Sustainable Online Community Engagement

The Sustainable Online Community Engagement Project is a joint venture between The University of South Australia and the South Australian Government, through the Office for Volunteers.

The project has been running since late 2001 as Community Webs and provides community organisations, which may have neither the skills nor resources, with a web presence by matching them with students who have the necessary skills and access to resources. Students communicate with community group members primarily through email to create a web site for the group, which can then be given to the group or hosted on www.communitywebs.org

In 2006 this expanded to become Sustainable Online Community Engagement and include a wider range of activities and products, such as television production and other multimedia projects. An important aim in this is that community groups develop the skills to maintain and update their new product.
The SOCE project was honoured with the Premier’s Public Sector Award for Building Communities in 2009. In 2016 it won the UniSA Chancellor's Award for Community in the category of enhancing the job-readiness of graduates.
For more information about being involved please see our website at www.communitywebs.org or contact us by email.