“There’s a missing link in our community where our seniors are not connected to what is AI and how they use it for their benefit.” Zeina Nachar, Hornsby Ku-ring-Gai community College.
Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Community College has been a passionate and active member of Good Things network for many years. They regularly provide essential digital skills support to older people in their community through their popular Be Connected sessions, and have seen first hand how digital inclusion can generate deeper community connection.
In 2026, they embarked on their next challenge to do Good Things in their community: becoming one of ten AI Hubs around Australia.
The new program responds to strong interest in their community to stay up to date with technology.
“AI has become such an important part of what we do every single day. Especially for our seniors, it’s really good for them to be connected with current digital technology, and that includes AI,” says Zeina.
And, there is strong interest in their new digital skills program with their planned sessions for Term 2 in 2026 booked out and more being scheduled to meet demand.
Their sessions are designed to answer important questions they’re receiving from people who are curious about AI and have heard it talked about in conversations in their community. The questions range from the basics, “What is this AI?”, through to practical uses and the all important, “Can I trust it?”
The College is using practical explanations and analogies drawing on people’s life experience to show how AI works, and ways that technology can make the everyday life of seniors in their community a little bit easier. As an AI Hub, the team in Hornsby, NSW are also sharing their learnings on how to support people to use AI with Good Things broader network, including at a recent network Meetup hosted at the College.
The Hornsby Kur-ring-Gai Community College team are excited to be an AI Hub to help their community stay up to date as tech rapidly changes, and make their own informed choices about how they use AI in their lives.
“It’s fantastic to introduce a program just for them to know what it’s all about, how it could be used, and how it could benefit them as well,” says Zeina.
“There’s so many ways that they could actually practice using it so they could improve, become more confident, and become more informed about what is out there.”
In early June, the team from Hornsby joined Good Things and Telstra in attending the Australian Financial Review’s AI Awards, where our AI for Good program was a finalist in the Research & Education category.