Community Informatics: Enabling Communities with Information and Communications Technologies: Enabling Communities with Information and Communications TechnologiesGurstein, Michael Idea Group Inc (IGI), 01.07.1999 - 596 Seiten 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. Community Informatics: Enabling Communities with Information and Communications Technologies 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. |
Inhalt
BACKGROUND AND ISSUES | 31 |
The Access Rainbow Conceptualizing Universal Access to the InformationCommunications Infrastructure | 32 |
Requirements for a REgional Information Infrastructure for Sustainable CommunitiesThe Case for Community Informatics | 52 |
Embedding the Net Community Empowerment in the Age of Information | 81 |
The Role of Community Information in the Virtual Metropolis The CoExistence of Virtual and Proximate Terrains | 104 |
Differential IT Access and Use Patterns in Rural and SmallTown Atlantic Canada | 136 |
Building the Information Society from the Bottom Up? EU Public Policy and Community Informatics in North West England | 151 |
CI AND COMMUNITY NETWORKING | 173 |
Facilitating Community Processes Through Culturally Appropriate Inforamtics An Australian Indigenous Community Information System Case Study | 339 |
OnLine Discussion Forums in a Swedish Local Government Context | 359 |
Reinforcing and Opening Communities Through Innovative Technologies | 380 |
AcademicCommunity Partnerships for Advanced Information Processing in low TechnologySupport Settings | 404 |
CI AND DEVELOPMENT | 414 |
Communication Shops and Telecenters in Developing Nations | 415 |
Virtual Communities Real Struggles Seeking Alternatives for Democratic Networking | 446 |
Linking Communities to Global Policymaking A New Electronic Window on the United Nations | 470 |
New Communities and New Community Networks | 174 |
CTCNet the Community Technology Movement and the Prospects for Democracy in America | 190 |
Community Networks for Reinventing Citizenship and Democracy | 213 |
ICT and Local Governance A View from the South | 232 |
Community Inforamtics for Electronic Democracy Social Shaping of the Digital City in Antwerp | 251 |
InternetBased Neighborhood Information Systems A Comparative Analysis | 275 |
Community Impact of Telebased Information Centers | 298 |
CI Applications | 319 |
Cafematics The Cybercafe and the Community | 320 |
Community and Technology Social Learning in CCIS | 494 |
COMMUNITY INFORMATICS CASE STUDIES | 515 |
Community Participation in the Design of the Seattle Public Schools Budget Builder Web Site | 516 |
Discussions and Decisions Enabling Participation in Design in Geographical Communities | 539 |
Radio B92 Belgrade Harnesses the Power of a Media Activist Community During the War to Keep Broadcasting Despite Terrestrial Ban | 561 |
The Economics of Community Networking Case Studies from the Association for Progressive Communications | 568 |
About the Authors | 584 |
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