Download - VICNET:A brief overview
INTRODUCTION
• VICNET FIRST 10 YEARS
•How did we get here?
• VICNET TODAY
•What do we do now?
•VICNET FUTURE
•Where to from here?
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
VICNET: First 10 years
VICNET: First 10 years
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
VICNET: Cheap, Easy & Useful?
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.
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)
VICNET:First 10 years
The 10 year summary
–VICNET Technical Crisis
–VICNET Liquidity CrisisVICNET Budget 2000/2001
Grants=$4.3M, Trading=$1.9M, Recurrent=$661KTotal Pie=$6.87M
10%
62%
28%RecurrentAppropriation
ExternalGrants
TradingIncome
VICNET TODAYVICNET 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
DRAFT
VICNET TODAY
Vicnet.net.au
VICNET TODAY
Pic vic vvl
VICNET TODAY
Open road
VICNET TODAY
http://www.openroad.net.au/conferences/2006/
www.mylanguage.gov.au
Content & Applications
Access Skills
More Online Engagement
More Usage More Demand
VICNET FUTURE
VICNET What sort of information are they looking for?
Information sought % response
(n=6833) Information resources 55
Literature resources 48
Information technology (PC’s/internet) 27 Photocopying 24
Av resources (videos/DVDs/CDs/cassettes) 24
Community information 17
Library activity information 12
Job search 9
Other 8
“libraries building community research”
VICNET FUTURE
• 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)
Digital Divide : Eternal issues in society
VICNET FUTURE
• VICNET has proved to be an extremely useful development and delivery arm for Government Info Society programs.
• If VICNET didn’t 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
