The Future of the Digital CBD

Melbourne’s future relies on quality digital infrastructure and skills. “The key to Melbourne's status as a fully global digital city is merging our physical and digital experiences into a central built environment that leverages web3 technologies,” says Dr Alexia Maddox.

According to Dr Alexia Maddox from the RMIT Digital CBD Project, a key factor in reinvigorating the city is creating digital experiences that are inclusive, engaging and rewarding for people who visit, live and work in the city and businesses that invest in the city.

Dr Alexia Maddox joins Douglas Beatty in the Channel 9 studio to discuss the recent report on digital infrastructures and what it means for a future Melbourne CBD.

A first-of-its-kind, city-wide survey of Melbourne residents shows just how dramatically our working practices have changed since the beginning of the pandemic and highlights the digital infrastructure we need to support a thriving city.

The role of the city is changing. Find out how we surveyed more than 2,000 Victorians living in Melbourne, its suburbs and regional centres in April 2022.

Melbourne’s CBD workers are spending less than 17 hours a week in the city, and only one in eight is going into the office every day of the working week.

Imagining a digital city as a Central Built Environment with a focus on a city as a playful, immersive space based on Digital CBD Project research.

The concept of “Metaverse Cities”, as an exploration of how “crypto cities” and “crypto states” are melding with the physical infrastructure of cities to offer new potentialities in how people organise, work, rest, and play. It forms a contribution to the research in Report 5 of the The Digital CBD Project.

A growing gap in digital skills is a security risk and prohibitive to Melbourne becoming a Digital CBD according to a new report released by the RMIT Digital CBD Project.

A new report by RMIT University funded by the Victorian State Government recommends the establishment of digital academies and programs to address tech skills gap brought by the pandemic in context of developing Melbourne as a digital central business district.

A new report by RMIT University Digital Skills and Cyber Security: How Do We Secure Our Future attempts to understand the current digital skills issues, and the challenges the pandemic brought about, in the context of developing Melbourne as a Digital CBD. The research is funded by the Victorian State Government.

Emerging technologies and digital infrastructures, such as NFTs, smart sensors, drones, autonomous vehicles and artificial intelligence forecasting, would reduce the vulnerabilities in Melbourne’s supply chain highlighted during the pandemic, a new report finds.