NBN Co boss Mike Quigley says the company is "ramping up" the $37.4 billion NBN project. Source: AAP
"A piece of fibre coming out of the wall" is just the starting point for the national broadband network (NBN), world wide web inventor Tim Berners-Lee says.
Credited with inventing the web in 1989, Sir Tim says Australia must recognise the need for continual innovation if it's to succeed in the digital era.
The British academic, speaking at the launch of a CSIRO digital research project in Sydney on Tuesday, said the NBN will be a brilliant tool if it is used to help concepts like the research body's $40-million-a-year plan for a digital economy.
"The national broadband network is a wonderful commitment to getting everyone connected," the 57-year-old said.
"It's a brilliant foundation - it will be a foundation for many things.
"But having established that foundation, the fact you have a piece of fibre optic coming out of the wall is really only a start."
The CSIRO's 'flagship' project, which may last 10 years, aims to find ways of helping businesses and governmental organisations make greater use of digital technology in Australia after the mining boom.
It will focus primarily on the services sector, which provides about 80 per cent of the nation's gross domestic product but has in recent years suffered from declining productivity growth.
The CSIRO hopes that by utilising the NBN and providing the sector with innovative new ways of working digitally, it can boost the economy by up to $4 billion a year by 2025.
The research is already looking at ways of using technology to predict emergency department waiting times at Queensland hospitals and tracking social media conversations to help fight bushfires.
Helping to launch the project in Sydney, Sir Tim said it was an example of how broadband internet may be used to improve quality of life for all citizens.
He also urged Australian governments to make far more data available online, including information about schools and hospitals, and to avoid online censorship.
His comments came as new figures showed that far more work would be needed for the NBN to reach its 2013 mid-year rollout target.
Rollout figures for the second half of calendar 2012, released on Tuesday by NBN Co Ltd, showed the fibre-cable work has now passed 46,100 existing premises and 26,300 new home lots.
The June 2013 target is for it to pass 286,000 premises.
Federal Broadband Minister Stephen Conroy insisted the rollout was on track and would be ramped up in 2013.
"This year you will not be able to walk around a street in Australia without falling over construction work for the NBN," he told the CSIRO launch.
"It will continue to ramp up in every state and territory around the country."
NBN Co Ltd boss Mike Quigley said the government-owned entity was "ramping up" the $37.4 billion project, but acknowledged there was much work to do to meet the June schedule.
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