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The industrial world built itself on the platform of concentrating populations into urbanised and industrialised centres throughout the world. In the 1990s the information revolution was supposedly about the reversal of this process by distributing work and opportunity away from cities into other regions, including those we refer to as 'remote, rural and regional'. To achieve such goals requires the commitment and vision of government at all levels and sound private and community sector partnerships based on mutually beneficial and economic benchmarks. This presentation looks at the experience and philosophies of the Outback Digital Network (ODN) model and its attempt to bridge the technochasm between remote, rural, regional and marginalised Australians (particularly those within Indigenous communities) and the rest of the country.