@article{69e041d44871458c8a264682e3f978b0,
title = "{\textquoteleft}Too smart{\textquoteright}: Infrastructuring the Internet through regional and rural smart policy in Australia",
abstract = "Smart infrastructure is positioned as central to the liveability and viability of rural and regional towns in Australia. The Australian Government's Smart Cities Plan and Regional Connectivity Program includes Smart Investment in regional areas and the New South Wales Government has prioritised connectivity and telecommunications infrastructural development through the Regional Digital Connectivity program. And yet regional and rural communities are typically excluded from the evidence base for smart technologies and services. Local Aboriginal Land Councils are also important stakeholders in managing the digital processes associated with information and infrastructure moving across different Countries. This paper draws on data from the {\textquoteleft}It just works!{\textquoteright}: Regional and rural consumer understandings of smart technologies in North West New South Wales project, including over 130 survey responses and interviews with shire councillors, land councillors, and consumers on smart development and Internet infrastructure in the region. In the areas surveyed, smart regional policy is variously emerging, non-existent, or assembled from existing policy domains and regulation involving the Internet, telecommunications, regional development, First Nations, and local government. We argue that regional and rural understandings of growth and development are experienced through the infrastructuring processes of Internet quality, availability, and speed.",
keywords = "First Nations, infrastructure, Internet, regional development, smart policy",
author = "Randell-Moon, {Holly Eva Katherine} and Danielle Hynes",
note = "Funding Information: The smart {\textquoteleft}city{\textquoteright} paradigm dominates research (see Campbell, 2012 ; Caragliu et al., 2011 ). Assumptions of smart applications for {\textquoteleft}city{\textquoteright} areas is evidenced in the Australian Government's Smart Cities and Suburbs Program (Australian Government, Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Communications, n.d.[d]). Part of the metropolitan dominance is because Internet access is assumed for smart capability (Haidar et al., 2015 ; Yigitcanlar & Kamruzzaman, 2019 ). Focusing on regional and rural communities in the North West of New South Wales (NSW), this project provides data on the digital experiences and smart literacy of regional and rural telecommunications consumers to better understand how smart services can be applied. is funded by the Australian Communications Consumer Action Network (ACCAN) and is one of the few studies to examine this consumer base. {\textquoteleft}It just works!{\textquoteright}: Regional and rural consumer understandings of smart technologies in North West New South Wales Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2022 The Authors. Policy & Internet published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of Policy Studies Organization.",
year = "2022",
month = mar,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1002/poi3.286",
language = "English",
volume = "14",
pages = "151--169",
journal = "Policy and Internet",
issn = "1944-2866",
publisher = "John Wiley & Sons",
number = "1",
}