What Is An Enabler

ICT the enabler for social entrepreneurs: AIIA

The rollout of ubiquitous high speed broadband, whether it be the National Broadband Network (NBN) or another offering, during the next 15 years will enable Australia to become social entrepreneurs in the digital economy according to the Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA).

Speaking to attendees at the National Digital Inclusion Summit, AIIA corporate relations and programs general manager, Kelly Hutchison, said that once the broadband network is rolled out, Australians could help to deliver sustainable economic outcomes for all communities - social entrepreneurship.

These areas would include digital inclusion, community development and corporate social responsibility (CSR).

"Regardless of the OECD ranking's of countries, there are still disadvantaged and marginalised people who can benefit from being connected," Hutchison said.

"Putting aside the issues of affordability, which we have to spend a bit of time working on, we know that there are remote communities who need support to get their products to new markets. We have agricultural cooperatives who wish to connect with others to identify what they can learn and share in new advances in food production."

According to Hutchison, these types of connections could be achieved through ICT.

"I think we sometimes forget that ICT stands for using technology to communicate information. None of it becomes knowledge until you can apply it and it becomes relevant."

One organisation that was trying to deliver ICT to remote organisations was non-profit organisation, the Australian Social Innovation Exchange (ASIX).

"The ASIX uses ICT to provide a mechanism for cooperation, engagement, networking and it is taking the first steps into an ICT enabled world for a number of organisations and also the next generation of technologies that these people will develop in response to community needs," she said.

What excited Hutchison was what lay ahead in terms of connecting remote communities and disadvantaged people.

"We’re at a tipping point with the exceptional increase of user [broadband] access and the equality that if we can work out the financial model, than a quality of access and affordability that broadband will offer.

In conclusions, she said Australia has an opportunity to lead in the digital economy space because of its start-up business spirit and committed social sector.

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Your daughter calls you at work. When you hear her voice, you find yourself thinking, "What is it now?" Immediately you feel guilty for this thought and ask how she is doing. "I don't know how come I have so many problems," she sighs. She continues talking for thirty minutes about how she has not been able to find a job that is right for her. Her rent and car payment are due and she does not even have enough money to take her clothes to the Laundromat. She asks if she can bring her dirty laundry to your house, then remembers that her car is on empty. You start to explain that you are dealing with problems too but she quickly delivers the 'but you're my mother' speech that works like a charm. You agree to go by her house after work to give her money to pay her bills and pick up her dirty clothes. As usual, she promises to pay you back, but you know that will never happen. By next month, it will be a new crisis. You wonder when she will learn to stand on her own two feet. After all, your daughter is 32 years old.

Time For Honest Parenting

What is enabling?
Enabling is creating an environment which allows irresponsible behavior to continue. Under normal circumstances, there is a behavior and a consequence. For example, a behavior of spending money on a beach trip instead of rent would result in a consequence of losing an apartment. An enabler swoops in and removes the consequence, giving the adult child no reason or opportunity to learn a valuable lesson. The enabler "fixes" the problem.

Helping or enabling?
Many parents struggle with this question. How do you determine the difference between helping and enabling? Helping means that you are doing something for your adult child that he is unable to do for himself. Enabling means that you are doing something for him that he is not only able to do but should be doing for himself. It is true that there may be times that your adult child may genuinely need your help. It is when you find yourself frequently bailing your adult child out of one jam after another that you cross the line of helping to enabling.

If I don't "help" them, how will they make it?
To answer this question, remind yourself that "helping" is doing something for your child that he is incapable of doing on his own. How is your adult child ever going to learn to do for himself if you do not give him the opportunity to do so? You are assuming that you will always be available to bail him or her out of trouble. What happens to them when you are not able to fix things? By not letting them learn to take care of themselves, you are setting them up to be completely unprepared when they have to handle situations on their own.

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