The early years: ICT implementation in Victorian state schools

It is now some twenty years since the department (see Note) first began to implement ICT across Victoria and unless we are mindful, we run the risk of losing this history. SOF Web, the department¿s website, launched in October 1995 has now been archived, and many of the policy makers, project officers, principals and teachers who led this implementation have since `moved on¿. This paper then is a conscious move to `backward think¿ to 1995- 2000 and to the early years of implementation of ICT in Victoria, with the intent of not only keeping this past alive, but to also offer guidance for the future.