WorkVentures Connect is a high impact network of Connect Centres located on public housing estates of high disadvantage and social exclusion. These centres work to directly bridge Australia's digital divide, building better communities for people, particularly those at risk.

The development of WorkVentures Connect is a response to the need for disadvantaged communities to have access to Information Technology, primarily to improve their chances of obtaining employment.

In 2001, WorkVentures, in partnership with the NSW Department of Housing, piloted a Connect Centre on a public housing estate in Macquarie Fields, NSW. The success of this venture highlighted the potential for expansion of the project to other disadvantaged communities. Additional partnerships with Microsoft, the Westpac Foundation and IBM enabled a network of Connect Centre's to form.

The network now includes 4 centres located on public housing estates in inner and south-west Sydney at Macquarie Fields, Waterloo, Claymore and Woolloomooloo. These centres provide over 10,000 residents with the opportunity to access Information Technology in order to utilise job search facilities, gain new skills through informal and accredited training programs, and get connected to the Internet and computers.

Each Connect Centre has fifteen computer terminals with Internet access, printer and fax facilities and supported assistance from staff and volunteers.

The next stage of the program plans to replicate the Connect Centre model on up to fifty public housing estates in NSW and throughout Australia. There are currently a total of 130,000 public housing units in NSW with a minimum of 750,000 residents.

Connect Centres are one part of WorkVentures' strategic response to Australia's digital divide challenge. WorkVentures Connect IT computer reuse program is another complementary initiative, providing refurbished ex-corporate and Government PCs at affordable prices for other not-for-profit organisations, schools and people on low incomes.