The document outlines the activities and capabilities of the Centre for eResearch and Digital Innovation, emphasizing its role in bridging academic research with government, industry, and community needs through various technology applications. It discusses technology trends, research domains, and the impact of digital solutions on sports participation and community engagement. Additionally, it highlights workshops and programs designed to enhance digital skills for businesses in regional areas.

1. Centre for eResearch and Digital Innovation
Horsham Rural City Council
Engagement, technology transfer and capability building through
knowledge management and spatial research
Visit to Centre for eResearch and Digital Innovation
10 June 2016

2. Centre for eResearch and Digital Innovation
• ~ 28 staff
• 16 research and research
support
11 technical
1 administration
• 10 PhD Students
• Located within the
Deputy Vice Chancellor Research
and Innovation portfolio
CeRDI
www.cerdi.edu.au

3. Major technology & research trends
• Ubiquitous high-speed broadband…
Universities have the connectivity that the rest of Australia is waiting for
• The Petabyte Age…
>50% of the world’s data is being collected each year – how will this change current
research practices? What do we need to access, publish and share?
• Open data policies…
Opportunities for Universities and particularly regional universities to play a significant
role in generating insight from data
• Mobile technologies…
App development and responsive design – for student and staff recruitment,
engagement, knowledge transfer
• 3D and visualisation technologies…
Massive innovation and research opportunities

4. Centre for eResearch and Digital Innovation
CeRDI Capability
The application of eResearch and development of
innovative digital solutions to bridge the gap between
academic research and government, industry and
community needs
National &
FedUni
research
priorities
Government
industry
community
needs
CeRDI

5. Centre for eResearch and Digital Innovation
eResearch & digital innovation
Research Domains:
• Groundwater
• Soil
• Agriculture
• NRM
• Climate change
• Urban planning
• Health
• History
• Sports
• Social science
• Arts
• Etc., etc.
Technology & services:
• Content management
• Web portals
• Knowledge management
• Single source publishing
• Web GIS
• Data interoperability
• Visualisation
• Web services
• Training
• Servers, hubs
• Survey instruments
• Etc., etc.
Research outputs:
• Real world applications
• Community
empowerment
• Capacity building
• Government
• Community
• Industry
• Research
• Research papers
• HDR completions
• Impact assessment
• Global collaborations
• Sector development
• Research-ready data
+ =

6. Goals for today
• An opportunity to learn about CeRDI
About what CeRDI does and its capabilities
• But more importantly to learn from you
What does Horsham Rural City Council and the region more broadly want to achieve in
areas such as engaging the community, delivering better services and/or in changing or
improving how things are done.
• So let’s hear your ideas and reflections
No need to wait to explore possibilities until the time that is set aside for discussion this
afternoon.

7. Sport and Recreation Spatial
Background
• Investigating sport and recreation participation and
facilities, and health for evidence-based decision making
for the Sport and Recreation Sector
• Sport and Recreation Victoria
• VicHealth
• 7 State Sporting Associations 2011-2015
• Increasing to 11-15 State Sporting Associations 2015-2018
• Currently over 2.6 million participant records
• Integrated sector level reports, individual tailored sport
reports and peer-review publications

8. How do I view participant count?

9. How do I view participation rate by
gender & age?

10. How do I view participation change over
time?

11. Where do I find the region summary?

12. How do I benchmark regions?

13. How can I view the number of facilities for a
region for my sport?

14. Can I view actual facility locations?

15. What is SEIFA & what options are
available?

16. How can I find population projections?

17. Can I share the map with others?

18. Participation levels and rates
• Club membership for 5 major sports rose by more than 50,000 over three
years
• Increased from 417,975 to 468,944
• Proportion of population participating in these sports
• From 7.5% to 8.3% of population
• Males non-metro. highest participation rate 64%
• Increase 2010-2012 mainly non-metro.

19. Regional differences

20. Age profiles- % of all participants
Age
(years)
Participants
(%)
Male
(%)
Female
(%)
Metro.
(%)
Non-Metro.
(%)
4 1.3 0.5 1.7 1.5 0.9
5-9 19.9 17.1 21.5 21.5 17.0
10-14 27.6 32.1 25.6 28.1 26.7
15-19 15.3 15.8 15.1 14.7 16.5
20-24 8.8 7.8 9.1 9.0 8.5
25-29 6.1 5.4 6.3 6.3 5.8
30-34 4.1 3.8 4.2 4.0 4.2
35-39 3.0 3.5 2.8 2.9 3.4
40-49 5.0 6.0 4.6 4.9 5.2
50-59 2.5 2.5 2.6 2.3 3.0
60-69 2.6 2.6 2.6 2.0 3.8
70+ 3.6 3.0 3.9 2.8 5.1
Age profiles of registered sport participants:
percentage of total sport participants
• Most (64%) aged <20 years
• A third (28%) aged 10-14 years
• 20% aged 5-9 years

21. Transition
• More children withdrew from their
modified sport program rather than
transitioning
• 68% of children withdrew immediately
after the base year/season
• The peak age of transition to club
competition for females was 10 years,
compared to 7 years for males

22. Sports Facilities
• Participation rate is positively associated with provision of facilities

23. • This report provides a
summary of key indicators of
participation in physical
activity (PA) and sport,
together with potentially
related key demographic
characteristics and indicators
of health and education, for
the City of Ballarat.
• In each case, the data for the
City of Ballarat are
benchmarked against other
LGAs in Country Victoria, in
Melbourne and in Victoria as a
whole, and two similar sized
regional LGAs - Geelong and
Bendigo.

24. • Central Highlands Digital Enterprise Program
Established in 2012 with funding from the
Australian Government Department of
Communications and Regional Development
Victoria.
• Training and development activities
Targeted torwards small-to-medium enterprises, not
for profit organisations and cultural institutions
• Regional focus and scale
City of Ballarat, Golden Plains, Hepburn and
Pyrenees Shire Councils
• Overall aim
Increase public awareness and skills development
as new broadband technologies become available
across all parts of the region

26. • Advanced eCommerce
• Advanced SEO
• Intermediate eMarketing
• Creswick Tourism and Business
presentation
• Visual merchandising
• DIY website success
• eMarketing Basics
• Creswick Online
• Social Media Masterclass
• Write to Win
• Freeware for community groups
• Smartphone data burning a holes in
customers' pockets
• Stay Smart Online Week
• Mentoring audits and tools
• Secrets of successful committees
• To Market To Market
• Bringing in the Bucks
• Executing Good Governance
• Create your very own WordPress
website
• Introduction to Social Media
• Online safety tips
• Stay Smart Online alert services
• eCommerce and Sales Online
• Farming in the 21st Century
• Central Highlands Virtual Choir
• Digital Citizens Guide
• Planning apps for business
Resource for diverse learning aims

31. 150 workshops, 703 individual and
small group mentoring sessions
• City of Ballarat: 60 workshops; 733 attendees
• Golden Plains Shire Council: 28 workshops; 173
attendees
• Hepburn Shire Council: 47 workshops; 354 attendees
• Pyrenees Shire Council: 15 workshops; 148 attendees

32. CeRDI conducted an evaluation of the Digibiz program in 2015 to assess
the longer-term impacts of the program for participants. The following
questions were used to guide the research:
• In what ways did the program assist participants to broaden their use of
the internet and online activities within their workplace/business?
• In what ways did the program enhance participants’ skills and
knowledge that could be directly applied to their workplace/business?
• How have the learnings achieved through the program been applied
within the work setting?
• What were the barriers to program participation?
• In what ways could the program be enhanced in the future?
• What were the direct and indirect benefits for mentors of the program?

34. • Building a social media presence and monitoring/controlling
information on these platforms.
• We have upgraded our website and enhanced our social media
presence.
• [My mentor] was terrific! She is a great teacher and made it seem too
easy. I am now using Facebook and Pinterest for the business and
finding that they are generating business enquiries.
• We now have a Facebook page, we change our website more and use it
more effectively. We may embrace Twitter yet!
• I have a beautiful new website which I can put blog information on. It’s
connected to my social media. Easy to use, easy to look at and
updatable.

36. Western BACE
Business incubation and co-working

37. GovHack