The GoBroadband initiative led by Southern Cross University has been created to ensure local regional and rural industries are provided with best-practice advice, access to world class ICT research and high-tech demonstration facilities staffed by impartial and informed facilitators.

An outreach of these facilities is proposed through the formation of the GoBroadband Demonstration Centre (GBDC).

Its primary purpose is to provide:

• Impartial advice on the use of ICT to enhance local regional industry;
• Access to high-tech demonstration facilities, e.g.

Professor Peter Croll will be discussing how High-Speed Broadband brings a range of opportunities to local regional businesses. Understanding what these are and ensuring they fit your business needs is critical for our many busy Small to Medium Enterprises.

SCU is now an exhibitor at T.H.E Exchange. This the first event of its kind on the Mid North Coast to focus on the capacity of high speed broadband and the technology based solutions that will improve productivity, reduce costs and create new revenue streams to a wide range of organisations involved in e-commerce, heath, education and the community. Harvey Norman will supply SCU with Samsung Smart T.V's. These will be demonstrated on the stand during the exhibition on 20th July. Dont miss it!

Southern Cross University is developing plans for an e-Demo Centre at its Coffs Harbour campus to provide information and advice on the potential of the National Broadband Network.

Plans for the centre were discussed during a visit to the Coffs Harbour campus by Senator Stephen Conroy, Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, and the Labor candidate for Cowper, Paul Sekfy this month.

Senator Conroy and Mr Sekfy met with Southern Cross University's Professor of Information Technology and Information Systems, Professor Peter Croll, who led the submission for the early rollout of the National Broadband Network for the

'Implications of the NBN' - seminar series

In response to community and industry requests for more information regarding the implications of the NBN rollout for the Coffs Harbour Region, Professor Peter Croll, Regional Futures Institute, SCU will be holding information seminars in Coffs Harbour.

The seminars will include an information session for participants to understand how broadband technology can be used to manage and inform their lives, communities and industries. This will be followed by consultation to gauge demand for a more permanent e-Demo Centre to demonstrate existing and proposed technologies and the implications of the NBN rollout.

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We will be browsing the web in 3D, making video phone calls without a second thought, and streaming high-definition TV through the internet once the National Broadband Network hits the North Coast, the academic at the centre of the push to get the network here first has said.

20-07-2011 - NBN Rolls Out in Coffs Harbour.The second wave rollout of the federal government’s National Broadband Network was launched in Coffs Harbour today.Mid-north coast business, health and education representatives gathered to learn how the NBN will benefit them.  

9-09-2010 - Coffs Coast Advocate - Broadband a big win for the bush - BROADBAND for the bush' was the straw that tipped the balance of government in Australia and the ramifications are still sinking in for the Coffs Coast.

A submission to NBN Co that identifies the benefits for early adoption of the NBN to the Eastern Regional Corridor has been logged.

This Southern Cross University submission was handed to the Federal Member for Page, Janelle Saffin on 29 January, 2010. She will champion this to get the Australian Government’s $43-billion National Broadband Network (NBN) rolled out early to the NSW North Coast.

Southern Cross University is committed to the NBN with the construction of a state-of-the-art research and demonstration ‘broadband hub’.

This is part of a $10-million upgrade of facilities at its Coffs Harbour Education Campus.