Community informatics : shaping computer-mediated social relations.

Paper presented at the Community Informatics Research Network Conference.

As an academic discipline community informatics (CI) can be seen as a field of practice in applied information and communications technology.

The second phase of Atkin's career focused on the social and technical architecture of distributed knowledge communities and community informatics.

Community Informatics (CI) provides a somewhat different approach to addressing the digital divide by focusing on issues of "use" rather than simply "access".

Community informatics would in fact probably benefit from closer knowledge of, and relationship to, theorists, practitioners, and evaluators of rigorous qualitative research and practice.

Specifically his work has focused on community informatics or the use of information and communication technologies to enable and empower communities to meet their needs and expectations.

Its focus is community informatics, cultural informatics, health informatics, political informatics and spatial informatics.

Her other research interests include community informatics, environments and tools for object-oriented programming and design, and visual programming environments.

Gurstein, M. What is Community Informatics (and Why Does It Matter)?

There are emerging online and personal networks of researchers and practitioners in community informatics and community networking in many countries as well as international groupings.

"Effective Use: A Community Informatics Strategy Beyond the Digital Divide", First Monday, December 2003.

Specializations within the masters degrees include K-12 Librarianship, Manuscript and Archival studies, Information Systems, Community Informatics, Administration, and Data Curation.

Gurstein, M. Blog Gurstein's Community Informatics http://gurstein.wordpress.org often discusses Telecentres from a Community Informatics perspective.

Gurstein M., and Civille, R., Towards a Citizen's Technology: Final Report to the Ford Foundation on a Sector Analysis of the Community Informatics Systems Sector, 2004.

In recent years he has become active as a commentator, speaker and essayist/blogger articulating a Community Informatics (grassroots ICT user) perspective in the areas of Open Government Data and Internet Governance.

There is thus growing interest in Community Informatics as an approach to the understanding of how different information and communication technologies can enable and empower ordinary, and deprived social and physical communities in relation to the achievement of their collective goals.

User centred research methods, such as action research, community informatics, contextual design, user-centered design, participatory design, empathic design, emotional design, and other usability methods, already exist but fail to sufficiently empower users for co-creating into open development environments.

There is a growing research and analytical literature on telecentres and other community based technology initiatives and approaches particularly within the context of Community informatics as an academic discipline and through the Journal of Community Informatics.

The book was the first major publication in the Community Informatics field and introduced the term "Community Informatics" into wider usage as referring to the research and praxis discipline underpinning the social appropriation of ICT.

Michael Gurstein, Ph.D. (born 1944, Edmonton, Alberta) is a Canadian academic, best known for his work in the development and definition of community informatics as the area of research and practice concerned with enabling and empowering communities through the use of Information and Communications Technology.

Developments in e-democracy since the late 1990s, where interest rapidly evolved from e-voting to several forms of ICT-supported and -enabled interaction between governments and citizens, including not only direct ones such as consultations, lobbying, petitioning and polling but also ones pursued outside of government itself, including electioneering, campaigning, and community informatics.

Community informatics (CI), also known as community networking, electronic community networking, community-based technologies, community technology or grassroots computing refers to an emerging field of investigation and practice concerned with information and communication technology (ICT) in relation to communities and their social, cultural, service development, economic and other dimensions.

Community informatics may in fact, not gel as a single field within the academy, akin for example to Information Systems or Management Information Systems, but remain a convenient locale for interdisciplinary activity, drawing upon many fields of social practice and endeavour, as well as knowledge of community applications of technology.

School counselors, family friends, and other types of community networking can be excellent resources.

Nasza-klasa.pl ranks among top five Polish social community networking portals.

In addition we aim to establish satellite sites of operation for activities, community networking, and/or physical occupation.

Community networking's stated goal is to, "maintain collaborative relationships with adjacent community groups to work on shared projects along borders".

Beyond providing an art education, Gnomon focuses on job placement for graduates by placing emphasis on community networking and exposure to professionals.

Blogs have been used as campaign sites, as personal diaries, as art projects, online magazines and as places for community networking.

Community Networking and Community Informatics: Prospects, Approaches and Instruments.

ICARE is a NGO community networking system, an environment where large and small organizations can work on local, national, regional and international issues.

Within the larger Shadyside Action Coalition, there are six different committees: community networking, fundraising, historic Shadyside, membership, public safety, and zoning.

Also: a list of upcoming school events, including a Community Networking Fair at Francis Lewis High School in Queens.

The Project Chapleau office (The Chapleau Innovation Center) was converted into a public internet access point, with job search and community networking facilities.

Working with the Center, Quechua weavers and their families in the region of the former Incan capitol are engaged in skills-building, community networking and market development.

There was also an extensive system of community networking; mobile teams of staff members would visit referrals at home to evaluate their status and try to prevent an inpatient admission.

King Kekaulike High School PCNC, Parent Community Networking Center Website.

On Saturday, Francis Lewis High School in Fresh Meadows, Queens, will be holding its first Community Networking Fair from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

A first formal meeting of researchers with an academic interest in these initiatives was held in conjunction with the 1999 Global Community Networking Conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

He has also served on the Board of the Global Telecentre Alliance, Telecommunities Canada, the Pacific Community Networking Association and the Vancouver Community Net.

CRACIN brings together community informatics researchers, community networking practitioners and government policy specialists from across Canada to document and assess the achievements of community-based ICT initiatives.

In 2008 - FESPA launched the Wide Network www.widenetwork.ning.com - a social community networking site designed to enable digital printing specialists to stay in touch, solve problems, make new contacts and promote themselves.

When one looks at the entries of community network directories or the papers and Web sites whose titles and names include "community network" or "community networking," it is noticeable that a variety of practices exist.

The music streams are organized into various music communities, based on the existing community networking model developed by CBC Radio 3, whereby fans and genre specialists can participate in blogging and forum discussion about genre news and artists.

COMMUNITY TECHNOLOGY CENTERS NETWORK: www.ctcnet.org - A trove of links to community networking efforts around the nation.

The company, which has Google as one of its investors, expanded into low-power outdoor units, and bumped its prices up as it moved from providing resources to community networking groups that needed little support to focusing nearly entirely on hotzone, hotel, apartment building, and corporate networking.

The proposed community technology centers, offering computer training, would cost about $2 million.

Some cities operate community technology centers and/or provide financial support to these programs.

The network is an independent organization that provides services to 1,000 community technology centers around the country.

AT&T has already given $1.4 million to community technology centers.

The newly named network was a national membership organization of community technology centers.

The library is also home to a new community technology center, along with a new outdoor sculpture reading garden.

Uckfield Community Technology College is the secondary school in the town.

It closed in 1994 and is slated to be operated as a Community Technology Center.

Starting in May, about 200 people will use the service, which will be offered at five community technology centers, among them Eastmont.

The software is currently available as a community technology preview (CTP).

One example is the City of Seattle Community Technology Program.

Afterward, Hess wrote a book entitled Community Technology which told the story of this experiment and its results.

Hired as Community Technology Associates, individuals are responsible for managing the on-site wireless network and leading training sessions.

The basement of the Community Technology Center holds science and mathematics classrooms and laboratories.

How is Community Technology supported?

During the development, Microsoft shipped three community technology preview (CTP).

Secondary school children travel into Uckfield Community Technology College.

Mill Chase Community Technology College is a comprehensive secondary school for 11-16 year olds.

Community technology centers are private non-profit organizations found in the US that serve to increase access and training in technology for social applications.

Photosynth launched the summer of 2008; almost 2 years after its Community Technology Preview, the public can now create and view synths.

There is also one secondary school; Joseph Leckie Community Technology College.

And Atlanta estimates it has attracted about 15,000 residents, over one-third of them children, in the last two years to 15 community technology centers in poor neighborhoods.

Its shooting ground is the sports field of the John O'Gaunt Community Technology College.

Furthermore, the people they most often turn to for information and referrals medical care providers, educators, and community technology centers have inadequate or outdated knowledge themselves.

A community technology center or CTC offers resources to help bridge the digital divide, primarily through the public accessing computers and the internet.