The Framing Paper put forward for comment a range of principles that would guide the Review Committee’s approach to the Convergence Review.
In response, a number of submissions raised access to convergent media for people with disabilities as an issue for the Review Committee to consider. Media Access Australia has summarised several of these submissions which focus on access to convergent media for people with disabilities.
‘Convergence’ refers to the major communications platforms (broadcasting, telecommunications and online) coming together so that their once separate functions now overlap. For example, video content that used to be available only on television can now be viewed over the Internet.
In December 2010, the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, the Hon Senator Stephen Conroy, launched the review of convergent media to determine how government should regulate media and communications services in a convergent environment.
The Framing Paper indicated the principles which the Committee believes should guide the Review. It includes a number of “proposed principles of media and communications regulation”, including that “Australians should have access to a diversity of voices, views and information” and “Australians should have access to the broadest range of content across platforms and services as possible”.
Read a summary of the submissions received on the Convergence Review Framing Paper.
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