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Connecting Communities - Research and Publications

These documents include the key NZ Connecting Communities strategy, research, and conference initiatives. They will help you understand community ICT in New Zealand, and were used in developing community aspects of the Digital Strategy. Downloadable publications include the 2002 Strategy, supporting research (2002 and 2004) and the 2003 Connecting Communities Conference Report. (Note: this page appears in both Digital Strategy and Community Computing Hot Topics.)

Please note some of these files are large. If you are using a dial-up connection each may take up to 10 minutes to download.

 

2004 community ICT research - Literature Review, Training Models and Survey

This Victoria Link research followed on from the 2002 work, and sets out to understand how community information and communications technology (ICT) initiatives are getting technical support, training their staff (and stakeholders) and planning for the future. It also resurveyed the 2002 respondents to see what had changed.

  • Literature review

    Technology Planning and Support Models, Training and Resources. Literature Review. (PDF, 33 pages 949 Kb)   Technology Planning and Support Models, Training and Resources. Literature Review. (MS Word, 33 pages 691 KB)

  • Survey of 43 organisations and projects

    Survey of New Zealand Community ICT Organisations and Projects (PDF, 52 pages 746 kb) Survey of New Zealand Community ICT Organisations and Projects (RTF, 52 pages 1,266 KB) Conclusions excerpted from the survey (MS Word, 3 pgs, 61 KB)

  • Training models

    Summary and links for a range of New Zealand-based and International community computer training initiatives

    Training models; a range of NZ and international models (PDF, 16 pgs, 129 KB)  Training models; a range of NZ and international models (MS Word, 16 pgs, 178 KB)

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2003 - Connecting Communities conference

The Connecting Communities conference was held in Wellington, 3-5 November 2003. To find out more about Connecting Communities, the issues raised and recommended priorities for action, download the conference report which is available in PDF only.

Report from the Connecting Communities Conference, including recommended actions and priorities (PDF, 27 pages, 853 KB) 

 

To request a printed copy to to posted to you please email information@community.net.nz with your name and address. 

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2002 community ICT research - Literature Review, Nationwide survey and 3 case studies 

Victoria Link Ltd was contracted to carry out research that would help to describe the community information and communication technology (ICT) environment in Aotearoa/New Zealand with comparative references to overseas examples. This research was carried out in 2002.

The complete report effectively contains 3 research reports in one, and so is large. You can download the entire report or selected excerpts:

  • Complete Report
    Includes literature review, survey and case studies

      NZ ICT Research (PDF, 1400kb)   NZ ICT Research (Zipped MS Word, 132 pages 644KB)
  • Selected Excerpts
    • Executive summary

      Executive summary; 11 pages, MS Word, 318 KB
    • 3 case studies of community computer centres: in a suburb of a major city, in a  rural town and in a small remote settlement

         3 case studies of community computer centres; 27 pgs, MS Word, 411 KB
    • Good practices for connected communities: practitioners were asked what advice they would give to other projects; this section summarises their extremely practical and valuable answers

      Good practices for connected communities; 8 pgs, MS Word, 59 KB

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The Connecting Communities Strategy 2002

The wide-ranging strategic plan for co-ordinating and facilitating community computing.

Strategy (Adobe PDF, 235 Kb)  Strategy (MS Word, 20 pages, 1,180 Kb)

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