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

Council involvement

Many councils around Australia have been assisting Community Groups and/or helping Communities form Community Website Groups to get their home on the internet.  These councils are recognising that it is providing an avenue for communities to help themselves and have the potential to empower these communities to develop sustainability.

As at 31/12/08 32% of CGDN groups have a council representative as a member of their website group.

As at 31/12/08 around 20% of the CGDN websites are provided with funding from their local council.

www.narromine.nsw.au is one of the communities that boasts funding from the local council who provide the services of their web-manager.

Many community websites are assisting their local councils in providing community opinions. The Narromine community website has a link to the survey the Narromine Shire Council are running about the services and facilities provided by Council.  The input will be used to help Council better understand and meet the diverse needs of its residents.