commonwealth/State Government
Telecommunications & Technology Committee (GTTC)

1994 BSEG presents final report on Networking Australia's Future

1994 Open Net established

1994 federal Commerce in Content report

1995 BTCE presents final Communications Futures report

1995 Navigating the Economy of Knowledge report

1995 federal government funds Cooperative Multimedia Centres (CMCs) under Higher Education Funding Act 1988

1995 report by US National Information Infrastructure Advisory Council

1995 federal Information Technology Review Group delivers Clients First: the challenge for Government information technology e report

1995 Australian EdNA education network established

1995 Multimedia Victoria established to coordinate state Victoria 21 policy

1995 federal Office of Government Information Technology (OGIT) established

1995 first US NTIA Falling Through The Net report

1995 Negroponte's Being Digital and Stoll's Silicon Snake Oil

1996 Information Policy Advisory Council (IPAC) established by new federal Minister for Communications & the Arts

1996 federal interdepartmental Information Management Steering Committee (IMSC) established by OGIT

1996 joint Australia-OECD Conference on Security, Privacy & Intellectual Property Protection in the Global Information Infrastructure

1996 National Telehealth Committee established by Australian Health Ministers' Advisory Council (AHMAC)

1996 Standards Australia SAA MP75 Strategies for the Implementation of a Public Key Authentication Framework (PKAF) in Australia report

1997 federal Telecommunications Act 1997 deregulates Australian telecoms

1997 federal Australia's Cultural Network (ACN) established

1997 IMSC delivers report on The Management of Government Information as a National Strategic Resource

1997 Information Industries Taskforce delivers The Global Information Economy - The Way Ahead report

1997 Defence Signals Directorate (DSD) confidential report on Australia's National Information Infrastructure: Threats & Vulnerabilities

1997 IPAC report on A National Policy Framework for Structural Adjustment Within the New 'Commonwealth of Information’
 
     the rise of NOIE

1997  Prime Minister announces establishment of National Office for the Information Economy (NOIE ) as separate office within federal Communications, Information Technology & the Arts portfolio

1997 federal government establishes Ministerial Council for the Information Economy

1997 establishment of intergovernmental Online Council

1997 establishment of NOIE Advisory Board of Directors chaired by Don Mercer

1997 Electronic Commerce Expert Group (ECEG) established

1997 part of OGIT hived off to Office of Asset Sales as new Office of Asset Sales & IT Outsourcing (OASITO)

1997 Australian Broadcasting Authority (ABA) convenes Children & Content On-line Task Force

1998 Australian New Zealand Telehealth Committee replaces National Telehealth Committee

1998 ECEG releases Electronic Commerce: Building the Legal Framework report

1998 ICANN established
 
1998 former McKinsey consultant and Austrade Executive General Manager Paul Twomey appointed as NOIE CEO

1998 OGIT releases GATEKEEPER - A strategy for public key technology use in the Government report

1998 release of discussion paper on proposed model for a National Authentication Authority (NAA)

1998 NOIE stages Online Australia Day to "increase awareness of the benefits of the information economy"
 
1998 NOIE and Telstra E-Commerce: Enabling Australia Summit

1998 APEC Singapore Declaration for the Asia Pacific Information Infrastructure
 
1998 NOIE absorbs E-Commerce Branch of federal Department of Industry, Science & Resources

1998 OGIT becomes Office for Government On-line (OGO)

1998 NOIE agrees to facilitate creation of new Australian internet self-regulatory regime, with transfer of authority from Robert Elz to new entity

1998 UK Creative Industries Taskforce

1998 launch of National Bandwidth Inquiry

     normalisation
 
1999 Department of Communications, Information Technology & the Arts (DCITA) absorbs NOIE's IT industry development responsibilities

1999 NOIE becomes line area within DCITA

1999 Office of the e-Envoy established in UK

1999 federal Broadcasting Services Amendment (Online Services) Act

1999 federal government establishes NetAlert

1999 federal Electronic Transactions Act

1999 auDA established

2000 letter from NOIE CEO to ICANN on Principles for the Delegation & Administration of Country Code Top Level Domains

2000 'Great Dot-com Crash' of April 2000

2000 Review of the Whole of Government Information Technology Outsourcing Initiative report ('Humphry Report')
 
2000 Twomey resigns as NOIE CEO, subsequently becomes ICANN CEO

     and fall
 
2000 NOIE established as Executive Agency, absorbing Office of Government Online (OGO), the former OGIT

2000 federal Copyright Amendment (Digital Agenda) Act 2000
 
2000 former Multimedia Victoria executive John Rimmer become NOIE Chief Executive Officer
 
2001 NOIE established as Prescribed Agency under Financial Management & Accountability Act 1997 to reflect "need for an independent cross portfolio advocate on information economy issues"

2001 release of New Connections: A Toolkit for New Telecommunications Network Models in Regional Australia

2001 launch three stage federal Creative Industries Cluster Study as basis for national Digital Content Strategy

2003 Defence Signals Directorate (DSD) and NOIE establish 'Onsecure' site

2003 launch of National Broadband Strategy Implementation Group (NBSIG)

2003 federal Spam Act

2004 Peter Nissen appointed as National Broadband Adviser for education

2004 NOIE rebadged as Australian Government Information Management Office (AGIMO), with most functions passing to Office of Information Economy within DCITA

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