Welcome to our community website,  the users and contributors to the site are those who live, participate in and support the Atherton Gardens public housing estate community.  We invite you to take part and share in our website and tell us your story.

This website was created as part of the e-ACE project, an Infoxchange Australia project to address the issue of the digital divide that is experienced by some communities.  The digital divide is the gap between people with access to information and communication technology and those without.  Lack of access isn't always due to economic reasons, but also because the skills needed to participate as a digital citizen just may not exist.  

• strengthen the capacity and cohesiveness of the community and its networks and;
• provide access to information technology for those usually excluded from its benefits, that will lead to increase the skills and educational opportunities of housing estate families.

• development of intranet and appropriate communication management systems;
• involvement, coordination and integration of government, service providers and businesses;
• development, coordination and provision of training for residents;
• provision of access to information technology for residents, including provision of appropriate computer hardware, software and user support
• a community development model that enables the transition to resident involvement in the development of a social enterprise through training, support, systems development and business management;
• evaluation of its outcomes; and
• examination of the public-private partnership options.

• strengthen and develop new partnerships and relationships between residents of the Atherton Gardens Estate, community service providers, government at all levels and the business community
• use a community-development approach that encourages and develops community understanding, ownership and ongoing management of the project
• facilitate a community strength-based approach to the development of community responses to local issues, concerns and needs and
• mentor and support the implementation of coordinated, ‘grass-roots’ approaches to the provision of services and facilities for residents so that they are empowered to control their own lives.

Contact Us

If you have any inquiries about this website or the wider e-ACE project, please email us at info@infoxchange.net.au, or phone 1300 306 645.