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- Title
- Making a community network sustainable : the future of the wired high rise
- Author(s)
- Hopkins, Liza
- Abstract
- Much time and money has been committed by governments, private business, and the third sector over the last 5 years in establishing opportunities for underserved populations to gain access to new forms of information and communication technologies, in an effort to overcome the so-called 'digital divide'. This article traces the efforts that have been made to establish a networked community at a single high-rise public housing estate in inner Melbourne, Australia, and considers some of the potential opportunities for and barriers to ensuring the continuity of the network, which is large, complex, costly, and potentially fragile, into the future.
- Publication type
- Journal article
- Research centre
- Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Life and Social Sciences. Institute for Social Research
- Source
- Information society, Vol. 21, no. 5 (Nov-Dec 2005), pp. 379-384
- Publication year
- 2005
- Keyword(s)
- Australia; Digital divide; Melbourne; Networked community; Sustainability; Underserved populations; Wired community
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- ISSN
- 0197-2243
- Publisher URL
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01972240500253590
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2005 Taylor & Francis Inc. Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher.
- Full text
- Peer reviewed
