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Welcome to engage.acma. This is our beta space for engaging with our users. The ACMA is committed to genuine interaction with our wide array of stakeholders. New technologies have created opportunities for the ACMA to directly communicate with citizens and consumers. Tools like Twitter, Facebook and You Tube reach large communities and through engage.acma we want to collaborate with these audiences, to hear their views, engage in discussions and hopefully gain insight. By feeding these understandings back into our decision-making we aim to better inform our many public interest judgments.
As a beta platform we want to best understand what constitutes an effective engagement. Bear with us as we test various tools and please be patient as we build out this platform with different applications, mini sites and special features.
Part of our remake includes the rebuilding of the acma.gov.au website. Reboot.acma is the name of the project and we hope to feed many of the our successful innovations on the engage.acma platform into the new website. That is the role of a beta space – a place for incubation, innovation and iteration. We hope you can help us.
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Enduring concepts—building blocks for a converged media and communications future
The ACMA has released Enduring Concepts: Communications and media in Australia (word) and (pdf). This is a research paper that examines the concepts that are of ongoing importance to media and communications in Australia It is a companion piece to the Broken Concepts paper, released in August 2011.
Broken concepts—old rules struggling with new technology
On 29 August 2011, the ACMA released Broken Concepts: The Australian communications legislative landscape, a research paper about ‘broken concepts’ in media and communications legislation.
Converged legislative frameworks: International approaches
This occasional paper examines the approaches of a number of international jurisdictions in the move to a converged legislative framework for media and communications. It provides an insight into the reform of telecommunications, broadcasting and radiocommunications regulatory frameworks through converged legislation, as experienced internationally.
The 'convergence phenomena' from a regulator's perspective
ACMA Chairman Chris Chapman opened his speech to the Communications and Media Lawyers Association in May 2011 by saying, 'Let me immediately manage your expectations….I’m here to add some food for thought in what will be a very long conversation.  So I’m not loaded up with answers, but do come with relatively strong experience with how ‘convergence’ is playing out at the coal face, and the implications thereof.'
What is convergence?
A background paper for the Australian Government's Convergence Review, which is examining Australia’s communications legislation in light of emerging technology and industry trends, includes an outline of the key drivers of convergence, the trends and issues arising from it as well as a very useful explanation of what convergence means.