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Date: Sat, 25 May 1996 02:54:12 +1000
From: "Steven Byrne"
[...] I thought that this site (which co-incidentally I helped design, author and set-up) might be of interest [...]
The URL is httl://www.cin.gov.au. What it is is the home page of the Community Information Network, a research project of the Australian federal Department of Social Security set up 18 months ago or so to explore a number of techno/social policy (to coin a phrase) research questions - perhaps most specifically the issue of whether access to on-line services such as the Internet can actually serve to improve the living standards of low income people.
So the CIN was established to test this proposition, and along the way we have become the largest public access Internet network in the world, with 480+ public Internet access sites in several States across Australia and with 5,500+ registered CIN users. Sitting behind the CIN is a comprehensive evaluation framework that will allow us to statistically explore whether or not the experiment contributed to improving the living statndards of those people who have participated in the CIN.
Aside from building an access network in a variety of public locations (libraries, community centres, migrant resource centres etc) to provide full Internet access to low income people who may not be able to afford their own PC/modem, and a dedicated WAN to service the access network, we have also recently begun to explore the role effective, tailored, interactive content may play in enhancing the experiment. So we have developed a re-vamped Web site that we hope will engage our users more and add value to their on-line experience (in hopefully measurable ways).
It is this site I am inviting you to visit. Please drop by and let us know what you (or your readers) think. I would welcome your views.
Please also take the opportunity to browse some of our content - particularly the background papers on the CIN (in the CIN Room of our site) and its evaluation framework. If you haven't heard of us before, you might find our work interesting.
Hope to see you (in our log files) soon.
Steven Byrne CIN Webmaster. A member of the CIN content team.
sbyrne@cin.gov.au (at work)
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Steven Byrne. Internet: sbyrne@netinfo.com.au Compuserve: 100033,1506 MSN: SByrne (SByrne@msn.com)
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