Sustaining a community network: the information continuum, e-democracy and the case of VICNET

Abstract

This article further explores a case in the sustainability of community networking initially analysed in a paper presented to CIRN 2004: Sustainability and Community Technology, in Prato Italy, 29 Sept1 Oct 2004. The present account further clarifies and contextualises the information continuum model (ICM) introduced as a framework for analysis in that paper, and brings the story of the VICNET crisis forward into the 2005 investigations and report of an Inquiry into Electronic Democracy undertaken by the Scrutiny of Acts and Regulations Committee of the Parliament of the State of Victoria (Australia).