[D-Space] A little history

[Paul Campbell]

Some people already know about this but now we have a working archive I ought to 
explain so that people can see the back story

The City Council has been working on a "Digital Strategy" for a while 
spearheaded by (then) Cr Cull. The held their last set of hearings about 4 
months ago. I made a presentation in favour of pushing fibre into the 
neighbourhoods - making the point that there are a number of people like me (and 
some on this list) who live in Dunedin and work overseas, bring new wealth into 
our local economy but are largely invisible to most economic information (my 
guess is there's $1-2m comping into Dunedin every year this way).

One of the things the DCC group were looking in to was creating a "Digital 
Clubhouse" which largely was intended as a computer literacy initiative for the 
retired, it would likely end up in South Dunedin beyond the reach of most Uni 
students ... we were wondering why there wasn't something for the other end of 
the computer literacy scale, pushing the envelope a bit and maybe helping people 
work together, come up with new ideas and hopefully spinning out businesses into 
the community - with DUNLug's backing I included this as part of my presentation 
- but (on purpose) didn't ask for any money or anything, the city doesn't have 
any at the moment, more just sowing the seeds 

So this wont be a new idea to the powers that be, but we can probably leverage 
it into some publicity (cue heavily staged ODT page 3 picture of beaming school 
kid with something he/she made) when the time comes to try and attract members

	Paul