A snapshot of the opportunities afforded by the National Broadband Network and ways your training organisation can prepare.

1. Modbury & Salisbury
Getting your training
organisation ready for the NBN
Allison Miller, Vanguard Visions Consulting

2. What is the NBN?

3. National Broadband Network
= NBN
• High speed internet
• Faster than we can imagine
• Changing the landscape -
• Not just with digital fibre
but with digital
opportunities
Key enabler for many economic, social, technological and
environmental developments (Bowles, 2011)
Image: 'NBN in Plain English' - http://www.flickr.com/photos/89165847@N00/6357746413

4. National Broadband Network = NBN
Super-fast internet
from 100 megabits
per second to a peak
speed of one gigabit
per second*
* NBN Co Ltd, 2010, Corporate Plan 2011-2013
speedtest.net

5. NBN explained
Video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU-zIEkGJps

6. Internet is already a game changer
From one to
many to The new digital economy From Push
many to to Pull
many
will have an impact on all
Australian industries and
will require every business,
community organisation
and government
department
New ways of to be NBN-ready
working: (Bowles, 2011) Give to get
- (FB, TW,
Collaborativ Gmail)
e/
Co-optition

7. How is the NBN
supporting a digital
economy?

8. National Digital Economy Strategy
Source: National Digital Economy Strategy (2011)
nbn.gov.au/the-vision/digitaleconomystrategy

9. Top five industries to fly in 2013 in
Australia
Source: Ibis World (2013) –
http://www.ibisworld.com.au/about/media/pressrelease/release.aspx?id=304

10. Top five industries to fly in 2013 in
Australia
Source: Ibis World (2013) –
http://www.ibisworld.com.au/about/media/pressrelease/release.aspx?id=304

11. New Business Models
Broken
Business
Model:
Eg Music
Industry,
publishing,
media
Online, open,
personalised,
24/7 – anytime,
anywhere

12. New Business Models • MOOC
“Over the next • OER
decade the NBN • P2PU
will change the • BYOD
way we teach • Open (Digital)
online, in our Badges
classrooms, in • Applied
learners’ learning
worksites and • Pro-sumers
in homes” • Multi-deviced
• Learning
National VET E-learning
Strategy, 2012
Analytics
High-speed broadband • Creative
readiness
Commons

13. What does doing
business in a digital
economy look like?

14. Getting your training organisation ready for the NBN
Digital Presence:
• Website – DIY, free/paid,
self-hosted
• Social media - Facebook,
Twitter, YouTube, Pinterest etc
• Online Ads - Google,
Facebook, LinkedIn, Scoop-ons
• QR codes
Image: QR-ing it Everywhere - Make up - http://www.flickr.com/photos/77018488@N03/7307320654/in/photostream

15. Getting your training organisation ready for the NBN
Digital Presence:
• Search Engine
Optimisation (SEO) - Tags,
Keywords, Adwords
• Google Analytics
• Google Alerts
Image: 'Google Main Search' - http://www.flickr.com/photos/22127803@N02/5267464508

16. Getting your training organisation ready for the NBN
Digital Learner Support:
• Apps
• Real time support
• Google+ Hangouts, Skype
Image: Online Support - http://www.flickr.com/photos/77018488@N03/8143741907/

17. Getting your training organisation ready for the NBN
Digital Marketplace:
• Digitalisation of
products/services - eBooks,
iTunesU, 3D printing
• Booking online - AusPost
Passports, Doctor’s Surgery
• Reminding learners – SMS
• Digital assessment and
reporting – mobile device forms,
interactive PDFs
Image: 'Tada!' - http://www.flickr.com/photos/73282154@N08/6686839137

18. Getting your training organisation ready for the NBN
Digital finance:
• Online stores /Payments-
eCommerce, PayPal, eBay
• Mobile phone payments –
CommBank’s Ka-ching, PayPal
Here,
• Crowd sourcing finances –
KickStarters, micro-loans, peer-
to-peer lending
Image: PayPal - https://www.paypal.com/webapps/mpp/credit-card-reader

19. Getting your training organisation ready for the NBN
Digital Infrastructure:
• ‘Cloud’ storage - Software as a
Service (SaaS), Dropbox, Evernote
• Mobile devices and BYODs
• Virtual servers and desktops
Image: 'What Type of Cloud?: Private, Public or+Hybrid?' - http://www.flickr.com/photos/26072489@N08/5332731617

20. Getting your training organisation ready for the NBN
Digital Infrastructure:
• Open source vs proprietary
• Interoperability
• Web accessibility
• User interface & experience
Image: 'Interopérabilité @ J&Bisc family' - http://www.flickr.com/photos/11445550@N00/2456767724

21. Getting your training organisation ready for the NBN
Digital Policies/Legal considerations:
• HR
• ICT
• IP/Copyright/Creative
Commons
• Digital sovereignty
• Moral rights
• Spam
• Privacy
• Social media
Image: 'Global Player' - http://www.flickr.com/photos/29487767@N02/3574392846

22. Are you and/or your staff
NBN ready?

23. In order for Australia to fully leverage the
economic, social and environmental benefits of
the NBN, every Australian will need to improve
their information and communication
technology (ICT) skills (Bowles, 2011)
Image: 'NBN Rollout Map' - http://www.flickr.com/photos/97304820@N00/6934255879

24. Getting your training organisation ready for the NBN
Digital Workforce:
• digital literacy
• ForwardIT
• Digital Hubs/Enterprise
• HR policies
• tele-work
• micro-work
Image: 'Morning Shopping' - http://www.flickr.com/photos/73491156@N00/3669364668

25. Implementing and
evaluating for digital
success

26. Develop a digital roadmap
Wordle based on Courtney Shelton Hunt’s Digital Era Competencies (2012)
Social Media in Organisations – New Tools for doing old things
www.sminorgs.net/2012/05/digital-era-competencies-how-do-you-stack-up.html

27. Develop a digital roadmap
Develop an eBusiness Strategy/Action
Plan:
• Link to Business Plan/Strategic
Goals
• Input from stakeholders
• Communicate to stakeholders
• Resourcing
• Risk management
• Benchmarking - data analytics
• Monitoring and review triggers
• Evaluate
Image: 'Dive off!' - http://www.flickr.com/photos/58862846@N00/419945378

28. Develop a digital roadmap
Supporting a culture of
innovation:
• PD
• Performance Plans
• Collaborative learning and
rewards
• Room to make mistakes and
test new ideas
• Workforce development plan
Image: 'Gary Hamel: Open source is one of+the+greatest+management+innovations+of+the+21st+century' - http://www.flickr.com/photos/47691521@N07/4371000486

29. What digital strategy will
you investigate further?

30. Where to start?
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31. Allison Miller
0400 732 270
allison@vanguardvisions.com.au
vanguardvisionsconsulting.com.au
vanguardvisionsconsulting.com.au