ICT Access and Use for Communicating on Health and Community Wellbeing in
Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) Communities’ was a one year project
funded by the Victorian Health Promotion Foundation (VicHealth), and also
supported by Victoria University. It sought to understand the challenges and
opportunities that groups from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds, such as
refugee and migrant communities, face in utilising information technologies in relation
to messages of health and wellbeing. The project researched community patterns
and preferences in the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) for
health and wellbeing in order to develop strategies to build more effective ways of
using ICT for communication by health service providers with these communities. An
overarching aim of the project was to provide a basis for reducing health inequities
within CALD communities that arise because of barriers that these communities
experience in accessing health promotion materials that are culturally and
linguistically accessible and appropriate.