VALA2002 Session 13 Fitzgerald

From Aardvark to Xylophone to bandwidth from telephone:

VALA2002 CONCURRENT SESSION 13: e-nabling Infrastructures
Friday 8 February 2002, 14:35 – 15:05
Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2002-proceedings/vala2002-session-13-fitzgerald

Brendan Fitzgerald and Frances Savage

VICNET

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The benefits and implications of online information delivery are now beginning to be understood. Libraries Online and Rural Libraries Online have since 1998 been developing Internet access in Victorian public libraries. Funded by State (Multimedia Victoria) and Australian Federal (Networking The Nation), these projects have provided a whole of Library approach to e-services which includes provision of bandwidth, infrastructure, ICT skills and content. The specific projects such as Satellite delivery of bandwidth, Rural POP’s, Victoria’s Virtual Library (www.libraries.vic.gov.au), and the Gulliver consortium are discussed, as is the experience of working with 44 partners with very different needs and capacities and the associated ongoing issues.

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VALA2016 Session 17 Fitzgerald

Brendan Fitzgerald

A national approach to digital inclusion and digital literacy: what can this mean for public libraries?

VALA2016 CONCURRENT SESSION 17: Social
Thursday 11 February 2016, 15:20 – 15:50
Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2016-proceedings/vala2016-session-17-fitzgerald

Brendan Fitzgerald, Lisa Fletcher and Tegan Kop

Infoxchange, Vic

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Australia is currently facing a digital literacy challenge, as one in five adult Australians have not used the Internet. This paper looks at digital literacy and asks what this means for public libraries and how are they responding to technological change. In particular, it examines the Go Digi (www.godigi.org.au) project, Australia’s first national approach to digital literacy. Go Digi is designed to improve the digital confidence of 300,000 Australians.

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VALA2014 Session 13 Fitzgerald

Engaging exclusion: what’s next for Australia’s digital future

VALA2014 CONCURRENT SESSION 13: Engaging Culture
Thursday 6 February 2014, 14:20 – 14:50
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Brendan Fitzgerald

Infoxchange, VIC

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Digital inclusion is becoming one of the major social justice challenges of our time. Digital technologies now pervade every aspect of how we live, work and play. The longer term costs of digital exclusion have not been fully explored, and we do not have a national plan to mobilise a whole-of-community effort that ensures that all Australians can benefit from digital citizenship. Libraries and community organisations have increasingly played an important role in developing digital inclusion capacity. This paper presents a conceptual framework for understanding digital equality and examines how a collaborative national approach might be achieved.

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