It was always going to be a tough assignment and a large part of me is disappointed that the job is only half-done. As of today, we have received over 1,250 views of the 13 policies outlined on the Naked Chief blog in the last few weeks.

The areas of biggest interest were certainly ICT Strategy support for small business, Assigning an economic value to a digitally connected life, and Introducing LAMP into the secondary education curriculum. So for any budding policy writers out there consider that some free research.

But apart from the odd comment and a lot of retweets, the experiment has shown that meaningful ICT policy is either 1) hard to articulate, 2) of little interest to the industry, or 3) much simpler than we have tried to paint it to be. For that reason we have decided to park the 30 Blogs in 30 Days campaign.

As a final entry for those of you who have been following the posts, and just to show that we had plenty more up our sleeve, here is a list of the remaining policies we had intended to cover. If anyone is particularly interested in one then post us a comment and we'll take up the cause anew.

cheers
Peter

• ICT Policy #14: R&D investment protection for Australian companies during foreign-based M&A's.
  
• ICT Policy #15: An Australian government to develop an international standard (like ITIL) for ICT planning  
  
• ICT Policy #16: Commercialise agency data pertaining to "ICT Assets under management" to provide closer working relationships between government and industry 
  
• ICT Policy #17: Support the reinstatement of recruitment company scholarships / graduate programs to build capability in the industry 
  
• ICT Policy #18: Review and consider realignment of ABS classifications for technology with industry - and then get all governments to use as the national standard
  
• ICT Policy #19: Incentives and rebates for professional sales training to help Australian companies become better salespeople
  
• ICT Policy #20: Recognise that ICT is not about infrastructure and establish central technology agencies 
  
• ICT Policy #21: Why Australia can have too many Co-operative Research Centres and technology adoption is better than technology innovation 
  
• ICT Policy #22: Commercialse a regional government cloud computing hub to deliver applications as a service to emerging Asia Pacific markets
  
• ICT Policy #23: Procurement and payment fast-tracks for SMEs including implementation of public sector paymemt terms for SMEs of 7- 14 days
  
• ICT Policy #24: XBRL adoption for safeguarding future economic crisis through adoption of risk and sustainability practices
  
• ICT Policy #25: Privatise government ICT service providers
  
• ICT Policy #26: Develop a national smartcard
  
• ICT Policy #27: Embrace offshoring and offshore services companies for onshore activity such as campus building as a way of increasing onshore capacity
  
• ICT Policy #28: Formalise programmer apprenticeships funded through tax concession i.e. PAYG style tax rebates for cost of apprentice wages.
  
• ICT Policy #29: Publicise, promote, and improve communication outputs of the unified policy council of State and Federal ICT Ministers 
  
• ICT Policy #30: Have your say...