During to the Australian Digital inclusion Index, 2022 and 2023 research visits, we undertook coordinated within the RMIT University node interviews with community leaders, residents and of the Centre of Excellence for Automated the following stakeholder agencies: Decision Making and Society in partnership with Telstra. [...] Mapping the Digital Gap Research Project - Wilcannia 2023 Community Update Report 5 MAPPING THE DIGITAL GAP What is digital inclusion? How is it measured? DIGITAL INCLUSION Digital inclusion refers to equitable and reliable access to and use of information and communication technologies for participation in ACCESS social and economic life. [...] This enables us to Affordable phone and compare results for the participating remote communities, towns internet services and homelands with the national results collected by the ADII, and Affordable devices to track changes in digital inclusion between and within these sites. [...] You can be inside a house and you can get reception whereas previously when I arrived here you could only stand in a certain corner of the household.” (Sarah Donnelly, Wilcannia resident, 2023) However, there was still variability in the signal strength in different parts of the community, with low signal in the centre of town near the post office and in the Mallee and the ‘Mission’, where people. [...] But you have to sit outside in 43 degrees to use it.” (Jenelle King, Wilcannia Safe House, 2023) Mapping the Digital Gap Research Project - Wilcannia 2023 Community Update Report 18 MAPPING THE DIGITAL GAP “No one wants to come down and sit in the hot park all day trying to get access to internet to send emails or catch up with family online and that.
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