Technology Applications

Our four strategic goals of technology applications for communities are to create and maintain:

1. Networks of relationships.
2. Space for dialogue and learning.
3. ‘Social capital’ or capacity which may be characterised as the ‘glue’ that provides a platform for social entrepreneurs to become more competent in their business practices.
4. Technologies for earned income (financial capital).

All four goals are intended to act together to create socially and economically enterprising technology-based networks that may extend/enhance social capital or ‘trust’ and financial capital in groups and communities.

We aim to make these technologies (with a special focus on ‘information society technologies’ more accessible to all especially in rural areas and not just to the few.

Our strategies for achieving these goals include:

• The establishment of an e-Dialogue Forum on our website.
• Creating virtual community networks for disadvantaged and needy individual and groups of social entrepreneurs at(www.virtualventures.org.au).

• Forming member-based networks.

• Establishing partner alliances.

• Confirming networks and nodes or key social entrepreneurs who link and bridge with other nonprofits.

• Making the submerged quality of networks more explicit by making them more visible in the public sphere.

• Exploring the idea of community as a network of relationships that are reciprocal, multiple and many-sided in contexts where the ‘quality’ and speed of formation of networks is enhanced through adoption of technology applications and information flows; through the recognition of the greater spatial and intellectual distribution enabled by technology applications; and through engaging in space that is conducive to lateral thinking.

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