High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Digital Education Revolution (DER) is an Australian Government funded educational reform program that was promised by Former Prime Minister of Australia Kevin Rudd during the launch of his 2007 Australian federal election campaign in Brisbane. It was officially launched in late 2008, with the first deployments announced by then Deputy Prime Minister of Australia and Minister for Education, Employment and Workplace Relations, Julia Gillard and then New South Wales Minister for Education and Training, Verity Firth. The first deployment took place at Fairvale High School in August that year.