Live filtering pilot has no success criteria

June 2, 2009 – 9:38 pm

A Freedom of Information request has revealed that the DBCDE has not set criteria to determine if the live ISP filtering trial is a success. According to FOI assessment documents, the outcomes of the Pilot will inform the Government’s decision on the ISP filtering framework and ‘therefore there are not success criteria’. Here’s a copy of page 2 of the documents received by the applicant:

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Page one and three are also online.

The FOI request consisted of the following documents:

  • 2008/1380 – BROADCASTING AND CONTENT – CONTENT PROGRAMS – CYBER SAFETY – PROJECT PLAN
  • 2008/1498 – BROADCASTING AND CONTENT – CONTENT REGULATION – ONLINE CONTENT – CONSULTATIVE WORKING GROUP ON CYBER-SAFETY MINUTES OF MEETINGS
  • 2008/1972 – BROADCASTING AND CONTENT – CONTENT PROGRAMS – ISP FILTERING SECTION – CYBER SAFETY – BRIEFING PAPER ON ISP FILTERING **** **** **** **** ****
  • 2008/2391 – BROADCASTING AND CONTENT – CONTENT PROGRAMS – ISP FILTERING SECTION – CYBER-SAFETY – LIVE PILOT – CONSULTATION
  • 2008/3400 – BROADCASTING AND CONTENT – CONTENT PROGRAMS – ISP FILTERING SECTION – CYBER SAFETY – ISP FILTERING LIVE PILOT – EVALUATION OF APPLICATIONS – DEVELOPMENT OF PROCESS
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  1. 4 Responses to “Live filtering pilot has no success criteria”

  2. An ‘evidence-based approach’ without success criteria? Hilarious. And they’re wasting what, $300,000 on this sham?

    By Coenraad on Jun 2, 2009

  3. It’s not just $300,000. There’s another $887,000 awarded to Enex as consultants to do the assessment. No test criteria, no test methodology, no written specification. WTF are they doing for $887,000???

    By GW on Jun 2, 2009

  4. Seems like an ordinary disbursement of some cash.

    I am wondering why digital Conroy is still up to this filtering, as another disbursement of $43b has started.

    By Mitek on Jun 3, 2009

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