Auckland

Child Pornography Hotline and Blocking project to advocate the use of hotline and blocking software and campaign targeted to 12-18 year olds to report child pornography

www.reportchildporn.org.nz

Received Community Partnership funding to implement Computers in Homes programmes to connect up to 23 deaf students, resident in Kelston’s Totara Village, with the homes of their families and whānau throughout the North Island. The installation of video-conference technology creates an opportunity to communicate that would otherwise only be available if families could travel to visit their child face to face. The project will strengthen a community already committed to New Zealand Sign Language but up until now frustrated by lack of access.

www.kdec.school.nz

Received Community Partnership funding to develop a mobile teaching lab for digital storytelling by communities in their communities who face barriers to attending mainstream training. Monthly workshops.

Moving Image Centre (MIC) Toi Rerehiko will launch a Mobile Digital Storytelling Lab this year, staging workshops to empower people to tell a personal story using multimedia tools. Participants combine personal archives (photos, video footage, text, music and sound) and are guided through computer tutorials to produce their own 3-4 minute stories. This community-based education programme is a key component of MIC's public programme in 2008, facilitating access, engagement and experience of digital technology and creating new media content reflecting diverse cultural narratives. Content developed with the storytelling lab can be screened or broadcast to invited audiences, archived and made available for public use at MIC's public venue, online, or communicated via mobile phones or other technology.

http://mic.org.nz

Community Partnership funding for Chinese Online Communities.

The collaborative effort between the New Zealand Chinese Assn. (Auckland Branch) and Auckland City Libraries to develop the ability to share Chinese community cultural and family memory has completed the business requirements and scoping phase. This work is the result of focus group reviews and is intended to result in enhanced functionality for the Kete open source digital library and archiving software platform. The story-telling functionality that forms the basis of Kete will be enhanced and will incorporate access to Auckland City Libraries current and heritage resources. A prototyping approach to development will commence shortly.

www.aucklandchinese.org.nz

Granted Community Partnership funding for the Literature Live website to increase the functionality of the website for video viewing and downloading of 10 videos about the lives and work of New Zealand writers and illustrators of books for 5-12 year olds.

www.storylines.org.nz

Community Partnership funding for hospital-to-home video conferencing targeting children (with chronic and/or life threatening illness) and their carers, living in remote or non-metropolitan areas. The Community Access Programme is the first of its kind in New Zealand. 

Parent to Parent has been using the video conferencing equipment and has found it to be a very useful and effective tool for enhancing organisational communication and culture, and for linking families and communities together. Families accessing our services have now begun to use the equipment to enable face-to-face meetings to take place between them. The equipment also enables them to access specialists in different centres. The ability to do this is enormously important, especially to those families whose children have rare or complicated conditions which require specialist medical care and who are geographically isolated from medical experts.

The staff has been enthusiastic about using the equipment in a variety of training and meeting situations, with different functions of the system proving very useful. Not only has this saved the organisation money in terms of travel expenses, but it has also enabled more flexibility in the scheduling of meetings.

www.telepaeds.co.nz

Awarded Community Partnership funding for a project to add to the existing Cenotaph database, information about the NZ Service personnel who served in WW1 and to develop a web education presentation.

In 2007, the Auckland Museum was also awarded CPF funding for a natural history and specimens collections digitisation project. 

New data has been made accessible through the Cenotaph database and the new interface is operating online. 

www.aucklandmuseum.com/

Community Partnership funding for the development of technology for an internet digital talking book player. Targeted to the visually impaired but could have wider benefit for others with a disability and non-readers.

Twelve students have been selected for the NZ DAISY (Digital Accessible Information SYstem) books and textbook pilot study, and trained in using DAISY books. The project has researched synthetic speech tools and developed a production process for converting print books into DAISY with synchronised electronic text and synthetic audio. It has also digitised historic analogue audio books from the library collection and upgraded these to full-text DAISY format. We have trained a textbook producer and begun producing textbooks for students in both DAISY and their usual accessible format - braille or large print.

Adaptive Technology project to offer satellite classes, distance learning and home based tuition using adaptive technology to assist blind and visually impaired.

The Foundation completed a trial of an internet-capable digital talking book player especially designed for blind people. The 40 people on the trial were generally satisfied with the enhanced experience. A proposal will be presented to the Foundation’s Board of Directors to decide whether to continue delivering talking books by post or to switch to internet delivery using a suitably designed player.

www.rnzfb.org.nz

Community Partnership funding to develop a website-based clearing house to store information about community and voluntary sector research.

The Clearing House project is about to launch the third and final phase of its development with a strong website and growing set of resources available to researchers and communities. A Code of Practice for researchers has been released and work continues to promote the use of the Clearing House amongst the tangata whenua, voluntary and community sectors. The project’s governance group will soon hold its inaugural AGM.

www.unitec.ac.nz

Community Partnership funding to contribute to the development of computer-based training for Pacific People in the Auckland region, computer software applications, and multimedia presentations. 

Matagi E Fa Trust is implementing its Digital Literacy IC3 Certification Project targeting Pacific People and Community Leaders. Two Pacific Workers have passed a trial run in the IC3 certification program. The challenging program has given them a diversity of hardware, software, and internet understanding and knowledge, assisting them in their workplace. 18 other Pacific workers will complete the IC3 Digital Literacy certification over the next two months.

Community Partnership funding for the COMET SmartCentres project, developing ICT plans for the Auckland and Franklin Kindergarten Association Early Childhood Centres.

The COMET Smartcentres project developed detailed ICT plans for 46 early Childhood Centres in Manukau City. These plans help the centres take stock of their current ICT use and articulate their vision for future use of ICT. The planning process was also an opportunity to discuss with experts the funding and professional development opportunities available to them. IBM New Zealand supplied KidSmart computer hardware, software and professional development to ten Pacifica Early Childhood Centres in Manukau City.

www.comet.org.nz

Community Partnership funding to build a youth advocacy training programme for adults working with young people including resources, manuals, videos, discussion boards, links and surveys on the youthlaw website.

www.youthlaw.co.nz

Granted Community Partnership funding for the creation of digital content to provide mobile phone-based health programmes for self esteem, smoking cessation, coping skills, depression, alcohol abuse and prevention of risky behaviour. Targeted to youth.

A large amount of content has been developed in this project, largely consisting of short video clips of 30-40 seconds duration. The system for sending these video clips to participants via their mobile phones has been developed and tested. A small pilot study has been undertaken, where 17 participants received a 4-week programme on their mobile phones. Results of this pilot study are still being collated; initial results indicate the programme was feasible and acceptable to young people.

www.ctru.auckland.ac.nz

Community Partnership funding approved to assist the development of database of biographical materials relating to key New Zealanders in the Baptist tradition and to make this freely available online. The completed database will hold over 200 biographical entries and 100 images.

www.carey.ac.nz

Community Partnership funding for the development of 3D scanning and manipulation of cultural artefacts, production of an interactive educational programme, and upskilling in digital imaging. 

The research team has set up a complete workstation for digitisation, consisting of a range of hardware and software. The computer with a powerful processor is vital for the smooth operation of CAD applications, as is the graphics software which has been installed and run in conjunction with the scanner. The computer has large storage capacity and a powerful graphics card to cope with the rendering of voluminous point data that will be acquired from scanning complex 3D shapes. A range of post-processing software has been used and the webpage of the EPICS project (www.engineers.auckland.ac.nz/%7Exxu008/MuseumEPICSProject/index.htm) has been revamped to be in line with the style of the Auckland Museum’s official website.

www.auckland.ac.nz

Community Partnership funding for digitising the material from the Lindauer portraits of Maori, the historical visitors book and whakapapa information provided by descendants of the portrait sitters. Material housed in various collections will be brought together in this project and put on the website. Includes Maori - English translations.

www.aucklandartgallery.govt.nz

Granted Community Partnership funding for the creation of a portal with specialist settlement information and links targeted to new and potential settlers, students and returning kiwis. Includes settlement guide, how-to guides, and a personal planning tool.

www.arms-mrc.org.nz

Community Partnership funding for web-raising at Manurewa. Three workshops have been held successfully to provide digital training and web-related skills at the Manurewa marae. The workshops were targeted to different groups within the community to ensure that knowledge is dispersed to individuals with a variety of backgrounds and skills including web page creation, content management, and the new Te Korowai Community Database. 

The marae website has been developed and is now online.

www.manurewamarae.co.nz

Community Partnership awarded for the establishment of a permanent community ICT clubhouse building and programmes including training for trainers, digital storytelling, from clubhouse to career, ICT training.

Community Partnership awarded in 2007 to upgrade the website, improve accessibility and implement a content management system (CMS).

Workshops about the website have been held for volunteers and targets for workshop participation were surpassed, with 41 volunteers attending. The design documentation of the CMS has been completed and the CMS will now be tested. The network has extended its partnership and has two more cycling user groups participating in the project.

www.can.org.nz

Community Partnership funding awarded for an ICT capability audit of Waitakere for not-for-profits, SMEs and secondary schools. Development of an ICT self-assessment tool.

www.waitakereenterprise.co.nz

Community Partnership funding awarded to develop the online portal to include a database of local community groups’ services and businesses, promotion of e-democracy, and civil participation. Includes content creation tools and training workshops.

www.waitakereonline.co.nz

The Community Partnership funded project uses ICT to record and map noxious weeds and provides advice on their eradication. Promotes the use of ICT for this and other environmental projects by showcasing its capabilities at community meetings and forums.

Lee Wragge has purchased hardware, software and established liaisons with the local Department of Conservation and Auckland Regional Council to consult on the correct software parameters for the project’s Geographic Information System (GIS).

Community Partnership funding to develop online training resources targeted to not-for-profits (NFPs) about search engine optimisation so that NFPs can create search engine friendly websites. Also includes associated seminars.

Veritas Scripta Charitable Trust is providing Search Engine Optimisation training for NFPs in New Zealand so they can create search engine friendly websites. In the first stage of this project Veritas Scripta ran a series of seminars called ‘Internet Unmasked’. Participants learned about making content search friendly, site-wide issues, choosing a content management system, inbound linking, how to measure and results.

Vector Communications, working in partnership with North Shore City Council, have started work on the extension to the existing fibre network that will connect directly to schools, libraries and council offices in the North Shore area with help from the government's Broadband Challenge funding.