Outcomes

• Emergency Communication & Information
• Providing safety plans from the local police
• Community Bank Involvement
• Reuniting long lost friends
• Council involvement
• Helping people relocate
• Rosters for Community Groups
• Sports Results
• Funding website managers
• Providing employment information
• Promoting local economy
• Youth Engagement
• A community of communities
• Giving communities a voice of influence
• Communities celebrating communities
• Tourism
• Conservation & Sustainability
• Assisting Ancestral Search
• Bushfire affected communities given a voice online

Bushfire affected communities given a voice online

.au Community Domains responded to the Black Saturday bushfires by providing community websites for twenty seven of the affected communities.

Throughout the rebuilding process the aim of these websites has been to:

• Keep community members informed of local news and events
• To keep people connected
• For the wider community to offer donations and the services of their businesses
• To provide an opportunity for community members to share stories and experiences
• To provide links to important information (emergency information links, council websites etc)
  

Outcome:

Since the fires, the websites have been used as an ongoing source of community information about local news and events with community members regularly contacting CGDN to post information to the websites.

Content on many of the websites are now being managed by community members including www.glenburn.vic.au, www.marysville.vic.au, www.callignee.vic.au, www.mudgegonga.vic.au, www.upperplenty.vic.au, www.strathewen.vic.au