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ProjectsThe DoingIT Better project is a three-year social justice and action research partnership with the Victorian Council of Social Service, generously funded by a donor. It is led by Dr Larry Stillman of CCNR.
Funding Success for the Centre For Community Networking Research The Centre for Community Networking Research (CCNR) and researchers from the School of IT at Monash South Africa have received funding from the Strategic Initiative Fund, administered by Professor Stephanie Fahey, the Deputy Vice-Chancellor International, to strengthen research into Development Informatics at Monash South Africa. See the item in Monash News.
CCNR is now part of a national tender to develop an Australian non-profit ICT coaltion to be an advocate to goverment, business, and the sector itself. See Monash Memo. 1 May 2006
The Centre for Community Networking Research (CCNR) received major support from the Monash Research Fund in 2002 to undertake research about the uses of information and communications technologies (ICTs) by community and third sector organisations within Australia. The outcomes of this research are presented here as the Monash Community ICT Index (CICT). The index is intended as part of a national longitudinal data series providing quantitative and qualitative indicators of use of ICTs by the participants in community organisations and their networks including, on a state-by-state basis, patterns of use and barriers to use. The creation of the Index has significant potential benefit for planning, policy development and national co-ordination as well as providing a basis for further research and analysis.
This was a contract research project for Brisbane City Council, providing a report and in-depth case studies about innovative ways that business and community groups are using the Internet for communication and collaboration. CCNR collected data, examined trends, and examined why different internet tools were chosen, what benefits there were, and why that mix was successful for a particular group. zip file
An exploration of evaluation and performance measurement of the MC2 Project for Multimedia Victoria (2001-2).
Provision of public Internet access has been viewed by government as the key step towards encouraging uptake among people who do not have access to technology in the home or office, and as an important means of building an equitable information society. In 2001 the Victorian Public Library Network provided over 1 million hours of public Internet access via more than 950 workstations located in over 240 sites across the state.
The main aim of this project is to identify and promote capacity building at the points of intersection of the interests of two universities, proximate micro-businesses, and community organizations. We are particularly interested in the uses of information and communications technologies (ICTs), and in improved online access, in outer urban Melbourne to promote networked development of local relationships for educational, economic, and social growth. The environs of Monash University and Victoria University campuses (Berwick-Casey, and Werribee-Wyndham) are the proposed locations for this study of alliances. Stimulating collaboration is the long-term objective. It is hoped to compare the outer-urban findings of this project with rural networks in allied projects.
This project worked with Neighbourhood Houses in the Western Region of Melbourne. This is a region of high social-economic need (e.g. unemployment, failure to complete school, poverty). Many small to medium sized-agencies do not have the resources to develop the people-centred information systems which realise the potential of technological infrastructure, despite considerable investment by centralised government agencies in the hardware side of technological infrastructure. This lack of support compounds the social disadvantage for many in the population.
May 2, 2005. The Centre for Community Networking Research at Monash University
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