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:
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
4 comments
Coenraad says:
Jun 2, 2009
An ‘evidence-based approach’ without success criteria? Hilarious. And they’re wasting what, $300,000 on this sham?
GW says:
Jun 2, 2009
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???
Mitek says:
Jun 3, 2009
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.
Filtering wrap up: What ‘works’ and what kills small ISPs - Somebody Think Of The Children says:
Jul 27, 2009
[...] You may recall that a Freedom of Information request also confirmed that no success criteria has been set for the filtering pilot. [...]