2011 Grant Recipients

University of New England (Dr Julie Williems)

i-Survive Project: - This project will evaluate the value and/or potential of messages, images and videos sent during recent Australian and New Zealand disaster and emergency situations from Internet-enabled mobile phones to Web 2.0 social-sharing websites in order to help emergency service providers' better plan and prepare for the use of these technologies in future disaster situations.

SANE Australia

Rural Worker Training in Mental Health: - A pilot program to train 1000 rural workers to improve the mental health of their volunteer workforce/membership. SANE further aims to use the internet based training to overcome isolation from services, and demonstrate the case for this in practical, replicable terms.  

Vicnet

Multilingual U3A Online: A National Model: - This project will research and develop a model for a national multilingual version of U3A Online, which is a virtual University of the Third Age delivering online learning via the Internet to older people, especially those who are geographically, physically or socially isolated.

Epilepsy Action Australia

Epilepsy Action Australia Awareness Program: - The program aims to raise epilepsy awareness in primary schools using online training. Online resources will be developed, piloted, evaluated and then rolled-out to primary schools across Australia.

Queensland University of Technology (Dr Emma Felton)

Social Inclusion and Internet Technologies Research Project: - The project assesses how internet technologies, including social media, are used by recently arrived migrants and refugees from Non English speaking backgrounds to connect them to vital support services and communities of support in their newly adopted urban localities.

Queensland University of Technology (Dr Ji Yong Park)

Cross-cultural web interface for Australian Indigenous Internet users: - The research project aims to facilitate Indigenous Internet users' effective usage of Internet and active engagement in Internet resources by articulating Indigenous cultural aspects of web user interface design.

Queensland University of Technology (Dr Steve Dillion)

DIScoveringABILITIES Project: - The project will provide a system for interactive music therapy performance experiences for young Australians with Down Syndrome in urban and remote locations. It will provide interactive participatory performances and exhibition of concert recordings over the Internet.

Queensland University of Technology (Professor Helen Partridge)

Socially resilient: social media in times of natural disasters: - This project will reduce Australia's vulnerability to natural hazards by offering new insight on the role of the internet, especially social media, in supporting information needs and fostering community resilience. 

Learning Links

E-Speech Therapy: - A pilot online speech therapy program to provide speech therapy sessions to children via the Internet, using a webcam to interact face-to-face with their Speech Pathologist from home or school.

Multicultural Council of the Northern Territory Inc

Migrant4Migrant (by migrants for migrants): - An interactive multimedia webpage featuring community profiles developed with local culturally and linguistically diverse communities as online mini-documentaries to share news and views about life in the Northern Territory with friends, families and the diaspora interstate and overseas.

Byron Bay Community Association

iByron & Beyond: - To create a cutting edge Community Portal for immediate use within Byron Shire and surrounding areas as well as providing a model/template for Australian shires and regions.

Central Goldfields Shire Council

Interactive Youth Portal: - The aim of the project is to utilise the existing Central Goldfields Shire Council website to create a ‘Youth Portal' to develop a sustainable ‘real life' curriculum component that engages Maryborough Education Centre (MEC) secondary students to design, develop and maintain a youth-friendly training information site.

Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind Children

RIDBC & ME: - The project will facilitate collaboration between RIDBC and health and education professionals and strengthen the overall dissemination of support to the children with hearing and/or vision impairment and their families.

University of New South Wales (Dr David Vaile) 

A research project to compare and analyse Australian internet codes of conduct: - The project will compare and analyse at least ten Australian Internet Codes of Conduct, using a common set of criteria based on best practice in consumer protection.

Curtin University (Dr Heinz Dreher)

Connecting-2-Generations: - This research proposal aims to further examine the social impact of the Internet by investigating its use by people from two generations.  

Brainlink Services Limited

Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) website navigation tool: - The development of this tool will allow search for region specific ABI community services in Victoria via the internet. This will simplify the complex and fragmented community system.

Macquarie University

Improving the reliability of electronic voting systems: - This project will study how to make a "privacy-specific" computer language to improve the quality of program code for internet applications which have privacy concerns. The idea will be tested on a case study based on internet voting.