Download or read book Community Informatics Enabling Communities with Information and Communications Technologies written by Gurstein, Michael and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 1999-07-01 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book What is Community Informatics and why Does it Matter written by Michael Gurstein and published by Polimetrica s.a.s.. This book was released on 2007 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Community Informatics (CI) is the application of information and communications technologies (ICTs) to enable community processes and the achievement of community objectives. CI goes beyond the "Digital Divide" to making ICT access usable and useful to excluded populations and communities for local economic development, social justice, and political empowerment. CI approaches ICTs from a "community" perspective and develops strategies and techniques for managing their use by communities both virtual and physical including the variety of Community Networking applications. CI assumes that both communities have characteristics, requirements, and opportunities that require different strategies for ICT intervention and development from individual access and use. Also, CI addresses ICT use in Developing Countries as well as among the poor, the marginalized, the elderly, or those living in remote locations in Developed Countries. CI is of interest both to ICT practitioners and academic researchers and addresses the connections between the policy and pragmatic issues arising from the tens of thousands of Community Networks, Community Technology Centres, Telecentres, Community Communications Centres, and Telecottages globally along with the rapidly emerging field of electronically based virtual "communities."
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Developing Regional Communities with Information and Communication Technology written by Marshall, Stewart and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2005-06-30 with total page 804 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This encyclopedia provides a thorough examination of concepts, technologies, policies, training, and applications of ICT in support of economic and regional developments around the globe"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book Using Community Informatics to Transform Regions written by Stewart Marshall and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In many international settings, regional economies are declining resulting in lowered opportunities for these communities. This result attacks the very fabric of cohesion and purpose for these regional societies, and increases social, health, economic and sustainability problems. Community informatics research, education and practice is an emerging area in many countries, which seeks to address these issues. The primary objective of Using Community Informatics to Transform Regions is to provide leaders, policy developers, researchers, students and community workers with successful strategies and principles of Community Informatics to transform regions. This book embraces an integrative cross-sectoral approach in the use of Community Informatics to increase both social and cultural capital as a means to increased sustainability for regional communities.
Download or read book Constructing and Sharing Memory written by Larry Stillman and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-05-27 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Community Informatics is a developing field which brings together understandings about the interaction of communities and information and communication technologies from fields as diverse as Management and Information Systems, Library and Information Sciences, Community Development, Sociology, or Social and Community Welfare. A key assumption of community informatics is that technologies can be used for positive social change and development, particularly with disadvantaged communities or communities that hitherto, have not had a public voice. The volume brings together international perspectives around defining and debating the idea of community memory which, as Alex Byrne, President of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions observed in his splendid and wide-ranging Introduction: "community memories are multilayered, changeable, conflicting and contested", and the multilayering, changeability and contest between different players provide fertile theoretical and practical ground for Community Informatics and its interdisciplinary cousins. "Community Informatics is an emerging new multi-disciplinary approach to the study of the intersection of communities and Information and Communication Technologies. This volume contains significant contributions from international practitioners and researchers in the fields of archives, record-keeping, community knowledge management, emerging information and communication technologies, history, community development-virtual as well as real-and Community Informatics as a growing discipline. The content of the book is a unique contribution in the field. The volume will be read by researchers, and communities interested in how they communicate their past, present, and future." —Professor Emerita Gunilla Bradley Informatics School of ICT Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) Stockholm Sweden "Practitioners, researchers and theoreticians in Community Informatics will find a unique array of valuable perspectives in this book. It covers the interaction of communities, memories and technologies in a highly original way, with regard to its breadth and the number of case studies it presents. It incorporates contributions from 13 countries in all parts of our endangered planet, thus providing the international perspective that is critical to understanding how communities can use technology for societal good." —Professor Michel Menou. Les Rosiers sur Loire, France, Associate, Centre for Information Behaviour and the Evaluation of Research, University College London, London, United Kingdom
Download or read book Current Issues in IT Education written by Tanya McGill and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Addressing the ongoing quest for teaching excellence in an increasingly technological society, the information presented in this volume addresses how to effectively implement teaching technologies across disciplinary boundaries. The scholarly dimensions of belief, inquiry, argument, and reflection in information systems are presented with attention to educational theories of metacognition, technology literacy, and community informatics. Training for e-business and public agency work are discussed to better equip instructors for the distinctive information needs of these sectors."
Download or read book Theories Practices and Examples for Community and Social Informatics written by Dr. Larry Stillman and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Community Informatics involves study of the relationship between the design of information and communications technologies (ICTs) and local communities. This book uses a combination of theoretical and case study approaches to explore connections between Community Informatics, Social Informatics, and broader social theory.
Download or read book Communities in Action written by Graeme Johanson and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-05-05 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ICTs have become a very powerful community resource, viewed by many authors in this volume as two-way mechanisms, facilitating the perpetuation of and reflecting esteemed community values. The contents of this volume make it clear that ICTs have a huge capacity for incorporation into different forms of community action, including social change, community learning, community connection, and community development. Through studying the papers in this volume, readers can learn about multiple forms of ICTs and action and how action is understood, and improve their grasp of the complexities of social-technical relations. The chapters in this volume began life as papers at the Conference on ’Community Informatics – prospects for communities and action’ in 2007, the fourth successful community informatics conference held at the Monash University Centre, Prato Italy. This book creates a platform for exchanging experiences, case studies, and possible solutions to address the difficulties in deploying ICT in many contexts, and will be of interest to all researchers and practioners who engage with ICT, particularly those in the community and developmental informatics field.
Download or read book Community Informatics written by Dave Eagle and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-06-29 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Community groups, social support networks, voluntary agencies and government organisations are all actively exploring the potential of the new information and communication technologies to bring about democratic development and renewal. A rich variety of social experiments in what has become known as Community Informatics is now beginning to provide useful research findings and exciting examples of innovative applications. This book sets down some of the defining features of a Community Informatics approach and some of the common themes which are emerging. In particular it considers the following issues: * sustainability * employment * community management * public service provision * partnerships of stakeholders * local learning * social support and networks. This edited collection brings together leading exponents of Community Informatics from around the world and critically evaluates their experiences.
Download or read book Community Informatics written by Dave Eagle and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-06-29 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection brings together some leading exponents of CI around the world and critically evaluates their experiences.
Download or read book Closing the Digital Divide written by Stewart Marshall and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2003-07-30 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Successful strategies and principles for using information technology to transform regional and community economies exist, and they are presented here with clarity and insight in a way that is useful to both practitioners and researchers. Although the communities discussed here range far and wide, from those in Russia to Australia and to Kenya, any community can benefit from enhanced utilization of information and communication technologies. The ways in which technology can help improve economic, social, cultural, and political conditions are as numerous and various as the communities themselves. In Central Queensland, Australia, community leaders have brought in a high-tech expert advisory system to help them control weed infestation. New Zealand and Australia have pioneered telehealth, the exchange of health care information and the delivery of some services across great distances. In Russia, wiring a community was found to be about more than mere hardware and software; vital to the process was understanding how communities provide access to information technology, how authorities and volunteers can improve computer literacy among citizens, and how connectivity can be extended to greater numbers of people. In some areas of south Asia, nongovernmental organizations have teamed up with local governments to increase access, empowerment, and e-commerce opportunities. These are but a few of the ways this volume contributes to our knowledge base about the impact of technology on economic development.
Download or read book Learning in Communities written by John M. Carroll and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-02-24 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most learning takes place in communities. People continually learn through their participation with others in everyday activities. Such learning is important in contemporary society because formal education cannot prepare people for a world that changes rapidly and continually. We need to live in learning communities. This volume gathers together all of the scholarly materials directly emanating from a workshop held in August 2005, when a multidisciplinary group of scholars met at Penn State’s College of Information Sciences and Technology to discuss ‘learning in communities’. Initially, a sectioned report on the workshop was published as a special section in the Journal of Community Informatics in 2006. Subsequently, a special issue of 5 full papers was published in the Journal of Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, and a special section of 2 full papers was published in the International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning.
Download or read book Global Information Technologies Concepts Methodologies Tools and Applications written by Tan, Felix B. and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2007-10-31 with total page 4194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This collection compiles research in all areas of the global information domain. It examines culture in information systems, IT in developing countries, global e-business, and the worldwide information society, providing critical knowledge to fuel the future work of researchers, academicians and practitioners in fields such as information science, political science, international relations, sociology, and many more"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book Information and Communication Technologies in Rural Society written by Grete Rusten and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-10-11 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the experiences of individuals, households and businesses, this book offers an international view on being rural as information and communication technologies are applied more widely and allow people to be connected across geographies.
Download or read book Information Communication Technologies Concepts Methodologies Tools and Applications written by Van Slyke, Craig and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2008-04-30 with total page 4288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rapid development of information communication technologies (ICTs) is having a profound impact across numerous aspects of social, economic, and cultural activity worldwide, and keeping pace with the associated effects, implications, opportunities, and pitfalls has been challenging to researchers in diverse realms ranging from education to competitive intelligence.
Download or read book Social and Community Informatics written by Gunilla Bradley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-01-24 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a discipline, Informatics has developed over the years from its initial focus on data processing and software development, towards a more recent emphasis on people’s use of technology and its impact on their working and private lives. Gunilla Bradley, an internationally recognized expert in this field, has researched this area for many years and here, authors this indispensable volume on the topic. Providing a broad and deep analysis of the relationship between people, ICT, society and the environment, Bradley examines the impact on/change in organizations and individuals, both in the workplace and in the home. Taking a firmly humanistic view she also looks to the future as ICT increasingly transforms and impacts on our lives, and explores issues including stress, power, competence and psychosocial communication. She proposes normative research questions for the future and presents actions to achieve the Good ICT society. This thought-provoking book will be of interest to students and academics studying social informatics, computing and MIS as well as organizational behaviour, sociology, psychology and communications. Research-based and cross-disciplinary, Bradley's book is a valuable, and topical, resource.
Download or read book Online Communities and Social Computing written by Douglas Schuler and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-08-24 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Online Communities and Social Computing, OCSC 2007, held in Beijing, China, July 2007 in the framework of the 12th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2007. It covers designing and developing on-line communities, as well as knowledge, collaboration, learning and local on-line communities.
