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Rural Women Online

Rural Women Online, an initiative of the Victorian Women’s Trust, is a digital hub offering resources on a wide range of digital and technology skills, to help you get the best out of tech.

Measuring our impact

An RMIT University research team specialising in digital inclusion is collaborating with the Victorian Women’s Trust to study the impact of our work regarding digital inclusion.

This work began when RMIT researchers studied the outcomes of our 2024 Digital Intensives in Shepparton and Yackandandah, regional Victoria. Thank you to everyone who took the time to speak with their team.

Catch up on our 2024 regional Digital Intensives

In 2024 Rural Women Online aimed to increase women’s digital skills through two digital intensives, in Shepparton and North East Victoria. This video provides an explanation into how we went about it.

We hope that providing free resources such as these, will encourage other communities to follow the same process and achieve sustainable and real change for digital inclusion.

While there are some crossover on certain issues, each community has different digital needs. Greater Shepparton highlighted multiculturalism, while North East Victoria focused on tech skills for disasters. Both events included a staffed Help Desk, refreshments, and concluding with a standalone keynote address by Prof Julian Thomas (RMIT) and author Anna Krien on navigating the Digital Era. You can watch both keynotes here.

Keep Safe Online

Ten, short eSafety videos to equip you with the skills to be safer online. Pause. Play. Review. Learn.

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Learn Skills

A carefully packaged set of how-to guides to help you navigate our ever-changing digital world. Free and downloadable.

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FAQs

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Our current team

Alana Johnson AM
Project Director

Chair, Victorian Women’s Trust
Mary Crooks AO
Project Director

Executive Director, Victorian Women’s Trust
Jess Dugdale-Walker
Senior Project Officer

Rural Women Online

Established in 1985 the Victorian Women’s Trust (VWT) is a proudly independent feminist organisation.

We support women, girls and gender diverse people to thrive. We create social change projects and campaigns; conduct research on the issues affecting our communities; run thought-provoking events; provide mentorship opportunities; and give grants to vital grassroots projects.

VWT is 100% powered by donations from people in the community who share our vision for an equal future for all.

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