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Community informatics enabling communities with information and communications technologies
Title:
Community informatics enabling communities with information and communications technologies
Author:
Gurstein, Michael.
ISBN:
9781930708495

9781878289698
Publication Information:
Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2000.
Physical Description:
electronic texts (iii, 596 p. : ill.) : digital files.
Contents:
Community informatics -- The access rainbow -- Requirements for a reginoal information infastructure for sustainable communities- the case for community informatics -- Embedding the net -- The role of community information inm the virtual metropolis -- Differential IT access and use patterns in rural and small-town atlantic Canada -- Building the information society from the bottom up? EU public policy and community informatics in north west England -- New communitites and new community networks -- CTCNet, the community technology movement, and the prospects for democracy in America -- Community networks for reinventing citizenship and democracy -- ICT and local governance -- Community imformatics for electronic democracy -- Internet-based neighborhood information systems -- Community impact of telebased information centers -- Cafematics -- Facilitating community processess through culturally appropriate imformatics -- On-line discussion forums in a Swedish local government context -- Reinforcing and opening communitites through innovative technologies -- Academic-community partnerships for advanced information processing in low technology support settings -- Communication shops and telecenters in developing nations -- Virtual communities, real struggles -- Linking communities to global policymaking -- Community and technology -- Community participation in the design of the Seattle public schools' budget builder web site.

Discussions and decisions -- Radio B-92 in Belgrade harnesses the power of a media activist community during the war to keep broadcasting despite terrestrial ban -- The economics of community networking.
Abstract:
Community Informatics is developing as an approach for linking economic and social development efforts at the community level to the opportunities that information and communication's technologies present. Areas such as SMEs and electronic commerce, community and civic networks, electronic democracy and online participation are among a few of the areas affected. This books is an introduction to the discipline of community informatics. Issues such as trends, controversies, challenges and opportunities facing the community application of information and communications technologies into the millennium are studied.
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