An annotated list of key on-line sources which focus on how ICTs (Information and Communication Technologies) are being used in Australasia.

A Preliminary Evaluation of Online Access Centres: Promoting Micro E-Business Activity in Small, Isolated Communities

http://www.ejisdc.org/vol4/v4r1.pdf

Author(s):Judy Young and Gail Ridley, School of Information Systems, University of Tasmania and Jeff Ridley, Tasmanian Communities Online

Date of publication:April 4 2001

Summary:This paper reports on a study of 18 of the 20 first round of community online access centres introduced in Tasmania, the only island state of Australia. The access centres were designed to redress some disadvantages of living and working in rural regions of Tasmania, such as isolation and economic inequity. The investigation aimed to determine and evaluate trends in micro e-business activity associated with use of the centres.

Telecentres, IT and rural development: possibilities in the Information Age

http://www.csu.edu.au/research/crsr/sai/saipaper.htm#top

Author(s): Perry Share

Date of publication: May 11 1996

Summary: Originally presented to the Annual Conference of the Sociological Association of Ireland, Dundalk:

This paper is part of an attempt to sociologically understand the telecentre experience to date. It outlines the extent of telecentre development in a number of countries; it examines the range of telecentre types and activities; suggests some explanations for the emergence of telecentres at this particular time; and places the development of rural telecentres within a discussion of the direction of rural development policy in the advanced economies. Finally it raises some questions for the future.