Investigating the Impact of IT&T on Rural, Regional and Remote Australia
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This paper describes in overview the complexity of the impact of information technology and telecommunications on rural, regional and remote communities. It defines an extensive and broad-ranging programme of research, which ultimately focuses on maintaining, ideally enhancing, the sustainablity of the Victorian city of Warrnambool through a strategic approach to the so called “Internet Revolution”. Work completed to date in the development of a theoretic framework which will support goal-aligned, interventionist field research is reported.
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