Perspectives on urban and rural community informatics : theory and performance, community informatics and strategies for flexible networking / Michael Gurstein -- Strategies for reconnecting communities : creative uses of ICTs for social and economic transformation / Claire Shearman -- Transformation starts at home : understanding e-readiness in a local community / Angela Coco and Lesley Jolly -- Community capacity building through ICT networking / David W. James and Peter Ziebell -- Community informatics in Russia : needing to make a leap / Sergei Stafeev and Sue Webb -- Challenges in the telecenter movement / Royal D. Colle and Raul Roman -- ICT integration in social and economic development : Kenya's perspective / Philip Ndeta -- Information and communication technologies for rural development in Asia : methodologies for systems design and evaluation / Roger W. Harris -- Integrated assessment as the basis of learner-centered design / Bijan B. Gillani -- E-health for regional, rural, and remote area health care consumers and providers as members of a health information society / Evelyn J.S. Hovenga -- P-expert project : development of a prototype expert system for control and management of parthenium weed in central Queensland / Andrew Chiou, Xinghuo Yu, and Ken Adsett -- Facilitating e-commerce in the beef industry / Shirley Gregor and Don Menzies -- Transforming regional economies and communities with ICT developing countries : an Indian perspective / Anil Jaggi -- Progress toward establishing community networks in regional Queensland / Wallace Taylor and Roderick E. Jewell.