VICNET:A brief overview

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VICNETA brief overview
Brendan Fitzgerald VICNET Projects Coordinator
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INTRODUCTION

• VICNET FIRST 10 YEARS
• How did we get here?
• VICNET TODAY
• What do we do now?
• VICNET FUTURE
• Where to from here?

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VICNET First 10 years

• The Big Idea
• State Library of Victoria RMIT

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VICNET First 10 years

• CONCEPTION BIRTH
• 1994 CSF Grant allocated (340,000),
• ISP and website established
• 1995 VICNET launch
• 1.2 million "Connecting all Victorians" from CSF
  Public Library partnership
• 1996/97
• Online Public Access funding for Rural Libraries
• Skills.net developed. Target to train 50,000
  Victorians

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VICNET First 10 years
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VICNET First 10 years
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VICNET First 10 years

• CONSOLIDATION GROWTH
• 1998 Broadband technologies and big ICT
  projects
• Libraries online funding from MMV (1.8 million)
• 1999 Rural Libraries Online Grant from Networking
  the Nation. (3.47 million)
• 2000 Satellite roll out to rural libraries
  over 1000 public access workstations operational
• Skills.net 2 - train and additional 40,000
  Victorian

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VICNET Cheap, Easy Useful?
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VICNET Touchstone

• Can I get access?
• Can I afford it?

ACCESS

• What can I do when I get online?

CONTENT APPS

• Can I use it?
• Can those around me use it?

SKILLS SUPPORT
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VICNET First 10 years

• CONSOLIDATION GROWTH
• 2001-3 More growth
• My Connected Community program, egaps - public
  access
• Expand service provision to other community
  sectors and other states?
• Community Networking project
• 2004 Review Reassessment
• Chief Information Officer Dept of Premier
  Cabinet
• Kindergartens project ( DHS) Connect 1300
• - State Library is focussing more on community
  engagement.

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VICNET First 10 years

• CONSOLIDATION GROWTH
• 2005 New Programmes relationships
• State Library is focussing more on community
  engagement.
• VOMA WoVG Multilingual Website
• Bandwidth survey- NBSIG
• Multilingual Senior Surfers (OSV)
• Vicnet/DHS ICT disability working group (DHS)
• Skills.net roadshow (MMV)
• PIAP (MMV)

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VICNETFirst 10 years

• The 10 year summary
• VICNET Technical Crisis
• VICNET Liquidity Crisis

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VICNET TODAY

• VICNET is
• A division of the State Library of Victoria
• A business unit of the State Library of
  Victoria
• VICNET does
• Community Web publishing
• ISP services and products not for profit
  Commercial
• Public Library projects
• Government ICT project deliverer

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VICNET TODAY
DRAFT
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Vicnet.net.au
VICNET TODAY
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Pic vic vvl
VICNET TODAY
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Open road
VICNET TODAY
http//www.openroad.net.au/conferences/2006/
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www.mylanguage.gov.au
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VICNET FUTURE
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VICNET FUTURE
Content Applications
More Online Engagement
Access
Skills
More Usage
More Demand
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VICNET
What sort of information are they looking for?
libraries building community research
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VICNET FUTURE
Digital Divide Eternal issues in society

• Isolation at all levels
• On-going government support role
• The role that public libraries play in
  reaching the digitally divided
• E-democracy versus E-government
  http//www.victorianedemocracy.info)

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VICNET FUTURE

• VICNET has proved to be an extremely useful
  development and delivery arm for Government Info
  Society programs.
• If VICNET didnt exist it would have to be
  invented
• Recurrent vs Project vs Trading balance
• A changed and changing environment?
• Consortiums and collaboration
• Online expectations and growth and skills
• Digitising growth Content management needs