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- Title
- Measuring social capital in a networked housing estate
- Author(s)
- Meredyth, Denise; Hopkins, Liza; Ewing, Scott; Thomas, Julian
- Abstract
- This paper describes the construction of 'Reach for the Clouds', an inventive scheme to build a resident-maintained 'networked community' in Atherton Gardens, an ethnically-diverse, low-income, high rise public housing estate in Melbourne, Australia. The project was developed by the InfoXchange, a not-for-profit Internet service provider with a 'social entrepreneurial' orientation. It involves a consortium of government and community groups and draws on a combination of voluntary labour, commercial enterprise, government funding and donations of equipment by local businesses. The long term goal of the project is for it to become self-funding, and owned and operated by Atherton Gardens' residents. This requires both training and skills development as well as the creation of an enterprise base to fund the operating and capital costs of the network.
- Publication type
- Journal article
- Research centre
- Swinburne University of Technology. Institute for Social Research
- Source
- First Monday, Vol. 7, no. 10 (Oct. 2002)
- Publication year
- 2002
- Publisher
- First Monday Editorial Group
- ISSN
- 1396-0466
- Publisher URL
- http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue7_10/meredyth/
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2002 First Monday and the Authors. Reproduced with the kind permission of the publisher.
- Full text
- Peer reviewed
