| SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
DIGITAL FRONTIER
RESEARCH POTENTIAL

ICT AND MOBILE PHONE SKILL DEVELOPMENT
Community Media Workshop on content making, enterprising, photography, video making etc

COMMUNITY BASED ECOTOURISM
Ecotourism activities and homestay that are locally managed by the community itself. Promote sustainable management of the community's natural resource and income generation

MAPPING & GIS
Realtime data of road condition for transportation movement in the rural area

LOCAL SHARING ECONOMY
Study on community's informal and formal economic activities through ethnographic methods.

CULTURAL AND HERITAGE CONSERVATION THROUGH DIGITAL MEDIA (KNOWLEDGE BANK)
Digitisation of local stories, cultural practices, local and traditional knowledge etc for conservation purpose.

TECHNOLOGY FOR RURAL CONNECTIVITY
Design, innovate and application of simple technology for rural connectivity. For example, the Google Loon Project

RURAL ELECTRIFICATION
Mini hydroelectric or other technologies for rural electrification.

NATURAL & WATER RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
Natural resource usage local/traditional practices and management