item: #1 of 547
id: joci-2027
author: None
title: joci-2027
date: None
words: 1058
flesch: 36
summary: Anikar Haselhoff’s very interesting preliminary look at a field project examining Cybercafes in India from a Community Informatics perspective “Cybercafés And Their Potential As Community Development Tools In India’, Anna Malina and Ian Ball’s review of the community technology policy processes in Scotland in “ICTs And Community And Suggestions For Further Research In Scotland”, Larry Stillman and Randy Stoecker’s paper on a case study of a Community Informatics program in Australia looking for its way forward “Structuration, ICTs, And Community Work.” Randy Stoecker’s valuable and provocative essay on whether “Community Informatics Is Good For Communities?”
keywords: areas; canadian; communities; community; development; field; government; icts; informatics; issue; local; need; networking; policy; practitioners; processes; research; researchers; self; technology; understanding
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item: #2 of 547
id: joci-2028
author: None
title: joci-2028
date: None
words: 6280
flesch: 60
summary: So what? Richard Lowenberg recently noted: the changing (nature) of community networks (formalized organizations) to community networking (the diverse process by which an increasing number of communities are taking steps to become inter-networked and to apply this technical level to their economic, civic, cultural, educational and political betterment.). The reason that nobody is writing community networking guides any more is that the locus of community-based radical practice for social change has moved to evolving the state of the art of the groupwares available to augment social networks.
keywords: action; agents; capacity; change; clear; communities; community; community networking; context; control; daily; development; end; experience; gcnp; global; governance; human; icts; identity; individual; informed; internet; life; movement; nation; nature; need; networking; networks; new; online; open; organization; organize; person; practice; process; protocol; public; question; radical; relationship; self; social; society; state; structure; systems; technologies; things; understanding; use; view; way; world
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item: #3 of 547
id: joci-2029
author: None
title: joci-2029
date: None
words: 8160
flesch: 53
summary: Perhaps it is because, in contrast to the other fields I mess around in—community organizing, community development, and community-based research—Community Informatics has always felt like it was separate. In the Beckwith approach, which distinguishes sub-practices within the broader international definition field of community development, we can begin to think in more detailed ways about how Community Informatics can contribute.
keywords: advocacy; applications; approach; australia; bieber; broader; building; capital; centers; clear; communication; communities; community; community development; community informatics; computers; core; definition; design; developed; development; economic; education; elites; emphasis; face; field; focus; forms; good; group; gurstein; icts; identity; important; informatics; issues; local; members; model; n.d; needs; neighborhood; new; november; organizing; paper; participatory; people; place; plan; popular; practice; press; process; projects; questions; relationships; research; second; sense; service; set; social; standards; states; stoecker; strong; study; support; systems; technologies; technology; theory; toledo; training; united; university; urban; use; ways; work; workers; york
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item: #4 of 547
id: joci-2030
author: None
title: joci-2030
date: None
words: 7810
flesch: 43
summary: The military dictatorship (1976-1983) was opposed to community cooperatives; one of the ways to fight them was to diminish their tax benefits. Community engagement is a key factor for the success of community cooperatives.
keywords: access; activities; areas; argentina; associates; august; banks; benefits; best; buenos; calls; capital; case; champions; citizens; civil; communities; community; community cooperatives; connections; cooperative; cost; country; credits; del; director; distance; economic; economy; educational; engagement; entel; enterprises; factor; fecotel; federation; financial; free; group; icts; important; individuals; information; innovations; institutions; international; internet; interview; investments; key; large; las; lines; local; long; los; low; main; management; manager; market; members; monthly; months; national; network; new; number; october; organizations; pesos; pinamar; private; privatization; providers; public; readiness; role; santoianni; schools; services; servicios; shareholders; social; society; source; state; subscribers; success; support; sustainability; tccs; teachers; technological; technologies; technology; telecommunications; telecommunications community; telefónica; telephone; telpin; telpin´s; time; tourist; traditional; training; usd; users; world; year
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item: #5 of 547
id: joci-2031
author: None
title: joci-2031
date: None
words: 7664
flesch: 55
summary: These farmers suggested the names of other farmers who they thought would be willing to be interviewed. This caused confusion among farmers and others seeking information (Cumbria Foot and Mouth Inquiry, 2002, p. 143) Interviewees reported that by the time information had arrived in the mail, not only had they already heard about these measures from other farmers (usually by phone), but the measures outlined had often been overridden by newer ones.
keywords: access; affected; agriculture; animals; area; available; bbc; change; communication; communities; community; computer; conditions; contact; control; coordinators; countryside; crisis; cumbria; data; day; defra; department; disease; environment; epidemic; european; families; farmers; farming; farming community; farms; fmd; fmd crisis; food; foot; government; important; infected; information; inquiry; interaction; internet; interviews; isolation; livestock; local; maff; measures; members; ministry; mouth; movement; national; needs; network; new; news; online; outbreak; paper; pentalk; people; personal; phone; place; radio; reports; risman; role; rural; skills; slaughter; social; sources; spread; support; system; technology; time; training; university; use; way; website; world
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item: #6 of 547
id: joci-2032
author: None
title: joci-2032
date: None
words: 6902
flesch: 52
summary: It is often argued that cybercafes could help bridge the digital divide, as they provide Internet access to people who cannot afford to have Internet connections at their homes or who need help in order to make use of ICT. In India for example, only 2.9 percent of households had Internet access in early 2005.
keywords: access; areas; bangalore; class; classes; computers; countries; cybercafes; developed; development; different; digital; divide; education; english; findings; groups; help; high; home; important; income; india; information; internet; internet access; internet usage; lack; language; level; low; lower; main; middle; model; new; number; order; people; percent; percentage; place; point; projects; public; research; respondents; rural; sec; sec groups; services; shows; skills; study; survey; table; training; upper; urban; usage; use; users; work
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item: #7 of 547
id: joci-2033
author: None
title: joci-2033
date: None
words: 9629
flesch: 44
summary: Many governments began to fear exclusion from the network, predicating a spate of funding to support the development of ICTs in local communities. The Digital Scotland Task Force (2000) report suggests that ICT projects in local communities should be given priority in social inclusion programmes.
keywords: access; addition; aid; approach; areas; argyll; available; bellsmyre; benefits; better; capital; care; ccis; citizens; city; civic; communities; community; computers; council; cultural; data; democracy; demos; design; development; different; digital; digital communities; digital inclusion; divide; e.g.; economic; edinburgh; electronic; evaluation; executive; funding; future; government; groups; help; homes; icts; inclusion; increase; information; initiative; interaction; internet; involved; issues; july; key; learning; levels; life; line; local; london; making; malina; needs; networking; networks; new; objectives; opportunities; outlined; participants; participation; people; policy; political; problems; processes; project; public; questions; real; relationships; report; research; residents; respondents; scotland; scottish; services; social; society; support; sustainability; technology; term; time; training; types; urban; use; virtual; voluntary; ways; wellman
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item: #8 of 547
id: joci-2034
author: None
title: joci-2034
date: None
words: 11940
flesch: 57
summary: Conducting background research through document review To get a sense of the potential scope of ICT sustainability issues among Neighbourhood Houses, we reviewed a variety of documents about Neighbourhood House programs, some recommended through discussion with Neighbourhood House coordinators. A number of Neighbourhood Houses rely on volunteers for IT support, and are happy with the results: You hear stories about other Neighbourhood Houses where the computers are in trouble.
keywords: access; action; agency; analysis; area; available; basic; cbr; change; communication; community; computer; coordinators; costs; council; courses; data; database; definitions; development; different; difficult; directories; directory; effective; files; focus; forms; funding; gaps; giddens; good; government; group; hardware; high; house coordinators; houses; human; ict; icts; important; information; infrastructure; initial; interest; internet; interviews; issues; knowledge; lack; level; local; lot; mail; maintenance; management; meeting; melbourne; need; neighbourhood; neighbourhood houses; network; new; number; organisations; paper; participants; particular; people; person; perspective; phone; planning; possible; press; print; problems; process; project; public; region; relationships; report; research; researchers; resources; science; services; set; skills; social; software; staff; state; strategy; structural; structuration; structuration theory; students; suburbs; support; survey; sustainability; technical; technologies; technology; theory; things; time; training; troubleshooting; university; way; website; week; western; work
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item: #9 of 547
id: joci-2035
author: None
title: joci-2035
date: None
words: 170
flesch: 34
summary: Position Paper: Turning the Corner with First Nation Telehealth To the editor: Keewaytinook Okimakanak Telehealth Services is an important contributing partner in the development and sustainability of community networks in remote First Nations across northwestern Ontario, Canada. In the past, community members were flown to the nearest hospital to receive medical attention or to consult with a specialist.
keywords: community; corner; paper; telehealth
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item: #10 of 547
id: joci-2036
author: None
title: joci-2036
date: None
words: 305
flesch: 45
summary: The participants interviewed for the video stress the innovative potential of ICT in Aboriginal communities – for example encouraging Aboriginal community members, particularly young people, to share their stories. Research issues discussed include: the need for participatory methodologies that involve Aboriginal communities early in the research process, the need to ensure that research builds capacity in communities, the need to encourage community champions, and changing the conventional rules about how research is conducted.
keywords: cal; communities; kenny; meeting; research; ricta; video
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item: #11 of 547
id: joci-2037
author: None
title: joci-2037
date: None
words: 1011
flesch: 51
summary: Currently in Ontario, the Department provides the same per capita funding for elementary school students and secondary school students attending First Nations schools. Aboriginal educators, hand selected by the Minister of Indian Affairs, were mandated by the federal government to examine the challenges that prevent many First Nation students from succeeding in elementary school, high school and beyond.
keywords: classroom; communities; education; high; home; internet; kihs; nation; north; ontario; school; secondary; students
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item: #12 of 547
id: joci-2038
author: None
title: joci-2038
date: None
words: 1234
flesch: 29
summary: Van Belle and Trusler present an analytic case study of an on-going community ICT project in a Developing Country context, warts and all, and provide very useful insights into the “real world” of development and community ICT; while Musgrave approaches these same issues but at a more “macro” level and within a Developed Country context but interestingly reveals somewhat similar institutional constraints on community ICT initiatives. One hopes that when the cycle is completed and the question arises in 3 or 4 years whether to repeat the Journal of Community Informatics’ thematic issues with updates, that the matter of “sustainability” of community ICTs, can be gracefully forgotten and we can go on to other and more productive and creative matters.
keywords: broad; communities; community; context; day; development; future; icts; informatics; initiatives; issue; journal; level; local; matter; organizational; research; sustainability; technology; work
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item: #13 of 547
id: joci-2039
author: None
title: joci-2039
date: None
words: 5259
flesch: 42
summary: With this in mind, the authors analyse and critically evaluate the significance of the emerging symbiosis between community technology and community research. Applying a human-centred perspective of CI to a community technology research and development project the paper concludes with a story about Black Elk, a Lakota shaman, as a metaphor for the relationship between community technology and community research.
keywords: academic; action; active; analysis; approach; black; brighton; building; cna; cohesion; communication; communities; community; community informatics; community research; community technology; components; contribution; day; design; development; diversity; dynamic; elk; fundamental; funding; gurstein; human; ict; informatics; initiatives; issues; knowledge; lakota; life; local; london; nature; needs; neihardt; network; networking; paper; participatory; perspective; policy; power; practice; process; project; purpose; research; researchers; schuler; shared; social; society; sustainability; system; taylor; technical; technology; term; understanding
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item: #14 of 547
id: joci-2040
author: None
title: joci-2040
date: None
words: 2891
flesch: 38
summary: I followed up on what events were happening and learned that the national government had been slow to react to the event so it seems that the local municipality have taken it upon themselves to set up an early warning observatory (they posted someone permanently in the hills above the village to observe the possible beginnings of an avalanche), a local warning system (he has a horn that he can sound), local safe zones (the village is in a very steep valley so it was necessary to reconnoitre and determine what might be safe and what might not), evacuation techniques (complicated because half the residents at anyone time are transient tourists) and all planned, funded and executed by local community resources. That is how do we cover the missing links—the last mile—from the ¨´professional¨ early warning system that governments can do best with high tech (TEWS), and which seems to be the outcome of the recent Kobe meeting on Disaster Planning, to the “effective use” of the output of those systems by local communities for early warning (LMWS)?.
keywords: able; access; cell; communication; communities; community; disaster; early; effective; events; example; ict; important; information; knowledge; lmws; local; means; mile; need; net; resources; role; social; system; tews; traditional; tsunami; usable; use; useful; warning; ways
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item: #15 of 547
id: joci-2041
author: None
title: joci-2041
date: None
words: 7211
flesch: 44
summary: Consequently, greater financial responsibilities are being foisted onto local communities (Alston, 2002). Where ICTs are considered a driving force behind globalisation, it is possible that “globalisation hollows out local communities ….
keywords: access; action; applications; areas; article; australia; building; business; centres; colle; communication; communities; community; content; dcita; development; digital; divide; economic; economy; enterprise; evaluation; example; facility; factors; fortier; global; goals; government; group; gurstein; hearn; human; hunter; icts; industries; industry; information; infrastructure; initiatives; international; internet; jenkins; july; key; knowledge; learning; local; manderville; members; necessary; needs; networking; new; online; opportunities; people; productivity; projects; queensland; regional; research; rural; services; significant; simpson; skills; social; strategies; sustainability; sustainable; technologies; technology; training; university; use; way; women
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item: #16 of 547
id: joci-2042
author: None
title: joci-2042
date: None
words: 7002
flesch: 44
summary: A False Dawn A significant political driver for local government portal development is the UK e-Government deadline of mid-2005 for electronic service delivery. Sustainability Research evidence (Musgrave, 2004) indicates that the majority of UK Community Portal development is based on project-like ‘windfall’ capital and revenue funding streams that are time limited.
keywords: access; adoption; approach; architecture; business; capability; central; challenge; change; citizen; civic; commercial; common; communication; community; community portal; components; computing; context; data; delivery; departments; developers; development; different; directgov; disparate; electronic; enterprise; evidence; existing; framework; functionality; future; generation; government; grid; implementation; information; integration; interactive; interactivity; issues; joining; july; lack; level; line; local; local government; management; musgrave; national; need; network; new; office; paper; particular; people; phillis; portal; portal development; problems; process; project; public; reality; regional; report; research; sector; service; significant; sites; social; society; socitm; software; standards; support; survey; sustainability; sustainable; systems; technical; technology; transactional; use; user; way; web
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item: #17 of 547
id: joci-2043
author: None
title: joci-2043
date: None
words: 9574
flesch: 42
summary: Such an approach also permits us to consider sustainability as being primarily a responsibility of governments to provide funding to community service organizations providing services at the community level as a means of addressing inequalities and social and economic under-development. A second CLN with organizational links to a maritime resource centre provides a number of community services to address civic, economic and social needs.
keywords: access; activities; addition; areas; associates; broadband; canada; canadians; cap; cent; cln; communication; communities; community; community access; community digital; community organizations; content; core; cost; development; digital; digital divide; divide; economic; education; ekos; evaluation; federal; financial; focus; funding; funds; government; health; households; human; important; income; individual; industry; inequalities; information; infrastructure; interest; internet; issues; lack; learning; level; literacy; local; low; main; major; needs; network; new; non; number; olt; online; organizations; ottawa; past; people; program; project; provincial; public; public access; reddick; related; remote; report; research; resources; rideout; rural; services; sites; skills; social; society; staff; support; survey; sustainability; sustainable; technical; technologies; technology; term; time; training; users; years
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item: #18 of 547
id: joci-2044
author: None
title: joci-2044
date: None
words: 7762
flesch: 36
summary: Hence, the issue of the sustainability of online communities becomes more and more relevant: multiple aspects – social, institutional and economical – have to be jointly analyzed to understand how and if a project is really worthwhile. Hence, our aim is to offer a first attempt to define several theoretical propositions on economical sustainability, mainly derived from our ongoing experience and research on online communities.
keywords: activities; analysis; approach; appropriate; areas; benefits; building; business; case; cindio; citizens; communities; community; companies; competences; complex; consultancy; costs; crucial; csfs; development; different; economic; effective; evaluation; example; features; financial; foundation; general; goals; identity; indicators; information; infrastructure; innovation; institutional; interactions; issues; knowledge; learning; literature; local; macro; management; managerial; members; mission; model; needs; network; new; non; online; online communities; organizations; performance; personal; personnel; possible; preece; private; problems; profit; projects; public; rcm; related; relevant; requirements; scholars; services; set; social; society; socio; software; sources; specific; staff; strategies; structure; sustainability; technical; term; time; university; value; way; web; wenger
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item: #19 of 547
id: joci-2045
author: None
title: joci-2045
date: None
words: 8341
flesch: 38
summary: The required institutional framework needs to embody as core those aspects of community networking that have proved troublesome for libraries but where successive cohorts of VICNET staff have done well, namely consistent, close and creative engagement with community building in all its aspects. VICNET has coped well with issues arising in these areas, but in future the interface between community networking and regulatory arrangements will need ever increasing expertise and capacity.
keywords: action; agency; analysis; arts; aspects; australia; available; board; cambridge; carley; case; ccnr; centre; change; collaborative; committee; communication; communities; community; community networking; continuum; council; creation; democracy; democratic; development; dynamic; electronic; factors; framework; funding; future; giddens; government; groups; human; icm; individuals; information; inquiry; institutional; internet; interpretive; issues; kaufer; key; knowledge; levels; libraries; library; major; melbourne; modalities; modality; model; monash; needs; networking; new; notion; organisation; orlikowski; paper; people; policy; power; project; public; relationships; relevant; report; research; resources; rheingold; role; schauder; situation; slv; social; society; state; state library; structuration; structure; support; sustainability; systems; technology; theory; time; typologies; typology; university; upward; use; vicnet; victoria; virtual; way; years
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item: #20 of 547
id: joci-2046
author: None
title: joci-2046
date: None
words: 9905
flesch: 34
summary: In such communities, social inclusion and participation by diverse community members are valued because of the increased potential and opportunities for building community social capital. When lack of access to ICTs or limited ICT skills prevents effective participation by individuals in social, economic or civic activities in their local community or society generally, then opportunities for building community social capital are substantially reduced.
keywords: access; activities; adopters; adoption; australia; awareness; building; capacity; capital; change; ci initiatives; communication; communities; community; community capacity; community development; community members; community social; development; different; diffusion; diverse; economic; education; effective; example; existing; external; framework; funding; future; government; greater; groups; icts; implementation; importance; individuals; information; infrastructure; initiatives; innovation; interaction; internet; leadership; levels; limited; local; members; needs; networks; new; norms; opportunities; organisations; outcomes; paper; participation; people; policy; potential; process; processes; projects; regional; research; role; rural; sense; services; shared; skills; social; social capital; social infrastructure; social networks; soft; strategies; strong; support; sustainability; sustainable; technologies; technology; terms; theory; time; training; trust; understanding; use; values; way; widespread
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item: #21 of 547
id: joci-2047
author: None
title: joci-2047
date: None
words: 11125
flesch: 50
summary: This paper reviews recent approaches, research issues and trends in emotion research and then applies insights from this body of research to the area of community sustainability. Levels of analysis in emotion research vary according to perspective, with emotion considered at individual, group, organisational or community levels (Waldron, 2000).
keywords: 2nd; applications; approach; ashkanasy; behaviour; books; bounded; capital; caring; chichester; climate; cognition; communication; communities; community; connections; cooper; corporate; culture; different; diversity; eco; ecology; eds; elements; email; emotion; emotional; emotional intelligence; emotionality; england; environment; experience; expression; factors; feelings; feminist; fineman; focus; framework; gender; human; härtel; individual; information; intelligence; issues; journal; knowledge; labour; lazarus; learning; life; links; london; lot; management; meyerson; model; mumby; nature; need; new; organisational; organizations; particular; payne; people; personal; phone; power; practice; processes; publications; putnam; quorum; rafaeli; rational; rationality; reason; recent; research; role; sage; self; service; skills; social; staff; status; structure; study; support; supportive; sustainability; sutton; technology; term; theory; time; training; trust; understanding; volunteers; water; way; western; westport; wiley; wire; women; work; workplace; zerbe
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item: #22 of 547
id: joci-2048
author: None
title: joci-2048
date: None
words: 10798
flesch: 60
summary: The success of community development projects is dependent on far more than just infrastructure. How could funding for MPCC projects be provided in a more holistic manner?
keywords: able; actants; active; actor; analysis; attitude; building; business; case; centre; clear; committee; communities; community; computers; concept; development; different; discussion; drv; dwars; economic; enrolment; entrepreneurial; framework; funding; government; hsrp; human; icts; implementation; important; information; interests; internet; issues; local; management; manager; meeting; model; money; mpcc; municipal; municipality; network; new; new mpcc; number; opp; participants; passive; people; person; pniel; point; power; previous; problems; process; project; project manager; research; result; river; role; rural; section; situation; skills; south; struggle; study; success; successful; sustainability; technology; telecentre; themes; theory; things; tourism; training; translation; underlying; understanding; use; valley
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item: #23 of 547
id: joci-2049
author: None
title: joci-2049
date: None
words: 8901
flesch: 50
summary: Building and Sustaining Healthy Communities: The symbiosis between community technology and community research. We define sustainability as a dynamic process in which IT professionals, designers, and researchers work with community groups in ways that give them greater control over technology in their organization.
keywords: access; activities; area; centreconnect; civic; communities; community; community groups; community organizations; community technology; computing; contexts; county; course; design; example; experience; goals; groups; gurstein; help; idea; important; information; issues; lack; learning; long; material; members; mission; need; new; nexus; october; online; organization; paper; participatory; planning; practical; problems; process; project; research; resources; role; shared; site; social; staff; state; students; support; sustainability; technical; technologies; technology; technology use; term; time; tools; training; university; use; ways; web; website; work
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item: #24 of 547
id: joci-2050
author: None
title: joci-2050
date: None
words: 5586
flesch: 30
summary: But how can regional communities ‘grab their share of this wealth’ and use it to strengthen local communities (Simpson, 1999, p. 6)? While university engagement with regional communities is not a new subject the prospect has become increasingly attractive for both universities and regions with identified benefits going far beyond those traditionally seen as possible (Garlick, 2000).
keywords: access; activities; areas; australia; ballarat; bbbonline; benefits; building; business; canberra; case; cecc; communications; communities; community; development; economic; egerton; engagement; establishment; example; figure; funding; government; groups; high; high high; ict; identifying; implementation; information; infrastructure; initial; initiatives; internet; key; learning; local; low; mconline; medium; members; micro; moorabool; ongoing; online; operators; opportunities; organisations; program; project; regional; renewal; research; residents; rural; services; shire; significant; skills; small; social; support; survey; table; tourism; township; training; universities; university; victoria; web; website; wendouree; west; working
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item: #25 of 547
id: joci-2051
author: None
title: joci-2051
date: None
words: 306
flesch: 34
summary: Together these three articles represent a very significant “manifesto” for taking the discussion about community based Wireless and Broadband into all spheres of development, development funding and development policy and give the strongest possible argument of the opportunity and need to incorporate Wireless along with broadband into the mainstream of community informatics thinking and applications. The article prepared by Sascha Meinrath on behalf of the Champaign-Urbana Community Wireless Network and first National (US) Summit for Community Wireless Networks provides a sense of the opportunities which wireless enabled broadband connectivity presents.
keywords: community; connectivity; development; field; notes; technology; wireless
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item: #26 of 547
id: joci-2052
author: None
title: joci-2052
date: None
words: 1435
flesch: 58
summary: How Wi-Fi came to El Chaco Klaus Stoll Fundacion Chasquinet Quito, Ecuador < klaus@chasquinet.org > What happens in the following story is nothing out of the ordinary; it is just how Wi-Fi came to the community of EL Chaco. El Chaco is neither rich nor poor, nobody is starving and nobody has riches, the people of EL Chaco have learned to make do with the basics.
keywords: chaco; chasquinet; community; connectivity; development; el chaco; equipment; government; health; internet; local; quito; schools; small; telecenter; training; use
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item: #27 of 547
id: joci-2053
author: None
title: joci-2053
date: None
words: 188
flesch: 28
summary: The letter documents the need for Industry Canada programs to complete the work which has already begun in developing local broadband infrastructure solutions in Aboriginal communities across Canada. Brian Beaton K-Net / ON-RMO Coordinator Keewaytinook Okimakanak < brian.beaton@knet.ca > Open Letter to Minister Paul Martin: Broadband connectivity in aboriginal communities
keywords: aboriginal; broadband; canada; communities; letter; martin
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item: #28 of 547
id: joci-2054
author: None
title: joci-2054
date: None
words: 2869
flesch: 38
summary: In the months following the summit, based upon the initial framework, an international team of wireless developers fleshed out a twelve-point research and inquiry program to support open spectrum policy development around the globe. First, identify major research that has already been conducted and impacted (or been cited) in regulatory/policy debates, as well as the independent research labs that are most active in contemporary spectrum research areas.
keywords: access; areas; assessment; available; broadband; communications; community; cuwin; development; documentation; economic; free; future; globe; impact; implementers; information; interference; international; issues; major; need; network; networking; new; non; open; people; policy; problems; project; proprietary; public; regulatory; research; social; software; source; spectrum; systems; technical; usage; use; users; wireless
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item: #29 of 547
id: joci-2055
author: Gurstein, Michael B.
title: Editorial: Welcome to the Journal of Community Informatics
date: 2004-10-01
words: 1728
flesch: 35
summary: An analysis and plan for using a major university in a Less Developed Country as a base for a highly innovative program of CI for community transformation (Erwin and Taylor) • A highly significant analysis of the current state of the art with respect to Telecentre development in Latin America and where it might go from here (Menou, Delgadillo and Stoll) 4 The Journal of Community Informatics • A fine paper examining the theoretical background to community use of ICT and giving most useful directions for future research as well as community practice towards this end. CI represents a confluence between theory, practice and policy — between those who research and those who implement; between the theory and findings, and the policy and funding frameworks that in large part determine the available strategies for supporting ICT in communities as elements of development and innovation; and between the practice and policy of enabling communities and others to feed-back and feed-forward into strategies for sustainability and supportive regulatory regimes.
keywords: academic; communities; community; community informatics; current; development; editorial; ict; informatics; issue; journal; larger; new; policy; practice; professional; research; social; support; technologies; technology; use; welcome; work; world
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item: #30 of 547
id: joci-2056
author: Webb, Susan; Jones, Kate
title: Women Connect: Phase 2 Report
date: 2004-10-01
words: 11956
flesch: 49
summary: Women Connect has the potential to contribute to this agenda which is most important as women are the main users of public services and many of the organisations Women Connect currently support provide frontline public services. Recommendations put forward in this evaluation have helped Women Connect to move in a new direction.
keywords: able; access; action; active; approach; areas; association; capacity; case; cdf; change; commission; communication; communities; community; community development; conference; connect; context; convention; decision; development; discrimination; domestic; duty; empowerment; equality; equipment; european; european women; evaluation; evidence; example; face; foundation; funding; gender; gender equality; goals; government; groups; help; home; human; ict; individual; information; international; internet; introduction; issues; journal; learning; level; life; lives; lobby; local; main; making; means; members; national; needs; network; networking; new; online; order; organisations; paper; participation; partner; people; phase; place; platform; policies; policy; positive; potential; process; programme; project; public; range; report; rights; sector; services; skills; social; society; support; technology; training; use; voluntary; way; web; website; women; world; years
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item: #31 of 547
id: joci-2057
author: Beaton, Brian
title: The K-Net Story: Community ICT Development Work
date: 2004-10-01
words: 890
flesch: 44
summary: The accompanying video (http://streaming.knet.ca/fednor/brian_beaton3_300k.wmv) provides a brief overview of some of the work that has gone into building and sustaining the regional network that supports local community based networks (CBNs). brian.beaton@knet.ca > The Kuhkenah Network (K-Net) provides information and communication technologies (ICTs), telecommunication infrastructure and application support in First Nation communities across a vast, remote region of north-western Ontario as well as in other remote regions in Canada.
keywords: communities; community; development; information; infrastructure; keewaytinook; local; material; nation; net; network; okimakanak; ontario; people; program; remote; services; video
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item: #32 of 547
id: joci-2058
author: Clement, Andrew; Gurstein, Michael; Longford, Graham; Luke, Robert; Moll, Marita; Shade, Leslie Reagan; DeChief, Diane
title: The Canadian Research Alliance for Community Innovation and Networking (CRACIN): A Research Partnership and Agenda for Community Networking in Canada
date: 2004-10-21
words: 6154
flesch: 36
summary: Through this framework the question which emerges is how community social capital can be increased, and how community cultural capital can be activated through integrating community technology in the context of a community building initiative. The Canadian Research Alliance for Community Innovation and Networking (CRACIN): The Journal of Community Informatics, (2004) Vol. 1, Issue 1, pp.
keywords: academic; access; action; agenda; alberta; alliance; analysis; broadband; canada; canadian; case; civic; clement; cns; communications; communities; community; community informatics; community networking; community technology; context; cracin; cultural; design; development; digital; divide; economic; economy; eds; federal; framework; funding; goals; government; gurstein; human; ict; icts; industry; informatics; infrastructure; initiatives; innovation; international; internet; issues; journal; learning; leslie; loader; local; members; michael; moll; need; networking; networks; new; online; organizations; oxford; participation; participatory; policies; policy; political; press; programs; project; public; relations; research; researchers; resources; rural; services; shade; shaping; significant; sites; social; society; studies; study; support; sustainability; technical; technologies; technology; toronto; university; use; vol; york
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item: #33 of 547
id: joci-2059
author: Erwin, Geoff; Taylor, Wallace
title: Social Appropriation of Internet Technology: a South African platform
date: 2004-10-16
words: 4251
flesch: 34
summary: The developed curriculum and student learning will link into a range of community based technology initiatives within a context of Community Informatics research. The term Community Informatics (Gurstein, 2000) has recently emerged to describe the use of ICTs for local community benefit and more recently, international researchers and funding agencies have moved towards the term Community Informatics Systems (CIS) as a parallel for Management Information Systems (MIS).
keywords: 2003a; access; applications; approaches; appropriation; building; business; cape; centre; cirn; cis; civil; civil society; communication; communities; community; community informatics; context; cultural; democracy; development; discipline; education; effective; experience; governance; government; gurstein; hewitt; http://www.electronicgov.net/pubs/index.shtml; http://www.ssrc.org/programs/itic; icts; information; information society; international; internet; issues; journal; local; march; network; new; partnerships; peninsula; pigg; pinder; policy; practice; private; public; report; research; riley; role; service; social; societal; society; summit; systems; teaching; technologies; technology; university; use; world; wsis
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item: #34 of 547
id: joci-2060
author: Jhunjhunwala, Ashok; Ramachandran, Anuradha; Bandyopadhyay, Alankar
title: n-Logue: The Story of a Rural Service Provider In India
date: 2004-10-01
words: 4029
flesch: 59
summary: The Rural ATM – A New Technology: TeNeT believes that going beyond normal Internet applications and leveraging ICT to enhance livelihoods would be the primary means of sustaining rural kiosks. This leads us to the third leg - an organisation called n-logue, a rural service provider whose entire focus is rural India.
keywords: access; agriculture; applications; areas; available; business; communication; community; computer; conferencing; connectivity; doctors; education; english; eye; fibre; fig; group; health; help; india; internet; issue; journal; kiosk; language; local; logue; low; lsp; means; model; needs; operator; pcos; people; power; remote; rural; services; set; software; taluka; technologies; technology; tenet; tier; use; video; villages; world; year
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item: #35 of 547
id: joci-2061
author: Menou, Michel J.; Poepsel, Karin Delgadillo; Stoll, Klaus
title: Latin American Community Telecenters: "It's a long way to TICperary"
date: 2004-10-01
words: 10908
flesch: 40
summary: Even though it may not be associated with specific services, a key application and use of community telecenters, in particular among indigenous communities, is the struggle for their rights, which of course goes far beyond outspoken “communication rights”. Both cost and social principles are moving community telecenters towards emphasizing the use of open source software to the greatest extent possible, even though this may in the short term increase the skills shortage they are facing for their staffing.
keywords: access; activities; actors; america; american community; approach; appropriate; argentina; available; basic; bolivia; brazil; building; caribbean; central; challenges; chasquinet; chile; collective; colombia; communication; communities; community; community informatics; community telecenters; computer; conditions; connectivity; cost; countries; course; cuba; development; digital; direct; discussion; dominican; economic; ecuador; education; effective; efforts; endeavors; face; financial; focus; foundation; global; government; groups; guatemala; human; ict; idrc; implementation; inclusion; information; interaction; international; internet; interviews; issues; journal; lack; latin; learning; level; lists; local; mailto; main; major; majority; management; meeting; members; menou; mexico; movement; national; needs; network; ngo; nicaragua; number; objectives; online; open; operation; operators; opportunities; order; organizations; paraguay; participants; participation; particular; people; peru; place; population; possible; private; process; production; programs; project; public; regional; research; resources; result; role; sector; september; services; set; sharing; significant; social; somos@telecentros; specific; staff; stakeholders; state; stories; support; sustainability; telecenters; telelac; time; training; uruguay; use; users; venezuela; virtual; vision; way; web; years
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item: #36 of 547
id: joci-2062
author: Pigg, Kenneth E.; Crank, Laura Duffy
title: Building Community Social Capital: The Potential and Promise of Information and Communications Technologies
date: 2004-10-01
words: 9246
flesch: 44
summary: Coleman (1990) argues that social capital is a “…set of resources that inhere in family relations and community social organization…”(p.300). The results indicate that much work remains to be done before it can be said with any validity that ICTs can, in fact, create community social capital.
keywords: access; action; activities; activity; affective; altheide; analysis; applications; basis; bonding; bridging; building; capital; cognitive; communication; communities; community; community social; computer; context; development; different; dimensions; discussion; ecology; economic; elements; empirical; enforceable; example; factors; figure; flora; formats; forms; functions; groups; ict; important; information; institutional; interaction; internet; journal; knowledge; leonard; literature; local; loose; members; nature; networks; new; notion; online; onyx; organization; paper; people; person; personal; place; potential; press; reciprocity; related; relationships; research; resources; review; rural; shared; social; social capital; society; sociology; software; solidarity; strong; studies; support; technologies; technology; time; transactions; trust; university; use; virtual; way; wellman; world
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item: #37 of 547
id: joci-2063
author: Robinson, Scott S.
title: Towards a Neo-Apartheid System of Governance in Latin America - Implications for the Community Informatics Guild
date: 2004-10-01
words: 779
flesch: 27
summary: The latter today too often ignores the power of national elites who have configured their regulatory regimes to favor quasi-monopolistic market dominance in cahoots with foreign IT hardware and software interests. Plans for the delivery of key government services via online portals may portend a “virtual State” where the programming protocols of the servers remain in the discretionary hands of a few.
keywords: america; community; connectivity; economies; elites; governance; government; informatics; latin; national; poor; power; programs; public; region; remittance; sectors; system; today
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item: #38 of 547
id: joci-2064
author: Salvador, Tony; Sherry, John
title: Local Learnings: An Essay on Designing to Facilitate Effective Use of ICT s
date: 2005-01-31
words: 5205
flesch: 59
summary: Jose Miguel Walking down the road you can see the mud brick house, surrounded by a crumbly wall of adobe. mailto:tony.salvador@intel.com mailto:john.sherry@intel.com Local Learnings 77 Introduction We start with a fairly lengthy description Jose Miguel, his village and his use of computing.
keywords: access; american; available; business; case; chicks; college; community; computer; computing; conditions; control; cord; corporations; design; details; digital; divide; electricity; environment; example; extension; farm; floor; good; high; icts; informatics; infrastructure; intel; james; jose; jose miguel; large; learnings; light; limited; little; local; locus; means; miguel; needs; nots; paper; participation; people; places; power; result; room; small; tech; technologies; technology; things; time; understanding; use; village; way; work
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item: #39 of 547
id: joci-2065
author: Stafeev, Sergei
title: Role of Community Informatics in Socio-Cultural Transformations in Russia and the CIS
date: 2004-10-01
words: 2492
flesch: 33
summary: The discussions were carried out by the recognized leaders of international CI, particularly Prof. Michael Gurstein, Chairman of the Global Network of CI Researchers2, Prof. Michel Menou, leading the series of research CI projects in the countries of Latin America and Prof. Wal Taylor, head of the Internet Academy, Australia. An underlying but most set of criteria for upon carrying out CI research would appear to be those developed by UN Human Development Index (HDI).
keywords: approaches; cis; communication; community; community informatics; countries; cultural; development; different; example; gurstein; ict; independent; information; institutions; investigations; level; local; modern; moscow; new; non; policy; post; processes; programs; projects; real; research; results; role; russia; social; society; socio; soviet; stafeev; state; studies; technologies; traditional; use
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item: #40 of 547
id: joci-2066
author: None
title: SEARCHING FOR THE ROLE OF ICTS IN DEVELOPMENT: A CASE STUDY OF A RURAL MULTI-PURPOSE COMMUNITY CENTRE IN THE DWARS RIVER VALLE
date: None
words: 989
flesch: 37
summary: The question of course, is: Are these objectives for public access programs already fully accomplished in developed countries, or are they for some reason unnecessary, or perhaps beneath the range of interests of governments and public policy? These in turn are seemingly based on an assumption that decisions concerning Internet access and use are best left to individuals (and individual resources) rather than being an aspect of social policy.
keywords: access; broad; commitment; countries; developed; development; economic; internet; knowledge; ldc; policy; programs; public; social; societies; use
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item: #41 of 547
id: joci-2067
author: None
title: SEARCHING FOR THE ROLE OF ICTS IN DEVELOPMENT: A CASE STUDY OF A RURAL MULTI-PURPOSE COMMUNITY CENTRE IN THE DWARS RIVER VALLE
date: None
words: 9321
flesch: 39
summary: Partly as a result of his efforts, other community telecenters have been set up in a neighboring municipality. Thus, in contrast to the cybercafes that have proliferated in cities and towns, which are essentially small businesses offering ICT access, community telecenters have a mainly social purpose and are generally established by organizations committed to building local capacity for ICT use in development.
keywords: access; acin; activities; analysis; areas; assessment; association; available; average; benefits; better; building; capacity; case; centre; changes; colombia; communications; communities; community; community telecenters; corpotunía; decisions; development; differences; different; early; economic; education; effective; evaluation; framework; general; global; group; health; human; icts; idrc; impact; important; index; indigenous; individuals; inforcauca; information; institutional; international; internet; las; local; los; making; media; needs; new; nonusers; operators; organizations; people; performance; personal; poverty; programs; project; public; radio; research; results; rights; role; rural; services; significant; social; sources; staff; studies; study; support; survey; sustainability; sustainable; table; technologies; telecenter; telecenter users; telephone; terms; training; types; use; users; way; web; women; work; world
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item: #42 of 547
id: joci-2068
author: David Ley
title: SEARCHING FOR THE ROLE OF ICTS IN DEVELOPMENT: A CASE STUDY OF A RURAL MULTI-PURPOSE COMMUNITY CENTRE IN THE DWARS RIVER VALLE
date: 2007-03-15
words: 5948
flesch: 52
summary: CCFs co-habiting in public infrastructures There are different models where shared computing facilities co-locate with other community facilities. This is not surprising considering that a substantial number of CCF users became aware of the existence of the facilities while they were using the library.
keywords: 2005; access; addition; africa; awareness; benefits; buy; cape; cape access; case; ccf; ccfs; center; chigona; colle; communities; community; computing; critical; data; development; different; esterhuysen; facilities; factors; findings; hosting; hours; information; infrastructure; initiatives; institutions; interviews; issues; libraries; library; local; location; management; marketing; members; model; new; number; observations; operations; paper; phase; project; public; qualitative; research; rural; schools; smart; south; studies; study; success; telecenter; users
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item: #43 of 547
id: joci-2069
author: None
title: SEARCHING FOR THE ROLE OF ICTS IN DEVELOPMENT: A CASE STUDY OF A RURAL MULTI-PURPOSE COMMUNITY CENTRE IN THE DWARS RIVER VALLE
date: None
words: 8865
flesch: 43
summary: To actualize this potential, an effective networking of CAP sites and a means for the retention within individual sites and the overall network of the knowledge gained is required. In 1996, in response to the demand for training on the technology recently implanted in CAP sites, Industry Canada and what was then Human Resources and Development Canada (HRDC) came together to create the Community Access Program Youth Initiative (CAPYI).
keywords: access; activities; available; canada; canadian; cap; cap sites; cap yi; centre; clement; communities; community; community access; community networks; computer; context; coordinators; development; digital; divide; economic; effective; federal; funding; goals; government; gurstein; icts; implementation; individual; industry; industry canada; information; infrastructure; initiatives; interest; internet; interns; issues; knowledge; lack; level; like; local; lower; mainland; mandate; means; mechanisms; moll; networking; networks; order; organizations; people; policy; program; public; regional; reporting; resources; result; shade; sites; social; society; specific; success; support; technical; technology; term; time; training; universal; universal access; urban; use; users; vcn; way; year; youth
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item: #44 of 547
id: joci-2070
author: David Ley
title: SEARCHING FOR THE ROLE OF ICTS IN DEVELOPMENT: A CASE STUDY OF A RURAL MULTI-PURPOSE COMMUNITY CENTRE IN THE DWARS RIVER VALLE
date: 2007-03-15
words: 8824
flesch: 62
summary: Both solutions are, however, grounded by computer courses for adults at reasonable prices, in order to reduce the digital gap between generations, income groups, and educational levels. International research concerned with the interplay of information technology and local society contains proposals as the establishment of CTCs, voluntary computer courses, and activation of the relevant knowledge of young people in order to combat the accumulation of disadvantages (Schoen, Sanyal, & Mitchell, 1999).
keywords: + +; access; acquaintances; activities; adults; available; beginning; budapest; case; change; children; circle; collection; community; computer; corvinus; course; cserénfa; ctc; data; department; deployment; digital; earlier; experiences; experiment; family; friends; group; home; ict; impacts; information; internet; internet access; job; jobs; kaposvár; knowledge; living; local; mother; negative; network; number; participants; partners; pcs; pensioners; people; person; policy; positive; primary; project; recreation; relations; research; resource; school; settlement; siklós; small; social; sociology; source; spread; student; study; table; technology; time; university; use; village; villagers; visitors; visits; year; young
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item: #45 of 547
id: joci-2071
author: David Ley
title: SEARCHING FOR THE ROLE OF ICTS IN DEVELOPMENT: A CASE STUDY OF A RURAL MULTI-PURPOSE COMMUNITY CENTRE IN THE DWARS RIVER VALLE
date: 2007-03-15
words: 8826
flesch: 44
summary: Socio-economic profile of the kiosk users and the village community We first present a comparative analysis of kiosk users and their respective village communities for each of the five kiosks as well as for the five kiosks combined. Age distribution of kiosk users.
keywords: access; adoption; analysis; best; caste; census; communication; communities; community; compatibility; complexity; confidence; data; development; diffusion; district; economic; educational; efforts; framework; government; heads; higher; households; illiterate; important; income; india; information; innovation; keelaiyur; kidaripatti; kiosk; kiosk users; limit; local; lower; male; officials; operators; overall; ownership; population; project; proportion; research; rogers; roman; rural; sample; sari; services; social; socio; source; status; study; survey; sustainability; table; technology; telecenters; thaniyamangalam; theory; thiruvadavur; ulagapitchampatti; users; village; village population; villages village
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item: #46 of 547
id: joci-2072
author: David Ley
title: SEARCHING FOR THE ROLE OF ICTS IN DEVELOPMENT: A CASE STUDY OF A RURAL MULTI-PURPOSE COMMUNITY CENTRE IN THE DWARS RIVER VALLE
date: 2007-03-15
words: 7099
flesch: 50
summary: Table 1: Application of sustainable livelihoods framework in the Aguablanca telecentre case study SL element: Vulnerability context Livelihood assets Transforming structures and processes Livelihood strategies Adaptations: Seasonality not considered; Some structures and processes (including culture, law and law enforcement) were considered as part of the vulnerability context – risks that residents had to strategically manage, rather than as transformative Natural assets not considered (not very relevant in this case) As has been commonly found in other development projects, there may be unintended negative consequences with the introduction of a telecentre.
keywords: access; aguablanca; analysis; approach; area; assessment; assets; available; benefit; capital; case; community; context; demographic; development; dfid; economic; education; equity; evaluation; example; factors; financial; focus; formal; framework; gómez; human; icts; idrc; impact; important; indicators; information; internet; key; level; likely; livelihood; local; natural; number; outcomes; paper; people; physical; policy; poor; positive; poverty; project; public; purpose; quality; related; research; residents; resources; risks; rural; services; sl framework; social; specific; strategies; study; sustainable; sustainable livelihoods; technologies; technology; telecentre; term; time; universal; use; users; vulnerability; way
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item: #47 of 547
id: joci-2073
author: David Ley
title: SEARCHING FOR THE ROLE OF ICTS IN DEVELOPMENT: A CASE STUDY OF A RURAL MULTI-PURPOSE COMMUNITY CENTRE IN THE DWARS RIVER VALLE
date: 2007-03-15
words: 2495
flesch: 50
summary: Charging for such services would subsidize essential community services. Centre Songhai Telecentre in Benin Social enterprise model is indeed about finding the “perfect balance” between community development and enterprise approach.
keywords: access; africa; approach; capital; case; communities; community; development; drishtee; enterprise; essential; financial; foundation; government; high; ict; india; information; key; kiosk; m.s; market; model; needs; partners; people; potential; program; services; social; sustainability; swaminathan; telecentres; today; training; value; work
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item: #48 of 547
id: joci-2074
author: David Ley
title: SEARCHING FOR THE ROLE OF ICTS IN DEVELOPMENT: A CASE STUDY OF A RURAL MULTI-PURPOSE COMMUNITY CENTRE IN THE DWARS RIVER VALLE
date: 2007-03-15
words: 5841
flesch: 54
summary: Thus, it is not ICTs, available at the government level, helping people survive in the rural areas; it is, rather, community development workers on foot who are providing accurate information to address the concerns of their populations. The way computers are used here does nothing to help spread accurate information about HIV/AIDS to local people.
keywords: ability; access; africa; aids; areas; basic; border; cape; cell; clinics; communication; communities; community; computer; context; countries; development; disease; divide; eastern; economic; education; esikelo; farm; global; government; greater; groups; health; hiv; human; icts; information; international; internet; kwazulu; limpopo; lives; living; local; marginalized; natal; national; need; people; personal; phone; poor; poorest; purpose; relevance; rsa; rural; security; society; south; south africa; spread; technologies; technology; time; townships; umlazi; urban; use; villages; water; women; workers; world; years; young; zimbabwean
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item: #49 of 547
id: joci-2075
author: None
title: None
date: None
words: 2183
flesch: 52
summary: Also Community Radio programmes mainly for dissemination of information important for enlightening communities about what is happening around and enable them to share knowledge and entertainment. Similarly, for Sengerema Multipurpose Community Telecentre and the like to cope with the information revolution as envisaged by the WSIS and MDGs, and most importantly the great need to impart wisdom in communities in a most effective way.
keywords: access; center; centre; communities; community; development; human; hunger; important; information; internet; knowledge; life; like; local; multipurpose; need; people; power; principles; programmes; project; radio; role; sengerema; society; sustainable; telecentre; way; wisdom
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item: #50 of 547
id: joci-2076
author: None
title: joci-2076
date: None
words: 1664
flesch: 30
summary: It is notable that two of these papers were prepared by ICT practitioners working directly in community contexts and developing and applying systems and applications in support of community processes. Yet this new body presents an agenda, has an organizational and decision-making structure, and articulates a vision that completely ignores and by-passes those who will ultimately have to implement ICT4D systems and whose acceptance and effective use will ultimately determine whether these systems and approaches are successes or failure.[3]
keywords: applications; communities; community; computing; development; end; fundamental; goals; ict4d; icts; information; level; local; means; papers; personal; shared; strategy; success; systems; use; user; world
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item: #51 of 547
id: joci-2077
author: None
title: joci-2077
date: None
words: 6303
flesch: 51
summary: In order to help the eThekwini Municipality create and maintain an environment conducive to ethical decision-making, a proposed statement of core values and a corporate Code of Cyberethics needs to be effectively communicated and supported by eThekwini Municipality management. For example, it would be arrogant to impose on eThekwini Municipality employees the ethical ICT standards developed in and appropriate for Hong Kong, or indeed to do the reverse.
keywords: acceptable; action; activity; africa; answer; behaviour; business; code; communication; computer; conduct; corporate; cyberethics; data; disagree; effects; employees; ethekwini; ethekwini municipality; ethical; ethics; example; factors; harm; high; ict; information; internet; issues; long; minimal; moral; municipality; negative; negative effects; new; number; people; personal; place; potential harm; privacy; process; property; public; right; rules; service; social; software; south; time; undecided; use; values; view; wrong
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item: #52 of 547
id: joci-2078
author: None
title: joci-2078
date: None
words: 9658
flesch: 50
summary: This relationship should be studied with respect to all social groups, including homeless people. The lifestyle of homeless people is typically transient, nomadic and built on the immediate gratification of needs, so activities tend to be planned on a minute-to-minute basis.
keywords: access; activities; agencies; change; chaotic; clear; clients; communication; consumption; contact; different; difficult; digital; digital inclusion; domestication; drug; economic; edinburgh; eds; everyday; example; exclusion; family; hand; help; higher; homeless; homeless individuals; homeless people; homelessness; icts; implications; important; inclusion; individuals; information; internet; interview; lack; life; lives; meanings; mobile; mobile phones; needs; networks; number; outreach; people; person; phones; point; policy; problems; public; research; respect; respondents; scotland; second; service; skills; social; social inclusion; society; status; study; subculture; support; technologies; technology; time; touch; university; use; useful; uses; ways; workers
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item: #53 of 547
id: joci-2079
author: None
title: joci-2079
date: None
words: 6553
flesch: 43
summary: Community media research: A quest for theoretically-grounded models. This resonates with developments in new media research (Jankowski, 2002; Matei & Ball-Rokeach, 2003) which has moved on to analyse the new qualities of the third wave of community media, that is, applications including web-based systems such as indymedia, community networks and other location-aware smart mob technologies (Rheingold, 2002).
keywords: access; action; applications; approach; broader; building; capital; case; challenges; city; communication; communities; community; context; cultural; design; development; different; economic; eds; educational; effective; ethnographic; focus; foth; framework; housing; ict; icts; information; innovation; interaction; international; internet; life; local; location; master; media; methodology; methods; neighbourhood; network; networked; new; new media; paper; participation; people; physical; place; planned; planning; press; project; public; queensland; relationships; research; residential; residents; site; social; society; socio; specific; studies; study; systems; tacchi; technology; theoretical; theory; understanding; university; urban; use; uses; village; wellman
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item: #54 of 547
id: joci-2080
author: None
title: joci-2080
date: None
words: 5077
flesch: 40
summary: Total Cost of Ownership [TCO] models TCO is a vital concept in technology cost management, specifically in ICT cost management, and for the purpose of this paper represents a desirable end state of cost maturity. How can these benchmarks and the costing status of individual projects be globally communicated as part of project cost management discourse and learning within the appropriate research network?
keywords: 2001; accounting; africa; associated; available; benchmarking; benchmarks; benefits; business; communication; communities; community; community informatics; concept; cost; cost accounting; cost management; cost maturity; costing; cycle; developmental; digital; discourse; divide; education; efforts; financial; gartner; general; ict; individual; informatics; informatics projects; itu; johannesburg; lack; level; life; management; maturity; measurement; methodologies; model; need; organizations; ownership; paper; particular; practical; process; projects; reference; required; research; solutions; systems; tco; technologies; technology; telecom; time; total; training; understanding; value; view; world
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item: #55 of 547
id: joci-2082
author: None
title: joci-2082
date: None
words: 6665
flesch: 38
summary: Therefore, they are the people to see about guiding or enhancing community development. In addition to promoting the use of ICTs, a learning community project can stimulate public participation in community activities, redefine community governance, and give rise to a relational strategy that can generate the knowledge, distinctive competences, and collective capabilities that influence the direction of community development.
keywords: access; active; activities; axis; bromont; canada; capabilities; capability; capital; citizen; city; collective; collective portal; communities; community; community development; community players; competences; concept; connected; degree; des; development; dimension; dynamics; développement; emergence; example; figure; framework; france; governance; hand; icts; influence; information; internet; knowledge; learning; les; level; local; local development; management; means; members; model; nature; networking; networks; online; organizations; participation; people; players; portal; position; possible; practice; process; project; prévost; public; relational; research; resource; result; sherbrooke; strategic; strategy; system; technologies; technology; territorial; theory; tool; typological; virtual; web
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item: #56 of 547
id: joci-2083
author: None
title: joci-2083
date: None
words: 1224
flesch: 39
summary: Community Inquiry and Informatics: Collaborative Learning through ICT Ann Peterson Bishop Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign < abishop@uiuc.edu > Bertram C. Bruce Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign < chip@uiuc.edu > M. Cameron Jones Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign < mjones2@uiuc.edu > Abstract This paper presents the integration of community informatics with the theory and practice of community inquiry, describing community-based projects in which people simultaneously learn about their community and the production and use of information and communication technologies (ICTs). Developed most fully in the work of John Dewey, community inquiry is based on the premise that if individuals are to understand and create solutions for problems in complex systems, they need opportunities to engage with challenging questions, to learn through participative investigations situated in everyday experiences, to articulate their ideas to others, and to make use of a variety of resources in multiple media.
keywords: champaign; collaborative; communities; community; education; graduate; icts; ilabs; illinois; informatics; inquiry; learning; library; practice; pragmatic; science; software; university; urbana; use; work
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item: #57 of 547
id: joci-2084
author: None
title: joci-2084
date: None
words: 2173
flesch: 32
summary: Schlager is interested in community infrastructures, and has investigated community-based approaches to teacher professional development in TappedIn through the past decade. Community infrastructures that facilitate learning Infrastructure is the socio-technical background that allows work activity to move smoothly.
keywords: action; activity; center; civic; cognitive; communities; community; computer; context; cooperative; extension; human; informal; information; infrastructures; interested; investigates; journal; knowledge; learning; library; networks; organizations; park; penn; research; school; sciences; social; special; state; studies; support; technology; university; workshop
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item: #58 of 547
id: joci-2085
author: None
title: joci-2085
date: None
words: 1715
flesch: 53
summary: For community groups, this is different. This role can be uniquely useful: Community groups are not about information technology any more than they are about plumbing.
keywords: bard; carroll; community; design; development; farooq; ganoe; groups; information; j.m; learning; local; members; merkel; participant; participatory; pennsylvania; projects; role; rosson; state; sustainable; systems; technology; university; work; workers; xiao; zone
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item: #59 of 547
id: joci-2086
author: None
title: joci-2086
date: None
words: 2686
flesch: 46
summary: To analyze the contribution of voices from different communities, we differentiate between two types of communities: communities of practice (CoPs) and communities of interest (CoIs). Communication in CoIs is difficult because they come from different CoPs, and therefore use different languages, different conceptual knowledge systems, and different notational systems (Snow, 1993).
keywords: artifacts; cambridge; center; cognition; cois; collaboration; communities; community; computer; conceptual; cops; creativity; design; designers; different; distances; environments; fischer; human; individual; information; interaction; knowledge; learning; new; participation; people; practice; press; research; social; systems; talk; university; user; voices; work
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item: #60 of 547
id: joci-2087
author: None
title: joci-2087
date: None
words: 1643
flesch: 50
summary: Social capital can serve as an enabler to social learning processes (Cohen & Prusak 2001); Fischer et al., 2004; Huysman &Wulf, 2004), and it represents a precondition for the emergence of communities of practice. Regional networking activities and the joint acquisition of research projects have turned out to be an important means of building social capital.
keywords: cambridge; capital; communities; community; companies; education; group; huysman; information; knowledge; learning; new; opportunities; practice; press; projects; research; social; students; universities; university; wulf
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item: #61 of 547
id: joci-2088
author: None
title: joci-2088
date: None
words: 1302
flesch: 44
summary: Such tools seem particularly well matched to the knowledge management needs of nonprofit community organizations and small, but distributed, public sector agencies such as the public health district. Community or group blogs represent a kind of self-organizing social system that allows a number of individuals to interact and learn from each other through the exchange ideas and information, and to help solve collective problems.
keywords: activities; available; blogs; citizens; community; computer; content; deliberation; discussion; forums; greater; group; information; interaction; kavanaugh; local; online; political; public; support; tools; virginia; web; wikis
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item: #62 of 547
id: joci-2089
author: None
title: joci-2089
date: None
words: 2052
flesch: 43
summary: In what follows, I present social reproduction theory as a basis for understanding how ICT may in fact serve to reproduce, rather than alleviate, inequality. First, Bowles and Gintis (1976) debunk the century-old ideal of public education as the great equalizer among disparate social classes in the U.S. Bowles and Gintis instead argued that public schooling reproduces social and class-based inequities.
keywords: access; agents; bourdieu; capital; class; communities; community; cultural; digital; divide; economic; educational; freire; ict; inequality; information; kvasny; life; people; position; reproduction; resistance; role; school; self; skills; social; society; theories; theory; underserved; working
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item: #63 of 547
id: joci-2090
author: None
title: joci-2090
date: None
words: 1403
flesch: 25
summary: As they did 200 years ago, information networks contribute the glue that binds communities together economically, politically, and socially. The Components of Access: Context, Connectivity, Capability, and Content Access to telecommunications services will not, by itself, guarantee success for communities.
keywords: access; capability; communities; community; connectivity; content; democracy; economic; high; information; internet; learning; level; networks; new; participation; public; service; social; speed; t1.5; technical; technologies; technology; telecommunications; use
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item: #64 of 547
id: joci-2091
author: None
title: joci-2091
date: None
words: 1175
flesch: 34
summary: On the one hand, the quality of products might be improved by involving end users in the early phases of design (the “User-Centred Design” tradition); on the other hand, end users have claimed the right to participate in the development of ICTs that affect their (working) environments (e.g., the Scandinavian tradition of “Participatory design”). By these means, technology needs and usages become more easily describable by end users, and communication among people sharing a similar use background (typically not the professional tool designer) is eased.
keywords: activities; appropriation; communication; configuration; delegation; design; development; end; environments; home; ict; information; professional; settings; support; systems; technologies; technology; tools; usage; user; work; wulf
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item: #65 of 547
id: joci-2092
author: None
title: joci-2092
date: None
words: 1974
flesch: 42
summary: Examples of developmental learning communities in community computing Learning Community Learning Activities Developmental Phases Civic Nexus Analysis of, planning for, and implementation of IT needs in a nonprofit organization Intern, volunteer, web designer, technology committee member, technology committee chair Teacher Bridge Creating Web-based lessons in science and math, using a variety of interactive tools Lurker, member, re-user, adapter, author, coach, program developer Women in IST Problem-based learning of the architecture and programming of Web-based collaborative systems High school friend, college recruit, pre-major, major, alumna The learning communities in Civic Nexus are nonprofit organizations; we are helping them to create sustainable informal learning processes for meeting their own IT needs (Merkel et al., 2004; Merkel et al., 2005). Supporting Developmental Learning Communities We are exploring two facets of developmental learning communities that might be aided by social or technical interventions: (1) recognition and acceptance of phases in community members’ development, and (2) reinforcement of the social ties that motivate developmental activities within the community.
keywords: activities; carroll; communities; community; computing; design; developmental; group; ist; knowledge; learning; members; mentoring; needs; phases; research; roles; rosson; social; students; teachers; technology; university; women; work
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item: #66 of 547
id: joci-2093
author: None
title: joci-2093
date: None
words: 3932
flesch: 44
summary: With civic network design viewed as the locus of conflict and struggle, the designer must consciously cultivate an outlook of reflexivity. This sociological, institutionalist-inspired view of civic network design recommends a certain kind of reflexivity on the part of the designer, one that emphasizes her historicity.
keywords: action; activity; actors; aims; broadband; broader; cambridge; capacity; change; chicago; choices; civic; civic network; committee; community; cultural; design; designers; developmental; dispositions; eds; ends; example; form; fraser; institutional; logics; macro; means; network; networking; new; order; organizational; outlook; particular; planning; power; practices; press; products; progressive; project; publics; radical; reflexive; relation; resources; social; structural; university; urban; view
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item: #67 of 547
id: joci-2094
author: None
title: joci-2094
date: None
words: 20526
flesch: 43
summary: We have worked with the county historical society, the regional emergency management coordinator, a sustainable development group, the enrichment program at the local high school, the local chapter of Habitat for Humanity, the symphony orchestra, the local food bank, an environmental preservation group, a local emergency medical services council, a group that works with at-risk youth, and with a group that trains leaders for community groups. For community groups, this is different.
keywords: access; acm; action; activities; activity; actors; analysis; approach; appropriation; available; blogs; broader; building; cambridge; capacity; capital; carroll; center; change; choices; citizens; civic; class; cognition; cognitive; cois; collaborative; collective; committee; communication; communities; community; community informatics; community learning; companies; computer; computing; concepts; conference; configuration; content; cooperative; cops; core; creativity; cultural; democracy; design; designers; development; developmental learning; different; digital; discussion; divide; economic; eds; education; end; environments; example; existing; faculty; farooq; fischer; focus; forms; foundation; goals; greater; group; help; high; home; human; ict; icts; ideas; ilabs; important; individual; informal; information; information technology; infrastructures; inquiry; institutions; interaction; interested; international; internet; issue; john; journal; knowledge; kvasny; learning; legitimate; level; library; life; lifelong; local; logics; long; macro; making; management; means; members; merkel; multiple; national; necessary; needs; network; networking; new; online; open; opportunities; order; organizations; park; participants; participation; participatory; particular; past; people; peripheral; phases; place; planning; political; potential; power; practice; press; problems; processes; products; professional; progressive; projects; public; questions; range; references; reflexive; relevant; reproduction; research; researchers; resistance; resources; respect; role; rosson; school; science; self; service; set; settings; shared; sharing; situated; skills; social; society; socio; software; special; specific; state; structure; students; studies; support; sustainable; systems; technical; technological; technologies; technology; term; theoretical; theories; theory; time; tools; understanding; universities; university; urban; use; user; voices; ways; web; wenger; women; work; workshop; wulf; years; york
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item: #68 of 547
id: joci-2095
author: None
title: joci-2095
date: None
words: 1379
flesch: 42
summary: In the absence of a firm and grounded participation by end users and end user communities, projects fail to take root and once the funders lose interest doors close, reports are filed, donors and consultants go on to something else and communities are left little better if not worse off than before…as Steve Cisler suggests, more cynical if not more “developed”. One could say that there is a pause in the broad sweep towards publicly funded support for community use of ICTs.
keywords: activities; approaches; communities; community; discussions; end; funders; ict4d; icts; informatics; issue; little; research; society; summit; support; use; useful; world; wsis
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item: #69 of 547
id: joci-2096
author: None
title: joci-2096
date: None
words: 1103
flesch: 76
summary: New pilot projects are being hatched. New projects are coming.
keywords: agency; computers; country; donor; ict; land; locals; ministry; money; movie; new; ngo; officer; people; pilot; program; project; short; war
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item: #70 of 547
id: joci-2097
author: None
title: joci-2097
date: None
words: 8904
flesch: 50
summary: For while ICTs do hold a great potential for immense positive benefits, not just in economic terms, but in broader applications for creating community networks to deal with civic engagement, education, health and other social services, as well as overall general knowledge and connectivity, they are tools, and the potential lies in how they are used, not their mere presence. However, if government is going to fund community networks, it is important to identify which of these networks are more likely to generate positive externalities (that whole range of benefits from the somewhat tangible to the quite intangible such as community self-worth); these externalities are often referred to as social capital, and it is in this special sense that public benefit[1] aspects are attributed to community networks.
keywords: access; american; behavioral; benefits; business; canada; canadian; capital; civic; communication; communities; community; community networks; computer; connectivity; context; definition; development; discussion; economic; education; face; following; forms; funding; funds; general; good; government; groups; haythornthwaite; healthy; help; icts; idea; important; indicators; information; instance; internet; issues; july; levels; life; likely; literature; local; n.d; networking; networks; new; number; online; overall; paper; participation; people; place; policy; portes; positive; potential; press; public; quality; question; research; resources; rural; scientist; sense; september; set; social; social capital; social networks; society; specific; strong; support; technology; terms; things; tools; types; unhealthy; university; use; virtual; ways
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item: #71 of 547
id: joci-2098
author: None
title: joci-2098
date: None
words: 8378
flesch: 49
summary: Although the containers were finally replaced in the first set of Dominican Lincos communities, this was happening only after some three years, implying a very slow and non-interactive response process. While the Lincos website claimed that the technology was selected according to the needs of every individual community, the Lincos office in Santo Domingo distributed similar brochures for local Lincos communities, in which exactly the same set of technologies was listed.
keywords: access; assessment; available; case; center; classes; committee; communication; communities; community; community members; computer; concept; conditions; container; costa; country; critical; decision; design; developed; development; different; director; dominican; dominican lincos; dominican republic; educational; embeddedness; entebbe; equipment; experience; extent; fact; government; granqvist; high; ict; icts; individual; information; internet; issues; large; limited; lincos; lincos case; lincos communities; lincos officials; lincos project; lincos sites; lincos staff; local; making; marginalized; members; new; observation; office; officials; ordinary; participation; people; persons; political; population; poverty; power; problems; process; project; republic; research; rica; services; set; similar; sites; situation; social; software; staff; study; technological; technologies; technology; theoretical; time; units; usage; users; website; working; world
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item: #72 of 547
id: joci-2099
author: None
title: joci-2099
date: None
words: 4221
flesch: 47
summary: Technology contains an “essence”: Heidegger envisages that technology is not about achieving goals but about revealing or bringing forth the use of a resource. The relationship between technology and society, particularly in discussions concerning new technologies, is often assumed to be of a simple deterministic nature; the introduction of new technology causes social change.
keywords: accounts; appropriation; cambridge; change; communication; community; cultural; determinism; development; different; example; feenberg; form; heidegger; ict; icts; information; instrumental; internet; interpretation; london; media; model; modern; nature; new; power; press; relationship; social; society; substantivism; systems; technological; technology; theory; thought; understanding; university; use; values; way; ways; western
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item: #73 of 547
id: joci-2100
author: None
title: joci-2100
date: None
words: 6718
flesch: 52
summary: Virtual reality, virtual community, and social reality are the recurring themes of these reflections, often critiques or polemics, which propose to re-examine old problematics in light of “the virtual”. Hence, most of the articles in our corpus which dealt with virtual communities defined the expression vaguely at best, deferring to a notion of virtuality that was even blurrier—to the point that it is tempting to speak of “virtuality” in the social sciences as, indeed, a virtual concept.
keywords: abstract; actual; approach; available; barlow; boal; bodies; certain; clarke; collective; communication; communities; community; computer; context; crang; culture; cyberspace; discourse; doel; eds; electronic; expression; face; fernback; field; form; holmes; idea; identity; information; internet; language; les; life; london; lévy; meaning; networks; new; notion; online; paper; paris; people; phenomena; physical; point; political; politics; presence; real; reality; relationship; research; rheingold; routledge; réseaux; sage; sciences; sense; simulation; social; society; stone; talk; technologies; technology; term; theory; time; turkle; use; virtual; virtual community; virtual reality; virtuality; way; weissberg; words; world; york
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item: #74 of 547
id: joci-2101
author: None
title: joci-2101
date: None
words: 8827
flesch: 51
summary: Interested in investigating whether such pessimism is warranted, in 2003 we began to research community outcomes of Computers in Homes (CIH), a New Zealand scheme in which free computers and internet access are given to selected low-income, non-internet households for a very small joining fee. Perhaps considerable community benefit will accrue from internet access, but only if it is so resourced that the community itself is not left to manage with minimal support.
keywords: access; american; august; benefits; broadband; building; business; capital; change; children; cih; civic; communication; communities; community; computer; connectedness; connection; connectivity; connectors; data; day; digital; divide; early; economic; education; email; engagement; example; families; family; findings; free; friends; future; government; group; high; home; ict; icts; impact; income; information; interest; internet; interview; involved; involvement; know; life; lives; local; low; media; naisbitt; need; neighbourhood; neighbours; networks; new; new zealand; online; parents; participants; people; point; potential; project; public; questions; rainie; research; scheme; school; sense; social; strategy; studies; study; success; support; technological; technologies; technology; telephone; things; time; transformation; universal; use; users; view; wellman; zealand
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item: #75 of 547
id: joci-2102
author: None
title: joci-2102
date: None
words: 1797
flesch: 54
summary: At the same time, security camera systems are now widely used and have an important role in reducing crime and identifying suspects. Therefore, we have developed an application that provides the minimum functions needed, and currently distribute it free of charge through our Society for e-JIKEI Network website (http://www.e-jikei.org/index_e.htm).
keywords: available; cameras; citizens; community; computers; concept; crime; free; fujii; home; houses; internet; jikei; jikei network; network; ohta; project; property; residents; security; software; system; technology; watch; yoshiura
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item: #76 of 547
id: joci-2103
author: None
title: joci-2103
date: None
words: 2515
flesch: 48
summary: Survey of New Zealand community ICT organisations and projects. A Review of New Zealand’s Digital Strategy Andy Williamson Wairua Consulting Limited < andy@wairua.co.nz > Abstract The advent of New Zealand’s world-leading Digital Strategy underpins the increasing importance of ICTs in community settings.
keywords: access; aotearoa; approach; communities; community; craig; digital; digital strategy; draft; funding; government; icts; information; initiatives; new; new zealand; partnerships; policy; process; projects; research; significant; strategy; sustainability; technology; wellington; williamson; world; zealand
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item: #77 of 547
id: joci-2350
author: None
title: None
date: None
words: 7953
flesch: 52
summary: JED outlines the positive multiplier effects of mobile telecommunications on virtually every sphere of endeavour in the society, previews further prospects targets, highlights challenges and (and possible solutions) and assigns specific roles to government and operators for further optimisation of the benefits of GSM services. On assumption of office on May 29, 1999, the President Olusegun Obasanjo’s administration swung into action to deregulate the telecom sector, most especially the granting of licences to GSM services providers and setting in motion the privatization of NITEL.
keywords: 2004; access; activities; africa; areas; available; business; communication; communities; community; countries; country; crime; crit; data; development; disagree; dwellers; econet; economic; economy; employment; family; global; government; greater; growth; gsm; impact; income; industry; information; inhabitants; introduction; item; itu; job; limited; lines; major; management; market; mobile; national; network; nigeria; nigeria rural; nigerians; nitel; number; obs; operators; opportunities; people; perception; phones; poor; population; poverty; private; rate; research; respondents; result; rural; rural areas; rural economy; sector; services; significant; south; stakeholders; study; support; system; table; telecommunications; telephone; time; today; total; university; urban; use; users; value; vodafone; wireless; world; years
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item: #78 of 547
id: joci-2351
author: Gagnon, Gisèle
title: Innovations in Microfinance technologies
date: 2008-04-26
words: 7623
flesch: 47
summary: 1 or 2 Pocket PCs The following figure shows the interrelations established among the various systems and explains the process surrounding AMIO Teller operations and Pocket PC data synchronization: Page 8 C M C M Date entry op. A single computer is shared by employees for member operations, accounting and managing deposits and loans.
keywords: accounts; activities; africa; amio; amio credit; amio teller; available; banking; benefits; business; center; computerization; computers; coop; cooperative; cost; credit; daily; data; database; day; deposits; desktop; development; employees; environment; field; financial; following; handheld; impact; implementation; information; introduction; loan; loan officers; local; mali; management; members; microfinance; mobile; mobile technologies; mother; network; new; number; nyèsigiso; officers; operations; order; outlets; page; pcs; pilot; pocket; pocket pc; portfolio; power; processing; project; saf; savings; services; sites; small; software; staff; strategy; support; system; table; team; technical; technologies; technology; teller; time; training; transactions; use
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item: #79 of 547
id: joci-2352
author: None
title: Editorial
date: None
words: 1121
flesch: 27
summary: While this development brings access to personal computing into the income range of a larger number in the Developing world, it also serves to highlight the excessive cost of Internet access in many of these same countries resulting from in many cases managed pricing or lack of competition. Additionally, discussions are increasingly recognizing that the Digital Divide is often but a symptom of other “divides” limiting the “accessibility” of Internet based services such as levels of literacy and numeracy, location and geography (with rural and remote areas being particularly ill-served), education and skill levels, gender and (physical) ability.
keywords: access; article; community; countries; developed; development; global; icts; internet; issue; level; local; means; opportunities; range; self; services; social; use
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item: #80 of 547
id: joci-2353
author: None
title: None
date: None
words: 8192
flesch: 54
summary: Community intranets are being promoted as an efficient way of managing community services and amenities, and as a mechanism to mediate and enhance communication, and thus to foster a stronger sense of community within the community. However, the result of Paul’s work within Telstra would not be seen for over a year by Kookaburra Hollow residents.
keywords: access; action; actors; anonymous; anthony; bill; body; briggs; broadband; broadcast; builders; building; cable; communication; community; community intranet; concerns; corporate; developer; development; different; dispute; domain; estate; face; flanders; flow; free; hollow; house; individual; infrastructure; interactive; interests; interpersonal; intranet; issues; jacob; kookaburra; kookaburra hollow; like; local; macpherson; making; manager; media; meetings; message; moral; particular; people; personal; place; position; postings; power; private; problems; program; public; purpose; quality; questions; register; representative; residents; segment; signs; solidarity; space; target; television; telstra; terms; time; use; values; way
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item: #81 of 547
id: joci-2354
author: None
title: Some Perspectives of Understanding the Adoption and Implementat
date: None
words: 6979
flesch: 38
summary: Interestingly, the main focus of the interventions has been on the implementation of ICT projects themselves, rather than on understanding their impacts at the recipient or community level; and such lack of understanding has led to many failures of ICT projects as reported. To ensure this process and achieve successful implementation of ICT projects, Heeks’ (2005a) Information Chain model provides a mechanism to 1) access data from the appropriate sources, 2) assess the data relevance, 3) apply the relevant data to a specific decision, and 4) act upon the decision.
keywords: access; adoption; agencies; alignment; analysis; approach; australia; business; change; communication; communities; community; context; countries; data; decision; development; diffusion; digital; divide; economic; education; example; factors; framework; funding; heeks; human; ict; icts; impact; implementation; indicators; information; information systems; information technology; innovation; international; intervention; issues; journal; knowledge; lack; layer; level; macro; management; meso; national; new; non; organizational; oxford; people; perspective; policy; poor; potential; poverty; press; process; programme; projects; research; researchers; resources; rural; social; socio; strategies; strategy; study; swatman; systems; technology; theories; theory; understanding; university; view; wilde; world
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item: #82 of 547
id: joci-2355
author: None
title: None
date: None
words: 9582
flesch: 41
summary: It addresses the concepts of public goods and social entrepreneurship and their relationship to new funding sources for non-profit organizations. Second, non-profit organizations are increasingly competing against private service providers or finding themselves being co-opted by private firms seeking to advance their marketing through affiliation with “causes” in the non-profit sector.
keywords: access; activities; actors; additional; basis; benefit; business; canada; cap; capacity; capital; case; change; charitable; commercial; communication; communities; community; community access; community networks; context; cooperative; core; cost; decision; definition; development; discussion; early; economic; effective; enterprise; example; fee; financial; free; freenet; funding; funds; generational; good; government; groups; icts; individuals; information; infrastructure; initiatives; internet; kaul; management; market; means; mission; model; needs; networking; networks; new; non; online; operations; organizations; paper; particular; percent; potential; private; profit; profit organizations; profit sector; program; projects; provision; public; public good; regard; report; resources; revenue; sector; services; significant; similar; sites; social; society; staff; status; support; sustainability; technological; technologies; technology; understanding; use; vancouver; vcn; venture; viability; way
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item: #83 of 547
id: joci-2356
author: None
title: None
date: None
words: 6871
flesch: 42
summary: Although much time and effort has been spent on creating local Internet access points for rural communities and to bring high speed internet to rural areas1, very little time has been directed towards expanding local capacity for developing and making effective use of ICT systems within these communities. The primary objectives of the project were to promote collaborative learning around issues which are important to rural communities, and to help people to improve their knowledge and use of Internet technologies to assist them in their work and everyday lives.
keywords: ability; access; assets; canada; capacity; capital; categories; chat; circumstances; collaborative; communication; communities; community; development; discussion; economic; economy; effective; evaluation; goals; ideas; important; individuals; information; interaction; interest; internet; issues; journal; knowledge; learning; line; local; model; networking; new; opportunities; participants; people; pilot; potential; project; questions; regions; reimer; research; resources; room; rural; sessions; sharing; similar; skills; social; table; technologies; technology; time; use; useful; virtual; workers
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item: #84 of 547
id: joci-2357
author: None
title: Community Wireless:
date: None
words: 6877
flesch: 47
summary: While it is true that wireless Internet services make use of existing wired connections, extending wireless services does not require the often labour-intensive physical work, such as excavation or laying cable, that extending wired services might. In the era of wireless Internet networking, issues have begun to develop for many Internet service providers (ISPs).
keywords: ability; access; advantages; area; arguments; available; baller; bandwidth; barriers; broadband; business; cable; communities; community; companies; computers; connection; consumer; cost; course; data; deployment; development; devices; different; economic; end; example; fact; fixed; free; goals; government; groups; industry; information; interest; internet; issue; july; kind; legislation; market; mesh; mobile; model; municipal; municipalities; need; networking; networks; new; nodes; number; open; paper; people; perspective; policy; potential; problem; provider; public; radio; regulation; routing; service; signals; site; social; source; spectrum; standard; state; support; technical; technology; telecommunications; use; users; waves; way; web; wired; wireless; wireless internet
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item: #85 of 547
id: joci-2358
author: None
title: Editorial: Community Informatics with a Latin Accent
date: None
words: 1033
flesch: 24
summary: La variedad de estos desarrollos es aparente solo desde hace poco, con la tecnología saliendo de su condición de proyecto, impulsada desde fuera, para convertirse en un recurso integrado a lo local, “apropiado” localmente, y de esta manera un recurso, naturalmente, en evolución natural, para el empoderamiento de las iniciativas locales. Editorial: Community Informatics with a Latin Accent Editorial: Community Informatics with a Latin Accent Michael Gurstein Editor-in-chief, JoCI, editori@ci-journal.net Para el texto en español, por favor avance hasta el final de la versión en inglés.
keywords: accent; america; cada; community; comunitaria; con; del; desarrollo; ecuador; editorial; english; esta; están; general; global; icts; informatics; iniciativas; issue; joci; las; latin; local; los; mucho; network; para; por; que; region; significant; una; work
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item: #86 of 547
id: joci-2359
author: None
title: ICTs and Latin America: An overview from the grassroots until t
date: None
words: 1601
flesch: 41
summary: Es más bien un logro de parte de la Informática Comunitaria que se entienda que cada comunidad es diferente y cada iniciativa de trabajo debe responder a la realidad local y acorde a la cultura de los actores que la ejecutan. Vilma Tuy lo describe en una forma muy pintoresca a través de su nota desde el campo contando la historia de cómo el telecentro guatemalteco se involucró en somos@telecentros, la red de trabajo de telecentros para América Latina y el Caribe y cuales han sido los beneficios recibidos a partir de este involucramiento.
keywords: activistas; america; appropriation; apropiación; base; communities; community; como; comunidades; comunitaria; con; del; desde; different; discusión; edición; especial; esta; este; grassroots; huerta; icts; informática; issue; joci; las; latin; local; los; luis; networks; otro; para; parte; por; que; red; sobre; social; somos@telecentros; sostenibilidad; sustainability; también; telecentros; trabajo; tuy; una; vilma; way
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item: #87 of 547
id: joci-2360
author: None
title: Sostenibilidad de proyectos de desarrollo con nuevas tecnología
date: None
words: 9173
flesch: 43
summary: En febrero 2001 se realiza un diagnóstico de necesidades de información (Cancino, 2001), financiado por la Cooperación Técnica Alemana (GTZ), que describe de manera general las necesidades de información de los pobladores, su relación con el calendario agrícola y las fuentes de información usadas para obtener esa información. Por último, el firme apoyo de la directiva de la Junta ha ayudado a la introducción de TIC en sus procesos administrativos mejorando la atención a los agricultores.
keywords: 2001; acceso; acciones; actividades; actores; además; administración; administradores; agraria; agricultores; agricultura; agua; ahora; algunos; ambiente; analizar; análisis; apoyo; artículo; asociaciones; así; atención; años; base; bien; bossio; cada; cambios; cancino; capacidad; capacitación; caso; cepes; chancay; ciertos; claro; comerciales; comisiones; comisión; como; computadoras; comunicación; comunidad; con; con el; con la; con los; confianza; conseguir; contexto; continuidad; cooperativas; correo; corto; cuanto; cultural; darle; de desarrollo; de huaral; de información; de la; de los; de una; de usuarios; debe; decir; decisiones; del; delgadillo; desarrollo; desde; después; development; directa; dirigentes; donde; económico; edad; educación; efectos; ejemplo; el desarrollo; el proyecto; el sistema; el uso; ello; embargo; en el; en la; en los; enlace; entre; especialmente; esta; este; estos; estudios; está; evaluación; experiencia; finalmente; financiamiento; financiera; financieramente; flujos; fondos; fortalecimiento; fue; fuentes; fueron; fukao; funcionamiento; general; gracias; haber; había; hace; han; hay; herramientas; huaral; humanos; idea; importante; inei; información; información agraria; infraestructura; ingresos; inicial; inicio; instituciones; internet; investigación; junta; junta de; junta y; la información; la junta; la mayor; lado; las; las comisiones; legal; lima; llegar; local; locales; los; los agricultores; los que; los telecentros; los usuarios; luego; manera; marzo; matos; mayor; mayoría; medio; mejorar; menou; miembros; mientras; ministerio; muy; más; nacional; necesidades; nivel; nuevas; obtener; organizaciones; organización; origen; otros; para; para el; para la; para que; parte; participación; permiten; pero; personal; perú; plataforma; plazo; población; política; por; por el; por la; porque; posibilidad; principal; problemas; proceso; proenza; propias; propiedad; proyecto; proyecto se; puede; página; público; que; que el; que la; quienes; radio; realiza; recursos; reforma; regantes; relación; resultados; riego; rural; sea; sección; sector; sectores; sectoristas; ser; servicios; sia; sido; siempre; sin; sino; sistema; sobre; social; sociales; socios; software; son; sostenibilidad; sostenibilidad social; sostenible; stoll; sus; sólo; también; tanto; tarifa; tecnologías; tecnológica; telecentros; telecomunicaciones; tiempo; tiene; tierra; todo; trabas; través; tres; técnica; término; una; usan; uso; uso de; usuarios; valle; venta; vez; web; y de; y el; y en; y la; y los; y que; ésta; útil
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item: #88 of 547
id: joci-2361
author: None
title: Puertas alternativas a la Sociedad de la Información: Accesos n
date: None
words: 9178
flesch: 39
summary: El aumento de los usuarios de cibercafés es un fenómeno típico de la nueva economía, aunque paradójicamente esto se deba a un principio fordista de los dueños de los cibers: apuestan al incremento del número de usuarios, más que al valor alto de la unidad de tiempo utilizada. Los datos disponibles sugieren que en los próximos años Internet crecerá a ritmos parecidos a los del 2006, por la dinámica propia de la Ley de Moore y la de Metcalfe14.
keywords: 2004; acceso; acciones; actores; actuales; algunos; alto; américa; apropiación; argentina; aunque; ausencia; autoorganización; años; aún; baja; bajos; bienes; brecha; buenos; calle; capacidad; casi; caso; castells; ccts; cibercafés; ciberespacio; cibers; ciudad; ciudadanos; civil; community; como; como la; completamente; computadoras; comunidades; comunitarias; con; con el; concepto; conectividad; conexiones; conexión; consumidores; cooke; cooperativas; creación; crean; creciente; crecimiento; crisis; ctcs; cuando; culturales; cyber; dado; datos; de acceso; de internet; de la; de los; de una; de usuarios; debe; debido; deciden; del; densidad; desarrollo; desde; digital; diversos; dos; economía; económico; educativas; el estado; el uso; ellos; embargo; emprendimientos; empresas; en argentina; en el; en la; en los; en un; enfoque; entel; entre; equipamientos; espacio; estado; estatales; este; estos; estrategias; estudio; está; existen; fecotel; finquelievich; frecuencia; fue; generación; general; gestión; grandes; grupos; habitantes; hacia; han; hasta; herramientas; hipótesis; hogar; hora; importantes; individuales; información; informática; ingreso; iniciativas; innovaciones; innovación; instituciones; instituto; interior; internet; invención; johnson; jóvenes; la información; la población; la sociedad; la tecnología; las; las comunidades; las cooperativas; las personas; latina; locales; locutorios; los; los cibercafés; los cibers; los usuarios; lugares; línea; mail; manera; mayor; mayores; mediante; medio; menores; menos; mercado; millones; mismos; modo; muchos; mujeres; mundo; muy; más; necesidades; nivel; niveles; nodos; nueva; nuevos; número; organizaciones; otras; otro; para; para el; para las; parte; participación; país; países; perfil; pero; personas; plantea; plazo; poblacional; población; pobreza; políticas; por; por el; por las; poseen; presencia; prince; privados; problemas; proceso; propiedad; prácticas; pueden; público; que; que el; que las; qué; razones; readiness; recursos; red; redes; relacionado; relaciones; resolver; respecto; rifkin; régimen; satisfacer; sea; sector; según; sentido; servicios; sin; sino; sistema; sobre; social; sociales; sociedad; socio; solo; soluciones; son; steven; sus; susana; sólo; también; tanto; tecnología; tecnológicos; telecomunicaciones; telefonía; telefónicas; tener; tics; tiempo; tiene; tipos; todas; todo; trabajo; través; tuomi; una; uno; uso; uso de; usos; usuarios; utilización; van; vez; y de; y el; y en; y la; y los; y que; áreas; éxito; últimos
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item: #89 of 547
id: joci-2362
author: None
title: None
date: None
words: 8690
flesch: 45
summary: Agrupación de los servicios de los sitios Web comunitarios Funcionalidad del sitio web % de sitios que lo proveen Herramientas de comunicación 92.5 Exhibición de Media 89.4 Archivo de Consulta 76.6 Información Local 69.1 Comercio 38.3 Tal como lo muestra la Tabla 2, la mayoría de los sitios Web cuenta con información acerca del municipio, sus origines, historia y personas sobresalientes de la comunidad. En el caso particular de los mexicanos viviendo en el extranjero, en EUA en particular, Rinderle (2005) concluye en su trabajo que son una comunidad en Diaspora ya que han experimentado: 1) un desplazamiento físico histórico, 2) desarticulación e hibridez cultural, 3) añoranza por la patria, 4) desplazamiento estructural y una relación compleja entre el estado-nación y la Diaspora, 5) alienación de su ‘nueva patria’, y 6) una identidad colectiva definida por la relación entre su patria y su nueva patria.
keywords: 2006; acceso; acerca; acerca de; acuerdo; además; algunos; algunos de; allá; alto; amigos; análisis; aquellos; arcelia; aspectos; asuntos; así; así como; aun; años; bernal; búsqueda; cabo; cada; características; casi; caso; chat; clase; comercio; como; como lo; compartir; computadoras; comunicación; comunidad; comunitarios; con; con el; con la; con los; con un; conapo; conclusiones; condiciones; conectar; conexión; contacto; contenido; contexto; cosas; cotidiana; crear; cual; cuales; cuando; cuatro; cuenta; cultura; datos; de la; de los; de migración; de sitios; de su; del; dentro; desde; después; diaspora; dispersas; donde; durante; el de; el sitio; embargo; emigrantes; en el; en la; en los; encontró; entre; entrevistas; eran; eritrea; eritreos; esas; esta; estado; este; estos; estudio; están; eua; eventos; extranjero; familia; fenómeno; finalmente; fotos; fuera; fueron; funcionalidad; galería; general; gente; guerrero; hacia; han; hasta; hay; hecho; herramientas; historia; hogares; identidad; identificar; igual; incluye; inegi; información; internet; investigación; juchipila; la comunidad; la gente; las; lazos; lejos; libro; llamada; local; locales; los; los emigrantes; los que; los servicios; los sitios; los usuarios; lugares; línea; manchester; manera; mantener; mas; mayoría; medio; mensajes; mexicanos; miembros; migración; miller; misma; moyahua; muchos; municipal; municipio; muy; más; méxico; nacional; necesidad; nivel; niveles; noticias; nuevas; número; objetivo; obtener; ofrecen; oportunidades; origen; otra; otros; para; parte; particular; patria; país; penetración; pequeñas; pero; personas; población; por; por la; presencia; presenta; principales; principalmente; propósito; proveen; proyectos; puede; público; que; que el; que se; que viven; radio; reforzar; respecto; resultados; rol; secciones; sección; servicios; servicios que; sido; siempre; siguiente; similar; sin; sitios; sitios web; slater; sobre; sociales; son; sus; sus comunidades; sustentan; tabla; tal; también; tanto; tecnologías; tiene; tipo; trabajo; través; trinitarios; una; usados; usan; usando; uso; usuarios; vez; vida; visitas; viven; viviendo; vivo; web; web de; webmaster; y el; y la; zacatecas; índice
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item: #90 of 547
id: joci-2363
author: None
title: Estrategias para el Desarrollo de las TICs en Comunidades Indíg
date: None
words: 4302
flesch: 34
summary: Introducción El trabajo de los gobiernos en América Latina hacia la construcción de la Sociedad de la Información, ha implicado el desarrollo de estrategias nacionales de conectividad y contenidos, entre las que resaltan las enfocadas a la instalación de centros comunitarios digitales, principalmente en zonas rurales y apartadas. El objetivo de la promoción de las TIC, tal como lo reconoce la comunidad internacional, es el de encauzar el potencial de la tecnología de la información y la comunicación para alcanzar los objetivos de desarrollo: “Somos conscientes de que las TIC deben considerarse un medio, y no un fin en sí mismas.
keywords: 2001; acceso; acción; administración; algunos; américa; apropiación; así; atención; años; brecha; caribe; casos; centros; cmsi; comisión; como; comunalidad; comunicación; comunidades; comunitaria; con; condiciones; conocimiento; construcción; cultura; de las; declaración; del; desarrollo; desarrollo de; digitales; diálogo; el desarrollo; en el; en los; entre; esta; este; estos; estrategias; extensionistas; extensión; formas; freire; hacia; han; hasta; hilbert; importancia; incorporan; indígenas; información; infraestructura; instalación; internacional; introducción; la apropiación; las; las comunidades; las tic; latina; local; los; los pueblos; manera; mayoría; mediante; misma; modelos; modo; mundo; más; método; méxico; nacional; necesidades; nuevas; objetivos; para; para el; para la; parte; participación; países; personas; planeación; población; políticas; por; posibilidad; potencial; principios; proceso; promoción; promover; propias; proyectos; pueblos; pueden; que; que las; realidad; rendón; resolución; resultados; rural; sean; ser; sido; sino; sistema; sobre; social; sociales; sociedad; sujetos; sus; también; tanto; tecnologías; telecentros; telecomunicaciones; tic; tres; una; uso; usuarios; utilización; vida; y el; y la
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item: #91 of 547
id: joci-2364
author: None
title: None
date: None
words: 8821
flesch: 42
summary: Hacia un modelo de evaluación de la calidad de instituciones de educación superior. y video y sala de recepción de los canales provenientes de EDUSAT (el sistema nacional de televisión satelital de carácter educativo).
keywords: 2000; 2002; acceso; acción; actividades; actores; además; adultos; agentes; algunos; allá; alumnos; aplicación; aprendizaje; artículo; así; autoridades; años; base; brown; básica; búsqueda; cada; calidad; cambio; campo; características; casos; centros; clase; cobertura; como; computadoras; comunicación; comunidad; comunitarias; con; con el; con la; con los; conceptual; condiciones; conevyt; conexión; conocimiento; construcción; contenidos; contextos; crear; cuando; cuatro; cómputo; de educación; de la; de los; de un; decir; decisiones; del; desarrollo; descubrimiento; desde; diagnóstico; digital; dinámica; diseño; disponible; distintos; dominio; donde; durante; educación; educandos; educativo; el desarrollo; el modelo; el uso; elaboración; ellas; ello; embargo; en el; en las; en un; enero; enfoque; entre; equipamiento; equipo; eran; escolar; escolares; escuelas; esta; estaba; estado; este; estos; estrategias; estudiantes; están; evaluación; experiencia; falta; fase; favorecer; finales; fue; fuerte; general; grupo; grupo de; habilidades; habían; han; huerta; humano; impacto; implementación; importante; inclusión; inea; información; inicial; innovación; institucional; integración; inteligente; intención; internet; interés; introducción; investigación; investigadores; jonassen; jóvenes; la educación; la tecnología; la vida; las; las políticas; las tic; learning; local; locales; lograr; los; los maestros; lugar; maestros; manera; materiales; mayoría; mediación; mediadores; mediante; mejor; metodología; mientras; mismo; modelo; muy; más; méxico; nacional; necesidad; nivel; nuestro; nuevos; objetivos; organizaciones; otra; otro; para; para el; para la; parte; participación; participantes; partir; pensamiento; pensar; penso; pero; personas; perspectiva; plazas; población; políticas; por; por el; porque; porras; pregunta; presente; primera; problemas; procesos; profesores; programa; promoción; promotores; propios; propuesta; propósito; proyecto; práctica; puebla; puede; punto; pública; que; que el; que los; ramos; razonamiento; realidad; realizar; recuperado; recursos; reflexión; reforzar; regionales; región; relaciones; relevante; research; responder; respuesta; resultados; rural; salinas; sep; ser; servicios; sicom; sido; significado; significativo; sin; sino; sistema; situaciones; sobre; social; sociales; solución; son; sostiene; sujetos; supuesto; sus; sólo; también; tanto; tareas; tecnología; tecnológica; teja; telesecundarias; tic; tiempo; tienen; tipo; todos; trabajo; transferencia; través; tres; técnico; una; universidad; uso; uso de; usos; usuarios; utilizado; vida; vinculada; visión; y de; y el; y la
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item: #92 of 547
id: joci-2365
author: None
title: TIC y Educación
date: None
words: 4109
flesch: 24
summary: Su espacio geográfico coincide con el de la provincia de La Unión, considerada como una de las provincias de mayor pobreza a nivel nacional. no un fin dentro del proceso educativo, en este caso particular, orientado al fortalecimiento de la relación escuela-comunidad como parte de una estrategia de desarrollo local sostenible dentro de un espacio representativo de alta montaña como la Subcuenca del Cotahuasi. Descripcion de la subcuenca del cotahuasi La Subcuenca del Cotahuasi se encuentra ubicada en los Andes Occidentales del sur del Perú, al norte de la región Arequipa.
keywords: acciones; actividades; alumnos; ambiental; anp; aspectos; así; base; biodiversidad; brigadas; cada; capacidades; capacitación; caso; como; computación; comunidad; con; con la; condiciones; conocimiento; conservación; contenidos; cotahuasi; cuales; cultural; de la; de los; de monitoreo; del; del cotahuasi; del programa; dentro; desarrollo; desarrollo de; desde; difusión; docentes; educación; educativas; ello; en el; en la; entre; escolar; escuela; espacio; esta; estado; este; estudio; figura; finalidad; formal; fueron; gestión; grupos; han; implementación; implementando; importancia; información; inicio; instituciones; instrumentos; intercambio; internet; investigación; la comunidad; la subcuenca; las; local; locales; los; los recursos; líderes; manera; mayor; monitoreo; monitoreo ambiental; más; nacional; naturales; nivel; operación; orientado; paisajística; para; para el; para la; parte; participación; permite; población; por; principalmente; proceso; programa; que; recursos; relación; reserva; sostenible; subcuenca; subcuenca del; sus; también; tanto; tecnologías; tic; través; una; uso; uso de; web; y la; zonas
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item: #93 of 547
id: joci-2366
author: None
title: Exchange Program
date: None
words: 4160
flesch: 41
summary: Las redes que conforman el movimiento de telecentros de las americas, Wireless WAN creates opportunities for Community Economic Development SWSDA Marieval Enterprise Center Inc TOTAL Tabla 2: Propuestas ganadoras y presupuesto Gráfico 3: Países receptores de experticia de las propuestas ganadoras Gráfico 4: Países oferentes de experticia de las propuestas ganadoras En los gráficos 3 y 4 se detallan los países a los que pertenecen los participantes de las propuestas ganadoras.
keywords: acceso; actividades; actores; alcanzar; algunos; americano; americas; américa; apoyo; artículo; association; basados; bases; cada; canadá; capacidad; capacitación; caribe; chaco; chasquinet; chile; community; como; comunicación; comunidades; comunitarios; común; con; concepto; conforman; conocimiento; continente; continuación; coordinación; creación; cuenta; de las; de telecentros; del; demostrado; desarrollo; distintas; ecuador; el desarrollo; el pit; elaboración; elaborar; en el; entre; este; estos; etapa; evolución; exchange; experiencia; experticia; facilitando; falta; fortalecer; fortalecimiento; fue; fundación; físicos; ganadoras; global; globalización; gran; han; información; intercambio; internet; joven; largo; las; las comunidades; las redes; latina; los; los participantes; los que; medios; mejorar; miembros; modo; movimiento; movimiento de; muchos; muy; más; méxico; necesidades; objetivos; operadores; oportunidad; otros; para; para el; parte; participación; participantes; participar; países; pero; personas; piloto; pit; poder; por; procesos; programa; propuestas; proyecto; puede; que; red de; redes; representa; resultados; sean; sido; sin; sino; sobre; social; solo; son; sus; tabla; tap; telecentros; tipo; todos; trabajo; transnacionales; través; una; una red; uso; vez; virtuales; web; y el
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title: None
date: None
words: 2147
flesch: 41
summary: En nuestros países tercermundistas, la inversión social se destina a cubrir las necesidades más vitales de la población y la inversión en infraestructura para la enseñanza-aprendizaje de las tecnologías de información y comunicación, ocupan los últimos lugares en la escala de prioridades. Puntos de Encuentro Las redes sociales son puntos donde convergen débiles y fuertes, los que saben mucho y los que conocen poco, los que tienen recursos y quienes
keywords: acceso; actuales; ahora; alcanzar; apoyo; aprender; asodigua; buscar; cada; como; computadora; comunicación; comunidades; comunitarios; con; condiciones; conocer; conocimiento; contar; del; desarrollo; desde; digital; donde; educación; electrónico; era; escuelas; espacio; estamos; estos; fueron; guatemala; hace; hemos; importante; indígenas; información; integral; intercambio; internet; las; locales; los; medios; muchas; más; necesidades; niños; nos; nosotros; nuestra; nuestros; oportunidad; otros; para; participación; permite; personas; pobreza; podemos; por; procesos; propio; pueblos; que; redes; rurales; sabemos; ser; sido; sin; sobre; sociales; sololà; somos; sus; también; tecnologías; telecentro; tiene; través; una; utilizar; vida
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id: joci-2368
author: None
title: TELECENTROS MANIZALES: UNA APUESTA POR EL DESARROLLO SOCIAL
date: None
words: 4483
flesch: 22
summary: Participación de los adultos en los procesos de formación e interacción virtual. En el periodo 2003 a 2004 predominó en las salas la población infantil en edades de los 6 a los 13 años quienes representaban el 29% de usuarios en el Telecentro, además de los jóvenes en edades de los 14 a los 26 años que ocupaban el 53% de los usuarios.
keywords: acceso; administración; adultos; alcaldía; algunos; apertura; aprendizaje; articulación; año; años; barrios; beneficio; cada; cargo; ciudad; ciudadanos; como; comunicación; comunidades; comunitarios; con; con el; con los; conectividad; conocimiento; contenidos; continuidad; cotidianidad; dar; de la; de los; del; del proyecto; derechos; desarrollo; desarrollo de; desde; diferentes; dificultades; edades; el desarrollo; elaboración; en el; en la; en los; enfoque; entre; equipos; espacios; esta; este; esto; estrategia; estratos; existentes; experiencias; facilitadores; formación; fortalecimiento; fueron; gestión; grupos; habilidades; habitantes; hacer; horarios; implementación; importante; iniciativa; inició; instituciones; internet; interés; jóvenes; la ciudad; las; las comunidades; las salas; libre; local; locales; los; los procesos; los telecentros; los usuarios; línea; manera; manizales; mayores; muy; más; módulos; necesidades; niñ@s; operación; oportunidad; otros; para; para el; para la; parte; participación; partir; permitan; permitió; personas; población; por; posibilidades; procesos; programas; propuesta; propósitos; proyecto; que; quien; recursos; redes; salas; servicios; sobre; sociales; sus; tecnologías; tecnológicos; telecentros; tenía; tienen; total; trabajo; tuvieron; una; uso; uso de; usuarios; virtuales; vulnerables; web; y de; y la; y los; área
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id: joci-2369
author: None
title: Brazilian Digital Inclusion Public Policy: achievements and cha
date: None
words: 3228
flesch: 32
summary: Challenges Despite a noticeable evolution in digital inclusion public policy, many challenges are facing the Brazilian Federal Government and also other actors who aim to improve these initiatives. Universal access to facilities in the local level Mostly schools, but also telecenters and other digital inclusion initiatives still have restrictions concerning the use of their facilities by all citizens.
keywords: access; agents; brazilian; broadband; capacity; cgi.br; challenges; civil; community; computers; country; development; digital; digital inclusion; divide; federal; free; government; home; ibge; ict; important; inclusion; income; infrastructure; initiatives; internet; level; local; min; municipalities; national; observatory; people; place; policy; program; project; public; resources; responsibility; schools; social; society; telecenters; use
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item: #97 of 547
id: joci-2370
author: None
title: Cannibalism, creolization and baroque mobile use
date: None
words: 1655
flesch: 41
summary: Luego de primeramente considerar y comparar los pro y contra de los tres enfoques tradicionales de apropiación (pro-social; discursivo; y técnico), profundiza una línea teórica alternativa basada en la noción de “aprender mediante el hacer” y “aprender mediante el uso”. Por ejemplo, los usuarios barrocos tenderían a seguir manuales y personalizar sus teléfonos de acuerdo a las recomendaciones de los proveedores.
keywords: américa; analizar; aprender; aprendizaje; apropiación; artículo; autores; bar; cada; canibalismo; celular; celulares; como; con; configuración; confrontación; control; creolización; culturales; cíclico; cómo; del; desarrollo; diferentes; diversos; ejemplo; entre; ese; esos; esta; este; está; evolución; fin; forma; gente; hacer; impacto; las; latina; los; marco; mediante; modos; más; móviles; para; poder; por; proceso; pueden; que; qué; región; ser; sobre; social; son; sus; sólo; tecnología; tecnológica; telefonía; teléfonos; teórico; tiene; tres; una; usuarios; vez
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id: joci-2371
author: None
title: None
date: None
words: 2158
flesch: 43
summary: Este razonamiento provee una base para la crítica de muchos de los considerandos habituales de la preparación de políticas. Los actores involucrados en cada parte del proceso son significativos, puesto que representan (o no) sectores específicos de la sociedad, y enfrentan cotidianamente la variedad de asuntos asociados usualmente con la sociedad de la información.
keywords: administraciones; américa; aquellos; beneficiarios; bien; buena; burocracia; chile; clivajes; como; comunidades; con; consenso; cuando; definir; del; desde; documento; década; ejemplo; embargo; enfrentar; entre; esta; estado; este; esto; evaluación; fuera; funcionarios; gobiernos; grupos; hacer; hacia; importante; información; internacionales; lado; las; latina; locales; los; menos; metas; mientras; mismo; muchos; muy; más; naciones; nip; para; parte; particularmente; países; pero; plan; planes; políticas; por; problemas; proceso; provee; puede; punto; pública; que; región; relación; resultado; revisión; rol; ser; servicios; significativa; sin; sirve; situación; sobre; sociales; sociedad; son; sus; tema; tienen; una; unesco
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id: joci-2372
author: None
title: Network Capital: an Expression of Social Capital
date: None
words: 3590
flesch: 42
summary: Network capital could then be understood as a measure of the differentiated value in the Information Age that communities structured as social networks generate on the basis of electronic (digital) networks for themselves, for others and for society as a whole. Communities are no longer defined only by place, but also by interest, becoming organized into social networks.
keywords: age; capital; castells; cohesion; collaboration; common; communities; community; computer; context; cooperation; development; different; electronic; environment; generation; global; human; ict; individuals; information; institutions; internet; isbn; issues; knowledge; making; network; network capital; networked; new; open; participation; people; personal; processes; project; public; relationships; results; set; social; social capital; society; software; specific; staff; terms; use; virtual; wellman
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id: joci-2373
author: None
title: Trapped in the Digital Divide: The Distributive Paradigm in Com
date: None
words: 7286
flesch: 52
summary: Their interactions with technologies of state administration, including criminal justice technologies like “offender management” systems (Virtual Arrest 2002), and social service technologies like electronic benefits dispersal (Newcombe 1993). These oversights are an effect of the mismatch between the lived reality of low-income people’s interactions with information technology and the normative solutions suggested by ICT policy and activism.
keywords: access; administration; agenda; ambivalence; author; bridge; bush; change; community; computer; critical; d.c; department; different; digital; digital divide; distributive; divide; drawing; economic; economy; education; equity; example; experiences; feenberg; figure; foundation; goods; gutzman; haves; high; ict; income; inequality; information; internet; interview; issues; jennings; july; justice; labor; lives; low; market; material; national; new; nots; ntia; opportunities; opportunity; paradigm; people; points; policy; poor; popular; powerful; press; programs; public; research; resources; ruth; service; skills; social; solutions; system; technological; technologies; technology; telecommunications; theory; troy; u.s; universal; use; washington; women; work; year; york; young; ywca
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id: joci-2374
author: None
title: None
date: None
words: 7058
flesch: 46
summary: Of course, people involved with Community Networks are far too sophisticated to assume that ICTs of themselves are of particular benefit to communities, but still, it is the technology that is understood to be the facilitator, the catalyst, the cause of effects, the means to an end; it is the technology that we focus on, and that distinguishes the Community Network project from other community projects, and it is the social, read as the community in the “community network”, that is the object of this facilitation2. This representation of community networks as private assets has little in common with traditional representations of community, and little in common with the conceptualization of community implied by the Community Network project.
keywords: abstractions; access; action; actors; acts; analytic; approach; arnold; binaries; binary; case; centre; changes; commercial; common; communities; community; community network; connected; connections; construction; desire; different; digital; discussion; education; end; example; exchange; fig; good; grabher; ground; groups; heterarchic; hierarchical; hierarchy; high; icts; identity; individuals; information; infrastructure; internet; latour; laws; links; local; london; market; modernist; network; new; nodes; oxford; particular; post; postings; power; private; profit; project; public; relations; research; rise; science; self; sense; social; social network; society; sociotechnical; space; studies; subject; system; technical; technologies; technology; terms; theory; things; time; use; virtual; way; web; wellman; world
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id: joci-2375
author: None
title: Editorial
date: None
words: 626
flesch: 36
summary: Perhaps of most significance for Community Informatics is the strength and clarity of the argument indicating the necessity for a “Community Informatics” rather than for ICTs as simple supports for communities or of communities simply going out into the marketplace to find the tools to support them.. Garth Graham in his “Point of View” makes a quite parallel argument concerning the independent status of life lived online (within the network) as compared to life outside of the network and of the degree of overall transformation (including in the nature of the policy environment) which such a development implies. It is the contention of CI and the argument implicit in the various papers in this and other issues, that ICT working in and through communities has the potential to ensure that the opportunity for a contribution to productive value as identified by the Bank is realized both in Less Developed as well as Developed countries and among marginalized populations everywhere.
keywords: bank; communities; community; informatics; nations; network; value; way; wealth; world
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id: joci-2376
author: None
title: None
date: None
words: 2372
flesch: 57
summary: Andy Williamson expressed the hope that New Zealand’s new Digital Strategy (NZDS) represents an opportunity for the practices of community informatics to play a greater role in public policy for development. The main problem I have is that neither the NZDS nor Williamson give me any sense of where the New Zealand focus for community informatics as a practice, or community-based communications initiatives, resides, or even if there is such a focus.
keywords: access; advisory; andy; broadband; communities; community; degree; digital; goals; good; government; group; implementation; informatics; knowledge; local; networks; new; nzds; open; opportunity; people; policy; public; society; strategy; williamson; zealand
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id: joci-2377
author: None
title: None
date: None
words: 3565
flesch: 56
summary: Table 5: Determinants of the choice of cybercafe for overnight internet browsing Determinants Frequency % Fast computer internet response 31 50.8 Security of premises 19 31.1 Reliability of power supply 12 19.7 Cost of internet service 7 11.5 Availability of printers 7 11.5 Proximity 4 8.2 Support/assistance to users 2 3.3 Provision for the use of diskettes 1 1.6 Other 1 1.6 As revealed in Table 5, fast computer/ internet ranks first with 31 (50.8%) as a determinant of where most respondents decide to go for night internet browsing. Findings and discussions Table 1 reveals that more males 36 (59%) than female participated in the study (were using overnight internet access in the cafes when the questionnaires were administered).
keywords: abraka; academic; access; adomi; browsing; clients; cybercafes; day; delta; frequency; highest; hours; information; internet; library; nigeria; okiy; omodeko; open; otolo; overnight; pages; resources; respondents; response; ruteyan; search; service; sites; state; students; study; table; times; university; use; users
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id: joci-2378
author: None
title: Surveys of the use of
date: None
words: 7592
flesch: 40
summary: Canada The use of ICT by community sector organisations has been widely encouraged in Canada, with the Government having been particularly active. Conclusions Surveys of the take-up and use of ICT by community sector organisations are valuable, but they are limited in that they can only provide a generalised picture which is most useful as background to further in-depth studies.
keywords: access; acoss; adoption; analysis; applications; associates; australian; barriers; benefits; burt; business; canada; canadian; capacity; ccnr; centre; communications; community; community sector; cost; development; effective; example; foundation; funding; government; ict; information; information technology; initiative; internet; issues; knowledge; lack; level; leverus; limited; links; major; management; national; needs; networking; networks; new; non; organisations; paper; potential; profit; reported; research; resources; sector; sector organisations; services; significant; size; skills; social; society; staff; strategic; studies; support; surman; surveys; taylor; tbc; technologies; technology; usa; use; voluntary; voluntary sector; websites; wyatt
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id: joci-2379
author: None
title: Internet Cafés –
date: None
words: 7278
flesch: 54
summary: Chachage (2001) reports that the main use of the Internet in Internet cafés were e-mail and that the majority of Internet café users and staff in Tanzania lack knowledge in using Internet resources. In Indonesia, two thirds of Internet users gain access through Internet cafés (Kristiansen et al., 2003), and policy documents from Tanzania indicate that Internet cafés are the main means of Internet access in Tanzania as well (Tanzania Ministry of Communications and Transport, 2003).
keywords: acceptance; access; africa; areas; available; cafés; capita; city; communications; competence; computer; countries; country; customers; cybercafés; dar; development; differences; diffusion; digital; divide; economic; education; english; factors; fees; gdp; general; groups; high; higher; ict; important; indonesia; information; infrastructure; internet; internet cafés; internet use; knowledge; language; large; learning; mail; main; ministry; national; new; number; online; people; policy; poor; population; potential; rate; research; respondents; salaam; school; sites; social; sources; speed; staff; students; study; table; tanzania; technology; telecommunications; time; today; total; transport; university; use; users; world; years; yogyakarta
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id: joci-2380
author: None
title: None
date: None
words: 5228
flesch: 49
summary: Furthermore ICT use depends on the socio-economic characteristics of rural households. Yet the ongoing policy debate concerning ICT in empowering rural households seems tilted to the belief that all Ghana needs is to make ICT available and rural households will jump at the opportunity.
keywords: age; agents; coefficient; community; community radio; constant; data; delivery; east; economic; education; expenditure; extension; factors; ghana; households; households willingness; ict; income; information; information delivery; level; low; married; membership; northern; organization; people; policy; poverty; primary; private; private radio; radio; region; regression; respondent; results; rural; rural households; rural women; significant; source; squared; statistic; study; survey; table; technologies; technology; upper; variable; west; willingness; women
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item: #108 of 547
id: joci-2381
author: None
title: joci-2381
date: None
words: 5
flesch: 32
summary: Community Informatics and Systems Design
keywords: community
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id: joci-2382
author: None
title: Introduction to the Special Issue
date: None
words: 1307
flesch: 31
summary: Dave Bourgeois and Thomas Horan first review the Information Systems Design Theory (ISDT) framework and then create a framework for applying it to community information system design where three kernel theories are identified: Social Capital, Community Centred Development and the effective us of community resources.. While all the above papers give insight into theories and methodologies which support community systems design, De Cindio and her colleagues at the University of Milan discuss how communities can help in improving user-centered approaches to online service design.
keywords: communication; communities; community; design; designing; development; effective; field; ict; information; members; online; practice; process; requirements; research; social; systems; technologies; use; users
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id: joci-2383
author: None
title: Towards Systems Design for Supporting Enabling Communities
date: None
words: 7839
flesch: 45
summary: As noted above, community systems include much more than technology; they also encompass the people, knowledge, processes and resulting support. Section 2 discusses the concept of analyzing and designing communities and community support systems.
keywords: access; activities; analysis; appropriate; aspects; available; collaboration; collective; communication; communities; community; community members; community systems; components; computer; constraints; context; cpal; data; design; designers; development; different; discussion; ecs; eds; effective; enabling; environment; example; framework; future; goals; group; gurstein; help; individuals; influence; informal; information; interactions; issues; katz; kinds; knowledge; levels; management; members; model; need; new; norms; online; organizational; participants; participation; pass; people; policies; press; processes; purpose; research; resources; rice; secomm; section; services; set; shared; sharing; social; software; support; systems; tasks; technologies; technology; time; use; virtual; voting; working
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id: joci-2384
author: None
title: None
date: None
words: 4643
flesch: 55
summary: Much as with information systems to support business processes, further research in this area is needed so that a comprehensive set of theories can emerge to support the development of effective community information systems. More interestingly, this research provided insight into the design of community information systems for both the design process and the design product through the framework of information systems design theory.
keywords: capital; ccd; changes; communities; community; community information; components; design; design process; design theory; development; features; feedback; framework; goals; hunt; impact; increase; information; information systems; internet; isdt; kernel; members; message; networks; new; online; phase; process; product; project; prototype; research; scavenger; set; social; social capital; students; system; systems design; theories; theory; trust; university; users
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id: joci-2385
author: None
title: None
date: None
words: 7675
flesch: 47
summary: In neither project was this idea stated clearly from the beginning: it emerged naturally when everybody involved in the projects was forced to recognise the pivotal role that community networks members were playing during the lifecycle of both projects. 3. A prospective approach: community network members as “everyman” Once accepted the idea that it is possible to rely upon the experiences, the knowledge and the relationships collected within a community network to improve the design of innovative online public services, two methodological problems arise.
keywords: active; age; application; approach; case; cindio; citizens; communication; communities; community; community members; community networks; composition; computer; data; design; development; different; dirette; effective; employees; fact; government; hippel; idea; information; innovation; innovative online; interaction; internet; internet users; involved; involvement; issues; italian; italy; lead; linee; local; members; milan; municipalities; municipality; needs; networks; new; newham; online; online public; organization; orsay; oyk; people; population; possible; press; product; project; province; public; public services; rate; rcm; rcm members; registered; research; role; services; set; social; software; studies; subscribers; support; system; technical; testing; true; users; von; voters; voting; web; years
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id: joci-2386
author: None
title: None
date: None
words: 4992
flesch: 49
summary: However, there is a need for concrete tools to help researchers, practitioners and community groups find ways to work together to achieve effective use. Civic Nexus is a three-year participatory design project with the goal of working with community groups to facilitate their ability to use and to learn about technology as they pursue existing goals and as they envision new directions for their community.
keywords: activity; adjustment; anchoring; approach; capacity; capital; carroll; community; computer; computing; concept; context; decision; design; effective; effective use; effectiveness; example; goals; group; historical; human; information; interaction; knowledge; learning; making; management; new; opportunity; order; organizations; participatory; pennsylvania; practice; problem; process; project; requirements; research; scenarios; social; state; students; study; sue; support; system; team; technology; time; ugrr; university; usability; use; users; way; work
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item: #114 of 547
id: joci-2387
author: None
title: WORD template for HCI International 2003 papers
date: None
words: 8677
flesch: 44
summary: Community information systems require much theoretical research to address concrete design problems. Still, systematic methods for the development of community information systems solidly grounded in theory are rare and may as yet be premature.
keywords: analysis; approach; assumptions; axelrod; base; behavior; better; case; communication; communities; community; complex; components; conceptual; conflict; construction; cooperation; data; design; design hypotheses; design problem; design theory; development; different; dynamics; effective; effects; empirical; example; feedback; figure; gaming; hypotheses; important; information; information systems; interventions; jane; knowledge; level; loops; members; meta; methodologies; methodology; model; need; new; online; paper; particular; people; point; possible; practice; problem; process; relations; reputation; requirements; research; results; segmentation; set; simulation; size; social; specific; stock; study; support; system dynamics; systems; technical; technologies; theoretical; theories; theory; theory components; theory development; time; use; useful; values; virtual; ways
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id: joci-2388
author: None
title: -
date: None
words: 6460
flesch: 45
summary: - Towards Supporting Community Information Seeking and Use Nkechi Nnadi New Jersey Institute of Technology bieber@oak.njit.edu Michael Gurstein Centre for Community Informatics Research, Development and Training gurstein@gmail.com Abstract In this paper we explore issues surrounding the design of systems that will effectively support community information seeking and use. ICTs that support community information seeking and use may also have other beneficial side effects such as enabling quicker response by government agencies to communities needs, raising awareness of important issues, providing transparency in decision making processes and educating the community on environmental and market changes (McNamara, 2003).
keywords: access; activities; activity; authors; building; challenges; collaborative; collaborative information; communities; community; community information; consensus; design; designers; development; documents; effective; evaluation; features; icts; important; individual; information; information need; information retrieval; knowledge; local; manner; means; members; meyer; nature; need; new; order; paper; particular; people; problem; process; query; retrieval; retrieved; search; seeking; sharing; social; study; support; system; tasks; team; technology; use; user; view; way; work
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item: #116 of 547
id: joci-2389
author: Rideout, Prof. Vanda; Reddick, Dr. Andrew; O'Donnell, Dr. Susan; McIver, Jr., Dr. William; Kitchen, Sandy; Milliken, Mary
title: Community Organizations in the Information Age: A study of community intermediaries in Canada
date: 2007-04-23
words: 29925
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summary: 51 Community Organizations in the Information Age Of the employment resources and community development organization clients, 38.5 per cent have a computer at home, and 30.0 per cent have Internet access at home. It is our hope that this study contributes to a better understanding of the roles of community organizations, and improvements in the support and operations of these to the benefit of communities and citizens.
keywords: access; accountability; activities; additional; address; adequate; administrative; age community; analysis; areas; arrangements; available; barriers; basic; benefits; better; board; brunswick; canada; capacity; cder; centre; challenges; changes; channel; citizens; client information; client services; clients; common; communication; communities; community access; community development; community intermediaries; community organizations; community resources; community services; computer; considerable; constraints; contact; content; core; costs; critical; current; data; delivery; departments; different; difficult; easier; economic; education; effective; electronic; employment; employment resources; environment; example; external; external organizations; face; federal; figure; financial; focus; fredericton; funders; funding; government; government information; government services; group; h&w; health; health information; health services; high; home; human; ict; ict training; impact; important; income; increase; influences; information; information age; information delivery; information information; information technology; infrastructure; intermediary; internal; internet; internet access; issues; job; job placement; knowledge; lack; language; learning; levels; like; line; literacy; local; long; low; mail; maintenance; majority; making; management; means; meet; mental; methodology; minority; needs; network; networking; new; non; nrc; number; ongoing; organization clients; organization staff; organizational; outcomes; partnerships; people; person; personal; placement organization; policy; potential; preferred; problems; process; processes; programs; project; provincial; public; range; reports; research; resources; resources organization; respondents; result; role; rural; s&t; service delivery; services; significant; site; situation; skills; social; social services; software; specific; speed; staff; staff ict; staff members; staff resources; study; support; support staff; sustainable; system; technical; technologies; technology; telephone; time; training organization; types; university; upgrading; use; volunteers; web; wellness; wellness centre; wellness information; work; years
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title: Proposed Code of Ethics
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summary: Do you have specific suggestions for revision? 1. Aims The aims of this document are to: develop a voluntary code of practice for CI researchers; contribute to the maintenance of high standards in CI research; and contribute to the broader ethical and professional debates within the CI profession. Using a subject-centred perspective CI research entails an active involvement by research participants and ensures both that their interests are central to the project or study and that they will not be treated simply as objects; a subject-centred approach should recognise that researchers and research participants may not always see the harms and benefits of a research project in the same way; the CI researcher should endeavour to ensure that participation in research is voluntary; research must be conducted with respect for under-represented social communities and with attempts being made to avoid their exclusion and/or marginalisation; and the CI researcher should endeavour to ensure that subject-centred research is conducted with respect for and awareness of gender differences.
keywords: aboriginal; appropriate; ci researchers; code; communities; community; conduct; confidentiality; consent; cultural; data; decisions; ethical; ethics; free; guidelines; information; informed; knowledge; participants; participation; process; research; researchers; respect; use
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summary: Organizations such as the well-known Beijing Cultural Development Center for Rural Women in Beijing offer migrants training, legal rights counseling, and opportunities to socialize with other people – other migrant workers – in what can be a very lonely life. The communities to which they belong are ever-changing: they are caught between home-based communities, embodied by family and former classmates, and newly-created urban communities that are made of other migrant workers.
keywords: access; activities; areas; beijing; change; china; chinese; choice; city; colleagues; communities; community; computer; convenience; day; different; early; effective; entertainment; example; face; factories; family; friends; group; home; ict; important; information; internet; interviewees; jobs; life; lives; long; migrant; migration; mobile; money; need; networking; networks; new; old; online; people; phone; popular; press; programs; room; rural; school; service; social; song; television; time; touch; university; urban; use; wang; ways; websites; wei; women; workers; working; world; xie; years
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summary: In many instances these can lead to self-development for individuals and even cultural advance at the local level and particularly as younger women gain an education. As well there needs to be a recognition that in addition to these activity areas, in many instances women have further responsibilities to directly support family income.
keywords: access; communities; community; family; gender; informatics; instances; internet; local; opportunities; women
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summary: Like all human beings, women also want information and prefer to engage in communication (around 85 percent of women members in West Bengal have mobile phones) with the outer-world. In the present paper the case of rural women is portrayed only because within women, rural women are at disadvantage.
keywords: access; areas; benefits; bengal; common; communication; computers; data; development; different; economic; education; empowerment; female; gender; governance; government; gram; group; icts; india; information; initiatives; level; literacy; local; low; male; members; offices; panchayat members; panchayats; percent; plan; process; programmes; representatives; rural; section; self; skills; social; state; study; technologies; technology; tiers; training; use; west; women; women members; world; year
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summary: But in the case of women school teachers who supposedly have regular hours of work with lot of free time for the family, this becomes problematic. This in turn gave an impetus to the ICT awareness and skill development of women teachers in Kerala.
keywords: better; computer; development; education; family; gender; high; home; ict; india; information; it@school; kerala; level; male; master; participation; programmes; project; schools; sitcs; skills; social; society; software; state; support; teachers; time; trainers; training; use; women; work
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title: USER-CENTRED DESIGN, E-RESEARCH, AND ADAPTIVE CAPACITY IN CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS: THE CASE OF THE WOMEN ON FARMS GATHERING COLLECTION
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summary: The collection was developed around stories – both written and recorded orally, organised around the annual gatherings of the Women on Farms community. USER-CENTRED DESIGN, E-RESEARCH, AND ADAPTIVE CAPACITY IN CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS: THE CASE OF THE WOMEN ON FARMS GATHERING COLLECTION Cultivating the women on farms gathering community: a digital approach Natalie Lee-San Pang Monash University
Further from a community informatics perspective announcing (and implementing) of such funding programs without appropriate attention (and financial support) being given to the related requirements to achieve effective use is to render these programs rather more in the form of ISP support programs than true economic or social development initiatives. keywords: access; broadband; community; course; development; economic; fact; high; information; internet; investment; means; opportunities; outcomes; program; public; services; speed; support; technology; training; use; way; world; wrong cache: joci-2459.htm plain text: joci-2459.txt item: #148 of 547 id: joci-2460 author: None title: joci-2460 date: None words: 1535 flesch: 41 summary: Community informatics research, unlike more traditional branches of informatics, is very strong in analyzing the context of use of ICTs, including the stakeholders involved, their interests and goals, and many essential cultural determinants. Community informatics research in general is strong in taking such a comprehensive socio-technical systems view. keywords: align; communities; community; definitions; development; general; hard; informatics; li>
.05) including Town D which had stressed the value of their directory for health service information. Other sources of health information All 1125 respondents were given the opportunity to indicate where they find information about health services. keywords: access; age; area; australian; awareness; categories; centre; chief; community; computer; council; data; directories; directory; entries; government; health; health information; health services; home; important; information; internet; level; local; mail; number; office; page; people; percent; private; providers; public; queensland; research; respondents; responses; rural; search; services; site; source; study; survey; table; total; town; use; web cache: joci-2553.htm plain text: joci-2553.txt item: #178 of 547 id: joci-2554 author: None title: None date: None words: 13603 flesch: 54 summary: This unequal distribution of digital technology access and use between different groups in society has been named “the digital divide” (Parsons & Hick, 2008). Digital technology access and use as 21st century determinants of health: Impact of social and economic disadvantage. keywords: ability; aboriginal; aboriginal group; abs; access; adelaide; areas; australia; available; barriers; basic; broadband; bureau; canberra; capital; catalogue; centre; children; commonwealth; community; computer; connection; costs; department; determinants; different; digital; digital access; digital technology; disadvantaged; discussion; divide; e.g.; education; employment; employment group; english; example; family; financial; focus; free; government; gradient; group; half; health; home; households; housing; housing group; ict; ict access; icts; income; information; internet; internet access; lack; landline; language; learning; levels; library; life; likely; limited; literacy; location; lower; mobile; mobile phone; need; newman; non; number; online; opportunities; participants; particular; pay; people; phone; population; private; public; quality; range; research; resources; services; skills; social; society; socioeconomic; south; state; statistics; status; study; support; survey; technical; technologies; technology; time; turn; university; use; want; ways; wireless; women; work; world; years cache: joci-2554.htm plain text: joci-2554.txt item: #179 of 547 id: joci-2555 author: None title: None date: None words: 7813 flesch: 50 summary: Conclusions Our research problem dealt with the questions concerning the added value of CI to participatory urban planning and the characteristics and consequences of CI-assisted participatory planning and design to ICT-mediated citizen participation. a competition at school in order to get ideas from other young people, in addition to the use of UM - Development of technical skills Session 4 - Examination of the material - Being interviewed by a reporter from the Youth Department (+) best session (+) got a good idea of what young people really want (-) no checking of the places mentioned by other young people - Ability to analyze the collected material - Ability to present the project and the group’s perspective to strangers Session 5 - Participatory planning workshop with the architect - Translation of proposals to UM (+) the architect was a nice guy (+) it was good to be able to see exactly what the relevant ideas were (-) too little time - Ability to work in a group and to build consensus - Ability to articulate design-related ideas - Ability to work with a professional - Dev. of technical skills Session 6 (extra) - Participation in the wiki design session organized for the Roihuvuori residents (+) a lot of nice people (+) nice to use materials like cardboard and legos (+) easy to work with adults (-) too little time (-) difficult to build on the proposals of other people (-) those who could not take part in the session were sad - Ability to collaborate with adults - Ability to work with and build on the ideas of other age groups Session 7 - Checking of comments on UM - Advertising the final presentation in the IRC Gallery and Facebook - Getting acquainted with the real time, online video broadcast platform Floobs (+) Floobs was fun - Writing info texts about a public event in one’s own language, targeted at one’ s own age group Session 8 - Preparation of the presentation for the final event - Practicing of video recording and broadcasting on Floobs (+/-) stress related to the public presentation (-) difficulties in writing the script for the presentation - Dev. of technical skills - Learning how to make a public presentation and to communicate the group’s message Session 9 - Final presentation meeting (architect presents his plans, youths present the process they have followed) - Video recording and online broadcast (+) own presentation (+) the architect’s proposal (+) the small size of the audience (-) no introductions and shaking hands when people came in - Learning about participatory planning processes, actors and activities involved - Becoming confident to speak in public Session 10 - Collective assessment of the whole process - Interviewing of young people by the researchers - Viewing of the video recording of the wiki design and the final event (+) what was done felt important (+) keywords: ability; activities; adolescents; age; application; approach; architect; article; building; case; centre; children; citizen; city; collaborative; communities; community; community informatics; design; development; different; digital; empowerment; face; field; figure; governance; group; gurstein; helsinki; horelli; ict; icts; ideas; informatics; issues; learning; local; mediated; mediator; neighbourhood; new; online; participants; participation; participatory; participatory design; participatory planning; people; phase; planning; presentation; process; processes; project; public; real; research; residents; roihuvuori; saad; self; session; skills; social; stakeholders; study; sulonen; systems; technology; tools; urban; urban planning; use; wallin; website; work; yard; young; youth cache: joci-2555.htm plain text: joci-2555.txt item: #180 of 547 id: joci-2556 author: None title: None date: None words: 8605 flesch: 50 summary: Conclusion The theoretical concepts of community, virtual community, the commons, and gatekeeping, as manifested on Craigslist, describe the intricacies of developing a virtual commons that meets the idealism of Internet trailblazers who founded virtual communities when cyberspace was just beginning to be explored. Commons or gated community? A theoretical explication of virtual community and the example of Craigslist Daniel Schackman State University of New York at New Paltz Abstract An explication of theoretical concepts of community, virtual community, the commons, and gatekeeping exemplified by Craigslist.org, a virtual community in which gatekeeping is revealed to have considerable salience. keywords: access; ads; american; august; broader; building; castells; city; classified; commercial; commons; communication; communities; community; community members; concept; construct; content; craigslist; culture; cyberspace; day; development; dewey; discussion; ebay; email; english; example; founders; free; gatekeepers; gatekeeping; geographic; goals; help; home; human; impact; information; interests; internet; jobs; language; life; line; local; members; messages; mission; model; networks; new; newmark; news; non; number; open; ostrom; park; particular; people; place; portal; postings; potential; press; principles; public; real; real world; record; resources; role; section; september; services; set; shared; shoemaker; sites; social; society; standards; theoretical; time; tragedy; u.s; urban; users; utopian; values; virtual; virtual commons; virtual communities; web; work; world; world communities; york cache: joci-2556.htm plain text: joci-2556.txt item: #181 of 547 id: joci-2557 author: None title: None date: None words: 7814 flesch: 59 summary: The structure of such systems do not change overtime. The rules that govern such systems are also time reversible. keywords: ac3; action; adaptive; adaptive system; agency; aid; approach; bangalore; case; causality; center; change; city; coin; communication; community; complex; constraints; construction; context; contextual; data; development; different; discussion; ethnographic; event; family; feedback; framework; free; girl; group; historical; history; human; india; individual; juarrero; layout; life; local; members; mobile; new; oil; order; parts; pattern; person; phase; phone; population; possible; relationships; representations; research; residents; sarsu; second; sensitive; slums; sms; social; structure; study; sudarshan; sudarshan layout; system; technology; time; urban; users; volunteers; way; work; world; youth cache: joci-2557.htm plain text: joci-2557.txt item: #182 of 547 id: joci-2558 author: None title: Journal of Community Informatics Special Issue: Information and Communication Technology in Brazil date: None words: 1574 flesch: 36 summary: The first two articles examine and evaluate concrete experiences aiming at strengthening the democratic processes in Brazilian communities, emphasizing the importance of the interplay between technological mechanisms available in the internet and bottom up community mobilization and organization. The reader will encounter examples of well-established and large scale experiences, as well as recent and fast growing ones; articles that study large metropolises and others that focus small communities; a diversity of theoretical and methodological approaches (qualitative and quantitative). keywords: analysis; articles; brazilian; communication; communities; community; digital; graduação; ibict; ict; inclusion; information; internet; issue; journal; large; learning; low; portal; process; programa; research; resources; rio; social; special; state; technology; use; virtual cache: joci-2558.htm plain text: joci-2558.txt item: #183 of 547 id: joci-2559 author: Gurstein, Michael title: Editorial: Community Informatics in Brazil date: 2011-09-09 words: 1100 flesch: 20 summary: This linking of community process, emergent self-awareness, self and community empowerment, with ICTs particularly for marginalized populations is at the very core of a community informatics and thus this issue and the practice of community informatics in Brazil has much to teach all of those with an interest in or activities to support Community Informatics anywhere in the world. Community Informatics for many is a linking of the processes of community development with the content, affordances and historical and technological dynamics of Information and Communications Technologies. keywords: articles; brazil; community; development; digital; education; informatics; internet; issue; linking; processes; self; special; strong; technology; understanding cache: joci-2559.pdf plain text: joci-2559.txt item: #184 of 547 id: joci-2560 author: None title: Internet use in Brazil: speeding up or lagging behind? date: None words: 5637 flesch: 48 summary: The main focus is how internet access is actually growing and how the different types of internet use are evolving in the direction of citizenship and community building. Types of internet use and characteristics of data There are many possible approaches when one tries to focus on the democratization perspective of internet access and use. keywords: access; activities; adult; american; analyses; aspects; banking; brazil; brazilian; broadband; capital; characteristics; communication; community; countries; country; cultural; data; demographic; development; different; digital; divide; educational; everyday; evidence; evolution; example; family; fragoso; government; growth; home; ibge; important; inclusion; income; increase; individual; information; informação; initiatives; instrumental; internet; internet access; internet use; large; level; life; network; number; old; outstanding; period; pnad; population; public; purposes; results; services; sites; social; socio; table; technology; types; use; uses; wellman; years cache: joci-2560.htm plain text: joci-2560.txt item: #185 of 547 id: joci-2561 author: None title: Participation and Deliberation on the Internet: A case study on Digital Participatory Budgeting in Belo Horizonte date: None words: 11204 flesch: 53 summary: Democracy, deliberation and design: the case of online discussion forums. Whereas impolite posts result of human emotions only (open to public apology), uncivil ones offend the dignity of the interacting actors, and consist a serious threat to democracy and political discussions. keywords: access; analysis; arguments; aspect; available; belo; brazil; brazilian; budgeting; case; certain; citizens; city; comments; communication; criterion; dahlberg; data; debate; deliberation; deliberativeness; democracy; democratic; design; different; digital; discursive; discussion; dpb; dryzek; example; fact; forums; goal; habermas; hall; hand; high; horizonte; ideal; identification; important; information; internet; issue; janssen; kies; lack; low; marques; messages; model; moderation; new; number; officers; online; online deliberation; open; order; participants; participation; participatory; people; point; political; position; possible; post; present; process; program; project; public; reasons; reciprocity; reflexivity; region; research; respect; rude; space; sphere; studies; study; tools; traffic; uncivil; users; validation; values; vote; voting; ways; website; wilhelm; work; york cache: joci-2561.htm plain text: joci-2561.txt item: #186 of 547 id: joci-2562 author: None title: Participatory Development of Technologies as a Way to Increase Community Participation: the Cidade de Deus date: None words: 9880 flesch: 48 summary: These small organizations, known as community-based organizations (CBOs) or community organizations, have their own characteristics particularly through having a strong relation with their population. This Web Portal was developed as a university extension project by the Technical Solidarity Lab (SOLTEC/ UFRJ)[2] in partnership with Cidade de Deus’ community based organizations (CBOs). keywords: actions; actors; alinsky; articles; articulation; author; capital; case; cdd; changes; cidade; collective; communities; community; community portal; concept; construction; content; conventional; creation; dagnino; decisions; demands; desenvolvimento; deus; development; different; economic; franco; fundamental; greater; icts; important; increase; information; inhabitants; integration; issues; janeiro; journal; knowledge; level; local; local development; main; management; means; meetings; members; methodology; necessary; needs; networks; new; organizations; organizing; outside; participation; participatory; people; phase; place; point; population; portal; possible; power; problems; process; processes; project; public; relations; research; resources; results; rio; role; sense; small; social; social capital; society; solidarity; strong; system; technical; technologies; technology; tecnologia; term; time; use; users; way; web cache: joci-2562.htm plain text: joci-2562.txt item: #187 of 547 id: joci-2563 author: Rodrigues, Carla Lopes; Valente, José Armando title: Mastering Of Hypermedia Resources By Virtual Learning Communities: Possibilities And Constraints For Interaction, Communication And Construction Of Network Knowledge. date: 2011-06-11 words: 7646 flesch: 45 summary: Later, other network participants created their own accounts. A face-to-face group meeting was scheduled to use the Multimedia Forum resources, as shown in Figure 10. 17 Figure 10: Re@ge participants using Multimedia Forum resources One of the physicians, who is a virtual network partner, prepared a brief presentation on how he could remotely assist in the development of the activities conducted on Re@ge. keywords: access; actions; activities; agents; aids; alegre; asynchronous; audio; audiovisual; available; campinas; chat; city; collaborative; communication; communities; community; construction; content; data; development; different; digital; distance; education; environment; face; family; field; figure; forum; group; health; healthcare; help; hypermedia; ict; icts; inclusion; information; infrastructure; interaction; knowledge; learning; means; monte; multimedia; network; order; participants; paulo; pedreira; people; possibility; process; program; project; public; purpose; re@ge; rede; research; resources; sakai; services; set; social; stage; stakeholders; support; são; technologies; telecenter; text; tidia; tools; use; users; video; vila; virtual; virtual community; virtual learning; website cache: joci-2563.pdf plain text: joci-2563.txt item: #188 of 547 id: joci-2564 author: None title: Situating Learning for Digital Inclusion in the Social Context of Communities date: None words: 4615 flesch: 44 summary: The program includes an introductory course in which the elements of the HTML language will be introduced to the students, and practical activities in which the students will work in the development of the projects of learning portals. A summary of the activities that are being developed in the program of learning for digital inclusion, with regard to the development of the projects of learning portals, is presented below. keywords: activities; approach; authentic; community; context; design; development; digital inclusion; free learning; inclusion program; information; knowledge; language; learning; learning portals; learning situations; phase; program; projects; prototypes; school; situations; social; social context; social inclusion; students; teachers; use cache: joci-2564.htm plain text: joci-2564.txt item: #189 of 547 id: joci-2565 author: None title: Garden Of Literacies: ICDT Contributing To The Construction Of New Realities For Digitally-Excluded Senior Citizens date: None words: 5615 flesch: 52 summary: The concept of literacy practice is taken to a higher level of abstraction and refers both to the behavior and to the social and cultural conceptualizations which provide the context for reading and writing, that is to say, it is associated with the way a social group culturally uses the written language. Therefore, literacy practices reveal the concepts, values and beliefs typical of a culture. keywords: access; action; activities; activity; addition; approach; aspects; awareness; campinas; channels; citizens; communication; concept; construction; context; convergence; cultural; culture; different; digital; educational; events; figure; garden; group; historical; icdt; information; language; learners; learning; level; life; literacies; literacy; lives; media; mediators; new; order; orkut; paulo; person; practices; process; purpose; reading; realities; reality; relationship; research; results; senior; social; study; subject; support; são; technologies; technology; transformations; use; verbal; web; websites; writing cache: joci-2565.htm plain text: joci-2565.txt item: #190 of 547 id: joci-2566 author: None title: Evaluating ICT adoption in rural Brazil: a quantitative analysis of telecenters as agents of social change date: None words: 8068 flesch: 48 summary: This period of research and development served to identify an appropriate methodology to deploy community telecenters in remote rural communities of the country (Figueiredo, 2005). The impacts of community telecenters in rural Colombia. keywords: access; adoption; age; ages; b se; binary; brazil; brazilian; change; civic; communication; communities; community; computers; data; demographics; development; diffusion; digital; distance; earth; electrical; engagement; entertainment; factors; fun; gems; government; health; hours; human; ict use; icts; impact; inclusion; individuals; information; international; internet; itu; journal; learning; literacy; logistic; love; milho; model; motivation; network; ngo; odds; older; operation; population; power; practice; professional; public; regression; research; respondents; results; retrieved; rural; sample; sanitation; school; skills; social; society; statistics; structural; study; table; technologies; telecenter; tombadouro; use; users; variables; verde; work; years cache: joci-2566.htm plain text: joci-2566.txt item: #191 of 547 id: joci-2567 author: None title: “School of the Future” Research Laboratory/USP: action research and emerging literacies studies in WEB 2.0 environments date: None words: 5480 flesch: 42 summary: Instituted in 2009 (and consequently without solid indicators to be presented), the aim of this project is to provide the youth community of São Paulo state (mainly) with information on their rights and all public policy matters pertaining to this segment, as well as to establish a communications structure that motivates youth to participate in the programs carried out by the State Government through participation in the Youth Web Portal. Therefore abstracts of action research projects and programs are presented, as well as a general overview on theoretical studies approaches to study emerging literacies on WEB 2.0 contexts through virtual ethnography. keywords: access; acessasp; action; activities; arts; brazil; castell; citizenship; communication; community; conjunction; context; culture; cyberculture; department; development; different; digital; digital inclusion; dissertations; eca; education; environments; escola; ethnography; faber; figure; financing; future; government; inclusion; information; institution; internet; knowledge; laboratory; learning; line; literacies; literacy; main; management; master; nap; network; new; observatory; paulo; paulo state; period; ponline; portal; process; production; program; projects; public; purpose; research; school; scientific; senac; social; society; state; students; studies; são; são paulo; target; teachers; teaching; technology; theoretical; university; users; usp; virtual; web; youth cache: joci-2567.htm plain text: joci-2567.txt item: #192 of 547 id: joci-2568 author: None title: The “Rede Brasil de Bibliotecas Comunitárias”: a space for sharing information and building new knowledge date: None words: 4515 flesch: 45 summary: According to the authors, in order to understand the information flows in social networks, one must investigate broadly, both the connections and interactions of the actors in a given social network as well as its interrelations with similar communities, for the members of these networks also have contact with other networks and social spaces. Keywords: Social networks; Community Libraries; Public Libraries; Public Policies for libraries 1 INTRODUCTION The Rede Brasil de Bibliotecas Comunitárias (RBBC) (The Brazil Network of Community Libraries) was created after identifying the lack of formal spaces to debate the reality of Community Libraries in Brazil, a fact that became clear during the II Seminário Internacional de Bibliotecas Públicas e Comunitárias, which took place in November 2009 in the city of São Paulo and was organized by the Secretaria de Cultura of the government of São Paulo State. keywords: access; actors; analytics; bibliotecas; brazil; brazilian; collection; community; community libraries; comunitárias; construction; country; data; debate; forums; google; graph; group; important; information; informação; internet; knowledge; librarianship; libraries; library; material; meeting; members; municipal; network; new; number; open; participants; paulo; people; photos; present; process; projects; public; rbbc; reading; rede; retrieved; set; sharing; social; social network; source; spaces; state; são; time; topic; use; videos; visits; way cache: joci-2568.htm plain text: joci-2568.txt item: #193 of 547 id: joci-2569 author: None title: The Development of an Information System for the Solidarity Economy Movement date: None words: 5743 flesch: 49 summary: Computing professionals are quickly absorbed by the traditional market, and rarely suffer the marginalization that leads people to create Solidarity Economy enterprises. This article aims to describe and analyze the development process of Cirandas (http://www.cirandas.net), an information system geared towards the Solidarity Economy community in Brazil. keywords: access; addition; advisory; article; brazil; brazilian; capital; capitalist; cirandas; communities; community; creation; development; economic; economy; economy community; economy movement; enterprises; entities; fbes; forum; free; freedom; functionalities; government; important; information; kind; mapping; members; model; movement; national; networks; new; people; point; possible; process; production; products; public; real; resources; retrieved; sees; service; social; society; software; solidarity; solidarity economy; solidária; state; support; system; technology; time; training; users; virtual; virtual community; workers cache: joci-2569.htm plain text: joci-2569.txt item: #194 of 547 id: joci-2570 author: None title: Welcome to JoCI Reviews date: None words: 124 flesch: 60 summary: Welcome to JoCI Reviews Welcome to JoCI Reviews Kate Williams University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Reviews editor This is the first issue of JoCI with reviews, and we invite more. Start the review with a citation, including the price of the item and some kind of link to the item or more information about it, keeping in mind JoCI’s global readership that may or may not be able to get the original item. keywords: item; joci; reviews cache: joci-2570.htm plain text: joci-2570.txt item: #195 of 547 id: joci-2571 author: Lenstra, Noah title: Mídia Cidadã: Utopia Brasileira. São Bernardo do Campo: Melo, J.M. de, Gobbi, M.C. & Sathler, L. (Eds.) (2006). date: 2011-09-22 words: 580 flesch: 35 summary: Perhaps of most interest to non-Brazilian audiences may be the essays on Folk-Communication, which draw on the theories of Luiz Beltrão, written in the 1960s and 1970s, on how the de-linked, marginalized Brazilian under-class stays informed and participates in processes of communication through “activist mediators” able to operate as bridges between mass media and local communities. Bahia, citing Coelho Neto, describes the resiliency of the movement: “Political repression has not in any way stunted the increase or proliferation of community radio, owing to its popular appeal – it is common that the community will save the equipment from the stations invaded by police and private agents and, in surprising rapidity, re-open the station.” keywords: brazilian; citizenship; communication; community; conference; essays; folk; media; movement; radio; são; technology cache: joci-2571.pdf plain text: joci-2571.txt item: #196 of 547 id: joci-2572 author: None title: Fullilove, Mindy Thompson date: None words: 909 flesch: 52 summary: And as Fullilove continues her work with communities (for details see rootshock.org), it is possible to imagine her embracing some of the findings of community informatics. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/53970697 Aiko Takazawa University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Root Shock is a book about how communities experience and even recover from shock. keywords: 1950s; african; american; communities; community; displacement; fullilove; informatics; mindy; new; people; renewal; root; shock; social; thompson; urban; work; york cache: joci-2572.htm plain text: joci-2572.txt item: #197 of 547 id: joci-2586 author: None title: None date: None words: 5441 flesch: 46 summary: More than simply adding the technological affordances of Web 2.0 to a traditional archive, however, our project uses these new capabilities as a heuristic for reconsidering the very nature of an archive, both what it is and what it can do for stakeholder communities and audiences. Our SEAAM philosophy is based on the idea that the ecology of a healthy digital archive requires sustained engagement by as many stakeholders as possible, and that ideally the ability to grow the metadata for digital archives rests more in the hands of stakeholder communities and less in the hands of designers and archivists. keywords: access; anderson; approach; archive; biblical; ccmat; centered; collection; communities; community; cultural; davidson; design; development; digital; feedback; gerizim; hart; hebrew; holon; humanities; interface; interviews; israel; iterative; manuscripts; mcleod; meetings; members; metadata; michigan; msu; multiple; needs; new; participants; practices; process; project; prototypes; research; ridolfo; samaritan; samaritan community; scholarly; scholars; specific; stakeholder; start; state; technology; texts; textual; tool; torah; tsedaka; unique; university; useful; user; walkthroughs; warren; web; wide; years cache: joci-2586.htm plain text: joci-2586.txt item: #198 of 547 id: joci-2587 author: None title: None date: None words: 8587 flesch: 44 summary: Technology Explorations The second thread in our project is a series of empirical requirements studies and prototyping efforts that have explored how community members might react to and appropriate new technologies (e.g., aggregation of local community information, and location-based, mobile, and wireless services). First, we recognized that the solution to a robust community calendar was not to simply gather and present local community information via a portal, but instead work toward a more dynamic vision of continuous collection, where the information we present is created and broadcast from a wide variety of community sources. keywords: access; action; activities; activity; arts; borough; businesses; calendar; carroll; central; challenges; citw; civicinity; college; commercial; community; community information; community members; community network; community partners; content; database; design; development; downtown; dscid; events; example; feeds; festival; ganoe; goals; government; groups; information; information technology; infrastructures; initial; interests; internet; j.m; knowledge; learning; local; location; management; media; members; mobile; network; new; news; non; nonprofit; organizations; participation; participatory; partners; pennsylvania; planning; possibilities; potential; practices; process; profit; project; prototype; public; research; respect; rosson; series; services; site; skills; social; specific; stakeholders; state; statecollege.com; support; sustainable; technologies; technology; term; threads; time; tools; updates; use; user; value; variety; web; website; wide; wireless cache: joci-2587.htm plain text: joci-2587.txt item: #199 of 547 id: joci-2589 author: None title: None date: None words: 7250 flesch: 48 summary: it is not difficult to identify a relationship between community learning and community development, indeed Falk & Harrison describe community learning as the processes and outcomes (the “oil in the cogs”) that produce and sustain community development (1998). Sometimes the outcomes are excellent and students make significant contributions to community learning, capacity building and community development. keywords: academic; access; action; active; activities; brighton; building; capacity; capital; centre; change; cna; communications; communities; community; community development; community informatics; community learning; content; critical; day; development; dialogic; dialogue; digital; education; effective; engagement; environments; forum; goals; groups; gurstein; hove; ict; informatics; knowledge; learning; life; local; london; media; model; modules; moulsecoomb; nature; needs; networks; packham; parents; participation; participatory; partnerships; people; portslade; power; practice; press; processes; project; purpose; research; service; set; share; social; story; strategy; students; support; technological; telling; theory; university; use; way; website; workshops; year cache: joci-2589.htm plain text: joci-2589.txt item: #200 of 547 id: joci-2592 author: None title: None date: None words: 10813 flesch: 46 summary: PADR supports Urban Informatics research in developing new technological means (e.g. using mobile and ubiquitous computing) to resolve contemporary issues or support everyday life in urban environments. The paper discusses the nature, aims and inherent methodological needs of Urban Informatics research, and proposes PADR as a method to address these needs. keywords: action; action design; action research; activities; approach; artefact; aspects; baskerville; clients; communication; communities; community; community informatics; computing; conference; context; cultural; design; design research; design science; developed; development; different; disciplinary; dourish; dsr; e.g.; environment; ethnographic; evaluation; everyday; field; figure; focus; foth; goals; hand; hci; hearn; ict; implications; important; informatics; informatics research; information systems; interaction; intervention; issues; journal; life; media; methodological; methodology; methods; mobile; needs; new; opportunities; organisational; padr; paper; participatory; particular; people; place; planning; practice; problem; process; project; public; related; relevant; research; researchers; role; science; science research; setting; social; socio; soft; space; stage; stakeholders; studies; study; systems; technical; techniques; technological; technologies; technology; theory; ubicomp; ubiquitous; understanding; urban; urban informatics; use; venable cache: joci-2592.htm plain text: joci-2592.txt item: #201 of 547 id: joci-2593 author: None title: None date: None words: 9058 flesch: 45 summary: However, the respect of mutual anonymity is a long way from the respect that forms the basis of working with known facilitators and partners of community research. The lower rungs of her ladder do not map directly onto design research based in communities, though notions of empowerment and the basic understanding of a peer relationship with participants in research projects are fundamental to successful engagement. keywords: academic; academic research; action; activities; activity; approach; benefit; change; commitments; common; communities; community; consent; contexts; cultural; day; design; different; egglestone; engaged; engagement; ethical; experience; form; funding; groups; human; ideas; information; informed; interests; involved; involvement; issues; key; knowledge; light; making; meaning; meet; meeting; members; new; open; outcomes; ownership; paper; participants; participation; participatory; particular; partners; people; place; political; position; post; potential; power; proceedings; process; processes; project; relations; research; researchers; rogers; schutz; sense; series; share; social; society; subjects; summit; symposium; team; technology; thought; time; understanding; university; use; utd; voice; way; ways; work; working; workshop; world cache: joci-2593.htm plain text: joci-2593.txt item: #202 of 547 id: joci-2594 author: None title: joci-2594 date: None words: 10406 flesch: 50 summary: In the FP7 FIRE context an ICT test bed is: “a platform for experimentation for large development projects”. It was organized in nine work packages (work package being the prescribed unit for work organization in FP7 projects). keywords: 2010; access; action; affirmative; air; applications; architecture; areas; available; bed; beds; business; case; commission; communications; communities; community; company; conditions; conference; confine; consortium; context; contract; data; december; delay; deliverable; design; developed; development; different; dtn; economic; european; example; experimentation; federation; field; figure; final; fire; fp7; future; gender; grazing; group; hand; hardware; herders; husbandry; ict; idea; industry; information; initiative; innovation; instance; interest; interface; internet; jokkmokk; knowledge; lapland; large; level; life; line; local; ltu; luleå; maria; matter; meis; members; mobile; n4c; n4c work; need; networking; networks; new; nodes; number; opportunities; overall; participation; partners; place; plan; power; practices; process; project; real; region; reindeer; remote; report; research; results; rural; scale; science; scientific; services; set; site; small; social; society; software; staff; staloluokta; standard; studies; summer; support; sweden; swedish; systems; tannak; team; technical; technologies; technology; test; test bed; time; tolerant; tracking; udén; university; use; users; winter; women; work cache: joci-2594.htm plain text: joci-2594.txt item: #203 of 547 id: joci-2595 author: None title: joci-2595 date: None words: 1814 flesch: 26 summary: As well they can act as a "bridge" or interpreter between the dominant "bureaucratic" (and research) discourse and the language and understanding at the community level and provide a means for communities to access resources from universities and elsewhere which they might not otherwise be able to access.
O'Donnell in private communication pointed out the role of community champions as central figures in community research (as in other areas). The first question to ask is how have university community relations evolved in the context of the broad evolution of universities and particularly the current widely observed trend toward corporatization of universities, university research and even university teaching.
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summary: In other words, “community informatics research … has been intrinsic to the [CIH program’s] evolution” and, most recently, the goal has been to “facilitate ownership of the storytelling by the participants themselves”. Discussing the arrival of the World Wide Web, Carroll et al. note that “posting community information became easier, but engaging in community discussion became less easy”.
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summary: Building community social capital: The potential and promise of information and communications technologies. The growing success of CIH, now established in over 200[1] communities throughout New Zealand (Williams, 2009, p. 284), in many ways aligns with emerging theory that grass roots ownership of community internet practice is desirable for its sustainability (Gaved & Anderson, 2006; Loader & Keeble, 2004).
keywords: access; adult; amp; approach; blogs; building; capital; case; change; children; cih; cih participants; city; class; cohesion; communications; communities; community; community internet; computer; conference; connectedness; content; craig; cultural; data; development; digital; divide; early; economic; education; experiences; face; families; family; findings; framework; free; funding; government; group; help; history; home; ibid; ict; implementation; important; income; indigenous; information; internet; internet use; interviews; involvement; issues; key; learning; level; literacy; local; low; means; media; meetings; ministry; model; national; networks; new; new zealand; numeracy; online; outcomes; ownership; paper; parents; participants; participatory; partnership; people; pilot; practice; project; qualitative; regional; relationship; research; researchers; role; scheme; school; share; skills; social; social cohesion; social media; society; stories; strategy; studies; study; successful; support; technology; time; title=""> New social movements have arisen on the net.
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