Annual Report of Activities for 2006

Tuyen Thanh Nguyen, a PhD student at CCNR, and Hai Thi Thanh Nguyen a PhD student at Waseda University presented a paper at a recent E-government symposium in Vietnam, 13-14 December, 2006, in Hanoi. They focussed on issues of citizen access and participation in a developing country. See the Confence link and the attached paper.

They were also interviewed in a Vietnamese national newspaper and national TV.

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

[inline:1=cirn] 3rd Prato International Community Informatics Conference; CIRN 2006. 9- 11 October 2006. Contact: prato2006ATfastmail.fm.

Nearly all abstracts and papers are now online.

The conference archive is now online.

Conference Purpose

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.