Community informatics : enabling communities with information and communications technologies / [edited by] Michael Gurstein.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gurstein, Michael.

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Community life--Technological innovations.

Community life.

Computer networks--Social aspects.

Computer networks.

Electronic villages (Computer networks).

Information society.

Physical Description:

iii, 596 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Hershey, PA : Idea Group Pub., [2000]

Summary:

The transformative power of information and communications technologies (ICT) is working its way through a variety of institutional, enterprise and social structures of societies in all parts of the globe. Alongside this, there is the emerging need for all sectors of society and all communities to develop the means to optimize the opportunities that these technologies present. Community Informatics: Enabling Communities with Information and Communications Technologies provides an introduction to the community use of ICT, an overview of the various areas in which ICT is impacting local development and a set of case studies of CI.

Contents:

Community Informatics: Enabling Community Uses of Information and Communications Technology / Michael Gurstein 1

Background and Issues

Chapter I The Access Rainbow: Conceptualizing Universal Access to the Information/Communications Infrastructure / Andrew Clement, Leslie Regan Shade 32

Chapter II Requirements for a Regional Information Infrastructure for Sustainable Communities

The Case for Community Informatics / Thomas Beale 52

Chapter III Embedding the Net: Community Empowerment in the Age of Information / Brian D. Loader 81

Understanding the Context of CI

Chapter IV The Role of Community Information in the Virtual Metropolis: The Co-Existence of Virtual and Proximate Terrains / Paul M.A. Baker 104

Chapter V Differential IT Access and Use Patterns in Rural and Small-Town Atlantic Canada / David Bruce 136

Chapter VI Building the Information Society from the Bottom Up? EU Public Policy and Community Informatics in North West England / John Cawood, Seamus Simpson 151

CI and Community Networking

Chapter VII New Communities and New Community Networks / Doug Schuler 174

Chapter VIII CTCNet, the Community Technology Movement, and the Prospects for Democracy in America / Peter Miller 190

Chapter IX Community Networks for Reinventing Citizenship and Democracy / Fiorella de Cindio 213

Chapter X ICT and Local Governance: A View from the South / Susana Finquelievich 232

Chapter XI Community Informatics for Electronic Democracy: Social Shaping of the Digital City in Antwerp (DMA) / Jo Pierson 251

Chapter XII Internet-Based Neighborhood Information Systems: A Comparative Analysis / Danny Krouk, Bill Pitkin, Neal Richman 275

Chapter XIII Community Impact of Telebased Information Centers / Morten Falch 298

Chapter XIV Cafematics: The Cybercafe and the Community / James Stewart 320

Chapter XV Facilitating Community Processes through Culturally Appropriate Informatics: An Australian Indigenous Community Information Systems Case Study / Andrew Turk, Kathryn Trees 339

Chapter XVI On-Line Discussion Forums in a Swedish Local Government Context / Agneta Ranerup 359

Chapter XVII Reinforcing and Opening Communities Through Innovative Technologies / Alessandra Agostini, Valeria Giannella, Antonietta Grasso, Dave Snowdon, Michael Koch 380

Chapter XVIII Academic-Community Partnerships for Advanced Information Processing in Low Technology Support Settings / Rosann Webb Collins 404

CI and Development

Chapter XIX Communication Shops and Telecenters in Developing Nations / Royal D. Colle 415

Chapter XX Virtual Communities, Real Struggles: Seeking Alternatives for Democratic Networking / Francois Fortier 446

Chapter XXI Linking Communities to Global Policymaking: A New Electronic Window on the United Nations / John Lawrence, Janice Brodman 470

Chapter XXII Community and Technology: Social Learning in CCIS / Roger S. Slack 494

CI Case Studies

Chapter XXIII Community Participation in the Design of the Seattle Public Schools' Budget Builder Web Site / Chris Halaska 516

Chapter XXIV Discussions and Decisions: Enabling Participation in Design in Geographical Communities / Volkmar Pipek, Oliver Marker, Claus Rinner, Barbara Schmidt-Belz 539

Chapter XXV Radio B-92 in Belgrade Harnesses the Power of a Media Activist Community During the War to Keep Broadcasting Despite Terrestrial Ban / Robin Hamman 561

Chapter XXVI The Economics of Community Networking: Case Studies from the Association for Progressive Communications (APC) / Mark Surman 568.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

1878289691

OCLC:

43569456