Open AccesseLaunceston Revisited – A Novel Regional Research Project from 1999
Author(s) -
Simon Moorhead
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of telecommunications and the digital economy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.202
H-Index - 6
ISSN - 2203-1693
DOI - 10.18080/jtde.v9n2.419
Subject(s) - the internet , relevance (law) , stakeholder , test (biology) , telecommunications , project commissioning , digital library , value (mathematics) , regional science , digital strategy , engineering , library science , business , political science , world wide web , computer science , geography , publishing , public relations , art , paleontology , literature , poetry , machine learning , online advertising , law , biology
An historical paper from 1999 is republished because of its relevance to using digital communications to boost regional communities and their digital economies. Telstra Research Laboratories created a community website for Launceston Tasmania, with local stakeholder oversight, to test whether locally oriented information can increase the value of the Internet to existing users and make digital access more attractive to non-users.