Community Websites and what makes them Sustainable: Evidence from Australia
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Australia is leading the way in promoting the use of the Internet as a means of strengthening local communities. The Australian Domain Name Authority (auDA) has announced the release of Community Geographic Domain Names (CGDN), to be solely used by not-for-profit, self-funded local community groups. As Australian communities attempt to establish a management group and develop a website under this concept, they are faced with a range of issues. Longitudinal case study research has been conducted on three communities involved in a trial of the CGDN model, in the first research of this type. Based on data collected from the case studies and the CGDN model, a mapping of sustainability issues and a model of community website sustainability will be presented. There is limited published research into sustainability issues for community websites, with no models of community website sustainability currently available. Disciplines Physical Sciences and Mathematics Publication Details Norris, A. E. & Freeman, M. (2006). Community websites and what makes them sustainable: evidence from Australia. Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (pp. 820-834). Malaysia: Universiti Putra. This conference paper is available at Research Online: http://ro.uow.edu.au/infopapers/2949 The Tenth Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS 2006) 820 Community Websites and what makes them Sustainable: Evidence from Australia Alison Norris [email protected] Mark Freeman [email protected] School of Information Technology and Computer Science University of Wollongong, Australia
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