CICT: the Monash Community Information and Communications Technology Index

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.

An html version of the index will be made available shortly. In the interim, a zipped pdf file (317KB) is available.

The first stage of the CICT Index and Report is the development of a survey of community-based organisations. See the zip file below