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: community; research; researchers; technology cache: joci-2027.htm plain text: joci-2027.txt 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: change; community; community networking; networking; networks; online; practice; self; society cache: joci-2028.htm plain text: joci-2028.txt 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: communities; community; community informatics; development; field; informatics; needs; november; people; practice; projects; research; study; technology; work cache: joci-2029.htm plain text: joci-2029.txt 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: areas; argentina; community; cooperative; economy; enterprises; internet; local; national; pinamar; public; services; social; tccs; telecommunications; telephone; telpin; users cache: joci-2030.htm plain text: joci-2030.txt 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: communication; community; crisis; cumbria; disease; farmers; farming; fmd; foot; government; information; mouth; new; pentalk; place cache: joci-2031.htm plain text: joci-2031.txt 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; cybercafes; groups; india; internet; people; percent; sec; use; users cache: joci-2032.htm plain text: joci-2032.txt 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; communities; community; icts; information; internet; learning; new; participation; people; project; public; scotland; social; support; technology; use cache: joci-2033.htm plain text: joci-2033.txt 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; agency; community; coordinators; government; group; houses; information; issues; neighbourhood; neighbourhood houses; people; research; social; structuration; support; technology; theory; time; work cache: joci-2034.htm plain text: joci-2034.txt 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: telehealth cache: joci-2035.htm plain text: joci-2035.txt 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: research cache: joci-2036.htm plain text: joci-2036.txt 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: kihs; students cache: joci-2037.htm plain text: joci-2037.txt 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: community; icts; sustainability cache: joci-2038.htm plain text: joci-2038.txt 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: communication; communities; community; community technology; day; elk; human; informatics; research; researchers; technology cache: joci-2039.htm plain text: joci-2039.txt 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: community; information; knowledge; tsunami; warning cache: joci-2040.htm plain text: joci-2040.txt 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: communities; community; development; hunter; icts; information; initiatives; new; regional; research; rural; simpson; sustainability cache: joci-2041.htm plain text: joci-2041.txt 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: citizen; community; development; enterprise; government; information; local; office; people; portal; research; service; systems; technology; web cache: joci-2042.htm plain text: joci-2042.txt 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; canada; communities; community; development; digital; divide; funding; government; information; internet; organizations; program; public; research; services cache: joci-2043.htm plain text: joci-2043.txt 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: benefits; case; communities; community; costs; members; online; profit; public; rcm; strategies; sustainability; technical cache: joci-2044.htm plain text: joci-2044.txt 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; community; giddens; government; icm; information; libraries; library; networking; state; state library; structure; theory; vicnet; victoria cache: joci-2045.htm plain text: joci-2045.txt 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: building; capacity; capital; ci initiatives; communities; community; community development; development; diffusion; initiatives; innovation; networks; rural; technology cache: joci-2046.htm plain text: joci-2046.txt 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: communities; community; eds; emotion; information; intelligence; learning; management; research; service; theory; wire; women; work cache: joci-2047.htm plain text: joci-2047.txt 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: actor; community; development; funding; manager; mpcc; network; participants; people; process; project; project manager; study; valley cache: joci-2048.htm plain text: joci-2048.txt 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: community; community groups; course; design; groups; organization; project; sustainability; technology; training; use; web; work cache: joci-2049.htm plain text: joci-2049.txt 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: ballarat; business; cecc; community; development; engagement; ict; information; project; regional; skills; support; university cache: joci-2050.htm plain text: joci-2050.txt 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 cache: joci-2051.htm plain text: joci-2051.txt 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; community cache: joci-2052.htm plain text: joci-2052.txt 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: letter cache: joci-2053.htm plain text: joci-2053.txt 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: community; cuwin; network; policy; research; spectrum; wireless cache: joci-2054.htm plain text: joci-2054.txt 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: communities; community; ict; journal cache: joci-2055.pdf plain text: joci-2055.txt 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: action; community; development; equality; european; gender; government; groups; ict; information; network; organisations; phase; policy; project; use; women cache: joci-2056.pdf plain text: joci-2056.txt 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; development; net cache: joci-2057.pdf plain text: joci-2057.txt 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: access; canada; canadian; communities; community; community informatics; cracin; development; government; informatics; initiatives; networking; new; research; studies; technology; university cache: joci-2058.pdf plain text: joci-2058.txt 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: cape; communities; community; government; icts; information; march; peninsula; research; society; systems; technology; university cache: joci-2059.pdf plain text: joci-2059.txt 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: areas; education; india; internet; kiosk; logue; rural; services; technology; villages cache: joci-2060.pdf plain text: joci-2060.txt 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; america; argentina; brazil; colombia; community; community telecenters; countries; development; ecuador; ict; information; latin; mailto; mexico; network; peru; programs; public; research; social; somos@telecentros; telecenters; use cache: joci-2061.pdf plain text: joci-2061.txt 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: analysis; bridging; building; capital; communication; communities; community; ict; information; internet; networks; people; reciprocity; research; technology; trust cache: joci-2062.pdf plain text: joci-2062.txt 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: community; governance; latin cache: joci-2063.pdf plain text: joci-2063.txt 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: community; control; design; divide; jose; miguel; participation; people; power; use cache: joci-2064.pdf plain text: joci-2064.txt 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: cis; community; information; research; russia; state cache: joci-2065.pdf plain text: joci-2065.txt 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; countries cache: joci-2066.htm plain text: joci-2066.txt 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; communities; community; corpotunía; development; icts; impact; information; internet; local; organizations; project; services; telecenter; use; users cache: joci-2067.htm plain text: joci-2067.txt 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: access; cape; ccf; ccfs; community; facilities; hosting; libraries; project; public; users cache: joci-2068.doc plain text: joci-2068.txt 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; canada; cap; cap sites; cap yi; community; government; industry; interns; networks; program; sites; use; vcn cache: joci-2069.htm plain text: joci-2069.txt 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; computer; course; ctc; experiment; home; information; internet; participants; people; project; time; use; village cache: joci-2070.doc plain text: joci-2070.txt 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: communities; diffusion; households; kiosk; kiosk users; ownership; population; proportion; services; users; village cache: joci-2071.doc plain text: joci-2071.txt 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; context; development; framework; icts; impact; internet; livelihood; people; strategies; telecentre; use cache: joci-2072.doc plain text: joci-2072.txt 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: approach; community; development; services; social; telecentres cache: joci-2073.doc plain text: joci-2073.txt 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: access; africa; computer; development; farm; hiv; icts; information; living; people; security; south cache: joci-2074.doc plain text: joci-2074.txt 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: community; development; information; sengerema; wisdom cache: joci-2075.htm plain text: joci-2075.txt 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: communities; development; ict4d; systems cache: joci-2076.htm plain text: joci-2076.txt 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: action; code; disagree; effects; ethekwini; ethics; harm; municipality; people; potential cache: joci-2077.htm plain text: joci-2077.txt 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; clients; inclusion; individuals; information; internet; mobile; people; phones; technologies; technology; use; workers cache: joci-2078.htm plain text: joci-2078.txt 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: action; community; design; development; ict; media; new; place; research; social; study; technology; urban; use cache: joci-2079.htm plain text: joci-2079.txt 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: accounting; community; community informatics; cost; financial; ict; informatics; management; model; projects; tco; technology cache: joci-2080.htm plain text: joci-2080.txt 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: capabilities; capability; communities; community; development; information; learning; local; management; players; portal; project; public; strategy cache: joci-2082.htm plain text: joci-2082.txt 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: community; informatics; inquiry; learning cache: joci-2083.htm plain text: joci-2083.txt 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: communities; community; information; learning; technology; university cache: joci-2084.htm plain text: joci-2084.txt 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: carroll; community; groups; projects; technology cache: joci-2085.htm plain text: joci-2085.txt 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: cois; communities; design; fischer; learning; people; work cache: joci-2086.htm plain text: joci-2086.txt 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: capital; learning; research; students; university cache: joci-2087.htm plain text: joci-2087.txt 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: blogs; information; tools; web cache: joci-2088.htm plain text: joci-2088.txt 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: class; divide; ict; reproduction; theory cache: joci-2089.htm plain text: joci-2089.txt 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; communities; community; internet cache: joci-2090.htm plain text: joci-2090.txt 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: design; end; support; user cache: joci-2091.htm plain text: joci-2091.txt 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: communities; community; learning; members; phases cache: joci-2092.htm plain text: joci-2092.txt 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: actors; choices; civic; design; designers; logics; network; order; planning cache: joci-2093.htm plain text: joci-2093.txt 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; activities; cambridge; carroll; civic; communities; community; computer; design; development; group; human; information; knowledge; learning; members; network; new; people; practice; press; projects; research; students; support; systems; technology; tools; university; use; user; work cache: joci-2094.htm plain text: joci-2094.txt 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: communities; community; research cache: joci-2095.htm plain text: joci-2095.txt 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: money; ngo; project cache: joci-2096.htm plain text: joci-2096.txt 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: benefits; capital; communities; community; community networks; funding; good; government; icts; indicators; information; internet; networks; social cache: joci-2097.htm plain text: joci-2097.txt 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: case; communities; community; container; design; development; dominican; lincos; lincos project; members; people; project; republic; sites; social; technology cache: joci-2098.htm plain text: joci-2098.txt 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: ict; icts; press; society; technology; use cache: joci-2099.htm plain text: joci-2099.txt 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: communication; communities; community; computer; cyberspace; new; notion; real; reality; social; virtual; virtuality cache: joci-2100.htm plain text: joci-2100.txt 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; cih; communities; community; digital; family; government; ict; internet; new; research; school; study; technology; time; use; zealand cache: joci-2101.htm plain text: joci-2101.txt 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: community; jikei; network; security cache: joci-2102.htm plain text: joci-2102.txt 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: community; government; new; strategy; zealand cache: joci-2103.htm plain text: joci-2103.txt 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: africa; communication; economic; economy; gsm; impact; introduction; lines; mobile; nigeria; phones; respondents; sector; services; telecommunications; time cache: joci-2350.htm plain text: joci-2350.txt 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: amio; amio teller; credit; loan; members; mobile; operations; pocket; project; saf; technologies; technology; teller cache: joci-2351.pdf plain text: joci-2351.txt 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; countries; internet cache: joci-2352.htm plain text: joci-2352.txt 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: community; developer; dispute; domain; estate; hollow; intranet; kookaburra; media; public; register; residents cache: joci-2353.htm plain text: joci-2353.txt 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: change; community; context; countries; development; human; ict; information; journal; level; projects; research; social; systems; technology cache: joci-2354.htm plain text: joci-2354.txt 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; community; development; funding; good; internet; model; networks; new; non; organizations; profit; public; sector; services; vcn cache: joci-2355.htm plain text: joci-2355.txt 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: chat; communities; community; internet; learning; participants; project; rural; technology; use cache: joci-2356.htm plain text: joci-2356.txt 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: access; broadband; community; example; internet; networking; policy; public; service; spectrum; technology; telecommunications; use; wireless cache: joci-2357.htm plain text: joci-2357.txt 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: community; con; informatics; latin; que cache: joci-2358.htm plain text: joci-2358.txt 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: especial; las; latin; para; por; que cache: joci-2359.htm plain text: joci-2359.txt 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; actores; agraria; agricultores; agua; cepes; comisiones; como; comunicación; con; de información; de la; de los; del; desarrollo; desde; el proyecto; en el; en la; entre; esta; este; han; huaral; información; instituciones; internet; junta; la junta; las; local; los; mayor; mientras; más; organizaciones; organización; otros; para; participación; pero; por; por el; por la; proyecto; que; regantes; riego; ser; sin; sistema; social; son; sostenibilidad; sus; también; telecentros; una; uso; usuarios; y la cache: joci-2360.htm plain text: joci-2360.txt 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; argentina; años; buenos; cibercafés; cibers; civil; como; comunidades; comunitarias; con; conectividad; cooperativas; de la; de los; del; desde; empresas; en el; en los; entre; estado; este; finquelievich; han; información; internet; la sociedad; las; las cooperativas; los; los usuarios; lugares; más; necesidades; organizaciones; para; país; personas; población; por; por el; que; que las; servicios; sin; sobre; social; sociales; sociedad; son; sus; también; tanto; tecnología; telecomunicaciones; trabajo; una; uso; usos; usuarios cache: joci-2361.htm plain text: joci-2361.txt 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: acerca; algunos; alto; así; como; comunicación; comunidad; comunitarios; con; conapo; cual; de la; de los; del; emigrantes; en el; en la; en los; esta; este; estos; eua; fotos; gente; información; internet; la comunidad; las; los; los que; los sitios; manera; mensajes; migración; municipio; muy; más; méxico; origen; para; por; puede; que; sección; servicios; sitios; sitios web; son; sus; también; una; usuarios; visitas; viven; web cache: joci-2362.htm plain text: joci-2362.txt 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: apropiación; centros; como; comunicación; comunidades; con; de las; del; desarrollo; digitales; indígenas; información; las; las tic; los; méxico; para; por; proceso; proyectos; pueblos; que; social; tecnologías; tic; una; uso cache: joci-2363.htm plain text: joci-2363.txt 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; acceso; adultos; aprendizaje; casos; centros; como; comunidad; con; contextos; de la; de los; del; desarrollo; diagnóstico; digital; educación; educativo; en el; en las; entre; escuelas; esta; este; estrategias; grupo; han; inclusión; información; internet; investigación; las; las tic; los; maestros; modelo; más; méxico; necesidad; para; para la; partir; políticas; por; procesos; programa; propuesta; que; resultados; sin; sobre; social; sociales; son; sus; tecnología; tic; trabajo; una; uso; usuarios; vida; y el cache: joci-2364.htm plain text: joci-2364.txt 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: ambiental; biodiversidad; como; comunidad; con; cotahuasi; de la; del; desarrollo; implementación; las; local; locales; los; monitoreo; naturales; para; por; programa; que; recursos; subcuenca; través; una; uso cache: joci-2365.htm plain text: joci-2365.txt 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: actores; como; comunidades; con; conocimiento; de las; de telecentros; del; desarrollo; entre; este; información; intercambio; las; los; movimiento; operadores; para; participantes; países; pit; por; propuestas; proyecto; que; redes; sus; tap; telecentros; través; una cache: joci-2366.htm plain text: joci-2366.txt item: #94 of 547 id: joci-2367 author: None 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: apoyo; asodigua; comunidades; con; del; desarrollo; indígenas; las; los; para; pueblos; que; redes; sobre; sus; telecentro cache: joci-2367.htm plain text: joci-2367.txt item: #95 of 547 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: adultos; ciudad; como; comunidades; con; de los; del; desarrollo; en el; en los; este; formación; las; los; los telecentros; manizales; para; participación; por; procesos; proyecto; que; salas; sociales; sus; telecentros; una; uso; usuarios cache: joci-2368.htm plain text: joci-2368.txt item: #96 of 547 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; brazilian; digital; government; inclusion; initiatives; internet; schools cache: joci-2369.htm plain text: joci-2369.txt 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; apropiación; las; latina; los; modos; más; para; por; que; tecnológica; tres; una cache: joci-2370.htm plain text: joci-2370.txt item: #98 of 547 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: como; con; del; este; información; las; los; más; para; políticas; por; proceso; que; sociedad; una cache: joci-2371.htm plain text: joci-2371.txt item: #99 of 547 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: capital; community; development; information; network; network capital; new; project; society cache: joci-2372.htm plain text: joci-2372.txt item: #100 of 547 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; community; divide; equity; ict; income; inequality; information; justice; new; people; social; system; technology; women cache: joci-2373.htm plain text: joci-2373.txt item: #101 of 547 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: case; community; community network; good; infrastructure; modernist; network; new; social; society; space; studies; technical; technology; terms cache: joci-2374.htm plain text: joci-2374.txt item: #102 of 547 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: communities; community cache: joci-2375.htm plain text: joci-2375.txt item: #103 of 547 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: community; new; nzds; strategy; zealand cache: joci-2376.htm plain text: joci-2376.txt item: #104 of 547 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: adomi; browsing; information; internet; overnight; service; use cache: joci-2377.htm plain text: joci-2377.txt item: #105 of 547 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; community; ict; information; internet; non; organisations; profit; research; sector; surveys; technology; use cache: joci-2378.htm plain text: joci-2378.txt item: #106 of 547 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: access; cafés; countries; development; indonesia; information; internet; internet cafés; number; people; tanzania; use; users cache: joci-2379.htm plain text: joci-2379.txt item: #107 of 547 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: community; community radio; ghana; households; information; radio; results; willingness; women cache: joci-2380.htm plain text: joci-2380.txt 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 cache: joci-2381.htm plain text: joci-2381.txt item: #109 of 547 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: communities; community; information; systems cache: joci-2382.htm plain text: joci-2382.txt item: #110 of 547 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: communities; community; design; framework; information; knowledge; levels; members; participants; pass; people; processes; support; systems; technology cache: joci-2383.htm plain text: joci-2383.txt item: #111 of 547 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; community; design; information; online; social; system; users cache: joci-2384.htm plain text: joci-2384.txt item: #112 of 547 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: citizens; communities; community; community networks; design; innovation; internet; members; networks; people; rcm; services; users; voting cache: joci-2385.htm plain text: joci-2385.txt item: #113 of 547 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: community; decision; design; information; making; project; scenarios; ugrr; use; users; work cache: joci-2386.htm plain text: joci-2386.txt 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: communities; community; components; conflict; design; design theory; development; dynamics; information; knowledge; model; research; systems; theory cache: joci-2387.htm plain text: joci-2387.txt item: #115 of 547 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: collaborative; community; design; information; need; retrieval; seeking; support; system; use cache: joci-2388.htm plain text: joci-2388.txt 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 flesch: 40 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; centre; clients; community development; community intermediaries; community organizations; delivery; employment; funding; government; health; health information; ict; ict training; information; information age; internet; job; needs; placement organization; resources; resources organization; services; skills; staff; staff ict; staff members; support; training organization; use; web; wellness cache: joci-2389.pdf plain text: joci-2389.txt item: #117 of 547 id: joci-2390 author: None title: Proposed Code of Ethics date: None words: 1956 flesch: 3 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: community; research; researchers cache: joci-2390.htm plain text: joci-2390.txt item: #118 of 547 id: joci-2430 author: None title: joci date: None words: 7992 flesch: 62 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: beijing; communities; friends; home; ict; internet; migrant; people; use; women; workers cache: joci-2430.htm plain text: joci-2430.txt item: #119 of 547 id: joci-2431 author: None title: joci date: None words: 646 flesch: 34 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: community; women cache: joci-2431.htm plain text: joci-2431.txt item: #120 of 547 id: joci-2432 author: None title: joci date: None words: 4186 flesch: 45 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: gender; government; icts; india; information; members; panchayats; representatives; women cache: joci-2432.htm plain text: joci-2432.txt item: #121 of 547 id: joci-2433 author: None title: joci date: None words: 2528 flesch: 60 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: ict; it@school; kerala; project; teachers; women cache: joci-2433.htm plain text: joci-2433.txt item: #122 of 547 id: joci-2434 author: None title: USER-CENTRED DESIGN, E-RESEARCH, AND ADAPTIVE CAPACITY IN CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS: THE CASE OF THE WOMEN ON FARMS GATHERING COLLECTION date: None words: 5481 flesch: 44 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 Abstract. keywords: collection; commons; community; information; knowledge; museum; stories; systems; theory; women cache: joci-2434.htm plain text: joci-2434.txt item: #123 of 547 id: joci-2435 author: None title: Title: 89 date: None words: 8911 flesch: 39 summary: This invokes a struggle well-known to Western women – the expectation that women must be a model wife, mother and member of the community while not discounting their legal rights: “I want to tell the listeners that what we are taught about fighting for child and women rights is that, we know that some men deny their wives their rights and we urge them to know that they did not marry slaves and instead a helper given by God. 4While this research discusses women and development in the context of empowerment, the term advancement is used to comprise the AIR acronym, which reflects the terminology employed by the UN Division for the Advancement of Women (DAW) and UN International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (UN-INSTRAW). keywords: air; community; community radio; development; empowerment; gender; information; members; mwethia; program; project; radio; research; voice; women cache: joci-2435.htm plain text: joci-2435.txt item: #124 of 547 id: joci-2436 author: None title: Title: date: None words: 4750 flesch: 43 summary: Economía Social de Mercado y Estado Social de Derecho. http://www.kas.de/upload/auslandshomepages/kolumbien/ESM_08-09-22.pdf http://mujerescontraeltlc.blogspot.com/ http://lashijasdelpueblo.blogspot.com http://www.radiofeminista.net/estacion_paralela/notas/programas_no.htm 1Details about the position of social movements regarding the negotiation process: http://www.ircamericas.org/esp/4012 (in Spanish). The feminist movement also came out stronger from this fight and developed alliances with other sectors, who had the opportunity to listen to them and see that the feminist vision of the world very much coincides with the vision of many social movements and it's a very comprehensive and holistic approach. keywords: agreement; cafta; costa; feminist; movement; people; rica; social; struggle; women cache: joci-2436.htm plain text: joci-2436.txt item: #125 of 547 id: joci-2437 author: None title: joci date: None words: 9444 flesch: 44 summary: In the first section, we explore questions of gender inequality as discussed from the perspectives of sociology of health; ICT4D, with specific reference to e-Health projects to establish the need for gender analysis in e-Health initiatives.  This literature review suggested that we should be looking for the following evidence in e-Health projects:  analysis of gender and social inequalities and how these may influence people trying to use or benefit from ICTs and / or are seeking or providing healthcare (including differentiation among various socio-economic categories - i.e. among women differentiated by age, education, location, marital status etc.) identification and discussion of both the possibilities of e-Health for various socio-economic groups as well as the barriers, constraints and even threats resulting from the intervention collection and analysis of sex disaggregated data use of participatory methods, particularly for needs assessments and program design and evaluation. keywords: analysis; data; development; education; gender; health; icts; idrc; inequality; information; issues; project; proposal; research; social; use; women cache: joci-2437.htm plain text: joci-2437.txt item: #126 of 547 id: joci-2438 author: None title: joci date: None words: 1414 flesch: 26 summary: Institutional norms begin to change deeply as new information architectures lead into new pathways and information flows, creating and deepening the legitimacy of women as social actors with valid claims. Such local and trans–local community configurations are about a possible new geography of communities that rearticulates gendered locations, and a new spatiality of collective organising that is based on new social identities. keywords: community; information; technology; women cache: joci-2438.htm plain text: joci-2438.txt item: #127 of 547 id: joci-2439 author: None title: joci date: None words: 4248 flesch: 52 summary: Availability: Number Of Men And Women To Whom Technology Is Available Access and Control: Number of men and women having actual access to technology Use: Number Of Men In the present paper, citing various grass root realities and incidents, the author establishes a correlation between the existing gender gaps and gender discriminations in the rural society and consequent marginalization of rural women from emerging rural e-governance. keywords: gender; governance; rural; sarpanchas; simputers; technology; use; women cache: joci-2439.htm plain text: joci-2439.txt item: #128 of 547 id: joci-2440 author: None title: joci date: None words: 9708 flesch: 49 summary: Status of Women in India Since Independence in 1947, the government and non-governmental organizations have made integrated efforts, with public private partnerships (PPP) in taking extensive measures towards the development of women. ICT, Women and Development The use of Internet by women is growing exponentially across the world. keywords: access; centers; development; economic; empowerment; eseva; eseva centers; government; help; icts; india; information; internet; new; problems; services; status; women; working; world cache: joci-2440.htm plain text: joci-2440.txt item: #129 of 547 id: joci-2441 author: None title: Technicians, Tacticians and Tattlers: Women as Innovators and Change Agents in Community Technology Projects date: None words: 5301 flesch: 41 summary: Feminist research has yielded invaluable insights into the discourse, social construction and politics of ICT knowledge and expertise at a macro level (Damarin, 1993; Menzies, 1996; Vehvilainen, 1999). In a review of e-inclusion policy in 2009 by an EU e-inclusion expert subgroup, recommendations were made to ‘embed community ICT centres deeply into local level contexts to become the virtual and physical space for social innovation’, with little reference as to how this might be achieved, or who might be responsible. keywords: change; community; expertise; feminist; gender; ict; information; knowledge; research; society; technology; women cache: joci-2441.htm plain text: joci-2441.txt item: #130 of 547 id: joci-2442 author: None title: joci date: None words: 5495 flesch: 48 summary: Relief International Schools on line, (RI-SOL) (http://www.ri.org/), and United Nations Development Fund for Women UNIFEM offer training programs in basic ICT for thousands of Palestinian women, especially in rural and remote areas, with the following goals in mind: Train women with the vital living skills in order for them to take a dynamic role in their societies through integrating ICT into all aspects of life; Empower women through ICT training on legal issues, non-violence, political participation and civic education; Organize activities that support educational, economic and political development; This paper summarizes the results of an evaluation initiative primarily designed to investigate the relevance of current training to the needs of rural women and their communities in the view of the preset goals. Motivations for this training are diverse, including increased demand for employees with ICT skills, the desire for rural women to help their children with homework and the necessity of accessing knowledge and communicate through the Internet. keywords: access; development; empowerment; ict; internet; knowledge; skills; training; women cache: joci-2442.htm plain text: joci-2442.txt item: #131 of 547 id: joci-2443 author: None title: joci date: None words: 10321 flesch: 52 summary: This study follows Seelampur women who participate in the ICTD project at the Gender Resource Center from the doorsteps of the ICT center into their everyday lives. How does work and participation in the labor force change for Seelampur women after their participation in the new technology and development project? keywords: center; classes; computer; delhi; development; home; ict; india; industry; institute; jobs; labor; metro; new; project; seelampur; technology; training; women; work cache: joci-2443.htm plain text: joci-2443.txt item: #132 of 547 id: joci-2444 author: None title: joci date: None words: 7797 flesch: 41 summary: We calculated three different measures of transport access based on available GIS data on the road network for comparison to relevant DHS results. For example, the first and most commonly used measure of transport access is the World Bank Rural Access Indicator (RAI), which is based on an estimate of percent of the total population living within 2km of an all-weather road. keywords: access; analysis; barriers; data; dhs; ethiopia; gis; health; lesotho; road; services; transport cache: joci-2444.htm plain text: joci-2444.txt item: #133 of 547 id: joci-2445 author: None title: joci date: None words: 8817 flesch: 53 summary: Section 8 focuses on Challenges for VP program, the hope of continuity and policy implications. In contrasting this view, we examine how VP program has generated social entrepreneurship in a tradition-bound rural Bangladesh by introducing Information and Communication Technology-based (ICT) social and economic relationship. keywords: bank; business; empowerment; grameen; grameenphone; information; mobile; model; phone; poor; program; telecom; village; vp program; vpos; women cache: joci-2445.htm plain text: joci-2445.txt item: #134 of 547 id: joci-2446 author: None title: joci date: None words: 5265 flesch: 48 summary: Although the need of building ICT capability of community organizations in Australia has been increasingly emphasized in recent years, the gender dimensions of digital divide amongst leaders of community organizations remain unexplored. With the rise in availability and access to ICTs in recent years, several studies in developed countries have explored the implications of ICT uptake amongst community organizations (Weare et al 2005, Pinho and Macedo 2006, Hackler and Saxton 2007). keywords: access; community; divide; ecos; female; gender; ict; icts; internet; leaders; organizations; survey cache: joci-2446.htm plain text: joci-2446.txt item: #135 of 547 id: joci-2447 author: None title: Draft date: November 22, 2009 date: None words: 3314 flesch: 44 summary: The authors intend their contribution to begin a more general policy discussion on service delivery in First Nations communities and how the new opportunities presented by ICT can contribute to more efficient and effective services in communities. The event discussed took place in 2007 and connected a number of First Nation communities across Canada with policy-makers and researchers in urban centres for simultaneous audio-visual exchange. keywords: communities; community; nations; net; photo; research; services; videoconferencing cache: joci-2447.htm plain text: joci-2447.txt item: #136 of 547 id: joci-2448 author: None title: As no less a figure than Harold Innis has shown, the history of Canada is very much intertwined with the history of communicat date: None words: 1827 flesch: 26 summary: ICT and particularly broadband internet can overcome the challenges of remoteness and ensure equity of service access; an appropriate level of service quality; effectiveness and efficiency in service delivery; opportunities for participation in service design, delivery and implementation; as well as providing opportunities for communities to more directly benefit from service provision through local employment. This has been combined with a clear understanding (and vision) of how this infrastructure could be used to support service delivery in the region as a supplement to (and even in some cases replacement for) existing services and service delivery approaches. keywords: ict; net; service cache: joci-2448.htm plain text: joci-2448.txt item: #137 of 547 id: joci-2449 author: None title: joci-2449 date: None words: 7635 flesch: 44 summary: The K-Net development process: A model for First Nations broadband community networks, CRACIN Working Paper No.12. K-Net’s alliance of First Nation communities negotiated many funding opportunities and partnerships to develop their network infrastructure, benefiting from this government-lead computerization movement to implement computer technology as a means of bridging social and technological divides in Canada (Fiser et al. 2006). keywords: access; amp; canada; communities; community; computerization; internet; media; myknet.org; nations; network; northern; ontario; research; social; users cache: joci-2449.htm plain text: joci-2449.txt item: #138 of 547 id: joci-2450 author: None title: Abstract: A Community-based Model for e-service delivery for First Nations: The K-net Approach to Water Treatment in Northern date: None words: 9373 flesch: 30 summary: It is the intention of this paper to begin a more general discussion on overall policy with respect to service delivery in remote and rural indigenous and other communities. As well, the paper will explore how the new opportunities presented by ICT can transform services and service delivery to make these both more efficient and effective while at the same time providing ways for communities themselves to become much more involved in the actual delivery and management of locally essential services. keywords: approach; communities; community; government; ict; monitoring; nations; service; service delivery; skills; support; technical; training; water cache: joci-2450.htm plain text: joci-2450.txt item: #139 of 547 id: joci-2451 author: None title: Historical discrimination, racism, and social injustice have left First Nations with a lower quality of life than most Canadian date: None words: 7033 flesch: 53 summary: Our observations and analysis suggests that videoconferencing creates a public sphere in First Nations communities in Northern Ontario. The case occurred in 2007 and connected a number of First Nation communities across Canada for simultaneous audio-visual exchange. keywords: communities; community; meeting; nations; net; network; participants; public; research; space; sphere; technology; videoconferencing cache: joci-2451.htm plain text: joci-2451.txt item: #140 of 547 id: joci-2452 author: None title: Paper for Canadian Journal of Communication date: None words: 10840 flesch: 45 summary: For equitable ICT implementation, the lack of access to computers by significant segments of populations may in fact play a negative impact on community social capital. The examination of the ICT initiatives suggested that although the what of connectivity mattering, it is the how of connectivity that seems to make the most difference in terms of community social capital. keywords: aboriginal; access; broadband; canada; capital; communities; community; connectivity; development; government; health; ict; implementation; information; infrastructure; internet; nations; networks; online; people; social; technology; university cache: joci-2452.htm plain text: joci-2452.txt item: #141 of 547 id: joci-2453 author: None title: Videoconferencing for community development: Lessons from K-Net and the Atlantic First Nations HelpDesk date: None words: 5509 flesch: 41 summary: Videoconferencing for community development: Lessons from K-Net and the Atlantic First Nations HelpDesk How K-Net and Atlantic Canada’s First Nation Help Desk are Using Videoconferencing for Community Development Mary Milliken National Research Council, Fredericton, Canada Susan O’Donnell National Research Council, Fredericton, Canada Elizabeth Gorman National Research Council, Fredericton, Canada Abstract Our research is working in partnership with three First Nations organizations - K-Net, Keewaytinook Okimakanak in Sioux Lookout, Ontario; Atlantic Canada’s First Nation Help Desk in Membertou, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia; and the First Nations Education Council in Wendake, Quebec - that have set up videoconferencing networks linking First Nations communities spread out over large geographic areas. In addition, First Nations communities have often faced language and cultural challenges when dealing with agencies based in distant English or French-speaking urban centres (Beaton, 2004). keywords: canada; communities; community; development; health; interviewee; nations; net; research; videoconferencing cache: joci-2453.htm plain text: joci-2453.txt item: #142 of 547 id: joci-2454 author: None title: Representation and Participation of First Nations Women in Online Videos date: None words: 7681 flesch: 50 summary: When colonial authorities, later the Federal Government of Canada, assumed authority over First Nations Peoples the attack on First Nations women was institutionalized” (Stevenson, p. 74, 1999). The historical impact of colonization and the imposition of a colonial government and its legislation have resulted in the near destruction of the cultures and lifestyles of First Nations people in Canada, especially of First Nations women. keywords: mainstream; media; nations; nations people; nations women; online; participatory; people; public; sphere; video; women cache: joci-2454.htm plain text: joci-2454.txt item: #143 of 547 id: joci-2455 author: None title: Title: Managing changes in First Nations’ health care needs: Is telehealth the answer date: None words: 4710 flesch: 49 summary: Further, the federal government has shaped its responsibility in matters of First Nations health care to simply complement provincial health services geographically accessible to First Nations. As shown in Table 1, the majority of First Nations communities are served by Health Offices, Health Stations or Health Centres. keywords: canada; care; community; health; inuit; manitoba; nations; reserve; services; telehealth; telemedicine cache: joci-2455.htm plain text: joci-2455.txt item: #144 of 547 id: joci-2456 author: None title: Draft Copy Article for IEEE: Notes From the Field date: None words: 2567 flesch: 45 summary: KORI's mandate is to change the approach in which research is conducted in Aboriginal communities (KORI, 2008). It ensures that Aboriginal communities own the information collected, have control of the research processes, have access to the resulting documentation, and have possession of any data collected and the right to distribute it (KORI, 2008). keywords: communities; community; participants; program; research; study; youth cache: joci-2456.htm plain text: joci-2456.txt item: #145 of 547 id: joci-2457 author: None title: Some papers created for presentations … date: None words: 3285 flesch: 8 summary: A Community-based Model for e-Servicing in First Nations Communities: The K-Net Approach to Water Treatment in Northern Ontario. Integrating New Media into Communication Research: Multi-site Videoconferencing for Focus Groups with Remote First Nation Community Members. Presented at the Canadian Communication Association Annual Conference (CCA 2009), Carleton University, Ottawa, May. http://meeting.knet.ca/mp19/file.php/16/Publications/CCA2009_Gratton_ODonnell.pdf Grossman, Ruth (2008) Impact of Technology Change on Issue Areas Relevant to Connectivity in Remote and Indigenous Communities: a literature review; Prepared for the CCIRDT (Centre for Community Informatics Research Development and Training) and NICSN (Northern Indigenous Community Satellite Network), September http://knet.ca/documents/Literature-Review-Impact-of-Technology-Change-on-Issue-Areas-Sept08.pdf Grossman, Ruth (2008) Impact of Technology Change on Issue Areas Relevant to Connectivity in Remote and Indigenous Communities: EXTENDED BIBLIOGRAPHY; prepared for the CCIRDT (Centre for Community Informatics Research Development and Training) and NICSN (Northern Indigenous Community Satellite Network) http://knet.ca/documents/Extended-Bibliography-Impact=of-Technology-Change-in-Remote-and-Indigenous-Communities-Sept08.pdf Gurstein, Michael (2007) What is Community Informatics and Why Does it Matter, Polimetrica, Rome, 2007 (pp. 52-54) http://www.docstoc.com/docs/14297418/WHAT-IS-COMMUNITY-INFORMATICS-(AND-WHY-DOES-IT-MATTER) Hancock, B-R., and O'Donnell, S. (2009) New Media and Self-Determination: Publicly Made and Accessible Video and Remote and Rural First Nation Communities. keywords: aboriginal; canada; communities; community; conference; development; nations; net; research; video cache: joci-2457.htm plain text: joci-2457.txt item: #146 of 547 id: joci-2458 author: Gideon, Valerie; Nicholas, Eugene; Rowlandson, John; Woolner, Florence title: Enabling and Accelerating First Nations Telehealth Development in Canada date: 2009-10-27 words: 18508 flesch: 37 summary: AFN support for First Nations telehealth services and systems is embedded in the First Nations Action Plan, the Aboriginal Health Blueprint and, recently, the Wait Times Road Map. The second section provided an environmental scan and a current state analysis of First Nations telehealth and addressed the potential impact that a 100% First Nations telehealth investment ratio might have. keywords: access; afn; benefits; canada; capacity; care; chii; communities; community; delivery; development; investment; key; management; nations; nations health; nations telehealth; network; ontario; project; regional; requirements; services; staff; support; telehealth; telehealth development; telehealth services; telemedicine; training cache: joci-2458.pdf plain text: joci-2458.txt item: #147 of 547 id: joci-2459 author: None title: joci-2459 date: None words: 1472 flesch: 31 summary: The risk is that high speed Internet will result in more drain from local economies into more highly developed and capital intensive applications and their centralized and corporate sponsors rather than a move of resources and development in the other direction.

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: broadband; development; economic; internet 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: community; informatics; research; technologies cache: joci-2460.htm plain text: joci-2460.txt item: #149 of 547 id: joci-2461 author: None title: None date: None words: 4284 flesch: 46 summary: Because community inquiry underlies our approach to system development, we include users as active designers who bring their experiences to bear in designing new iLab tools. A cornerstone of community inquiry is that it aims to respond to human needs by democratic and equitable processes. keywords: boricua; collaborative; community; ilab; inquiry; learning; neighborhood; paseo; paseo boricua; prcc; work cache: joci-2461.htm plain text: joci-2461.txt item: #150 of 547 id: joci-2462 author: None title: None date: None words: 7955 flesch: 48 summary: Contrary to Blackburn’s findings for library users as a whole, the traditional professional middle-classes – most likely to be found in Mosaic categories A, B, and C – are not especially big users of the People’s Network in Shropshire, and between them accounted for only 17% of all Mosaic postcodes in the study. The People's Network does not exist as a stand-alone system for library users, but is interconnected with their library habits, their urban geographies, and their socialising patterns to some extent. keywords: access; categories; category; data; internet; libraries; library; mosaic; network; people; respondents; sample; shropshire; users cache: joci-2462.htm plain text: joci-2462.txt item: #151 of 547 id: joci-2463 author: None title: Social Entrepreneurship, ICTs and Youth Development in South Af date: None words: 8364 flesch: 42 summary: Applying Existing Ideas in New Ways The above challenges facing secondary education youth development in South Africa and Africa in general call for innovative approaches to meet the educational and training needs of the youth. The quality, relevance and cost of secondary school training are among the various challenges facing youth education in South Africa and other African countries. keywords: africa; community; community development; development; education; icts; ikamvayouth; information; knowledge; learners; organization; school; south africa; technologies; technology; training; youth cache: joci-2463.htm plain text: joci-2463.txt item: #152 of 547 id: joci-2464 author: None title: Running head: SOCIAL CAPITAL AND WIRELESS ENCRYPTION PRACTICES date: None words: 7576 flesch: 48 summary: Social Capital Putnam defines social capital as “connections among individuals – social networks and the norms of reciprocity and trustworthiness that rise from them” (19). A longitudinal study on formal social capital and the Internet revealed that the practice of internet adoption occurred more quickly among individuals with higher social capital and that Internet use does not reduce time spent interacting in social networks, which indicates a positive relationship between social capital and the practice of Internet adoption . keywords: access; capital; community; diffusion; encryption; level; networks; phase; points; research; social; study; technology; use; wireless cache: joci-2464.htm plain text: joci-2464.txt item: #153 of 547 id: joci-2465 author: None title: ICTs and Community Participation - Indicative Framework date: None words: 6613 flesch: 45 summary: The initial challenge of sharing community level information with the other entities in the YIP was achieved through the household survey. On the supply side, Imparato and Ruster (2003) suggest that a related enabling structure should be put in place which will be responsive to the demands of the community and can facilitate community participation. keywords: community; development; groups; icts; information; issues; jamaica; jaspev; level; making; participation; social cache: joci-2465.htm plain text: joci-2465.txt item: #154 of 547 id: joci-2466 author: None title: Communities, Technologies and Participation: Notes from C&T 2009 date: None words: 5532 flesch: 32 summary: He cited an Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) blog post about strengthening civic participation, the National Initiative on Social Participation he recently instigated, and concluded with a proposal that everyone [at the conference] should dedicate 2 hours per week for outreach to other communities to promote civic participation. The next day started off with a panel on Community technology to support geographically-based communities, moderated by Marcus Foth (who co-organized the Digital Cities 6 workshop at C&T 2009 and will be chairing C&T 2011), and included Paul Resnick, Fiorella de Cindio, Keith Hampton and me. keywords: communities; community; conference; internet; notes; number; online; participation; people; support; technology; users; wrd cache: joci-2466.htm plain text: joci-2466.txt item: #155 of 547 id: joci-2467 author: None title: ROLE OF ICTS IN INDIAN RURAL COMMUNITIES date: None words: 7671 flesch: 38 summary: “Teledensity Target to be Revised for 2006, Says DoT.” Accessed January 30, 2006, from: http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=113956 Singh, P. (2006). Accessed January 30, 2006 from: http://classweb.gmu.edu/nclc348/f03/348socialcapital.htm World Bank (2006). keywords: access; communities; community; development; government; icts; india; information; internet; january; language; people; poor; poverty; projects; rural; services; technology; villages cache: joci-2467.htm plain text: joci-2467.txt item: #156 of 547 id: joci-2532 author: None title: None date: None words: 1107 flesch: 29 summary: The paper by Denison and Johanson takes a unique look at e-research infrastructure and its implications for community research. The paper by Gomez and Baron describes part of a larger study in Colombia, in which expected outcomes of CI were mostly absent: public access to information and communication technologies (ICT) has not helped strengthen community organizations or development activities, most likely due to the political violence that has affected the region. keywords: community; paper; research cache: joci-2532.htm plain text: joci-2532.txt item: #157 of 547 id: joci-2533 author: None title: None date: None words: 979 flesch: 50 summary: Or do people interpret such immediacy responses (posting pictures on Facebook instead of Youtube, or real-time video-calls between continents on i-phones?  As examples, the paper by Gebhardt, Greif, Raycheva, Lobet-Maris and Lasen examines development of Ketnet Kick, a  popular collaborative game in Flanders (Belgium) for  pre-adolescents and suggests that the ethical relationship between on and online communities is critical, and children, as children, exist in a ‘netplay’ society, in which research drawing upon child development and media studies in the development of games needs to take place to development meaningful and relevant products.   keywords: broadband; gebhardt; society cache: joci-2533.htm plain text: joci-2533.txt item: #158 of 547 id: joci-2534 author: None title: joci-2534 date: None words: 6404 flesch: 35 summary: This view is supported by Stillman (2005) and Stillman and Stoecker (2004), who advocate the use of PAR for the research and evaluation of community technology projects for building community capacity that will lead to more effective use of new technologies in the service of community development. Understood here as helping to establish conditions under which the necessary personal and systemic attributes required to identify and address community development challenges can develop and be mobilised into action for the good of the community (Adams, 2005, pp. 4, 5) 4 Defined here in Sen's (1987) terms as what real opportunities you have regarding the life you may lead (cited in Saito, 2003, p. 21) 5 Defined here as the personal and social characteristics that can be mobilised into action for the good of the community (Adams, 2005, p. 4) 6 See Hearn, Kimber, Lennie & Simpson (2005), Simpson (2005) and Knox (2005) for analyses of Australian community technology projects funded under this program keywords: action; arden; communities; community; design; development; engagement; evaluation; granitenet; informatics; learning; phase; portal; project; research cache: joci-2534.htm plain text: joci-2534.txt item: #159 of 547 id: joci-2535 author: None title: None date: None words: 8940 flesch: 43 summary: As part of the investigation performed on the Caribbean coast of the country, we included the municipality of El Carmen de Bolívar. El Carmen de Bolívar has a population of 70,000 and forms part of the Montes de María region, also known as the Serrania de San Jacinto, located between the departments of Sucre and Bolívar. keywords: access; bolívar; carmen; carmen de; communication; community; country; de bolívar; development; el carmen; ict; internet; people; public; region; social; venues cache: joci-2535.htm plain text: joci-2535.txt item: #160 of 547 id: joci-2536 author: None title: None date: None words: 594 flesch: 16 summary: Communities of course, gain from having access to the results of research, being able to draw on the skills of academics and senior students, particularly graduate students who are often able to bridge communities into technologies and resource environments which would otherwise be denied to them. The difficulty also is that research resources and particularly research funding generally is restricted to direct use by researchers (senior or junior) and cannot be used for example, to pay for time on the part of community members who may be participating as “partners” alongside paid researchers or academics who are conducting research as part of their normal academic responsibilities (and compensation schemes). keywords: communities cache: joci-2536.htm plain text: joci-2536.txt item: #161 of 547 id: joci-2537 author: None title: Untitled Page date: None words: 4374 flesch: 41 summary: We examine the role of domain, conversation, and functionality roles in modelling community activation. Domain, conversation, and functionality roles We distinguish three types of interrelated roles in collaboration patterns: domain, conversation, and functionality roles. keywords: collaboration; communities; community; design; patterns; roles; socio; system; tool; workflow cache: joci-2537.htm plain text: joci-2537.txt item: #162 of 547 id: joci-2538 author: None title: None date: None words: 9012 flesch: 47 summary: Challenging Warner’s perspective on social movements’ agency   In this essay I argue that the case of post-earthquake L’Aquila can aide in deepening our understanding of the potential agency of discursive counterpublics in their transformation into social movements. The case of post-earthquake L’Aquila provides an example of a growing counterpublic engaged in an active resistance to a mainstream discourse and in a process of change-making through poiesis. keywords: activists; agency; city; counterpublics; discourse; earthquake; l’aquila; media; people; post; private; public; state; warner; world cache: joci-2538.htm plain text: joci-2538.txt item: #163 of 547 id: joci-2539 author: None title: Untitled Page date: None words: 6023 flesch: 48 summary: Thus, the need for “e-learning strategies” has been recognized. Research in the field of ICT support for learning and teaching usually focused on one of these aspects: educational designs, selection and affordances of technologies, e-learning strategies. keywords: communities; education; ict; learning; lecturers; management; process; resources; strategy; students; support; teaching; technologies; university cache: joci-2539.htm plain text: joci-2539.txt item: #164 of 547 id: joci-2540 author: None title: None date: None words: 5058 flesch: 42 summary: Finally, a third root of social representation approach is in phenomenology and particularly in the attention to the everyday shared knowledge, to the often implicit meanings and interpretations that allow individuals and communities to communicate and to behave in meaningful ways. On these and other issues, social representation approach and community informatics have many insights to offer, yet efforts are still needed to bridge these two perspectives systematically. keywords: approach; communities; community; icts; internet; moscovici; new; representations; research; use cache: joci-2540.htm plain text: joci-2540.txt item: #165 of 547 id: joci-2541 author: None title: None date: None words: 6581 flesch: 47 summary: Still, after a decade of observations and case studies, it is clear that the effective operation and sustainability of community telecenters can be fraught with substantial challenges. Older adults who praised the use of telecenter ICTs by the young balked at the idea of adopting the technology themselves. keywords: access; communication; community; development; digital; dominican; government; icts; information; limón; poverty; republic; technology; telecenter; use; world cache: joci-2541.htm plain text: joci-2541.txt item: #166 of 547 id: joci-2542 author: None title: None date: None words: 6177 flesch: 37 summary: e-Research Infrastructure and Community Research Tom Denison Monash University Graeme Johanson Monash University Abstract Research is increasingly being conducted by multi-stakeholder teams which include the researchers themselves, funding authorities, industry collaborators and community stakeholders inside and outside universities, all of whom have dynamic requirements relating to research data, research artefacts and products, and published outcomes. It will discuss issues including: empowerment, research frameworks, design and methods; and how to conduct ethical research with communities, including protocols, intellectual property, ownership of research data and of outcomes. keywords: access; communities; community; data; issues; management; ownership; repositories; research; researchers; use cache: joci-2542.htm plain text: joci-2542.txt item: #167 of 547 id: joci-2543 author: None title: None date: None words: 3442 flesch: 47 summary: Adding the impact of excluding prison inmates would magnify this. About 40 percent of state prison inmates never received a General Education Diploma (GED) or a High School Diploma (HSD) compared with about 14 percent of all adults [2]. keywords: access; doc; education; information; inmates; percent; prison; programs cache: joci-2543.htm plain text: joci-2543.txt item: #168 of 547 id: joci-2544 author: None title: None date: None words: 7408 flesch: 46 summary: “Career changers” are an important source of teacher education students and their maturity is usually highly valued by employers. Review of these profiles plus data from student conversations and responses to course evaluation surveys, highlight the enabling factors that contributed to university level study success for a small group of teacher education students who studied ‘externally’ by on-line distance education. keywords: access; campus; course; distance; education; family; learning; line; students; study; support; teaching; time; university; work cache: joci-2544.htm plain text: joci-2544.txt item: #169 of 547 id: joci-2545 author: None title: None date: None words: 9015 flesch: 55 summary: In this regard, it should be remembered that there is only one movement group, in contrast to other social movement cases – for example, other Italian cases such as the “Purple People” movement or the “Anomalous Wave” student movement- in which multiple online groups were created (because there are no official leaders and the movement’s borders are fluid with loose ties, so that anyone can set up a group. Social movements & ICTs: a brief overview Before performing an analysis of the movement of the wheelbarrows, let us first clear up what we mean when we talk of social movements. keywords: city; facebook; facebook group; group; internet; l’aquila; media; members; movement; online; participation; people; platforms; protest; social; square; sunday; wheelbarrows cache: joci-2545.htm plain text: joci-2545.txt item: #170 of 547 id: joci-2546 author: None title: None date: None words: 8023 flesch: 52 summary: Len thus takes full advantage of changing technologies, strategically mixing and matching new communications technologies with improved transport technologies to make a life that bridges WheatCliffs and the state capital. But that is not to say that communications technologies are insignificant. keywords: communications; families; family; life; new; people; place; rural; rurality; technologies; technology; town; wheatcliffs; work cache: joci-2546.htm plain text: joci-2546.txt item: #171 of 547 id: joci-2547 author: None title: None date: None words: 5135 flesch: 45 summary: Failure, success and improvisation of information systems projects in developing countries. Content creation for ICT development projects: Integrating normative approaches and community demand,” Information Technology for Development, 10(2), 85-94. keywords: communication; development; extension; icts; india; information; management; project; questions; research; sustainability; telecentre; telesupport cache: joci-2547.htm plain text: joci-2547.txt item: #172 of 547 id: joci-2548 author: None title: None date: None words: 3515 flesch: 22 summary: Adjeacent And Interrelated Initiatives Agro Vocational Training: On the anvil is an agriculture vocational training initiative for small farmers, where videos of agriculture best practices are being showcased to farmers, through the social entrepreneur route. Eg. Empowerment of small farmers through concerted group participation and resultant collective collaboration and action to deliver productivity gains, reducing their fragmentation/ isolation and wresting control of their lives and livelihoods. keywords: access; agro; cost; farmer; impact; net; seeds; service; soil cache: joci-2548.htm plain text: joci-2548.txt item: #173 of 547 id: joci-2549 author: Gurstein, Michael title: Investment 58-Poverty 14: TheUN'sBroadband Commission for Digital Development vs. the MDGs date: 2010-09-28 words: 316 flesch: 71 summary: Si desea abrir un archivo de una pila, simplemente tiene que hacer clic en él. tan solo tiene que arrastrar una carpeta al lado derecho del Dock y automáticamente se convertirá en una pila. keywords: pila; una cache: joci-2549.pdf plain text: joci-2549.txt item: #174 of 547 id: joci-2550 author: None title: None date: None words: 8208 flesch: 46 summary: The number of households with Internet access and internet users is still low in Hungary. The high rate of broadband access is to no avail when the number of internet users is so low. keywords: access; community; hungarian; hungary; information; information society; internet; people; population; society; tools; use; users cache: joci-2550.htm plain text: joci-2550.txt item: #175 of 547 id: joci-2551 author: None title: None date: None words: 7563 flesch: 41 summary: How ICT can help: Effective communication through ICT tools Xue (2004) mentions, that public health emergency response requires a low-degree of mediation and a high degree of collaboration. They have also contributed to health preparedness by enhancing science education and community health and services. keywords: communication; communities; community; crisis; emergencies; emergency; health; ict; information; local; management; media; mobile; organizations; public; response; technology; tools; use cache: joci-2551.htm plain text: joci-2551.txt item: #176 of 547 id: joci-2552 author: None title: None date: None words: 8746 flesch: 48 summary: One definition of telecentre is provided by Reilly & Gomez (2001) stating that telecentres are physical spaces that provide public access to information and communication technologies, notably the Internet, for educational, personal, social and economic development. Composing a tool for development? With the common understanding of telecentres as being tools for development it is of interest to understand Tunjang telecentre as a potential tool for change within the Tunjang community. keywords: characteristics; community; community members; development; evaluation; ict; icts; information; members; school; services; telecentre; training; tunjang; users cache: joci-2552.htm plain text: joci-2552.txt item: #177 of 547 id: joci-2553 author: None title: None date: None words: 4621 flesch: 53 summary: Accessing the Council directory for health services did not differ among towns (c2 = 2.318, p>.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: community; directories; directory; health; information; internet; services; town; use 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: access; australia; computer; digital; group; health; home; housing; information; internet; mobile; people; phone; public; research; social; technologies; technology; use 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: community; design; group; ict; informatics; participation; participatory; participatory planning; people; planning; tools; urban; 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: commons; communities; community; concept; craigslist; information; internet; members; new; people; place; portal; sites; society; web; world 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; community; constraints; india; layout; new; parts; sarsu; sudarshan; system; technology; users 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: brazilian; community; ict; information 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: brazil; community; issue 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; brazil; brazilian; growth; internet; internet access; population; social; table; use; uses 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: citizens; city; deliberation; democracy; digital; discussion; dpb; internet; messages; online; participants; participation; participatory; project; respect; tools 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: capital; case; community; development; local; organizations; participation; portal; power; process; social; technologies; technology; way 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: activities; communication; community; content; environment; face; group; learning; multimedia; network; participants; re@ge; resources; use 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: context; digital; inclusion; learning; learning portals 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: activities; awareness; citizens; context; garden; learners; literacies; literacy; new; practices; technologies; use 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; communities; community; development; digital; icts; individuals; information; model; motivation; odds; skills; telecenter; use 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: digital; education; inclusion; nap; paulo; projects; public; research; school; social; state; são; são paulo; usp; web 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; community; information; libraries; members; network; participants; public; rbbc; social 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: cirandas; community; development; economy; enterprises; information; movement; software; solidarity; solidarity economy; system 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: 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; community; media 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: community; fullilove; root; shock 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: archive; collection; community; design; project; ridolfo; samaritan; scholars; texts; tsedaka; university 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: community; events; groups; information; learning; location; members; network; new; partners; prototype; support; technology; web; 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: action; activities; communities; community; development; informatics; knowledge; learning; partnerships; people; practice; project; research; social; students 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 research; community; context; design; design research; evaluation; informatics; new; research; science; social; systems; technology; urban 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: communities; community; design; engagement; groups; knowledge; light; participants; participation; participatory; people; process; project; research; researchers; work 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: areas; bed; beds; communications; communities; community; data; development; dtn; european; fp7; internet; n4c; networking; project; reindeer; research; technology; test; time; udén; university; 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. keywords: communities; community; research cache: joci-2595.htm plain text: joci-2595.txt item: #204 of 547 id: joci-2596 author: None title: None date: None words: 3602 flesch: 40 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”. keywords: action; community; icts; information; research; social; technologies; technology cache: joci-2596.htm plain text: joci-2596.txt item: #205 of 547 id: joci-2599 author: None title: joci-2599 date: None words: 11372 flesch: 42 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: amp; cih; communications; communities; community; computer; digital; education; home; internet; literacy; media; new; participants; project; research; school; social; trust; use; zealand cache: joci-2599.htm plain text: joci-2599.txt item: #206 of 547 id: joci-2601 author: None title: None date: None words: 3245 flesch: 39 summary: Popular education workshops are often interactive and multimodal (Olds, 2004). Multimodality and the analysis and production of various media forms also appear in popular education workshops, following from the principle that literacies are multiple and modes of education cannot be universalised into one standard, print-based mode of knowledge production and transmission (Kincheloe 2008). keywords: buildthewheel.org; culture; development; education; information; knowledge; production; resources cache: joci-2601.htm plain text: joci-2601.txt item: #207 of 547 id: joci-2602 author: None title: None date: None words: 6062 flesch: 46 summary: Objective To identify the impact of ICT applications on the work practices of social activists engaged in multicultural co-operations at ESF; and to find better design ideas for future prototypes to better support ESF activists in their work. How is technology developed, appropriated and transferred among ESF activists? Table 1: Overview of ICT4CSO Project We gathered empirical data from January 2008 to October 2010. keywords: activists; design; esf; european; information; knowledge; organizations; research; social; technology; work cache: joci-2602.htm plain text: joci-2602.txt item: #208 of 547 id: joci-2644 author: None title: joci-2644 date: None words: 2321 flesch: 31 summary: In the Canadian Aboriginal context, First Mile broadband infrastructure reflects the principles of Community Ownership, Control, Access and Possession, or OCAP (see: http://meeting.knet.ca/mp19/mod/resource/view.php?id=4012). First Mile development provides a model for broadband infrastructure and network operations that counters the traditional corporate approach of building from the centre outwards. keywords: broadband; canada; communities; community; development; infrastructure; mile cache: joci-2644.htm plain text: joci-2644.txt item: #209 of 547 id: joci-2645 author: None title: joci-2645 date: None words: 1825 flesch: 20 summary: What is new and somewhat startling is the full court press by the US government (USG) and its allies and acolytes among the corporate, technical and civil society participants in Internet Governance discussions to extend the use of the highly locally adapted versions of the MS model from the quite narrow and technical areas where it has achieved a considerable degree of success towards becoming the fundamental and effectively, only, basis on which such Internet Governance discussions are to be allowed (as per the USG's statement concerning the transfer of the DNS management function) to go forward. This will of course include for example the major Internet corporations who get to promote their stakes and make Internet policy through some sort of consensus process where all the participants have an equal say and where rules governing things like operational procedures, conflict of interest, modes and structures of internal governance, rules of participation etc. etc. keywords: governance; interest; internet; model cache: joci-2645.htm plain text: joci-2645.txt item: #210 of 547 id: joci-2646 author: None title: joci-2646 date: None words: 1793 flesch: 34 summary: Community networks present the opportunity, as with renewable energy, food and agriculture, community banking and other efforts to vitalize localism, to consider alternate economic and organizational models. Community networks should not necessarily compete with private sector companies to provide commercial services, but should partner with willing telecommunications companies and ISPs to offer local public information services: government, education, libraries, healthcare, culture, economic development and public safety. keywords: community; information; mile; networks; services; telecommunications cache: joci-2646.htm plain text: joci-2646.txt item: #211 of 547 id: joci-2647 author: None title: joci-2647 date: None words: 6711 flesch: 48 summary: More recently, First Mile has been used to refer specifically to ensuring that First Nations communities are connected to broadband in ways that support sustainable, locally-driven services and activities (McMahon, O'Donnell, Smith, Woodman Simmonds & Walmark, 2010; McMahon, O'Donnell, Smith, Walmark, Beaton & Simmonds, 2011). By 2009, the AFN had passed five resolutions at their annual general assemblies recognizing the need for First Nations communities to have adequate broadband connectivity and access to ICT. keywords: broadband; canada; communities; community; development; fort; health; mile; nations; network; school; services; severn; use cache: joci-2647.htm plain text: joci-2647.txt item: #212 of 547 id: joci-2648 author: None title: joci-2648 date: None words: 4899 flesch: 47 summary: Email: michael@law-democracy.org At his inaugural news conference as Chairman of the United States Federal Communications Commission in 2001, Michael Powell infamously responded to a journalist's question by comparing the inability of some Americans to afford Internet access with his own apparent inability to purchase a luxury car. Facilitation of access to electronically transmitted information, as well as of the production, exchange and diffusion thereof, constitutes an obligation of the State… 8 In France, the Constitutional Council in 2009 struck down a controversial law that would have required ISPs to permanently block Internet access of users accused of copyright violations, in part because the freedom to access online communication services was held to be protected under the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen of 1789.9 Although the French decision does not explicitly recognise the Internet as a freestanding right in the way that the Greek Constitution does, this decision was subsequently cited by the Costa Rican Constitutional Court, in a ruling that went considerably further: In the context of a society based on information or knowledge, this imposes upon public authorities, for the benefit of those under their administration, to promote and guarantee universal access to these new technologies.10 At the international level, the importance of the Internet was recognised as early as 1999 by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights: [The Internet] is a mechanism capable of strengthening the democratic system, contributing towards the economic development of the countries of the region, and strengthening the full exercise of freedom of expression. keywords: access; communities; expression; freedom; human; internet; online; right; users; world cache: joci-2648.htm plain text: joci-2648.txt item: #213 of 547 id: joci-2650 author: None title: None date: None words: 7873 flesch: 44 summary: This section summarizes both the samples examined to compare to the historical discourse of broadband development as well as how First Nations communities are using these opportunities to publish their subjugated knowledge. Remote and rural First Nations using First Mile have made it their objective of doing this for themselves. keywords: aliant; bell; broadband; canada; communities; community; development; discourse; government; industry; infrastructure; nations; ontario; project; service cache: joci-2650.htm plain text: joci-2650.txt item: #214 of 547 id: joci-2651 author: None title: joci-2651 date: None words: 8415 flesch: 39 summary: ICT for Sustainable Development: An Example from Cambodia Helena Grunfeld Research Scholar, Centre for Strategic Economic Studies, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia. But sustainability has not been a central concern of the CA, while the sustainability literature has paid insufficient attention to guaranteed protective security: 'It is worth noting here that even the highly illuminating literature on sustainable development often misses out the fact that what people need for their security is not only the sustainability of overall development, but also the need for guaranteed social protection when people's predicaments diverge and some groups are thrown brutally to the wall while other groups experience little adversity' (Sen, 2000, p.37). keywords: access; agriculture; capabilities; capability; change; climate; development; human; ict; ict4d; information; ireach; new; participants; research; sen; social; sustainability; world cache: joci-2651.htm plain text: joci-2651.txt item: #215 of 547 id: joci-2655 author: None title: joci-2655 date: None words: 5117 flesch: 49 summary: This research asks if Alberta communities unserved by commercial providers initiated local approaches to internet provision. Access is a primary focus of community informatics as it is required to foster a community's other goals, be they political, economic, or social (Gurstein, 2000). keywords: alberta; communities; community; county; government; informatics; initiatives; internet; interview; service; supernet cache: joci-2655.htm plain text: joci-2655.txt item: #216 of 547 id: joci-2656 author: None title: joci-2656 date: None words: 8975 flesch: 50 summary: On a larger scale, the government of Nunavut has recognized the value of the public access sites in the territory's small, widely scattered, and generally isolated settlements through its immediate intervention to replace the entire $85,000/year in CAP funding received by the territory with funding from the territorial Department of Education (Nunavut takes over community Internet access funding, 2012). Retrieved from http://www.metroland.com/Communities/100073/Arnprior_Chronicle_Guide_EMC Nunavut takes over community Internet access funding. keywords: access; canada; canadian; cap; communities; community; community access; divide; funding; government; internet; internet access; library; program; public; services; sites; use cache: joci-2656.htm plain text: joci-2656.txt item: #217 of 547 id: joci-2657 author: None title: joci-2657 date: None words: 10170 flesch: 53 summary: Conducting academic interventions that address technology from within in order to benefit rural Africa is a formidable challenge. This section endeavors to explore management theories affecting views on how to perform and analyse operational internet access activities in rural Africa. keywords: academic; africa; areas; community; development; ict; information; international; internet; itu; literature; macha; network; people; research; rural; stam; technology; van; world; zambia cache: joci-2657.htm plain text: joci-2657.txt item: #218 of 547 id: joci-2658 author: None title: joci-2658 date: None words: 1806 flesch: 48 summary: Data sources include 73 interviews (57 interviews with home LAN users and administrators, and 16 interviews with Internet providers), as well as documents, archival data and direct observations. Connections between multi-storey buildings through the air coaxial cables Eventually, home LAN services developed from game and file exchange to more advanced and community-oriented services such as chat, file data bases, media galleries, among others. keywords: home; internet; lans; network; services; users cache: joci-2658.htm plain text: joci-2658.txt item: #219 of 547 id: joci-2659 author: None title: joci-2659 date: None words: 2166 flesch: 50 summary: Some local people in cities the size of Fredericton will of course be employed by the large telecom companies to deliver local services, but problems arise when the local population finds itself dependent on expertise outside the city (Philpot, Beaton & Whiteduck, 2014). While some revenues generated by the created jobs and the use of the services stay within the city, large service providers must inevitably focus on capturing new and larger markets, which means their attention is ultimately national rather than local. keywords: canada; city; fredericton; gofred; government; service cache: joci-2659.htm plain text: joci-2659.txt item: #220 of 547 id: joci-2660 author: None title: joci-2660 date: None words: 1969 flesch: 34 summary: Parkland County positions rural communications as a means for future economic diversification and building community capacity and considers it a key survival mechanism. The rural municipality may be aware that there are rural communication coverage and capacity issues and may have classified it as a utility, but has decided to let the wireless service providers determine how to build and maintain the communication networks within their community. keywords: communications; county; municipality; rural; utility cache: joci-2660.htm plain text: joci-2660.txt item: #221 of 547 id: joci-2662 author: None title: joci-2662 date: None words: 5144 flesch: 43 summary: When First Nations communities own and manage their own infrastructure and online services, it is more likely that new opportunities for local investment, enterprise and employment will address local needs and priorities. In the introduction to the articles, Health Canada officials wrote: There is an overwhelmingly consistent finding in the research that confirms colonization contributed significantly to the imbalance of social determinants of health in First Nation communities evident today (Garman & Doull, 2009; p. 2). keywords: beaton; canada; communities; community; infrastructure; media; nations; o'donnell; people; services; social cache: joci-2662.htm plain text: joci-2662.txt item: #222 of 547 id: joci-2665 author: None title: joci-2665 date: None words: 1400 flesch: 45 summary: In Young World Rising: How Youth, Technology and Entrepreneurship are Changing the World from the Bottom Up, author Rob Salkowitz analyzes and highlights several case studies that shed light on how a nexus of youth, technology and entrepreneurship are changing development processes throughout the globe. Furthermore, Young World is also used as a classification for a demographic group, but it also stands to hold a geo-political meaning, which ultimately confuses what he is attempting to say. keywords: development; world; youth cache: joci-2665.htm plain text: joci-2665.txt item: #223 of 547 id: joci-2666 author: None title: joci-2666 date: None words: 11562 flesch: 47 summary: (2005) argue that e-Government initiatives in most local governments are still predominantly non-interactive and non-deliberative. Swedish research shows that there is a lack of empirical studies on the implementation of contact centres in municipalities within the research field of e-Government, although some minor case studies on different perspectives have been done (e.g. Bernhard, 2009, 2010; Flensburg et al., 2009; Bernhard & Grundén, 2010; Grundén, 2010). keywords: administration; administrators; case; ccs; centre; citizens; contact; government; implementation; municipal; municipalities; new; office; public; services; study cache: joci-2666.htm plain text: joci-2666.txt item: #224 of 547 id: joci-2667 author: None title: joci-2667 date: None words: 3545 flesch: 46 summary: Email: siefera@oclc.org With incredible support from Stuart Freiman and Alisson Walsh of Broadband Rhode Island. The ideas we proposed are starting to make their way into the ideas and language of these officials (Stuart Freiman, Program Director of Broadband Rhode Island). keywords: bbri; broadband; island; policy; process; public; rhode; stakeholder cache: joci-2667.htm plain text: joci-2667.txt item: #225 of 547 id: joci-2668 author: None title: joci-2668 date: None words: 1753 flesch: 35 summary: Library-Based - the first and most important evident learning is their decision to use libraries as the base for broader Internet access and use programs. Alongside these new governmental initiatives (only some of which have made provisions to avoid the difficulties experienced by earlier programs) keywords: access; internet; programs; support cache: joci-2668.htm plain text: joci-2668.txt item: #226 of 547 id: joci-2670 author: None title: joci-2670 date: None words: 1150 flesch: 35 summary: For many of us, myself included, it is likely that after a quick glance noting research methods as the focus of the book being reviewed, we are ready to move on to articles we consider more germane. At 556 pages, the book is a comprehensive, broad introduction to the issues of evaluation and, through the included teaching case studies and bibliography, is an excellent starting point for more advanced explorations into research methods for both the professional and academician alike. keywords: information; methods; research cache: joci-2670.htm plain text: joci-2670.txt item: #227 of 547 id: joci-2671 author: None title: joci-2671 date: None words: 7769 flesch: 50 summary: Yet as technology becomes pervasive, people are considering the use of community technologies to support local engagement. Although there is a growing body of literature in the human computer interaction (HCI) field that focuses on community technologies (Carroll, 2001; Gurstein, 2000; Schuler, 1994), few studies discuss how to design community technologies that are intended to solve local problems. keywords: capital; cohesion; community; community technologies; framework; group; information; interest; members; people; social; technologies; technology cache: joci-2671.htm plain text: joci-2671.txt item: #228 of 547 id: joci-2672 author: None title: joci-2672 date: None words: 11534 flesch: 51 summary: For instance, 100% of Mishkeegogamang community members who participated in the interviews reported having an email address; another 76% reported having a computer in their home. (Mishkeegogamang community member) is a historian really. keywords: activities; basis; community; community members; health; ict; members; mishkeegogamang; mishkeegogamang community; nations; participants; people; radio; technologies; technology; use; video cache: joci-2672.htm plain text: joci-2672.txt item: #229 of 547 id: joci-2673 author: None title: joci-2673 date: None words: 8959 flesch: 54 summary: The first proposition focuses on the effect of shared identity in social groups with social ties. Social ties are important and our study shows that the influence of ties is very significant in terms of enforcing the transactions on social ties. keywords: capital; chat; communities; community; game; groups; identity; participants; people; players; relations; resources; study; ties; transactions cache: joci-2673.htm plain text: joci-2673.txt item: #230 of 547 id: joci-2676 author: None title: joci-2676 date: None words: 9732 flesch: 42 summary: We can see how a generation that has been regarded as mostly oriented to seemingly ludic trivial tasks (such as getting together, gaming, browsing, navigating, sharing, messaging, posting, listening, searching and engaging with media just for fun), through its familiarity and expertise with the use and design of social media technologies, disrupts and transforms traditional activism by providing new environments for relationships, creativity, participation, organization, mobilization and social leadership emergence. Hanging out refers to the process of getting involved in digital social interactions of various kinds such as meeting, communicating, exchanging, sharing and playing using social media. keywords: activism; activists; content; facebook; information; internet; media; movement; networks; new; participation; people; technology; tools; use; way; web; world; youth cache: joci-2676.htm plain text: joci-2676.txt item: #231 of 547 id: joci-2681 author: None title: joci-2681 date: None words: 6252 flesch: 57 summary: However, the number of government-backed PAVs is quite low compared to those belonging to commercial businesses or privately-owned Internet cafés From 1999 to 2007, the number of Internet users increased by 2,500%, from 1 million users to 25 million. Considering the country's population of 250 million, the density of Internet users is still low (around 10%) when compared with that of mobile phone users (146 million or 63%). keywords: access; areas; cafés; female; ict; information; internet; males; users cache: joci-2681.htm plain text: joci-2681.txt item: #232 of 547 id: joci-2695 author: None title: joci-2695 date: None words: 2721 flesch: 36 summary: The article contributes to our understanding of CI research methods by promoting a non-traditional approach to focus groups, notably with respect to focus group size, the active role that the research participants played in setting the agenda and guiding the research, and the use of focus groups to answer questions and to reach consensus (Smith, this special issue). The authors argue that their study of DSR contributes to the literature on CI research methods by introducing a novel approach to curriculum design as an iterative process that includes community feedback and the criteria of relevance and rigor drawn from the DSR framework (Van Biljon, Traxler, Van Der Merwe, and Van Heerden, this special issue). keywords: authors; community; issue; methods; research cache: joci-2695.htm plain text: joci-2695.txt item: #233 of 547 id: joci-2696 author: None title: joci-2696 date: None words: 2058 flesch: 32 summary: Fundamental to achieving digital citizenship is access to the opportunity and means to use digital technologies-a commitment to ensuring the opportunity for full Internet access and use to all Canadians. Associated with this is the need to ensure that those who are the least able to undertake effective digital citizenship have access to facilities - Community Access and Innovation Hubs (CAIHs) where the devices, training and supports required for for digital citizenship are made locally available. keywords: access; citizenship; digital; internet cache: joci-2696.htm plain text: joci-2696.txt item: #234 of 547 id: joci-2697 author: None title: joci-2697 date: None words: 10409 flesch: 49 summary: This pattern showed a movement that occurred during the moments of transition towards design (formulating design goals), which implied a shift in design intentions. In Design Science Research (DSR), moving towards design action is relevant either to the suggestion phase (Vaishnavi & Kuechler, 2013) or to theory building (Venable, 2006), where technological possibilities are identified and decided. keywords: action; case; communities; community; data; design; design goals; goals; group; intentions; knowledge; members; new; participatory; research; stakeholders cache: joci-2697.htm plain text: joci-2697.txt item: #235 of 547 id: joci-2699 author: None title: joci-2699 date: None words: 9999 flesch: 51 summary: Community group environment for people participation and empowerment: the socio-cultural perspective. Focus group discussions were conducted at the community centre in Mafarafara which 'belongs' to the women: Mma C has the keys and the women meet at the centre to do their sewing and to socialise. keywords: africa; community; focus; focus groups; ict; ict platform; information; participants; platform; project; research; researchers; rural; south; women cache: joci-2699.htm plain text: joci-2699.txt item: #236 of 547 id: joci-2702 author: None title: joci-2702 date: None words: 7551 flesch: 54 summary: OPEN DATA IN BRAZIL AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS In this section, a general panorama of open data in Brazil is given, together with some perspectives on the use of open data by social movements. Why do you think open data is important? # Motivations Impediments Improvements 4.1 Work with data and link different information to create arguments There is a mismatch between amount of data released and the capacity of social movements to analyse it Make investments in education for open data use 4.2 Be able to work with data driven journalism There are many barriers to access information Promote publicity about existence of data 4.3 Use data to denounce injustices Open Data is unknown for most social movements Improve knowledge about how to search for data 4.4 Data can give basis to stimulate new claims There is no full transparency in government actions Enable access to information, without discrimination 4.5 Translate data into information for readers Most of the people have little informatics ability 4.6 Produce data in juridical research 4.7 Open data can stimulate analysis 4.8 Open data can stimulate new data 4.9 Validate/legitimate arguments in communication with data 4.10 Use data to understand the capitalist society 4.11 Understand the resistances against oppression with data 4.12 Fight corruption using spending data 4.13 Make better use of information, a central point in class conflicts 4.14 Unveil data manipulation Table 7: Impediments pointed in answers to Question 8. Question 8: What is the main impediment perceived by using data? # Impediments 8.1 keywords: actions; brazil; course; data; education; government; information; knowledge; movements; research; society; stage; table; use cache: joci-2702.htm plain text: joci-2702.txt item: #237 of 547 id: joci-2703 author: None title: joci-2703 date: None words: 7164 flesch: 43 summary: Figure 1: Dimensions of mobile digital literacy For any of these categories, it would be a mistake to assume that mobile digital technology merely passively contained and transmitted learning and knowledge; any technology (especially one as powerful and widespread as mobile digital technology) transforms what is known, what is worth knowing, how it gets to be known, how what is known is transformed, shared, preserved, discussed and distributed. Cheung and Hew (2009) summarize the pedagogical uses of mobile technology devices as communication and sharing, investigating, capturing data and analyses, assessing, task management, accessing multimedia and representing meanings. keywords: community; curriculum; design; development; digital; informatics; learning; literacy; mobile; research; skills; teachers; teaching; technology; use cache: joci-2703.htm plain text: joci-2703.txt item: #238 of 547 id: joci-2705 author: None title: joci-2705 date: None words: 4011 flesch: 39 summary: First Nations in Canada have developed over time the formal OCAP principles to guide this process (Assembly of First Nations, 2007; Schnarch, 2004), and OCAP has now become the de facto ethical standard not only for conducting research using First Nations data, but also for the collection and management of First Nations information in general (FNIGC, 2014, p.1). This understanding holds promise for CI research and practice, as for example in Beaton and Campbell's (2014) demonstration of how local ownership and control of information and communication technologies (ICT) by First Nations supports community resilience against settler colonialism through the daily use of online applications, social media and e-services. keywords: canada; communities; community; council; data; mile; nations; project; research; researchers; university cache: joci-2705.htm plain text: joci-2705.txt item: #239 of 547 id: joci-2706 author: None title: joci-2706 date: None words: 3977 flesch: 44 summary: but we know little about how this in turn enables them to have (or prevents them having) access to e-health (ie how the digital divide interacts with e-health access). We argue that what is needed to guide further research on the digital divide's impact on e-health access is a framework which allows us to collect and analyse data that combines the two methodological approaches, each informing the other, and which can identify both the quantitative relationships between and the qualitative explanations for ICT use and e-health access ie ICTs for Health. keywords: access; determinants; divide; health; ict; information; internet; research; social; use cache: joci-2706.htm plain text: joci-2706.txt item: #240 of 547 id: joci-2707 author: None title: joci-2707 date: None words: 5044 flesch: 36 summary: The STAR (Socio-economic Trends Assessment of the digital Revolution) Issue Report - a policy paper created to inform regulatory and allocation decisions - represents an era in which the potential of community wireless networks was just being explored and several contextual assumptions about impact were first applied and critically examined. Some observers wrote about the potential of this first wave of community networks as an almost ideally suited participatory medium for community and civic organizing (Schuler, 1994 and 1996); yet many of the first networks focused primarily on providing access, with the assumption that social impact would follow. keywords: access; communities; community; cwns; development; goals; impact; networking; networks; research; technology; wireless cache: joci-2707.htm plain text: joci-2707.txt item: #241 of 547 id: joci-2719 author: None title: joci-2719 date: None words: 8661 flesch: 46 summary: In the case region Sogn & Fjordane, one of 19 regions in Norway, a number of local and regional providers emerged and played an important role in development of local broadband infrastructure. This is the reality of broadband infrastructure development in Norway. keywords: access; broadband; development; infrastructure; infrastructure development; initiatives; isdn; model; national; providers; region; research; services; stage; technology cache: joci-2719.htm plain text: joci-2719.txt item: #242 of 547 id: joci-2725 author: None title: joci-2725 date: None words: 7193 flesch: 47 summary: First Mile broadband development projects reflect the specificity of the places they emerge from. The needs assessment found the majority of demand came from regional public services (health and education), which FCNQ's network was unable to provide without significant investment. keywords: access; broadband; canada; community; development; government; infrastructure; internet; krg; mile; network; nunavik; quebec; services; support; tamaani; villages cache: joci-2725.htm plain text: joci-2725.txt item: #243 of 547 id: joci-2727 author: None title: joci-2727 date: None words: 7051 flesch: 45 summary: In this paper, we describe specific challenges faced by Native Hawaiian communities in developing affordable, high-quality broadband access. CONCLUSIONS This exploratory study described challenges faced by Native Hawaiian communities in developing affordable, high-quality broadband access. keywords: access; broadband; communities; community; determination; development; digital; hawaiian; hawaiʻi; information; native; policy; public; self; states; united cache: joci-2727.htm plain text: joci-2727.txt item: #244 of 547 id: joci-2729 author: None title: joci-2729 date: None words: 6590 flesch: 42 summary: Reclaiming their beliefs, traditions and institutions can help First Nations communities to resist colonial aggression and reconstruct their identities (Alfred, 2009; RCAP, 1996; Tousignant & Sioui, 2009). The AFN is also proposing that First Nations communities and organizations oversee the public funding required to develop and control the communication infrastructure in their communities. keywords: broadband; community; development; health; ict; infrastructure; kitigan; kitigan zibi; members; nations; services; support; zibi cache: joci-2729.htm plain text: joci-2729.txt item: #245 of 547 id: joci-2738 author: None title: joci-2738 date: None words: 4107 flesch: 37 summary: Their proposal for broadband infrastructure construction funds was based on the mandate provided by the Chiefs of FNEC partner First Nations to secure appropriate broadband communications technology and systems to serve the present and future needs of the First Nations. The number of partner First Nations and schools could have been significantly higher if all the communities had been able to access to these equivalent telecom services. keywords: broadband; communities; community; fibre; fnec; infrastructure; nations; network; quebec; services; support cache: joci-2738.htm plain text: joci-2738.txt item: #246 of 547 id: joci-2740 author: None title: joci-2740 date: None words: 4846 flesch: 51 summary: Connectivity in rural and remote communities across Canada - including First Nations communities - is substandard for many reasons, ranging from costly and difficult technological challenges to non-existent or ineffective government policies. In 2009, the First Nations Education Council (FNEC) reported major shortfalls in funding in Quebec, relative to the population growth and the increased cost of living in First Nation communities. keywords: community; education; home; ict; kitigan; nations; students; technology; use; zibi cache: joci-2740.htm plain text: joci-2740.txt item: #247 of 547 id: joci-2741 author: None title: joci-2741 date: None words: 1997 flesch: 34 summary: Keewaytinook Okimakanak is a nonprofit organization established by the Chiefs of six remote First Nations in Northwestern Ontario. First Nations can offer competitive services through community networks that can encourage universal broadband access, affordable service, and competition. keywords: communities; community; fmcc; nations; network; services cache: joci-2741.htm plain text: joci-2741.txt item: #248 of 547 id: joci-2746 author: None title: joci-2746 date: None words: 5372 flesch: 51 summary: Other uses for technology among Dunn County agencies include word processing and managing spreadsheets. As the project began, agency staff members exuded a sense of uncertainty regarding ICT and how to utilize it effectively. keywords: ac*v; agencies; agency; community; county; dunn; literacy; media; project; social; staff; technology cache: joci-2746.htm plain text: joci-2746.txt item: #249 of 547 id: joci-2751 author: None title: joci-2751 date: None words: 62185 flesch: 30 summary: Thus the lesson that one can take from studying historical patterns of growing literacy and development of the new tools of communication is as follows: most social actors, notably including many non-state and non-business actors such as social movement organizations and their activists, value the increased availability and usefulness of ICTs, strongly perceiving them as tools of empowerment.

New social movements have arisen on the net. keywords: 1.0pt; background:#e6e6e6;padding:2.75pt; char;text; class="msonormalcxspmiddle; class="reference; div; font; grid; mode; new; none;border; none;padding:2.75pt; numeric; padding:2.75pt; right; right;layout; size; social; span lang="en; style=; style='font; td width="42; valign="top; width:31.15pt;border; width="83 cache: joci-2751.htm plain text: joci-2751.txt item: #250 of 547 id: joci-2752 author: None title: joci-2752 date: None words: 7449 flesch: 57 summary: But there are 'digital divides' affecting older people in rural areas with 'double impact'. First, although nationally Internet use among older people is starting to 'catch up', still only 61% of those 65 and over, and only 27% of those aged 75 and over, use the Internet, compared to 99% of those aged under 25 (Office of National Statistics, 2012). keywords: discussion; email; forum; health; internet; june; online; participants; people; project; research; rural; stakeholders; use; webcasts cache: joci-2752.htm plain text: joci-2752.txt item: #251 of 547 id: joci-2754 author: None title: joci-2754 date: None words: 9903 flesch: 48 summary: The focus of this research was to investigate the role of social capital in the successful implementations of ICT in the Aboriginal communities and they found that not only the question of what type of connectivity matters (in terms of the content of the networks), but also how the networks are developed and implemented (in terms of community social capital). In conclusion, we found that group characteristics, norms, togetherness, sociability, connections, and volunteerism as important factors that build up social capital among virtual community members in Malaysia. keywords: activities; capital; communities; community; community members; help; information; members; new; people; research; respondents; study; trust; usj cache: joci-2754.htm plain text: joci-2754.txt item: #252 of 547 id: joci-2755 author: None title: joci-2755 date: None words: 12771 flesch: 49 summary: These results suggest heavy integration of CFF resources by CFF teachers, as can reasonably be expected. Lunch was commonly cited as a prime time for CFF teachers to discuss experiences and share best practices. keywords: cff; class="reference; classroom; div; focus; implementation; level; literacy; policy; program; skills; students; teachers; technological; technologies; technology; use cache: joci-2755.htm plain text: joci-2755.txt item: #253 of 547 id: joci-2756 author: None title: joci-2756 date: None words: 7871 flesch: 53 summary: This is not to say that the HDCA approach is absolutely distinct from one that focuses on market development, such as the BOP. In this context, and referring to ICTs for development initiatives Amariles et al. keywords: approach; bop; community; content; creation; daknet; development; hdca; market; new; people; poor; services; voice cache: joci-2756.htm plain text: joci-2756.txt item: #254 of 547 id: joci-2757 author: None title: joci-2757 date: None words: 7069 flesch: 49 summary: Hence, Internet usage, social capital, community connectedness, and objective success are able to explain 32% of the variance of the happiness and satisfaction of grassroots level inventors in Sri Lanka. However, Internet usage is not a significant strong predictor of inventive achievements and success of grassroots level inventors in Sri Lanka. keywords: amp; class="reference; community; div; div class="reference; grassroots; internet; inventors; level; social; sri; success; usage cache: joci-2757.htm plain text: joci-2757.txt item: #255 of 547 id: joci-2762 author: None title: joci-2762 date: None words: 7692 flesch: 48 summary: The criticisms of QMS theory not being generalizable (Scruggs et al., 2006) is a reductionist criticism which is countered in the appreciation that QMS is an ever-expanding exercise that constantly peels back the multi-layered contexts to reveal a phenomena not previously seen through the standalone constituent studies (Sandelowski et al., 1997). Qualitative Meta-Synthesis is Antithetical to the Qualitative Spirit In integrating qualitative studies, there is the real risk of violating the fundamental spirit of the qualitative approach; that meaning is socially constructed based on the context (Zimmer, 2006). keywords: analysis; constituent; data; findings; meta; method; qms; qualitative; research; studies; study; theories; theory cache: joci-2762.htm plain text: joci-2762.txt item: #256 of 547 id: joci-2764 author: None title: joci-2764 date: None words: 8310 flesch: 53 summary: There is a longer term project, looking at evaluation by producing a ToolKit that would measure each of pre-requisites for community development highlighted above enabling community development groups to highlight areas which need addressing at an earlier time. Reflective analysis of RLabs community situated in Cape Town (see section 2 and 3) will define the pre-requisites for community development, using a grass roots development model. keywords: analysis; athlone; cape; civil; community; community development; development; group; impact; key; people; project; rlabs; services; society; time cache: joci-2764.htm plain text: joci-2764.txt item: #257 of 547 id: joci-2765 author: None title: joci-2765 date: None words: 9485 flesch: 47 summary: This case is used to illustrate similarities between Community Informatics, ICT for Development and Visitor Research and how research focussing on the free-choice or self-directed learning that takes place at science centres can possibly also be useful within Community Informatics. This is similar to the goals of science centres throughout the world: the informal setting of the science center is a rich learning environment that nurtures curiosity, improves motivation and attitudes toward science, engages the visitors through participation and social interaction and generates excitement and enthusiasm, all of which are conducive to science learning and understanding (Barriault and Pearson 2010, 91) keywords: 2010; case; centres; collection; community; context; data; development; exhibit; ict4d; informatics; learning; model; research; science; study; technology; use; visitor cache: joci-2765.htm plain text: joci-2765.txt item: #258 of 547 id: joci-2768 author: None title: joci-2768 date: None words: 7472 flesch: 45 summary: Possible drivers of unsustainability in ICT4D projects are then presented, at systemic as well as at project level. Answering either of these questions requires that a number of specific questions be defined at project level. keywords: beneficiary; benefit; change; design; development; drivers; level; mechanisms; project; sustainability; system cache: joci-2768.htm plain text: joci-2768.txt item: #259 of 547 id: joci-2830 author: None title: None date: None words: 706 flesch: 41 summary: Email: volker.wulf@uni-siegen.de  In September 2003, the biannual conference series 'Communities and technologies (C&T)' was started with a meeting in Amsterdam attracting some 350 participants and operating somewhat in parallel with the more policy, advocacy and practice-oriented Community Informatics (CI) conferences in Prato, Italy which began in 2002.  For both the C&T and CI streams the concepts 'communities' as well as 'technologies' are somewhat contested. keywords: communities; community cache: joci-2830.htm plain text: joci-2830.txt item: #260 of 547 id: joci-2831 author: None title: joci-2831 date: None words: 13438 flesch: 44 summary: Community technology? This is an area where further research has to uncover and better understand the mechanisms by which community members blend these two components in their daily practices. keywords: affordances; communication; communities; community; community members; conviviality; design; facebook; journal; members; network; networking; people; research; support; technologies; technology cache: joci-2831.htm plain text: joci-2831.txt item: #261 of 547 id: joci-2832 author: None title: joci-2832 date: None words: 5759 flesch: 44 summary: They often strengthen economic interactions within local communities, for example, local currencies, like Berkshares, and the Bristol Pound. Incorporating reputation-building mechanisms in future timebanking, volunteering, and peer-to-peer systems is essential to easing the coordination of local community projects. keywords: carroll; communities; community; figure; information; new; news; social; systems; technologies; technology cache: joci-2832.htm plain text: joci-2832.txt item: #262 of 547 id: joci-2833 author: None title: joci-2833 date: None words: 9824 flesch: 54 summary: Is Community Informatics good for communities? That is a challenge for research in Community Informatics (CI), to avoid dealing with people as merely our research subjects and consider them to be people with whom to share a common path, despite coming from different histories and going ultimately in different directions. keywords: communities; community; community informatics; design; field; ict; informatics; journal; members; participatory; people; projects; relationships; research; researchers; social; trust cache: joci-2833.htm plain text: joci-2833.txt item: #263 of 547 id: joci-2834 author: None title: joci-2834 date: None words: 11927 flesch: 48 summary: The concept of ownership, often in constructs such as local ownership, community ownership, and sense of ownership, is garnering critical attention in community informatics (CI) and Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D) theory and practice. Based on a detailed analysis of the development of community ownership in this project, and in constant dialogue with the community informatics and social science literature, the paper makes three key contributions to CI theory and practice, as well as more specifically to future practice in community networks: An operational definition of local ownership and a conceptual model which highlights relations to other constructs such as responsibility, power and control and emphasises the role of local ownership in moving from passive to active entitlement towards community assets or CI interventions An empirical analysis of the development of local ownership in a community network in rural South Africa, highlighting the critical factors that led to fostering ownership An examination and critical discussion of factors that are positively related with the development of ownership, carried out in dialogue with CI scholarship and highlighting the bearing of and relations with other critical constructs in CI research, such as participation, empowerment, and capacity building These contributions come at a critical stage in community informatics development as a discipline, in which, we argue, a more solid and critical engagement with theory is required to firmly establish its place and the premises for dialogue with other socio-technical disciplines. 2. BACKGROUND AND CONTEXT 2.1. keywords: community; control; development; et al; exercise; members; model; network; ownership; people; power; project; research; self; sense cache: joci-2834.htm plain text: joci-2834.txt item: #264 of 547 id: joci-2835 author: None title: joci-2835 date: None words: 4857 flesch: 49 summary: We adopt stances in a general way that support them We help promote genuine change We develop technology that communities can use - and continue as best we can to ensure that it evolves and is supported Strengthen our community We identify and develop shared resources and projects We identify and develop shared challenges and visions We collaborate with other communities including activists, civic organizations, community organizers, researchers and academics, students, government officials, artists, musicians, etc. etc. The pecking order of the various approaches, where community work becomes less-than in relation to the other academic pursuits - perhaps because it perceived as less theoretical - is also relevant. keywords: communities; community; development; intelligence; research; researchers; technology; use; work cache: joci-2835.htm plain text: joci-2835.txt item: #265 of 547 id: joci-2836 author: None title: joci-2836 date: None words: 2456 flesch: 55 summary: Now, I'm not suggesting that we should help build community technologies for pedophiles. What is needed is Long-term studies of the emerging practices and/or development of technology mediated communities. keywords: communities; design; good; participatory; technology cache: joci-2836.htm plain text: joci-2836.txt item: #266 of 547 id: joci-2837 author: None title: joci-2837 date: None words: 5439 flesch: 46 summary: This is not intended to be an exhaustive list of community informatics issues but instead just interesting discussion points that relate in various ways to community informatics. In this article, we propose that community informatics can contribute uniquely to current conceptions of general education. keywords: activities; class; communities; community; course; design; education; informatics; lesson; readings; students cache: joci-2837.htm plain text: joci-2837.txt item: #267 of 547 id: joci-2838 author: None title: joci-2838 date: None words: 3550 flesch: 44 summary: However, as Jenny Preece observed (Preece, 2000) superficially, the term online community isn't hard to understand, yet it is slippery to define. Faraj, Jarvenpaa, Majchrzak (2011) go further and argue that online communities are fluid objects whose dynamic depends on tensions that enlighten different, co-existing factors. keywords: civic; communities; community; new; online; organizations; software cache: joci-2838.htm plain text: joci-2838.txt item: #268 of 547 id: joci-2839 author: None title: joci-2839 date: None words: 3401 flesch: 46 summary: Second, with the arrival of The Cloud, communities increasingly depend on community tools that are part of external social networking tools controlled by private parties. Much research and development on communities and their technologies therefore focuses on intra-community aspects: the community lifecycle; community governance and management issues such as facilitation and conflict resolution; and community workspaces and tools. keywords: collaboration; communities; community; governance; internet; socio; systems; tools cache: joci-2839.htm plain text: joci-2839.txt item: #269 of 547 id: joci-2840 author: None title: joci-2840 date: None words: 5869 flesch: 50 summary: The model presented here offers a simple evolutionary framework that can be used to identify issues, maturity and progress of ICT in a community or group of communities and act as input into the development of policy and localised models for community ICT. A simple way to do this is to link the operationalized five stage model described here with Day's (2004) three component parts of community ICT: Policy, partnerships and practice. keywords: access; communities; community; government; ict; information; internet; model; new; policy; stage; use; zealand cache: joci-2840.htm plain text: joci-2840.txt item: #270 of 547 id: joci-2841 author: None title: joci-2841 date: None words: 5677 flesch: 60 summary: Our study is based on a network of computer clubs in socially and culturally diverse neighborhoods in Germany. This computer club is part of a network of computer clubs located in socially and culturally diverse neighborhoods in various cities in Germany. keywords: acm; children; club; community; computer; craft; crafting; participants; project cache: joci-2841.htm plain text: joci-2841.txt item: #271 of 547 id: joci-2842 author: None title: joci-2842 date: None words: 1833 flesch: 27 summary: I've spent much of my working life engaging in one way or another with what is generally termed the Digital Divide (defined as the divide between those who have Internet access and those who do not). Perhaps of even more importance, issues of Internet access (but again not of use) are being taken up by significant corporate and governmental forces (both national and inter-governmental). keywords: access; community; internet; issues cache: joci-2842.htm plain text: joci-2842.txt item: #272 of 547 id: joci-2843 author: None title: joci-2843 date: None words: 8376 flesch: 34 summary: Tapping into these local forms of social capital will enable researchers to build effective linkages with local knowledge systems (Adamo, 2001). (1998) define knowledge management systems as tools to effect the management of knowledge and are manifested in a variety of implementations including document repositories, expertise databases, discussion lists, and context-specific retrieval systems incorporating collaborative filtering technologies. keywords: brokering; capacity; community; development; farmers; information; innovation; intermediaries; knowledge; management; new; research; role; systems; technologies; technology; tools; users cache: joci-2843.htm plain text: joci-2843.txt item: #273 of 547 id: joci-2844 author: None title: joci-2844 date: None words: 6486 flesch: 32 summary: These entities constitute a basic ontology, which is based on five categories of concepts: social situation, social activity, social networking, social process and social affordance. It will also make it possible to capture how activity in social situations allow people to participate in a community of practice, accessing the views and practices of the other members of the community, and making sense of all kinds of information related to that community. keywords: action; activity; component; inclusion; situation; social cache: joci-2844.htm plain text: joci-2844.txt item: #274 of 547 id: joci-2845 author: None title: joci-2845 date: None words: 6626 flesch: 53 summary: How the community experiences policy implementation and understanding at this level impacts how they would understand education ICT policy. Richard E. Matland (1995) in his article Synthesizing the implementation literature: the Ambiguity-Conflict Model of Policy Implementation proposes a four paradigm model (see figure 3). keywords: community; education; government; ict; implementation; laptops; learners; namibia; policy; principal; project; school; teachers; technology cache: joci-2845.htm plain text: joci-2845.txt item: #275 of 547 id: joci-2846 author: None title: joci-2846 date: None words: 8519 flesch: 28 summary: It was seen that ICTs can both increase and decrease community resilience and the framework thus helps understand both the pros and cons of community informatics. We hope this will prove a fruitful way forward in seeking to deepen the connection between community informatics and community resilience. keywords: change; climate; communities; community; community informatics; community resilience; development; et al; global; icts; informatics; journal; properties; resilience; sub; systems cache: joci-2846.htm plain text: joci-2846.txt item: #276 of 547 id: joci-2847 author: None title: joci-2847 date: None words: 6779 flesch: 54 summary: The first research question asks how people use CICs and what types of information people mostly seek from the CICs. The types of information people sought from the CICs are news (Table 5, Figure 3) (88%), education (59%), entertainment (55%), business (47%), health (27 %), government (23%), agriculture (9 %), and others (3%). keywords: access; bangladesh; centers; cics; communication; community; development; information; internet; people; study; users cache: joci-2847.htm plain text: joci-2847.txt item: #277 of 547 id: joci-2848 author: None title: joci-2848 date: None words: 9248 flesch: 45 summary: We begin by reviewing the literature on virtual communities and hybrid teams, which together suggest that communities may also operate as hybrid work systems. Information and communication technologies have thus facilitated the emergence of virtual communities. keywords: communities; community; face; floss; hybrid; information; meetings; online; people; representation; software; source; users; virtual; vol cache: joci-2848.htm plain text: joci-2848.txt item: #278 of 547 id: joci-2849 author: None title: joci-2849 date: None words: 8165 flesch: 44 summary: The second dimension is acceptance of the IKBES entrepreneur and the third dimension is viability of IKBES services. Thus responsibilities lie with the government to ensure availability and viability of IKBES services (Bhatnagar, 2004, Lai-Lai, 2001, Rangaswamy, 2006, Toyoma, 2005). keywords: acceptance; agencies; business; case; citizens; figure; forms; governance; government; gram; ikbes; india; information; model; services; table; value; viability cache: joci-2849.htm plain text: joci-2849.txt item: #279 of 547 id: joci-2850 author: None title: joci-2850 date: None words: 4733 flesch: 40 summary: This study showed that an innovative approach towards farmers was practiced during the Green Revolution period for disseminating agricultural information to farmers in India. , ICT in different forms has been widely taken up in India by various local or national non-governmental organizations followed by private and public sector agencies (Saravanan, 2010), as a tool to disseminate agricultural information amongst farmers. keywords: adoption; cent; farmers; india; information; messages; study; voice; voice messages cache: joci-2850.htm plain text: joci-2850.txt item: #280 of 547 id: joci-2851 author: None title: joci-2851 date: None words: 8547 flesch: 56 summary: The influence of close family members on older adult technology adoption has also been suggested previously by Coughlin et al. (2009), Russell (2005), Selwyn (2004) and Selwyn et al. (2003). Older adult participants used constant practice and repeated routines to establish habits, so that they would be able to replicate the processes and procedures necessary to carry out the task at hand. keywords: adults; community; devices; family; learning; mobile; new; participants; phone; technologies; technology; use cache: joci-2851.htm plain text: joci-2851.txt item: #281 of 547 id: joci-2853 author: None title: joci-2853 date: None words: 12544 flesch: 52 summary: Social capital in disaster recovery According to Kaniasty and Norris (1995, p. 1), disasters impede the exchange of support because they disrupt social networks through death or injury, relocation, changes in routine activities, and physical destruction of environments conducive for social interactions. This study examines the role played by ICTs in re-creating places of socialization and maintaining social capital in a post-disaster reconstruction scenario after the disruption of the physical environment that was once important for the creation and maintenance of these relationships. keywords: capital; city; communication; community; disaster; earthquake; facebook; friends; information; internet; interviewees; journal; l'aquila; media; networking; new; people; place; recovery; sites; social; use cache: joci-2853.htm plain text: joci-2853.txt item: #282 of 547 id: joci-2854 author: None title: joci-2854 date: None words: 925 flesch: 48 summary: This can be seen in the context of the disinterest of tech providers and decision makers, and the distance between technology makers and the favelas, which renders it is difficult for those living in the favelas to get decent Internet connection or access high-quality training. With this format, the author aims to involve both academics and the general public in reflecting on the politics of technology making and how it unfolds in the lives of marginalized communities. keywords: book; technology cache: joci-2854.htm plain text: joci-2854.txt item: #283 of 547 id: joci-2855 author: None title: joci-2855 date: None words: 1152 flesch: 34 summary: She proposes a realistic and alternative approach for fighting social injustice by shifting the focus away from the technology to the perspective of those in unprivileged social locations. She provides several insightful critiques: (1) policies aimed to bridge the digital divide are often trapped in a distributive paradigm that sees all high-tech equity issues as distributive issues (xix), they envision equity and justice solely in terms of resources; (2) technology is not approached as a broad concept encompassing cultural and social aspects and the processes around it; and (3) there is a lack of attention to social location - studying social location and everyday life makes the complex inequalities of the information age visible (25). keywords: eubanks; information; technology cache: joci-2855.htm plain text: joci-2855.txt item: #284 of 547 id: joci-2856 author: None title: joci-2856 date: None words: 5353 flesch: 47 summary: Another prominent technology initiative which focuses on education development of rural children is the Shilpa Sayura project in Sri Lanka. Among the lessons reported based on their implementation experience are that awareness of technology functional importance would be greater when its use is linked to solving community problems, and not restricted to only school-based content; and that rural children and youth should be encouraged to become active partners in their community growth. keywords: activities; activity; bario; children; community; learning; program; project; research; school; technology cache: joci-2856.htm plain text: joci-2856.txt item: #285 of 547 id: joci-2857 author: None title: joci-2857 date: None words: 6197 flesch: 46 summary: Research on digital divide access between ICTs and social and economic development has been undertaken for decades. Hence, digital inclusion policies and appropriation of technology should afford new social realities for those who have been marginalized from (information) society. APPROPRIATION AND POLICIES OF DIGITAL INCLUSION Bonilla (2005) proposes possible ways to escape from an inclusive logic that is linked to an economistic perspective, meaning that being included means to be a consumer. keywords: access; brazil; citizenship; digital; divide; icts; inclusion; information; internet; people; social; society; technology; use cache: joci-2857.htm plain text: joci-2857.txt item: #286 of 547 id: joci-2858 author: None title: joci-2858 date: None words: 4683 flesch: 40 summary: Protocol politics: the globalization of Internet governance. International Journal of Communication 6, 467-483. Mueller, Milton L. (2010) Networks and states: the global politics of Internet governance. keywords: access; corporations; development; governance; individuals; internet; media; nation; new; state; time; world cache: joci-2858.htm plain text: joci-2858.txt item: #287 of 547 id: joci-2946 author: None title: None date: None words: 15113 flesch: 52 summary: Different strokes from different folks: Community ties and social support. Thus, social network theorists have proposed, for example, substituting world systems theory for single state modernization theory, network communities for neighborhood communities, political networks for psychologistic interpretations of collective behavior, and vacancy chain analysis for individualistic analyses of social mobility. keywords: bonding; bridging; capital; communities; community; community informatics; community technology; granovetter; information; internet; networks; new; people; research; society; studies; study; technology; theory; ties; use; wellman cache: joci-2946.htm plain text: joci-2946.txt item: #288 of 547 id: joci-2947 author: Sohne, Guido title: Community Revenue Collection System date: 2009-04-22 words: 3112 flesch: 36 summary: The benefits of computerizing revenue collection are many but there are some aspects, detailed below, that are especially important to a computerized revenue collection system or otherwise appear to be unachievable using traditional solutions. With the current manual system of revenue collection, it is not always clear when and where undercollection is taking place. keywords: collection; cost; revenue; solution; system cache: joci-2947.pdf plain text: joci-2947.txt item: #289 of 547 id: joci-2948 author: None title: None date: None words: 3663 flesch: 44 summary: The integration by formal granting organizations of planning processes that emerged from the grassroots is reminiscent of the fervor that surrounded participation in the 1980s and 1990s. This paper provides a reflection on community engagement through an analysis of the meaning of its underlying notion of participation, with a view to help practitioners and project developers locate its real meaning and contribution. keywords: approaches; community; development; engagement; london; new; participation; participatory; spaces cache: joci-2948.htm plain text: joci-2948.txt item: #290 of 547 id: joci-2949 author: None title: eJIKEI date: None words: 1086 flesch: 43 summary: However, the psychological burden on the general public related to the recorded images of a security camera system being freely viewed by the owner is huge, and has been an obstacle to the further spread of security camera systems. In a practical example carried out in Kiryu City, Gunma Prefecture, a personal computer (PC)-based security camera system is owned and managed by the owners of retail stores affiliated with the merchant association, and images are encrypted and stored in the system. keywords: cameras; images; security cache: joci-2949.htm plain text: joci-2949.txt item: #291 of 547 id: joci-2950 author: None title: What’s in a Name date: None words: 1306 flesch: 28 summary: It is probably too soon to say that there is Community Informatics theory, but certainly not too soon to say that there is a vibrant discussion towards Community Informatics theory and that alone distinguishes Community Informatics from many of the other “Informatics’s” that have proliferated in the last decade or so. Area studies in that context was an academic way of trying to catch up with a very rapidly changing intellectual (and activist) world by developing teaching and research programs in such areas as “Women’s studies”, “Latin American studies”, “Canadian studies” and so on and so on. keywords: area; community; informatics cache: joci-2950.htm plain text: joci-2950.txt item: #292 of 547 id: joci-2951 author: None title: Tl'azt'en Learning Circle (TLC): A Pilot CLC Project in British date: None words: 7512 flesch: 42 summary: Rather, e-health should be viewed as a strategic addition to a comprehensive approach to community health. As a result, UBC eHealth and the Ministry jointly envisioned the introduction of high-speed broadband infrastructure and health content to a rural First Nations community that would help achieve the following goals: Access of community members to general computer training towards use in e-learning and e-health Establishment of a broadband-based e-health curriculum for school students by working with First Nation community leaders and community health nurses Scheduled online continuing health education to community health providers (e.g. community health nurses, First Nation elders and leaders, mothers, etc.) keywords: clc; communities; community; health; information; learning; members; pras; project; research; skills; tlc; training; ubc; web cache: joci-2951.htm plain text: joci-2951.txt item: #293 of 547 id: joci-2952 author: None title: Profile of a smart community date: None words: 6439 flesch: 41 summary: Members of community networks were asked to identify their current and proposed level of involvement in developing innovative applications. The argument presented is that smart community networks should be good at all of the variables identified. keywords: applications; broadband; communities; community; development; economic; infrastructure; knowledge; networks; new; projects; use; vision cache: joci-2952.htm plain text: joci-2952.txt item: #294 of 547 id: joci-2953 author: None title: None date: None words: 9351 flesch: 49 summary: The locational advantage factor of call centre outsourcing might not be observed as an important factor for government call centres as the related theories of international business that are prevailing at this moment are focused on call centre operations of private businesses (As-Saber et. In a report, the National Office for the Information Economy of Australia argued that despite some of the comparable activities, government call centres are different from private sector call centres in terms of their knowledge base and skills sets (NOIE, 2003). keywords: business; centres; citizens; countries; delivery; framework; governance; government; information; internet; management; public; sector; service; technology; use; yong cache: joci-2953.htm plain text: joci-2953.txt item: #295 of 547 id: joci-2954 author: None title: Issues of governance are central to the concerns of all communi date: None words: 805 flesch: 16 summary: In addition, of course in most cases for public sector services there are no realistic alternatives and thus the opportunity to “vote with one’s feet or pocket book” does apply and thus the responsibility of public sector service providers is rather greater and to be held to a higher standard than for commercial service providers. Thus while in Developed Countries e-Government as applied to service delivery might be criticized for disempowering citizens by reducing their opportunity to influence services and service delivery1 the same measures in LDC’s might be seen as a very positive development in that it may represent a significant extension of service provision to the population and the use of this implementations for service delivery to modernize and rationalize the public sector administrative and technological infrastructure. keywords: governance; service cache: joci-2954.htm plain text: joci-2954.txt item: #296 of 547 id: joci-2955 author: None title: E-governance in the developing world date: None words: 8188 flesch: 44 summary: Emphasize that information is a commodity The success of e-administration and e-services programmes relies heavily on the quality of data and information. Create feedback loops in e-governments programmes keywords: data; development; districtnet; governance; government; ict; implementation; information; level; processes; programme; services; use cache: joci-2955.htm plain text: joci-2955.txt item: #297 of 547 id: joci-2956 author: None title: joci-2956 date: None words: 23358 flesch: 22 summary: COLOR=#000000>Introduction and example; RESEARCH REPORT; No. 3, April 2001; http://www.ftpiicd.org/files/research/reports/report3.pdf

Bertucci, G. & Alberti, A. (2003). COLOR=#000000>European Review of Political Technologies, [online] available: http://www.fixmystreet.org), to illustrate how some features of the software, together with the design guidelines presented in the paper, induce behaviors inclined to deliberation;

  • ComunaliMilano2011 was set up to foster dialogue between candidates and electors on the occasion of Milan’s 2006 municipal elections.

    Conceptualized in the 1990s (e.g., Schuler, 1994 & 1996), community networks (including Free-Nets) were probably the first widespread attempt to develop networked information and communication technology (ICT) for a wide range of community affairs. keywords: = justify>

    What I began to understand was that most of OGD colleagues from Developed/OECD countries, are starting from a default position that their governments' probity, honesty, and at least a degree of financial transparency, could be for the most part assumed. keywords: data; government; information; ogd; public; toilets; win cache: joci-3036.htm plain text: joci-3036.txt item: #327 of 547 id: joci-3037 author: None title: joci-3037 date: None words: 12405 flesch: 51 summary: This paper builds on earlier works of Benjamin et.al 2007 and Raman and Bawa 2011, which have argued that projects such as digitisation of land records serve as vehicles to reconfigure land information. Further, focusing on the use of open spatial information, it shows that given the varied interests seeking land information, opening such data may allow for violent appropriation. keywords: 2005; benjamin; citizens; city; claims; development; governance; government; india; information; land; land records; new; p>Exploring the politics of Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS) in the context of contemporary South Africa; how are open policies implemented in practice?

    Asne Handlykken

    Introduction

    Free/Libre/Open/Source Software (FLOSS ) keywords: commons; communication; floss; government; knowledge; policy; software; source; south cache: joci-3048.htm plain text: joci-3048.txt item: #339 of 547 id: joci-3049 author: None title: joci-3049 date: None words: 3261 flesch: 52 summary: Several cities, for instance, have conducted high-publicity contests for the best use of agency data that resulted in some very innovative and impressive applications. A similar reluctance to let others use our data, even when it costs us nothing and is not producing revenue or power for us, is sometimes behind a lack of open data from some sources. keywords: agencies; agency; data; government; instance; public; use cache: joci-3049.htm plain text: joci-3049.txt item: #340 of 547 id: joci-3050 author: None title: Community Informatics and Older Persons: The Necessary Connection date: None words: 1417 flesch: 23 summary: Even in the response to our call for papers for JoCI's special issue on Community Informatics and Older Persons we found that bulk of the papers received were focused on Informatics as applied to the circumstance and condition of individual older persons in relation to the health care system rather than towards older persons in and with their communities.  And yet, we know instinctively and research evidence itself is beginning to emerge that particularly in the case of older persons individualized, medicalized, institutionally focused care may be precisely what is not needed and may have the effect over the span of the final decades of life to not only reduce the quality of life but even the length of life itself.   keywords: communities; community; persons cache: joci-3050.htm plain text: joci-3050.txt item: #341 of 547 id: joci-3051 author: None title: Journal of community Informatics date: None words: 2466 flesch: 42 summary: Among the results of participation in the OATS computer training program are increased and sustained computer use, improved ability and confidence with computer and internet technology, and a substantial and positive effect on social connectedness, access to information, and social and civic participation.” Helen R. Feist, et al, in their report of the initial part of a pilot study, Older And Online, Enhancing Social Connections In Australian Rural Places, focus upon increasing the social relationships of the rural elderly. Only by examining a group of studies and reports of technology use such as this one by and for older persons does one recognize the profound interaction between the elder's community and the ICT applications which are directed towards them, usually as individuals.  keywords: communications; community; elderly; persons; study; technology; use cache: joci-3051.htm plain text: joci-3051.txt item: #342 of 547 id: joci-3052 author: None title: None date: None words: 9156 flesch: 50 summary: The significant correlations were between face-to-face and cell phone communication (r = .36), and between email and instant messenger interaction (r = .31). Seniors, on the other hand, were likely close to retirement or already retired by the mid 1990s when Internet technology – shortly thereafter followed by cell phone technology – started to gain the huge popularity that it enjoys today. keywords: cell; cell phone; communication; email; face; grandchild; grandparent; landline; media; phone; relationship; use cache: joci-3052.htm plain text: joci-3052.txt item: #343 of 547 id: joci-3053 author: None title: None date: None words: 10015 flesch: 59 summary: A mutually supportive community As mentioned above, this value was an important contributor to participants’ experience of a sense of community, and hence, belongs with the theme of online community values. A community that encourages personal contact The final key value within the theme of online community values was the ‘ability to contact others personally’. keywords: community; computer; greypath; information; interaction; members; online; participants; people; seniors; study; support; values cache: joci-3053.htm plain text: joci-3053.txt item: #344 of 547 id: joci-3054 author: None title: Sustaining online communities involving seniors date: None words: 10770 flesch: 55 summary: Sustaining online communities involving seniors Sustaining online communities involving seniors   Oliver K. Burmeister, School of Computing and Mathematics, Centre for Research in Complex Systems, Charles Sturt University, oburmeister@csu.edu.au   Ros Foskey, Mental Health Promotion and Prevention Service, Hunter New England Local Health Network, roslyn.foskey@hnehealth.nsw.gov.au   June Hazzlewood, OAM, Honorary Associate, Tasmanian University Department of Rural Health, Launceston, June.Hazzlewood@utas.edu.au   Raymond V. Lewis, OAM, Chief Executive Officer and founder of GreyPath Pty Ltd, ray.lewis@greypath.com   Abstract   Many online communities involving seniors have come into existence, yet not all of these have survived. Consequently online communities involving seniors have been studied in China (Xie, 2007), the USA (Ito, O'Day, Adler, Linde, & Maynatt, 2001; Xie & Jaeger, 2008), the UK (Pfeil & Zaphiris, 2010), Australia (Burmeister, 2010a), and elsewhere. keywords: australia; communities; community; foskey; greypath; information; interaction; internet; list; management; members; membership; neat; new; people; seniors; site; technology; time cache: joci-3054.htm plain text: joci-3054.txt item: #345 of 547 id: joci-3055 author: None title: CSCC date: None words: 6657 flesch: 55 summary: Table 4 Relations among Westgard multi-rules, alarm levels and care actions Statistics Method/Number Alarm Level Alarm Value Care Action 4 Continuous Examination Records Alert D Make an appointment at a hospital 6 Continuous Examination Records Cautious C Arrange online diagnosis with doctors Average Value of 8 Examination Records Alert D Make an appointment at a hospital Average Value of 8 Examination Records Cautious C Arrange online diagnosis with doctors   The caregiver needs to take appropriate care actions according to the alarm level of the patient's health condition. Remind to finish care actions t17 Tele-care subsystem sends a reminder to the caregiver. keywords: action; alarm; care; care action; caregiver; examination; figure; healthcare; patient; system; tele cache: joci-3055.htm plain text: joci-3055.txt item: #346 of 547 id: joci-3056 author: None title: Game-based communication in mediating intergenerational relationships date: None words: 7656 flesch: 55 summary: Family communication emerged as one important factor in family game play that deserves further investigation. OurThis study intended to examine the impact of the online game playing of QQ Farm on intergenerational family interactions to shed light on the role of social networking gaming in mediating family communications and relationships. keywords: 2010; adult; children; communication; family; farm; game; members; pairs; parents; play; playing cache: joci-3056.htm plain text: joci-3056.txt item: #347 of 547 id: joci-3057 author: None title: INTRODUCTION date: None words: 6094 flesch: 51 summary: The social environment, which includes social support, social connectedness, social participation, and opportunities for lifelong learning, plays a significant role in engagement in life among older adults and is a key determinant of active aging. Seeking ways to enhance the social environments for older adults, communities, service providers and policy makers have recently turned their attention to information and communication technologies (ICT’s).   keywords: access; adults; computer; health; information; internet; new; oats; participants; technology; training; use cache: joci-3057.htm plain text: joci-3057.txt item: #348 of 547 id: joci-3058 author: None title: New Page 1 date: None words: 6266 flesch: 53 summary: Many studies have sought to examine the benefits of a variety of physical and social activities for older nursing home residents (Brown et al., 2004; Fiatarone et al., 1994; N. L. Hill, Kolanowski, & Kurum, 2010; MacRae et al., 1996). Therefore, cost, space and time-effective strategies allowing more opportunities for nursing home residents to engage in physical and social activities are warranted. keywords: games; health; home; nursing; nursing home; nws; participants; physical; residents; staff; study cache: joci-3058.htm plain text: joci-3058.txt item: #349 of 547 id: joci-3059 author: None title: Life-based design to combat loneliness among older people date: None words: 6992 flesch: 57 summary: Life-based design to combat loneliness among older people Life-based design to combat loneliness among older people Jaana Leikas, Pertti Saariluoma, Rebekah Ann Rousi, Erkki Kuisma, Hannu Vilpponen Introduction Technologies should be constructed to improve the quality of life. According to studies, approximately 30% of older people are in danger of becoming isolated due to a decreased number of social relationships (Holmén et al. 1992; Prince et al. 1997; Samuelsson et al. 1998; Tijhuis et al. 1999). keywords: age; design; form; human; leikas; life; loneliness; people; service; technology; user cache: joci-3059.htm plain text: joci-3059.txt item: #350 of 547 id: joci-3060 author: None title: joci-3060 date: None words: 15553 flesch: 54 summary: By nature, he was a loner and disinclined to ask for help from other Park computer users. Interesting questions arise with regard to proxies and computer use. keywords: club; computer; computer club; computing; flamingo; help; information; interest; internet; language; learning; life; members; new; park; research; residents; span; span style="font; style="font; technology; time; use; users cache: joci-3060.htm plain text: joci-3060.txt item: #351 of 547 id: joci-3061 author: None title: Too old for technology date: None words: 8495 flesch: 64 summary: Perceived age as a predictor of old age mortality: a 13-year prospective study . Social age is a way of defining people’s age according to social and cultural experiences.  keywords: age; aging; computer; education; ict; internet; people; phone; usage; use; users; years cache: joci-3061.htm plain text: joci-3061.txt item: #352 of 547 id: joci-3062 author: None title: None date: None words: 7509 flesch: 56 summary: Implications: Results indicate that online communities serve as a resource in older adults’ tourism both before and after traveling. KEYWORDS Internet, Social Networks, Leisure Travel, Later Life Introduction A balanced approach to computer training for older adults suggests that training should focus equally on online and offline aspects of computer learning, and that this may enhance users’ sense of well-being. keywords: adults; age; communities; data; forum; information; internet; journal; members; posts; research; retirement; seniors; study; tourism; travel cache: joci-3062.htm plain text: joci-3062.txt item: #353 of 547 id: joci-3063 author: None title: None date: None words: 8526 flesch: 56 summary: Jaba’s dialogue with Sarah and katelib described earlier demonstrate the informative utility of career change stories and how stories are provided with(out) (in)direct solicitation.  Just as organizations cannot be reduced to a single story (Boje, 1995), career change stories of the aging worker cannot be either.  keywords: aarp; boards; boje; career; career change; change; community; discourse; job; message; narrative; posters; stories; storytelling; support cache: joci-3063.htm plain text: joci-3063.txt item: #354 of 547 id: joci-3064 author: None title: Tomorrow’s seniors: Technology and leisure programming date: None words: 5945 flesch: 52 summary: When looking at gender, studies have found e-mail is used more often by older adult females than older adult males (Fallows, 2005). Therefore, findings should not be applied to more diverse, community-dwelling populations of older adults with limited access and knowledge of computer technology.      keywords: adults; age; boomers; computer; females; internet; leisure; recreation; retirement; seniors; social; technology; use cache: joci-3064.htm plain text: joci-3064.txt item: #355 of 547 id: joci-3065 author: None title: None date: None words: 4207 flesch: 48 summary: Uniquely trained undergraduates enrolled in an Intergenerational Computing service-learning class instruct older adults in geriatric facilities. Geriatric facilities have few staff to work with older adults for technology activities. keywords: adults; computer; course; information; internet; learning; project; service; students; technology; use cache: joci-3065.htm plain text: joci-3065.txt item: #356 of 547 id: joci-3066 author: None title: MobileHCI Conference Paper Format date: None words: 7441 flesch: 54 summary: The paucity of research led us to wonder about what older citizens thought about video technologies, and why they used them, so we looked specifically at their answers to provide us with a snapshot of what types of video communications they use, for what purposes, and in what contexts. Many researchers believe that video technologies are beneficial for their ability to enhance social presence. keywords: calls; canada; canadian; citizens; communication; online; participants; people; presence; research; study; technology; use; video cache: joci-3066.htm plain text: joci-3066.txt item: #357 of 547 id: joci-3067 author: None title: Broadband project for the aging in Victoria date: None words: 355 flesch: 18 summary: The BEIP supports collaborative projects in developing new ways of working and improving service delivery in business, government and the community through the use of high-capacity broadband. The new tele-health project will provide patients in need of specialist medical assistance in areas like dentistry, wound management or oncology services access to high-definition, three-dimensional imaging via broadband. keywords: broadband; project cache: joci-3067.htm plain text: joci-3067.txt item: #358 of 547 id: joci-3068 author: None title: Title: Older and Online: Enhancing social connections in Australian rural places date: None words: 5424 flesch: 57 summary: In the survey Elsie nominated three statements on attitudes to new technologies that she identified with: ‘New technologies are too complex for me to use’; ‘I am too old to learn about new technologies’, and ‘I can see no use for new technologies in my life’. The shift in her attitudes and approach to new technologies was clear from the results of her pilot study pre-test where, less than eight months later, she indicated the following statements best applied to her attitudes to new technologies: ‘The Internet is useful for finding new information’; ‘New technologies make life easier and more interesting’; ‘I like playing games on the computer’, and ‘New technologies are useful for contacting family and friends’. keywords: australia; community; family; friends; new; people; pilot; rural; study; technologies; use cache: joci-3068.htm plain text: joci-3068.txt item: #359 of 547 id: joci-3069 author: None title: joci-3069 date: None words: 3898 flesch: 48 summary: The Technology Research for Independent Living (TRIL) project is investigating new technologies that may support older people to live independently based on an ethnographic approach to gathering user needs (Bailey and Sheehan, 2009). The Centre for Inclusive Technology (CFIT) at NCBI works to ensure that ICT-based products and services in Ireland are designed to be accessible to the widest audience, including older people and people with disabilities. keywords: ageing; impairment; information; ireland; loss; ncbi; people; population; project; vision cache: joci-3069.htm plain text: joci-3069.txt item: #360 of 547 id: joci-3070 author: None title: Brief Research Report date: None words: 1268 flesch: 47 summary: The positive experience led many Clark Lindsey seniors to reminisce about their travel experiences to China years. The participants in the focus group were overwhelmingly very positive about their experiences and were interested in future Skype sessions involving other cultures as well as more with China. keywords: china; research; seniors; university cache: joci-3070.htm plain text: joci-3070.txt item: #361 of 547 id: joci-3071 author: None title: None date: None words: 1502 flesch: 42 summary: Additionally, we opted for patients to enter their symptoms onto their telephone keypads instead of speaking into a phone because of potential speech impairment due to wheezing that is common with COPD patients and could obscure symptom reporting. In 2008, we launched a patient-centered health management program for COPD patients with a focus on self-management; including, early symptom identification, using zones of COPD symptoms, and medication management for flare-ups. keywords: copd; health; patients; symptoms; technology cache: joci-3071.htm plain text: joci-3071.txt item: #362 of 547 id: joci-3072 author: None title: None date: None words: 1824 flesch: 53 summary: A sample of 193 users and caregivers using MLS service were successfully interviewed. Serving Seniors with Simple Technology – From Indoor to Outdoor Emergency Support and Care Carmen Ng Senior Citizen Home Safety Association Indoor Emergency Support and Care In a sudden long-lasting cold spell in the winter of 1996, more than 150 living alone seniors died at home in Hong Kong due to delays in treatment. keywords: emergency; mobile; seniors; service cache: joci-3072.htm plain text: joci-3072.txt item: #363 of 547 id: joci-3073 author: None title: None date: None words: 3629 flesch: 46 summary: Internet training program encourages seniors to drive on and fully explore the Information Superhighway. The second involves training and the intervention strategies, the approaches and programs use to raise the awareness levels of participants with respect to the personal and practical benefits that could result from the development of Internet skills, and the use of broadband and applications. keywords: broadband; computer; information; internet; program; seniors; skills; training; use cache: joci-3073.htm plain text: joci-3073.txt item: #364 of 547 id: joci-3074 author: None title: None date: None words: 1934 flesch: 49 summary: New insights will enhance conceptualization of interactions, also through assessment of the fast growing transcribable multimedia repository of electronic data like these kind of radio programs by focus groups like participation of elderly in community radio station. Volunteers spoke to different people of different age groups on what kind of radio programs they would envision. keywords: community; culture; macha; program; radio cache: joci-3074.htm plain text: joci-3074.txt item: #365 of 547 id: joci-3075 author: None title: joci-3075 date: None words: 984 flesch: 47 summary: One leading theory regarding the beneficial effects of cognitive activity on maintaining mental acuteness is the notion of cognitive reserve. Wilson et al. (2010) showed that, among a group of elderly residents within a single geographic area, those who regularly engaged in activities that were “cognitively stimulating” postponed the mental deterioration experienced by their peers who did not engage in the same level of cognitive activity. keywords: activities; dementia; reserve cache: joci-3075.htm plain text: joci-3075.txt item: #366 of 547 id: joci-3135 author: None title: joci-3135 date: None words: 6537 flesch: 52 summary: RESEARCH IN A DISADVANTAGED CONTEXT Four research projects in Cape Town each presented a relatively large volume of research data that needed to be analysed: a funded study of teaching with technology in six schools in Cape Town, a masters study of e-Participation (also in Cape Town), a series of conversations with educators in different countries around the world, and, a doctoral project looking at the Africanisation of South African retailers. An early attempt to deal with this by the use of randomised keys (one feature of Access) was only partly successful, and therefore it was necessary to code a rather tortuous utility that is able to merge categorised research data and bring many sources into one place. keywords: analyser; analysis; categories; content; data; figure; project; research; tools; work cache: joci-3135.htm plain text: joci-3135.txt item: #367 of 547 id: joci-3136 author: None title: joci-3136 date: None words: 5368 flesch: 47 summary: In the case of this study, actors are the Government (DoE), teacher training institutions and schools at the institutional level, as well as Provincial e-Schools co-ordinators, schools ICT coordinators and individual educators. Guided by the literature background, our research question/s and research objective have been translated into five issues for investigation, (1) Motivations for ICT integration and use in schools; (2) Status of ICT Deployment in SA schools; (3) Status of ICT integration into the curriculum; (4) Status of ICT skills among educators, and; (5) Explanations as to the status of ICT deployment (see Table 1). keywords: activity; computer; education; framework; ict; integration; learners; learning; policy; schools cache: joci-3136.htm plain text: joci-3136.txt item: #368 of 547 id: joci-3137 author: None title: joci-3137 date: None words: 10372 flesch: 48 summary: A concern also related to the discourse within which telecentre activities take place, is whether the purpose of community telecentres is to function as a business or community service. The article is based on a participatory action research (pari ) project, Community-based Learning, ICTs and Quality-of-life (CLIQ), which investigated the impact of free computer training and telecentre use on individual QoL in poorer communities, at four telecentres in KwaZulu-Natal, one of South Africa's poorest and most populous provinces. keywords: access; africa; agency; cliq; community; computer; development; factors; ict; participants; participation; qol; research; resources; south; telecentre; usaasa; use cache: joci-3137.htm plain text: joci-3137.txt item: #369 of 547 id: joci-3138 author: None title: joci-3138 date: None words: 2229 flesch: 46 summary: Journal of Community Informatics Southern Africa Special Issue: Editorial Shaun Pather1 & Jackie Phahlamohlaka2 Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Capetown, South Africa. Using an action research approach, Van Biljoen et al investigate mobile phone acceptance by the elderly in South Africa, with an initial focus on accessibility barriers. keywords: africa; community; development; ict; research; south; special cache: joci-3138.htm plain text: joci-3138.txt item: #370 of 547 id: joci-3139 author: None title: joci-3139 date: None words: 1094 flesch: 39 summary: In this regard, of particular interest for Community Informatics researchers is the account given of the development of the research partnership between the University of Pretoria and the Siyabuswa community — a great deal of learning can be derived from this particular segment(s) of the book. Book Review: Community-Driven Projects: Reflections on a Success Story A Case Study of Science Education and Information Technology in South Africa. keywords: book; community; story cache: joci-3139.htm plain text: joci-3139.txt item: #371 of 547 id: joci-3140 author: None title: joci-3140 date: None words: 9927 flesch: 43 summary: In a review of the field, Sæbø, Rose and Flak (2008:417) shaped e-participation research around a narrative where e-participation actors (citizens, politicians, government institutions, voluntary organisations) conduct e-participation activities (online political discourse, eConsultation, eActivism, eCampaign, etc.), in the context of some factors (information availability, infrastructure, underlying technologies, accessibility, etc.), which result in certain effects (civic engagement, deliberative and democratic) determined through e-participation evaluation (quantity, demographics, and tone and style) allowing the improvement of e-participation activities. As early as 2001, the Western Cape Province started a move towards e-Government, initiating studies and devising strategies and plans (Provincial Government of the Western Cape, 2001; City of Cape Town & Provincial Government of the Western Cape, 2003). keywords: actors; africa; ant; cape; cape town; city; community; government; information; media; mobile; network; participation; public; research; south; technology; use; web cache: joci-3140.htm plain text: joci-3140.txt item: #372 of 547 id: joci-3141 author: None title: joci-3141 date: None words: 850 flesch: 31 summary: A community informatics approach to Internet governance supports equal distribution of Internet benefits and addresses longstanding social, economic, cultural and political injustices in this environment. Internet governance must ensure that this online social space functions effectively for the well-being of all. keywords: community; internet cache: joci-3141.htm plain text: joci-3141.txt item: #373 of 547 id: joci-3142 author: None title: joci-3142 date: None words: 8032 flesch: 54 summary: While there appears to be little consensus concerning refugee integration strategies and policies that are developed in different ways in different countries (Fielden, 2008), to date in the developing world there are insufficient empirical studies on the impact of mobile phones on refugees' integration. Mobile phones are claimed to provide a solution to these challenges since these are quickly becoming affordable, germane and accessible tools to many poor communities (Aker & Mbiti, 2010). keywords: africa; impact; integration; mobile; nations; participation; phones; refugees; research; respondents; social; south; south africa; study; united; use cache: joci-3142.htm plain text: joci-3142.txt item: #374 of 547 id: joci-3143 author: None title: joci-3143 date: None words: 5428 flesch: 55 summary: Table 2: Farmers informed of stray cattle through Source: Survey Data Despite councils being expected by law to widely publicise the information on retrieved stray cattle so as to ensure that the information reaches as many people as possible, this study established that only seven percent of the respondents stated that they had seen the notices on matimela (Stray cattle) in places like clinics, councils. To deal with this, cattle farmers proposed that they could form syndicates and buy computers, if the government provided their settlements with electricity. keywords: bolus; botswana; cattle; cattle farmers; database; farmers; government; information; lits; officers; stray cache: joci-3143.htm plain text: joci-3143.txt item: #375 of 547 id: joci-3144 author: None title: joci-3144 date: None words: 7218 flesch: 44 summary: Motivation can be increased by ensuring equitable access to computer technology through community computer centres. Regardless that it is unrealistic at this point to achieve universal access, community computer centres would go a long way in affording public access. keywords: access; community; computers; development; ict; ict4d; icts; information; infrastructure; projects; schools; technology; use cache: joci-3144.htm plain text: joci-3144.txt item: #376 of 547 id: joci-3145 author: None title: joci-3145 date: None words: 10089 flesch: 43 summary: In many cases, the low income of citizens in marginalized areas (and especially high security costs to safeguard against theft) also means that ICT businesses may never be financially sustainable. These ideas link up with a more social approach to ICT projects (in line with the notion of ICT4D 2.0) as opposed to the more classic technologically-deterministic approaches of earlier ICT project implementation. keywords: analysis; approach; business; community; development; entrepreneurship; ict; ideas; information; knowledge; methods; needs; participants; participation; participatory; ped; phase; project; research; south cache: joci-3145.htm plain text: joci-3145.txt item: #377 of 547 id: joci-3146 author: None title: joci-3146 date: None words: 7099 flesch: 53 summary: In ICT for development, there is a need to indicate the effect of a technology intervention on the whole, or containing social system. If structuration theory is used to define and describe social systems, then they are defined in terms of social and cultural practices, rather than by geography or demographics. keywords: centre; community; development; framework; ict4d; information; mission; project; self; study; systems; theory; zulu cache: joci-3146.htm plain text: joci-3146.txt item: #378 of 547 id: joci-3147 author: None title: joci-3147 date: None words: 10611 flesch: 48 summary: Both use behaviour and experience are excluded as there is no widespread availability of government mobile services, and therefore use of or experience with mobile phone government services in South Africa. Figure 6: Intention to use government mobile phone services Some explanation for this positive intention to use government mobile services could be as a reaction to issues experienced when dealing with government departments by the means that are currently available: it's a hassle..in all of them (F2); lines are long and it takes a bit of time (M2); if you have a problem, a need to go to Home Affairs, you need to find out something, you have to take off work (M1); At SARS [South African Revenue Services] there are these moerse keywords: africa; citizens; community; figure; government; influence; information; intention; mobile; participation; phone; research; respondents; services; south; use cache: joci-3147.htm plain text: joci-3147.txt item: #379 of 547 id: joci-3148 author: None title: joci-3148 date: None words: 7525 flesch: 49 summary: The contribution of this paper is the exposition of insights on mobile phone accessibility for the community of elderly mobile phone users in developing countries. Against this background the objective of this paper is to report on an investigation into mobile phone accessibility as pertaining to elderly South Africans. keywords: acceptance; accessibility; community; countries; information; knowledge; mobile; people; phone; problems; research; technology; use cache: joci-3148.htm plain text: joci-3148.txt item: #380 of 547 id: joci-3149 author: None title: joci-3149 date: None words: 10037 flesch: 51 summary: It is fitting to ask about social practices and use of ICTs by the many actors of this informal community formed around La Salada market. The case of La Salada market

    La Salada market 4 is located in the administrative area of Lomas de Zamora, just outside the City of Buenos Aires, occupying a surface of twenty hectares on the banks of the River Matanza. keywords: activities; actors; cities; class="reference; commerce; community; div; icts; la salada; market; new; salada; social; space; technologies; websites cache: joci-3149.htm plain text: joci-3149.txt item: #381 of 547 id: joci-3150 author: None title: joci-3150 date: None words: 7971 flesch: 47 summary: The scope and impacts were studied in 10 towns through 108 interviews with leaders, participants and beneficiaries of San Luis Digital: those responsible for programs, employers, providers, mayors, directors of schools, teachers, members of community organizations, teachers college, students, users of cyber AUI, centers of Digital inclusion, etc., and institutions or partners or recipients of San Luis Digital programs. This paper describes the results of two field research projects, on the characteristics and span of the Digital San Luis Program (San Luis Digital, SLD) sponsored by the Provincial Government and in which local governments have been actively involved. keywords: class="reference; digital; div; enterprises; government; ict; information; internet; luis; province; province´s; san; san luis; sld; social; use; users cache: joci-3150.htm plain text: joci-3150.txt item: #382 of 547 id: joci-3151 author: None title: joci-3151 date: None words: 3177 flesch: 38 summary: In their paper Facilitating community innovation: The Outils-Réseaux Way, authors Lorna Heaton, Florence Millerand, and Serge Proulx, describe the work of Outils-Réseaux, a French group whose mission is to encourage the development and use of collaborative tools by associative movements. Living Labs experiences

    In the paper RLabs a South African perspective on a community-driven approach to Community Informatics, Parker, Wills and Wills dare to ask a key question: who are the stakeholders in community projects? keywords: communities; community; innovation; living; paper; technology cache: joci-3151.htm plain text: joci-3151.txt item: #383 of 547 id: joci-3152 author: None title: joci-3152 date: None words: 1238 flesch: 58 summary: Whereas a lot is said in the book about how technology stewards can identify and develop their own practice, little is said on how others (either fellow community members or external facilitators) can support the technology stewards or even how technology stewardship can be collaboratively achieved. While the book emphasizes the role of the technology stewards, and Part III is concretely addressing the practice of technology stewardship, the authors do not reflect on what are the factors and processes that would help to identify what kind of community members would make for good technology stewards. keywords: book; technology cache: joci-3152.htm plain text: joci-3152.txt item: #384 of 547 id: joci-3153 author: None title: joci-3153 date: None words: 9707 flesch: 54 summary: This image points out the centrality of the mobile telephone for Miguel, at the expense of other technologies, with the eventual importance of chat and email to a lesser extent. This is the case of a multi-technological system in which the centrality of one technology (chat) is always accompanied by other technologies which also turn out to be relevant within the technological framework. keywords: chat; email; link; mobile; period; space; technological; technologies; technology; telephone; web cache: joci-3153.htm plain text: joci-3153.txt item: #385 of 547 id: joci-3154 author: None title: joci-3154 date: None words: 1815 flesch: 31 summary: Interestingly, there is no counterpart definition in Wikipedia for Community Innovation and yet community innovation having the capacity to find ways to implement social and other innovations, would be key to the successful undertaking of social innovation both at the local level and through aggregation at a regional or national level. Thus, the availability of technology supports at the local level can be seen as a significant contributor to the opportunities for local innovation and, from the perspective of national governments, the investment in the development of local technology infrastructures may be seen within the overall context of a contribution to a national innovation strategy and moreover, one that is truly contributing to social change and adaptation and not simply to an endless quest for competitive advantage in constantly changing global marketplaces. keywords: change; community; context; innovation cache: joci-3154.htm plain text: joci-3154.txt item: #386 of 547 id: joci-3155 author: None title: joci-3155 date: None words: 12257 flesch: 49 summary:

    Finally, in nonprofit or community contexts, Merkel et al. (2005) have suggested that collaborative tools may be particularly appropriate for the types of activities carried out by community groups. First, Outils-Réseaux uses a 'trickle-down-meeting-bottom-up' strategy in targeting group facilitators rather than the ordinary members of community groups for its training program. keywords: amp; class="reference; collaborative; community; development; div; div class="reference; group; information; learning; local; outils; participants; program; projects; réseauxstakeholder in community projects through:

    keywords: africa; class="reference; community; div; div class="reference; informatics; living; project; rlabs; social; south; technology cache: joci-3160.htm plain text: joci-3160.txt item: #392 of 547 id: joci-3161 author: None title: joci-3161 date: None words: 6546 flesch: 54 summary: Not until recent years have experimental proposals attempted to include museum visitors as content creators. It is a pre-existing dialogue because visitors and museum pieces are in a constant dialogue, even before the interactive pieces appear. keywords: art; class="reference; community; design; div; exhibition; labs; living; museums; research; services cache: joci-3161.htm plain text: joci-3161.txt item: #393 of 547 id: joci-3162 author: None title: joci-3162 date: None words: 1610 flesch: 31 summary: We have three papers which address system level applications for health: The paper by Loring et al entitled Improving community health equity: the potential role for mHealth in Papua New Guinea explores the implications of mHealth interventions in Papua New Guinea's healthcare system as well as the importance of continuous evaluation to reduce community health inequity and to ensure improved health outcomes. This reflects on means and methods to improve community health by using decentralized health information systems in both Sierra Leone and Kenya. keywords: community; health; icts; information; paper cache: joci-3162.htm plain text: joci-3162.txt item: #394 of 547 id: joci-3163 author: None title: joci-3163 date: None words: 994 flesch: 33 summary: As well, we know that the cost of health care is in many parts of the world becoming a huge and even unsupportable burden because of the directions in which health care has been evolving. One further observation based both on the papers in this special issue and on some as yet unreleased documents concerning ICTs and Health from the OECD, is that the model of health care being presented would appear overwhelmingly to be focussed on the individual as the health care client and of course, medicine is overwhelmingly focussed on the individual as patient. keywords: community; health cache: joci-3163.htm plain text: joci-3163.txt item: #395 of 547 id: joci-3164 author: None title: joci-3164 date: None words: 11199 flesch: 45 summary: The free maternal health care policy could not alone explain this increase, the involvement of private facilities has to be taken into account, but in any case the results are remarkable and were soon distributed globally by the Health Metrics Network as a strong case for investing in health information systems. When developing health information systems at the community level, two levels of users are important: health workers and the community. keywords: case; communities; community; data; design; development; district; health; health information; information; leone; level; national; sierra; system; technology; use cache: joci-3164.htm plain text: joci-3164.txt item: #396 of 547 id: joci-3165 author: None title: joci-3165 date: None words: 6259 flesch: 51 summary: Worked for AusAID, PNG Health Department, Sustainable Development Program, WHO and the Asian Development Bank in strengthening health systems. When appropriately designed and managed, health systems can promote health equity. keywords: data; development; equity; evaluation; guinea; health; health system; national; new; papua; png; system; technology cache: joci-3165.htm plain text: joci-3165.txt item: #397 of 547 id: joci-3166 author: None title: joci-3166 date: None words: 7716 flesch: 49 summary: An Implementation of New Spatial Media New Spatial Media, as conceived below, involves designing and building a framework for collecting, consuming, visualizing and analyzing qualitative spatial data that can in turn be implemented using new spatial media technologies. The questions in the survey were designed in conjunction with a public health community expert to both evaluate the potential to capture qualitative spatial data about community, healthcare, access and stress, and to construct context that could be used in subsequent studies. keywords: analysis; application; community; data; et al; gis; health; krieger; neighborhood; public; research; social; survey; system; work cache: joci-3166.htm plain text: joci-3166.txt item: #398 of 547 id: joci-3167 author: None title: joci-3167 date: None words: 9481 flesch: 47 summary: Digital stories are not merely creative products with benefits for those who consume them; the process of creating digital stories is in itself an innovative approach to tackling often tabooed social problems such as Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs), depression, or drug addiction. Here we focus on a specific form of digital stories that has proliferated in the past few years. keywords: class="reference; communities; community; digital; div; healing; health; narrative; new; process; social; stories; storytelling; youth cache: joci-3167.htm plain text: joci-3167.txt item: #399 of 547 id: joci-3168 author: None title: joci-3168 date: None words: 5013 flesch: 48 summary: Reducing disparities in the access and use of Internet health information. Reducing disparities in the access and use of Internet health information. keywords: access; americans; disparities; health; information; internet; journal cache: joci-3168.htm plain text: joci-3168.txt item: #400 of 547 id: joci-3169 author: None title: joci-3169 date: None words: 5173 flesch: 50 summary: Moreover, it is suggested that social service professionals engage underserved communities through community-based participatory approaches that promote collaborative ways for developing health technology literacy, for fostering culture and communication strategies, and for understanding the integration of cultural strengths and partnerships in the intervention of community health technologies. Therefore, although the findings of this study can be used as a guide or starting point for future developments of health kiosks in other communities, not all of the findings will be generalizable and applicable to other communities. keywords: communities; community; health; information; kiosk; members; needs; site; technology; use cache: joci-3169.htm plain text: joci-3169.txt item: #401 of 547 id: joci-3170 author: None title: joci-3170 date: None words: 8267 flesch: 44 summary: This broader role in mediating inclusion, connectedness and wellbeing is increasingly acknowledged in relation to other social determinants of health (e.g., Golder et al., 2010; Meredyth et al., 2006), as well as in influencing health and wellbeing outcomes for young people (e.g., Wyn et al., 2005; Blanchard et al., 2007). The aim of MYBus is to provide young people with a range of up-to-date youth-specific information and resources, and it has been fitted with laptop computers, Internet access, Wii games, D.J. console and other gaming devices to support this engagement. keywords: access; capital; cardinia; children; digital; health; inclusion; internet; mybus; people; services; shire; social; use cache: joci-3170.htm plain text: joci-3170.txt item: #402 of 547 id: joci-3171 author: None title: joci-3171 date: None words: 4976 flesch: 44 summary: Established private organisations including the MayoClinic (MayoClinic 2011) and WebMD (WebMD 2011) who also provide concussion information, with a smaller number of international sporting federations offering concussion education on their websites (International Rugby Board 2011). The emerging popularity of tablet computers (e.g. the iPad) which incorporate a touchscreen interface also suggests that this could be a medium that users may employ to retrieve concussion information. keywords: apps; concussion; groups; health; information; internet; itunes; mobile; online; retrieved; support; technology cache: joci-3171.htm plain text: joci-3171.txt item: #403 of 547 id: joci-3172 author: None title: joci-3172 date: None words: 7936 flesch: 50 summary: The use of ICT is embedded in the daily lives of children and adolescents; children and adolescents can play, socialize, create and undertake a range of activities that would not have been imaginable ten years ago. Children and adolescents with chronic illnesses are, with respect to their use of ICT, no different from their peers. It is possible for younger children to have a parent or guardian supervise this list. keywords: cancer; children; communication; communities; community; evaluation; hospital; needs; parents; people; research; solas; support; treatment; users cache: joci-3172.htm plain text: joci-3172.txt item: #404 of 547 id: joci-3173 author: None title: joci-3173 date: None words: 7471 flesch: 53 summary: The number of stroke patients receiving r-tPA (recombinant tissue plasminogen activator) in third world countries is very low. al., 2007) but only 14.7% of stroke patients in India reach hospital within the three-hour window period (Nandigam, 2003). keywords: cardiac; care; centers; centre; expiry; health; hospital; india; internet; journal; medical; patients; state; stroke; study; telemedicine; therapy; thrombolytic cache: joci-3173.htm plain text: joci-3173.txt item: #405 of 547 id: joci-3174 author: None title: joci-3174 date: None words: 4672 flesch: 47 summary: mHealth interventions are mainly deployed in public health and primary healthcare. This could be due to the overarching challenges burdening health systems of the developing world, such that mHealth interventions are conceived and implemented in an atmosphere of enthusiastic urgency to use ICTs to help solve health problems. keywords: countries; health; india; information; interventions; mobile; papers; research; technology cache: joci-3174.htm plain text: joci-3174.txt item: #406 of 547 id: joci-3175 author: None title: joci-3175 date: None words: 5470 flesch: 46 summary: In order to do this we first describe current practices of health care givers in the Western Cape in capturing and reporting the data of their patients in practice. The literature review is concluded with aspects of mobile health (mHealth) and how patient records have been used to identify all the issues that were important for this study. keywords: care; community; data; design; development; healthcare; home; interface; mobile; patient; service; south cache: joci-3175.htm plain text: joci-3175.txt item: #407 of 547 id: joci-3176 author: None title: joci-3176 date: None words: 5882 flesch: 65 summary: 3.2 Daily Activities of community health care workers A community health care worker visits up to four patients on any one workday. Apart from performing duties pertaining to caring for the patients' health, community health care workers have to ensure that the environment the patients live in is clean. keywords: care; caregivers; community; data; health; home; information; paper; patient; phone cache: joci-3176.htm plain text: joci-3176.txt item: #408 of 547 id: joci-3177 author: None title: joci-3177 date: None words: 8528 flesch: 46 summary: Nursing students and internet health information. Reasons, assessments and actions taken: sex and age differences in uses of internet health information. keywords: access; care; dhs; digital; groups; health; health information; impact; information; internet; midlands; national; patients; service; support; use; west cache: joci-3177.htm plain text: joci-3177.txt item: #409 of 547 id: joci-3178 author: None title: joci-3178 date: None words: 2174 flesch: 45 summary: Their contributions represent a small percentage of the programme costs; but are an indisputable demonstration of the value of the programme and send a strong message to the District Health Office that promised but failed to take on the programme as part of their responsibility for community health. If we are to avoid the risk that a community approach becomes a way for state authorities to offload public responsibilities, it is essential that community efforts function within a larger environment that both enables and values these unique characteristics and contributions. keywords: approaches; community; development; efforts; health; mile cache: joci-3178.htm plain text: joci-3178.txt item: #410 of 547 id: joci-3179 author: None title: Towards the Internet as a Global Public Good date: None words: 587 flesch: 37 summary: But now that the smoke is clearing and hopefully for some at least, the fog is lifting there is now a very significant role for the technical community and CS (in their respective roles and hopefully as a united coalition of coalitions) to articulate and lead the fight for a vision of how the Internet can function as a global public good (as opposed to a battlefield of multiple private interests) and what the governance structure (or process) for such a beast might look like. The quote (variously attributed to von Clausewitz, Palmerston and Anon) that “States don’t have friends, they have interests”, probably should be updated in the context of a (Facebook et al) broad redefinition of the nature of “friends”–to the phrase “States don’t have values, they have interests“.. keywords: internet cache: joci-3179.htm plain text: joci-3179.txt item: #411 of 547 id: joci-3180 author: None title: None date: None words: 8626 flesch: 35 summary: Community resources may include the ability to socialise and to act collectively (Social Capital), which has implications for the authority and legitimacy of community action as well as implications for the exercise of coercive power – over its members, or over other communities. Power, Communities, and Community Informatics: a meta-study Michael V. Arnold and Larry Stillman Community Informatics and views of power and empowerment Community Informatics is an emerging field of research and practice located at the intersection of communities and ICT. keywords: agency; communities; community; empowerment; ict; informatics; interests; knowledge; legitimacy; power; provision; relation; resources; translation cache: joci-3180.htm plain text: joci-3180.txt item: #412 of 547 id: joci-3181 author: None title: joci-3181 date: None words: 5623 flesch: 47 summary: More importantly, though global changes have made eastern women aware of their gender-based concerns, they still fail to demonstrate feminist-related behaviours. This is followed by postulating on the moderating impact of online female-related communities of practice in manifesting feminist-related behaviours among eastern women. keywords: activity; attitudes; behaviour; communities; community; feminist; members; model; practice; women cache: joci-3181.htm plain text: joci-3181.txt item: #413 of 547 id: joci-3182 author: None title: None date: None words: 9276 flesch: 50 summary: Kom’s users’ satisfaction? Literature Review Generally, community technology access refers to the physical availability of suitable computers equipped with appropriate software for a given activity (Kling et al., 2000), network connections (Van Dijk, 1999, cited in Van Dijk and Hacker, 2003); and digital content made available online (Warchauer, 2003). First, it is a locally driven project where, whenever possible, local communities will be involved at every stage of planning and implementation. keywords: access; communities; community; development; ict; information; internet; kedai.kom; rural; skills; support; technology; telecentre; usage; users cache: joci-3182.htm plain text: joci-3182.txt item: #414 of 547 id: joci-3183 author: None title: None date: None words: 5857 flesch: 33 summary: This study highlights the potential of technology for facilitating public deliberation and promoting collective behavior in addressing community challenges. This study examines the potential of an IT-facilitated environment for promoting cooperative behavior and facilitating collaboration in addressing community challenges. keywords: behavior; communication; community; deliberation; display; efforts; group; individual; information; participants; public; research; water cache: joci-3183.htm plain text: joci-3183.txt item: #415 of 547 id: joci-3184 author: None title: None date: None words: 9989 flesch: 45 summary: One noteworthy example of this is the metamorphosis project documenting the importance of story telling in ethnic communities of Los Angeles (Ball-Rokeach, Kim & Matei, 2001; Matei, Ball-Rokeach, Wilson, Gibbs & Hoyt, 2001).[vi] Also, Jeffres, Atkin and Neuendorf (2002) found macro community variables, communication variables (that include media use, channel dependency, neighborhood communication patterns, and interpersonal links), community variables (that include neighborhood activity, community attachment, neighboring and community perceptions) predicting community political involvement and a measure of efficacy at the community level. In England, McCulloch (2003) measured neighborhood social capital with eight questions tapping neighboring, a sense of belonging, willingness to work to improve the community, importance of relations with neighbors, communication with neighbors and attachment,[xvii] finding the summary scale linked to involvement in community organizations, ratings of local services, organizational affiliation and trust. keywords: attempts; capital; civic; communication; community; groups; influence; involvement; media; organizations; p<.001; participation; public; research; scale; social; use; variables cache: joci-3184.htm plain text: joci-3184.txt item: #416 of 547 id: joci-3185 author: None title: None date: None words: 2600 flesch: 44 summary: In addition, farmers perceived that training/seminars, farmer field schools, and demonstration, radio, and face to face were effective approaches for technology transfer. From group methods, training/seminar, farmer field schools and demonstrations were perceived as “effective” approaches to technology transfer. keywords: extension; farmers; research; technology; transfer cache: joci-3185.htm plain text: joci-3185.txt item: #417 of 547 id: joci-3186 author: None title: None date: None words: 8099 flesch: 49 summary: This theory of active versus passive learning was applied here to enhance our understanding of how learning technology might occur through engagement in telecenter portals and participation in virtual community. This concept provides the framework for this study’s focus on telecenter portals as a measure of user engagement in the construction of knowledge through active learning and use of interactive tools. keywords: access; arab; communication; communities; community; content; development; digital; economic; government; information; internet; latin; nations; portals; retrieved; study; technology; telecenter; world cache: joci-3186.htm plain text: joci-3186.txt item: #418 of 547 id: joci-3187 author: None title: Information and Knowledge Transfer in the rural community of Macha, Zambia date: None words: 6331 flesch: 44 summary: Environment The work takes place in rural communities of Macha, Zambia, with the control located in Murambinda, Zimbabwe. The research is part of the quest for identifying a logical framework designating dynamics of change in rural African communities and engendering leadership capable of inspiring, initiating, implementing, operating, and scaling up of sustainable progress in the local community. keywords: africa; community; culture; data; information; interaction; macha; orality; people; research; rural; stam; van cache: joci-3187.htm plain text: joci-3187.txt item: #419 of 547 id: joci-3188 author: None title: None date: None words: 7773 flesch: 53 summary: Steps included: A literature review of potentially related community informatics, environmental psychology, and evidence-based design research – Summer, 2010. Field observations at a range of public spaces in which ICT is incorporated either formally (e.g., a computer lab at a public library) or informally (e.g., computers at a café) – Summer, 2010. A study by Viseu et al. (2006) indicates that use of public computing spaces is more diverse than often assumed and should not be considered a transitory stepping stone toward “better,” private computer access. keywords: access; center; community; computer; computing; design; environment; ict; lab; pccs; public; redesign; research; space; staff; use; users cache: joci-3188.htm plain text: joci-3188.txt item: #420 of 547 id: joci-3189 author: None title: Information Needs of Rural Communities date: None words: 2454 flesch: 43 summary: Community information centers: e-governance at subdistrict level: a case study. Identification of information needs is essential to the design of information systems in general and to the provision of effective information services in particular (Devadason & Lingam 1996). keywords: activities; categories; communities; community; computer; information; needs; sector cache: joci-3189.htm plain text: joci-3189.txt item: #421 of 547 id: joci-3190 author: None title: joci-3190 date: None words: 8382 flesch: 44 summary: As stated above, there is multidimensionality in citizenship which is not yet accounted for in public e-service provisions. The Belief System of Botkyrka Municipality before E-service Implementation. keywords: botkyrka; citizens; core; government; information; municipality; offices; policy; public; services; stop; values cache: joci-3190.htm plain text: joci-3190.txt item: #422 of 547 id: joci-3191 author: None title: None date: None words: 8106 flesch: 51 summary: In summary, for community groups like Spring Creek, sustainability of technology use is the key issue for technology adoption. Accounting for our bias in interpretation of the community context and the process of Web site design, we undertook a process of member checking with Spring Creek. keywords: community; computing; creek; design; end; eud; kathy; site; spring; spring creek; technology; tools; user; web cache: joci-3191.htm plain text: joci-3191.txt item: #423 of 547 id: joci-3192 author: None title: None date: None words: 2325 flesch: 39 summary: Problems Related to Financing PIAPs The typical problem is that PIAPs are not able to obtain enough financial support. Cases and corresponding country names are given in Table 1 below (See References Section for the references of PIAPs cases). keywords: cases; figure; percent; piaps; problems; services; support cache: joci-3192.htm plain text: joci-3192.txt item: #424 of 547 id: joci-3193 author: None title: Attn: John Tarawe, Conference Chair and Roger Harris, Deputy Conference Chair date: None words: 11782 flesch: 52 summary: Other purposes for community maps include solving or preventing boundary disputes with other communities, initiating discussion with government agencies or logging or mining companies about land uses within or near the community territory, planning a land use or resource management system, documenting baseline demographic and geographic data, and educating children in the community about their culture and traditional land26. Indigenous or rural communities often want to create maps of their territories in order to assert legal recognition of their land rights, document local knowledge, manage community lands, or increase their capacity to communicate and negotiate with external agencies who are sometimes actively deciding the future of community lands. keywords: 1995; 2002; bario; communities; community; data; development; gis; highlands; information; kelabit; kelabit community; kelabit highlands; mapping; maps; members; people; press; project; research; researchers; sarawak; systems; technology; telecentre; use cache: joci-3193.htm plain text: joci-3193.txt item: #425 of 547 id: joci-3206 author: Villanueva-Mansilla, Eduardo title: Editorial: a legacy to cherish date: 2016-04-29 words: 900 flesch: 48 summary: I will hold the position of Editor in Chief for four years, from 2016 to the end of 2019, at which time a new editor should be appointed if the Journal is still relevant and cherished by all the members of this worldwide community on communities. Perhaps we can achieve not just a regularly-published, better looking Journal: while keeping its openness, widening its international presence both in contributions and readership, and keeping with the variety and diversity of subjects that constitute its areas of interest, we, all together, may find ourselves still providing at least part of the collective solutions that communities, through ICT / Informatics / computers / digital media, all around our common home called the Earth, require and demand for their lives. keywords: community; journal cache: joci-3206.pdf plain text: joci-3206.txt item: #426 of 547 id: joci-3208 author: Ojedokun, Usman Adekunle title: ICT and Online Social Movements for Good Governance in Nigeria date: 2016-03-02 words: 6591 flesch: 47 summary: The remainder of the paper is divided into four major sections: • the relationship between ICT and social movements globally, • the evolution of online social movement in Nigeria, • the role of ICT in the campaign of online social movements for good governance in Nigeria, and, • the major challenges threatening the online activism of online social movements in Nigeria. 1187 ready The Journal of Community Informatics ISSN: 1721-4441 Articles ICT and Online Social Movements for Good Governance in Nigeria In Nigeria, the availability of different Internet-enabled social media has led to the emergence of online social movements advocating the principle of good governance in the affairs of the state. keywords: community; good; governance; government; ict; information; internet; journal; media; movements; nigeria; online; public; social; state cache: joci-3208.pdf plain text: joci-3208.txt item: #427 of 547 id: joci-3213 author: Harley, David Andrew; Howland, Kate; Harris, Eric Charles title: Trajectories to community engagement: Understanding older people’s experiences of engagement with online and local communities date: 2016-02-21 words: 11850 flesch: 52 summary: Older people’s use of Social Network Sites while participating in local online communities from an ethnographical perspective. 1213 The Journal of Community Informatics ISSN: 1721-4441 Articles Trajectories to community engagement: Understanding older people’s experiences of engagement with online and local communities The communal benefits of online communities and SNS are enjoyed by many Internet users but remain of limited appeal to many older people. keywords: communities; community; engagement; facebook; family; friends; group; informatics; internet; journal; online; participants; people; roles; sns; social; use cache: joci-3213.pdf plain text: joci-3213.txt item: #428 of 547 id: joci-3214 author: Graham, Garth title: Cooperating community connections: A changing political reality date: 2016-04-15 words: 6987 flesch: 52 summary: In brief summary, the gov- ernance structuring complex adaptive systems, or self-organizing systems like the Internet, is internalized or distributed among the elements that make it up. As a radical practice, it remains the role of community networking to exemplify the transition of governance to complex adaptive systems. keywords: community; global; governance; informatics; internet; ostrom; quilligan; social; society; systems; world cache: joci-3214.pdf plain text: joci-3214.txt item: #429 of 547 id: joci-3215 author: McDonald, TJ title: ENCITE: A model to help Voluntary Organisations use ICT effectively date: 2016-02-14 words: 4174 flesch: 39 summary: This cautious, yet inclusive approach to ICT development was supported in the CI literature by Burt and Taylor (2000), Denison (2006) and Gurstein (2007). The end user lens advocates a participatory approach to ICT development by LVOs, which includes members in all stages of application development. keywords: community; development; ict; lens; lvos; members; model; organisations; use cache: joci-3215.pdf plain text: joci-3215.txt item: #430 of 547 id: joci-3216 author: Fujii, Yusaku; Yoshiura, Noriaki; Ohta, Naoya; Takita, Akihiro; Ueda, Hiroshi; Maru, Koichi title: Abuse Prevention of Street Camera Network by Browsing-History Disclosure date: 2016-02-14 words: 1409 flesch: 49 summary: Introduction In developed countries in the near future, street camera networks and/or street lights with network camera functionality will be installed at a high density, similar to street lights, in busy and quiet areas. 1271 The Journal of Community Informatics ISSN: 1721-4441 Points of View Abuse Prevention of Street Camera Network by Browsing-History Disclosure A street camera network, in which many street cameras are installed at a high density, similar to street lights throughout a nation, will have a stronger positive effect in suspect tracking and crime deterrence in the near future. keywords: abuse; camera; street; system cache: joci-3216.pdf plain text: joci-3216.txt item: #431 of 547 id: joci-3217 author: Szécsi, Gábor title: Mediated communication and mediated communities in the information age date: 2016-04-19 words: 5697 flesch: 36 summary: Just as traditional theories of community regard community and society as distinct forms (Tönnies 2001), it is also easy to consider physical and virtual communities as mutually exclusive forms of social organization. In other words, it is by accelerating and mediating linguistic changes leading to a complex notion of global community that electronically mediated communication becomes a source of, as Meyrowitz writes, the “fusion of local and global identities”(Meyrowitz 2005: 30) and, thus, the adoption of the idea of a secondary global language in new, mediated communities. keywords: communication; communities; community; forms; global; information; language; linguistic; new cache: joci-3217.pdf plain text: joci-3217.txt item: #432 of 547 id: joci-3218 author: Sharif, Raed M; Van Schalkwyk, Francois title: Introduction date: 2016-07-15 words: 2333 flesch: 39 summary: At the same time, the complexity of open data ecosystem and the plethora of actors (local, regional and global suppliers, intermediaries and users) makes a compelling case for opening avenues for more diverse discussion and research beyond the supply of open data. And yet nine years after the ground-breaking meeting in Sebastopol at which the eight principles of open government data were penned, seven after President Obama injected political legitimacy into a movement, and five after eleven nation states formed the global Open Government Partnership (OGP), which has grown six-fold in membership; an email crosses our path in which the authors of a high-level report commit to developing a comprehensive understanding of a continental open data ecosystem through an examination of open data supply. keywords: community; data; government; issue; journal; research cache: joci-3218.pdf plain text: joci-3218.txt item: #433 of 547 id: joci-3219 author: Van Schalkwyk, Francois; Canares, Michael; Chattapdhyay, Sumandro; Andrason, Alexander title: Open Data Intermediaries in Developing Countries date: 2016-06-16 words: 8097 flesch: 42 summary: This paper explores the concept of open data intermediaries using the theoretical framework of Bourdieu’s social model, particularly his species of capital. To remove some of these barriers and, in so doing, to unlock the potential of open data for all, open data intermediaries are seen as playing a crucial role in linking complex open datasets with user needs, particularly in cases when those users come from grassroots communities. keywords: bourdieu; capital; case; chain; data; data intermediaries; ecosystem; field; government; intermediaries; intermediary; research; supply; use cache: joci-3219.pdf plain text: joci-3219.txt item: #434 of 547 id: joci-3221 author: Frank, Mark; Walker, Johanna title: User Centred Methods for Measuring the Value of Open Data date: 2016-06-17 words: 10594 flesch: 56 summary: The literature on data metrics and open data metrics often refers to metadata. This prompted our research question: What is the nature of open data metrics derived from user requirements and are they viable? keywords: approach; attributes; community; data; datasets; government; high; information; issn; journal; metrics; problems; quality; users cache: joci-3221.pdf plain text: joci-3221.txt item: #435 of 547 id: joci-3224 author: Larquemin, Aurelie; Mukhopadhyay, Jyoti Prasad; Buteau, Sharon title: Open Data and Evidence-based Socio-economic Policy Research in India: An overview date: 2016-06-18 words: 12640 flesch: 48 summary: The idea behind this particular event is to promote adoption of open data policies by governments at all levels: national, regional and local. In this study we focus on OGD released at the national-level while bearing in mind that various departments of state governments and local governments also release public data which are outside the purview of this paper. keywords: access; collection; community; data; datasets; evidence; government; india; information; issn; journal; making; ministry; ogd; policy; public; research; researchers; study; survey; use cache: joci-3224.pdf plain text: joci-3224.txt item: #436 of 547 id: joci-3228 author: Yim, Moonjung; Gomez, Ricardo; Carter, Michelle S title: Facebook’s “Free Basics”: For or against community development? date: 2016-07-15 words: 4263 flesch: 42 summary: We believe such insight would be especially valuable for the participants in the 40 countries (at the time of writing) who are currently exposed to Free Basics platform. The preceding analysis shows that the relationship between Facebook use—a crucial element of Free Basics service—and individual and community development largely depends on individuals’ IT identity formation and how they choose to use the technology. keywords: basics; capital; community; development; facebook; identity; platform; use cache: joci-3228.pdf plain text: joci-3228.txt item: #437 of 547 id: joci-3229 author: Fink, Alexander title: To the Cloud: Big Data in a Turbulent World by Vincent Mosco date: 2016-07-20 words: 1319 flesch: 54 summary: Vincent Mosco begins and ends To The Cloud: Big Data in a Turbulent World by exploring metaphors about clouds and applying them to cloud computing. These metaphors offer a way into understanding the history of cloud computing: where it came from, why it began, how its evolved, and the ways it works in our everyday lives. keywords: cloud; data; mosco cache: joci-3229.pdf plain text: joci-3229.txt item: #438 of 547 id: joci-3230 author: Roberts, Tony title: Geek Heresy: a heretical view of technology for development date: 2016-07-20 words: 955 flesch: 46 summary: Toyama has distilled his extensive experience of applying ICTs to development into three clear theses: packaged technology solutions are insufficient to achieve human development; technology can only magnify existing human capacity and intent; the task of development is therefore primarily one of building existing human capacity which is intent on achieving development goals. Technology is never able to be a substitute for the absence of these capacities but was able to amplify them where they did exist, or as Toyama puts it “technology amplifies people’s capacities in the direct of their intent” (p29). 
 
 keywords: development; human; technology cache: joci-3230.pdf plain text: joci-3230.txt item: #439 of 547 id: joci-3235 author: Gurstein, Ph.D., Michael title: Repurposing Post Offices as Community Innovation Hubs: Digital Inclusion, Equity and De-concentration date: 2016-04-26 words: 3347 flesch: 27 summary: Canada in the late 90’s and through the 00’s pioneered globally in the provision of community Internet access services through what were called (in Canada) Community Access Program sites (CAPs) and elsewhere called telecentres. As well, there are issues of the cost of Internet access (including the cost of the associated hardware and software), issues of training and literacy and simple lack of interest (or a failure to identify a need which the Internet would uniquely satisfy as a driver to connect). keywords: access; communities; community; innovation; internet; use cache: joci-3235.pdf plain text: joci-3235.txt item: #440 of 547 id: joci-3237 author: Uys, Corrie; Pather, Shaun title: Government Public Access Centres (PACs): A beacon of hope for marginalised communities date: 2016-02-15 words: 10844 flesch: 48 summary: One of the strategies employed by government and the private sector to address the digital divide has been to provide basic computing services and internet access to communities in the form of public access centres (PACs), otherwise known as telecentres. Public access centres afford underserved communities access to the Internet to reach the following objectives (Clement, 2004: p. 8): • to decrease the digital divides, • to enhance the economic, social, political cultural capabilities of the community • to enhance the creation of local content • to provide specific online services to the communities • to enhance effective use of ICTs In 2004, underserved communities accounted for 80 percent of the world’s population who were not able to access ICTs while Internet access at one’s home had almost become the !27 The Journal of Community Informatics ISSN: 1721-4441 norm in the developed communities (Rothenberg-Aalami &, 2005: 2). keywords: access; access centres; africa; cape; centres; community; development; information; internet; internet access; issn; journal; pac; pacs; percent; public; south; users cache: joci-3237.pdf plain text: joci-3237.txt item: #441 of 547 id: joci-3239 author: Rai, Sumen; Griffiths, Mary title: 'Useful' civic hacking for environmental sustainability:knowledge transfer and the International Space Apps Challenge date: 2016-02-14 words: 7882 flesch: 42 summary: 1124 ready The Journal of Community Informatics ISSN: 1721-4441 Articles 'Useful' civic hacking for environmental sustainability: Knowledge transfer and the International Space Apps Challenge Civic hackathons have become a popular, experimental process through which to promote public access to open government data and enable innovative civic uses for the information. Introduction As jurisdictions around the world begin to release large quantities of data and information under open government plans, one way in which the reuse of open government data has been promoted is through civic hacking. keywords: apps; challenge; civic; community; data; event; government; hackathons; information; journal; participants; space; sustainability; usefulness cache: joci-3239.pdf plain text: joci-3239.txt item: #442 of 547 id: joci-3240 author: Canares, Michael Parmisano; Marcial, Dave; Narca, Marijoe title: Enhancing Citizen Engagement with Open Government Data date: 2016-06-19 words: 15082 flesch: 48 summary: The research deals primarily with the research question ‘How can engagement of civil society organisations with open government data be instigated or enhanced?’ To answer the question, action research was conducted in two provinces in the Philippines: civil society organisations in Negros Oriental province were trained, and in the Bohol province were mentored on accessing and using open government data. keywords: bohol; building; capacity; community; csos; data; data training; development; government; government data; information; issn; journal; knowledge; mentoring; open; organisations; research; respondents; skills; training; use; work cache: joci-3240.pdf plain text: joci-3240.txt item: #443 of 547 id: joci-3241 author: Bailey, Arlene; Ngwenyama, Ojelanki title: Community Mediation through ICTs: Seeking to Bridge Digital and Community Divides date: 2016-03-27 words: 9196 flesch: 50 summary: Safe Space The establishment of community telecentres was viewed by community members as beneficial to community development through the provision of a safe space, particularly for young people. http://www.ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/article/view/1110 mailto:arlene.bailey@uwimona.edu.jm mailto:ojelanki@ryerson.ca mailto:o.ngwenyama@uct.ac.za http://www.ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/article/view/1110 The Journal of Community Informatics ISSN: 1721-4441 telecentre may focus on particular activities based on their community context, they may share a common focus on issues such as community development, social inclusion, and assisting with employment opportunities for community members. keywords: communities; community; community informatics; development; efficacy; informatics; initiatives; issn; journal; members; prevention; research; role; self; technology; telecentre; violence; youth cache: joci-3241.pdf plain text: joci-3241.txt item: #444 of 547 id: joci-3242 author: Canares, Michael Parmisano; Shekhar, Satyarupa title: Open Data and Subnational Governments: Lessons from Developing Countries date: 2016-06-21 words: 9623 flesch: 45 summary: 1260 - ready The Journal of Community Informatics ISSN: 1721-4441 Articles, special issue: ODSCSD Open Data and Sub-national Governments: Lessons from Developing Countries Open government data (OGD) as a concept is gaining currency globally due to the strong advocacy of global organizations as Open Government Partnership. The focus on open government data at the national levels also glosses over the differences in the political, social, economic and digital divides that exist at the sub-national levels. keywords: cases; citizens; city; community; countries; data; governance; government; government data; information; journal; open; public; sub; use cache: joci-3242.pdf plain text: joci-3242.txt item: #445 of 547 id: joci-3244 author: Tredoux, Colin; Louw, Johann; Louw-Potgieter, Joha title: Mobile phones and reading for enjoyment: evidence of use and behaviour change date: 2016-02-14 words: 6759 flesch: 63 summary: A major advantage of delivery of reading material and interventions through mobile technology is that it is possible to measure engagement with the texts behaviourally, as well as through self-report. The files, however, did include uniform resource locators (URLs) to the material that users accessed, so we were able to use the URL information to obtain individual stories referenced by the URL addresses, thus allowing us to estimate the amount of reading material accessed, in characters, per visit. keywords: books; fundza; material; mobile; posttest; pretest; readers; reading; respondents; school cache: joci-3244.pdf plain text: joci-3244.txt item: #446 of 547 id: joci-3246 author: Davies, Tim; Perini, Fernando title: Researching the emerging impacts of open data: revisiting the ODDC conceptual framework date: 2016-06-21 words: 13723 flesch: 49 summary: 1281 - ready The Journal of Community Informatics ISSN: 1721-4441 Articles, special issue: ODSCSD Researching the emerging impacts of open data: revisiting the ODDC conceptual framework This paper revisits the conceptual framework developed for the “Exploring the Emerging Impacts of Open Data in Developing Countries” (ODDC) research project. The framework was designed in 2012 to address persistent gaps in research and theory building around open data as an intervention that has been promoted for a broad range of reasons, from economic benefit, to bringing about greater transparency and accountability. keywords: accountability; case; community; countries; data; davies; development; framework; governance; government; government data; impacts; informatics; issn; journal; new; open; public; research; study; transparency; use cache: joci-3246.pdf plain text: joci-3246.txt item: #447 of 547 id: joci-3251 author: Jalil, Mohammad Muaz; Jalil, Mohammad Shahroz title: Understanding Information need and media habit of poor farmers in Bangladesh date: 2016-07-18 words: 6537 flesch: 50 summary: However getting buy-in from retailers or input sellers on endorsing such tele-centers might be difficult as it may directly impinge upon their domain as a monopoly source for such information. However fundamentally third party endorsement (local input sellers or extension officers) is a must to ensure farmers and others integrate ICT as one of the source of such information. keywords: access; agricultural; bangladesh; community; farmers; farming; fish; information; input; journal; media; prawn; source cache: joci-3251.pdf plain text: joci-3251.txt item: #448 of 547 id: joci-3273 author: Villanueva-Mansilla, Eduardo title: Editorial: Cosmopolitanism versus Traditionalism and the need to talk about a different divide date: 2016-11-28 words: 1451 flesch: 47 summary: Of course, the end result is that the actual interests of different communities are ignored: blaming them or demanding that they act as active resistance to globalization just hide the fact that communities are not static, nor can be defined by conservatism, either as a criticism or as a virtue, but that they are also ignored if not despised by those believing fervently in a new order based on social or economic globalization, on a cosmopolitan outlook that almost by definition is enjoyed by a few, by a minority all around the world. mailto:evillan@gmail.com http://ci-journal.net http://ci-journal.net The Journal of Community Informatics ISSN: 1721-4441 From conservative positions, it is precisely that static vision of social life what makes communities a positive factor against the brute forces of modernization by liberal politics. keywords: community; journal; world cache: joci-3273.pdf plain text: joci-3273.txt item: #449 of 547 id: joci-3274 author: Frank, Mark; Walker, Johanna; Attard, Judie; Tygel, Alan title: Data Literacy - What is it and how can we make it happen? date: 2016-09-19 words: 2808 flesch: 57 summary: This ability is increasingly identified as data literacy. Data literacy is a recent addition to a growing band of literacies such as numerical literacy, statistical literacy and IT literacy. keywords: data; government; literacy; open; use cache: joci-3274.pdf plain text: joci-3274.txt item: #450 of 547 id: joci-3275 author: Wolff, Annika; Gooch, Daniel; Cavero Montaner, Jose J.; Rashid, Umar; Kortuem, Gerd title: Creating an Understanding of Data Literacy for a Data-driven Society date: 2016-08-09 words: 8037 flesch: 56 summary: Analysis of existing approaches to support data literacy A definition of data literacy Based on the analysis of definitions of data literacy, the mapping to user needs and the survey of existing approaches to teaching data literacy in practice, we propose this following definition of data literacy: Data literacy is the ability to ask and answer real-world questions from large and small data sets through an inquiry process, with consideration of ethical use of data. Through mapping both the space of user needs and the space of individual competences or skills that comprise the definitions of data (and statistical) literacy, we develop a single framework to support the multiple perspectives of data literacy and form a common foundation for the teaching and learning of data literacy skills. keywords: analysis; competences; data; data literacy; definitions; inquiry; journal; literacy; process; skills; statistical; students; teaching; use cache: joci-3275.pdf plain text: joci-3275.txt item: #451 of 547 id: joci-3276 author: Crusoe, David title: Data Literacy defined pro populo: To read this article, please provide a little information date: 2016-08-10 words: 8983 flesch: 44 summary: 123-03-1290 The Journal of Community Informatics ISSN: 1721-4441 Special issue on Data Literacy: Articles Data Literacy defined pro populo: To read this article, please provide a little information Data literacy is of fundamental importance in societies that emphasize extensive use of data for information and decision-making. Data literacy defined pro populo: to read this article, please provide a little information. keywords: community; data; data literacy; definition; education; individual; information; issn; journal; knowledge; literacy; privacy; security; subjects; systems; understanding; use cache: joci-3276.pdf plain text: joci-3276.txt item: #452 of 547 id: joci-3277 author: Matthews, Paul title: Data literacy conceptions, community capabilities date: 2016-10-22 words: 4041 flesch: 40 summary: 123-04-1348 The Journal of Community Informatics ISSN: 1721-4441 Special Issue on Data Literacy: Articles Data literacy conceptions, community capabilities To delineate and describe the data literacy concept, a core set of data competencies are identified, and a further four varieties – each with a different focus of attention – are described. It is argued that the inclusion focus helps data literacy to be construed as a community capability. keywords: capabilities; community; competencies; data; data literacy; focus; informatics; journal; literacy; research cache: joci-3277.pdf plain text: joci-3277.txt item: #453 of 547 id: joci-3279 author: Tygel, Alan Freihof; Kirsch, Rosana title: Contributions of Paulo Freire for a Critical Data Literacy: a Popular Education Approach date: 2016-10-22 words: 6339 flesch: 51 summary: Figure 1: Data literacy process In this paper, we propose the adoption of elements of Freire's Literacy Method for use in a pedagogical pathway towards data literacy. keywords: community; data; data literacy; education; freire; information; journal; literacy; method; paulo; process; reality; stage cache: joci-3279.pdf plain text: joci-3279.txt item: #454 of 547 id: joci-3281 author: Prado, Paola; Tirado-Alcaraz, J. Alejandro; Câmara, Mauro Araújo title: Perceptions of ICT use in rural Brazil: Factors that impact appropriation among marginalized communities date: 2016-08-09 words: 5769 flesch: 48 summary: Wherever Internet access is available in remote and impoverished areas, the extent to which an individual will use data for the benefit of her community will be mediated by her perception about Internet use and by the social dynamics of the community where she lives. Based on the results from factor analysis, we observe that individual perception of Internet use in these communities can be classified in four broad categories: social benefits for the community, opportunities for the youth, economic benefits for the community, and negative impact for the community. keywords: access; benefits; community; community informatics; data; factor; ict; informatics; internet; journal; literacy; perception; use cache: joci-3281.pdf plain text: joci-3281.txt item: #455 of 547 id: joci-3282 author: Zubiaga, Arkaitz; Mac Namee, Brian title: Graphical Perception of Value Distributions: An Evaluation of Non-Expert Viewers' Data Literacy date: 2016-08-09 words: 8512 flesch: 54 summary: In this paper we describe two user studies on perception from data visualisations, in which we measured the ability of participants to validate statements about the distributions of data samples visualised using different chart types. In this work, we conduct two user studies to assess the effectiveness of different chart types for visualising one or more distributions of values. keywords: chart; data; density; distributions; histograms; study; traces; user; values; viewers cache: joci-3282.pdf plain text: joci-3282.txt item: #456 of 547 id: joci-3283 author: Blignaut, Renette; Venter, Isabella Margarethe; Renaud, Karen title: Granny gets smarter but Junior hardly notices date: 2016-10-03 words: 5493 flesch: 62 summary: The students had the same attitude towards older mobile phone users every year. An intervention was carried out for three years in a row – constituting three snapshots with different student bodies interviewing different older mobile phone owners. keywords: community; informatics; journal; participants; perceptions; phone; students; years cache: joci-3283.pdf plain text: joci-3283.txt item: #457 of 547 id: joci-3284 author: Liew, Chern Li; Chowdhury, Gobinda title: Digital Cultural Heritage and Social Sustainability date: 2016-10-27 words: 10942 flesch: 38 summary: 123-11-1278 The Journal of Community Informatics ISSN: 1721-4441 Articles Digital Cultural Heritage and Social Sustainability This research investigated factors that were perceived to contribute to the social sustainability of cultural heritage information services. Innocenti (2015) recommends that a framework is needed to support and monitor cultural heritage information services which includes defining agreed performance indicators and success parameters. keywords: access; collection; community; content; cultural; dch; digital; engagement; heritage; information; issn; journal; needs; new; services; sustainability; users cache: joci-3284.pdf plain text: joci-3284.txt item: #458 of 547 id: joci-3285 author: Bhargava, Rahul; Kadouaki, Ricardo; Bhargava, Emily; Castro, Guilherme; D'Ignazio, Catherine title: Data Murals: Using the Arts to Build Data Literacy date: 2016-10-22 words: 8460 flesch: 56 summary: They are also leveraging data-informed and algorithm-managed decision making in topics ranging !197 Bhargava, R., Kadouaki, R., Bhargava, E., Castro, G., D’Ignazio, C. (2016) Data Murals: using the arts to build data literacy. In both public and corporate contexts there is a growing demand for greater transparency and more ways to build data literacy among stakeholders and clients. keywords: community; data; data literacy; design; informatics; issn; journal; literacy; mural; plug; process; school; staff; story; students cache: joci-3285.pdf plain text: joci-3285.txt item: #459 of 547 id: joci-3286 author: Kayser-Bril, Nicolas title: Don't ask too much from data literacy date: 2016-08-10 words: 2640 flesch: 59 summary: 123-13-1297 The Journal of Community Informatics ISSN: 1721-4441 Special issue on Data Literacy: Notes from the Field Don’t ask much from Data Literacy It can be argued that data literacy skills are all we need for data literacy to be used properly by journalists. Before skills, journalists need a reason to learn and use data literacy. keywords: data; datajournalism; incentives; journalists; literacy; need; news; skills cache: joci-3286.pdf plain text: joci-3286.txt item: #460 of 547 id: joci-3287 author: Argast, Andi; Zvyagintseva, Lydia title: Data Literacy projects in Canada: Field notes from the Open Data Institute, Toronto node date: 2016-08-10 words: 4314 flesch: 47 summary: The ‘under-recognized’ tension between the market orientation of information and information as a public good continues to be a defining characteristic of information policy today (Orna, 2008) and has helped shape open data in Canada, creating an environment for hackathons as potential sites of economic development that function in an ostensibly civic framework. In fact, despite well-intentioned claims that access to publicly funded data on topics such as community housing, transit and recreation statistics will enable citizens to engage more actively with their cities and governments, research suggests that the general public is not positioned to benefit from access to open data (Prado and Marzal, 2013). keywords: canada; civic; community; data; government; library; literacy; n.d; open; toronto cache: joci-3287.pdf plain text: joci-3287.txt item: #461 of 547 id: joci-3288 author: Frank, Mark; Walker, Johanna title: Some Key Challenges for Data Literacy date: 2016-09-23 words: 1837 flesch: 57 summary: In specifying that ‘Data Literacy is...enabling a community to take advantage of data’ we were guided particularly by the contribution from the School of Data (Rogers 2015), whose research suggests that data literacy is inseparable from its function within a community - whether defined in the traditional sense or in the more transitive sense of a group of colleagues or activists approaching an issue. We discuss the motivation for holding the Data Literacy workshop at ACM Web Science 2015 and the key challenges for advancing the praxis and research of data literacy that emerged: defining data literacy; establishing its importance; identifying beneficial projects and building a community. keywords: community; data; literacy; work cache: joci-3288.pdf plain text: joci-3288.txt item: #462 of 547 id: joci-3289 author: Wolske, Martin; Rhinesmith, Colin title: Critical Questions for Community Informatics in Practice date: 2016-11-28 words: 2912 flesch: 39 summary: Community Informatics practice seeks to make “effective use” of technology (Gurstein, 2003) to support community development projects in ways that advance a sustainable approach to community enrichment and power (Stoecker, 2005). On the other hand, individuals belong to multiple, intersecting communities (Young, 1997; Lugones, 2003); this includes those with leadership roles in CI projects. keywords: community; community informatics; informatics; journal; practice; project cache: joci-3289.pdf plain text: joci-3289.txt item: #463 of 547 id: joci-3290 author: Villanueva-Mansilla, Eduardo title: Agency and technology date: 2017-04-22 words: 1216 flesch: 40 summary: This means that we will continue seeking partnerships with interested parties to define new special issues. 1390-7964-2-CE The Journal of Community Informatics ISSN: 1721-4441 Editorial Agency and Informatics This, the latest issue of the Journal of Community Informatics, brings a variety of research on underserved communities around the world. keywords: community; informatics; issue; journal cache: joci-3290.pdf plain text: joci-3290.txt item: #464 of 547 id: joci-3291 author: Rose, Emma J.; Racadio, Robert; Martin, Travis; Girard, Deidre; Kolko, Beth title: Expert yet vulnerable: Understanding the needs of transit dependent riders to inform policy and design date: 2017-03-22 words: 9188 flesch: 59 summary: Roommates in their early 20s • Joey • Gabe !10 The Journal of Community Informatics ISSN: 1721-4441 Study findings: Categories of agency for transit dependent riders Observing and interviewing public transit riders gave us insight into the lived experience of the transit dependent. 1262-7802-4-CE The Journal of Community Informatics ISSN: 1721-4441 Articles Expert yet vulnerable: Understanding the needs of transit dependent riders to inform policy and design Transportation is a crucial resource that links people to jobs, social networks, community and services. keywords: bus; community; design; fare; icts; informatics; journal; participants; people; public; research; riders; study; system; transit; transportation cache: joci-3291.pdf plain text: joci-3291.txt item: #465 of 547 id: joci-3292 author: Thinyane, Hannah; Siebörger, Ingrid title: MobiSAM: Reflections from a four year case study using technology to increase public participation in local government in South Africa date: 2017-07-02 words: 11139 flesch: 44 summary: It is hoped that improving communication between the two parties (local government and their constituency) will result in increased, meaningful participation at the local government level from local citizens. The area experiences a high unemployment rate (63.4%) and low levels of education (39.2% of Makana citizens have received only primary level education or none at all) (Makana Municipality, 2010). keywords: africa; citizens; communication; community; delivery; government; informatics; journal; makana; mobile; mobisam; municipality; participation; research; service; south; use; water cache: joci-3292.pdf plain text: joci-3292.txt item: #466 of 547 id: joci-3293 author: Wollersheim, Dennis; Koh, Lee; Walker, Rae; Liamputtong, Pranee title: “Happy, just talking, talking, talking”: Community strengthening through mobile phone based peer support among refugee women date: 2017-03-22 words: 8390 flesch: 53 summary: Both leaders reported greatly increased mobile phone communication and community knowledge of mobile phone resources. Prior to the program, the women generally had low mobile phone resource, either having no phone, or more often, having a phone that could not make outgoing calls due to having zero call credits. keywords: communication; community; group; information; issn; journal; mobile; participants; phone; program; refugee; relationships; resource; social; support; women cache: joci-3293.pdf plain text: joci-3293.txt item: #467 of 547 id: joci-3294 author: Zelenkauskaite, Asta; Gonzales, Amy L. title: Non-Standard Typography Use Over Time: Signs of a Lack of Literacy or Symbolic Capital? date: 2017-03-22 words: 8149 flesch: 55 summary: In doing so, we delve into debates about the role of socio-economic status and media competencies (Hargittai, & Shaw, 2013) as they are represented in NST use in this sample. We do this by examining NST use over a three and a half month period in a sample of US adults living in public housing communities. keywords: capital; communication; community; education; group; journal; literacy; messages; new; non; nst; participants; texting; time; typography; use cache: joci-3294.pdf plain text: joci-3294.txt item: #468 of 547 id: joci-3295 author: Johnson, Peter A; Sieber, Renee E title: The Geoweb for community-based organizations: Tool development, implementation, and sustainability in an era of Google Maps date: 2017-03-22 words: 6671 flesch: 48 summary: As part of this research, we worked in partnership with two Acton-area community-based organizations to develop and implement Geoweb tools as a way to increase citizen participation in local development issues. This research suggests that Geoweb tools can be classified on the basis of implementation time frame, itself a factor of the application purpose (Figure 4). keywords: acton; community; geoweb; google; implementation; information; journal; map; organizations; time; tool; use cache: joci-3295.pdf plain text: joci-3295.txt item: #469 of 547 id: joci-3296 author: Lorini, Maria Rosa; Sabiescu, Amalia; Memarovic, Nemanja title: Collective Digital Storytelling in Community-based co-design projects. An Emergent Approach date: 2017-03-22 words: 12881 flesch: 49 summary: At the beginning of 2014, group members participated in the exploratory phase of the research project via interviews and focus groups. Meanwhile group members searched for old pictures of their activities (Figure 5). keywords: activities; collective; community; community informatics; design; dst; groups; informatics; journal; new; participants; participation; process; radio; researcher; station; video cache: joci-3296.pdf plain text: joci-3296.txt item: #470 of 547 id: joci-3297 author: Jayakar, Krishna; Grzeslo, Jenna title: Local Economic Impacts of Investments in Community Technology Centers: An Empirical Investigation date: 2017-04-08 words: 5861 flesch: 44 summary: Local economic impacts of investments in community technology centers: an empirical investigation. And yet, the literature on ICTs and development has shown quite convincingly that CTCs may be expected to have local economic impacts. keywords: access; broadband; centers; community; county; ctcs; digital; household; income; journal; public; services; technology cache: joci-3297.pdf plain text: joci-3297.txt item: #471 of 547 id: joci-3298 author: Naude, Filistea; van Biljon, Judy title: Scholarly Impact: a Bibliometric and Altmetric study of the Journal of Community Informatics date: 2017-03-22 words: 9576 flesch: 46 summary: Altmetrics (also referred to as social media metrics) measure scholarly performance of individual articles based on engagement of scholars and the public with research articles in an online and social media environment (Lin & Fenner, 2013). A study by Naude (2016b) of the Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries (EJISDC) research articles, showed similar results, with 34% single-authored compared to 66% multi-authored articles. ! keywords: article; authors; citations; community; community informatics; google; google scholar; impact; informatics; joci; journal; mendeley; metrics; number; readership; research; scholar; study; table; university; views cache: joci-3298.pdf plain text: joci-3298.txt item: #472 of 547 id: joci-3299 author: Cumbula, Salomao David; Sabiescu, Amalia Giorgiana; Cantoni, Lorenzo title: Community design: a collaborative approach for social integration date: 2017-03-22 words: 7091 flesch: 51 summary: Three classrooms are used as community radio, telecentre, and library. As for the community radio part, support is provided by the Forúm Nacional das radios comunitárias (FORCOM), an organisation that acts as a lobbyist unit to promote and defend the interests of community radios (FORCOM community radio stations, n.d.). keywords: action; cmc; community; design; implementation; improvement; informatics; journal; people; project; quelimane; radio; research; social; team; training cache: joci-3299.pdf plain text: joci-3299.txt item: #473 of 547 id: joci-3300 author: Teeters, Leah Anne title: Developing Social Alongside Technical Infrastructure: A Case Study Applying ICTD Tenets to Marginalized Communities in the United States date: 2017-03-22 words: 7739 flesch: 44 summary: It presents a case study of co-designing a technology application with community health workers, promotoras, working in a historically marginalized community within the U.S. We interviewed promotoras and the Impact directors, reviewed historical and contemporary artifacts on the promotora model, and engaged in participant observations of the promotoras’ and Impact’s work in the community. keywords: collection; community; data; design; development; impact; informatics; journal; organization; practices; process; promotoras; research; technology; verónica; work cache: joci-3300.pdf plain text: joci-3300.txt item: #474 of 547 id: joci-3308 author: Villanueva-Mansilla, Eduardo title: Platform communities: a new frontier for Community Informatics? date: 2017-09-13 words: 1400 flesch: 45 summary: Trade Unions have been at the base of many local communities all around the world, and even in these ti- mes, when trade unionism has been weakening by so many factors, there is a salient fact: communities born of a shared working experience are still significant political ac- tors, even if negatively so. Disruption of local communities is there, too. keywords: communities; community; informatics cache: joci-3308.pdf plain text: joci-3308.txt item: #475 of 547 id: joci-3309 author: Rhinesmith, Colin; Nemer, David; Urbano, Christiana title: Introduction: Special Issue CIRN Prato Conference 2016 date: 2017-08-29 words: 1285 flesch: 25 summary: The Journal of Community Informatics, 13(2), 4—7. The work in this issue provides an opportunity to consider both the richness of the CIRN Prato conference presentations as well as the progression and further development of the field of Community Informatics. keywords: community; conference; informatics; issue cache: joci-3309.pdf plain text: joci-3309.txt item: #476 of 547 id: joci-3310 author: Guhathakurta, Meghna title: Contested histories, participatory movements and the making of memories in Bangladesh date: 2017-09-13 words: 2466 flesch: 52 summary: That is why we see movements, uprisings in different period of time surface, often demanding recognitions of such memories and their consequent realties. All too often, collective memories get conflated with national memories or national consciousness. keywords: bangladesh; collective; community; memories; people; state cache: joci-3310.pdf plain text: joci-3310.txt item: #477 of 547 id: joci-3311 author: Vannini, Sara; Nemer, David; Halabi, Ammar; Sabiescu, Amalia Georgiana; David Cumbula, Salomao title: Critical Incidents Analysis: mismatching expectations and reconciling visions in intercultural encounters date: 2017-08-29 words: 10417 flesch: 49 summary: Further research on our accounts will show how we, as CIA researchers, will now deal with critical incidents in the field. Then, we explain how the framework is structured and how it can be applied to CI research projects that deal with qualitative – mainly ethnographic – data. keywords: brunello; cia; communication; community; development; expectations; framework; incidents; informatics; issn; journal; nemer; new; project; research; researchers; stakeholders cache: joci-3311.pdf plain text: joci-3311.txt item: #478 of 547 id: joci-3312 author: de Moor, Aldo title: CommunitySensor: towards a participatory community network mapping methodology date: 2017-08-29 words: 9236 flesch: 41 summary: To explore the nature of such inter-communal sensemaking, we first present four observations that we !43 The Journal of Community Informatics ISSN: 1721-4441 made while involved in actual participatory community network mapping projects: linking maps across communities; meta-communication matters; tweaking the typologies; and sharing community network patterns. We list some observations from practice about using community network mapping for making inter-communal sense. keywords: collaboration; communities; community; community network; development; informatics; issn; journal; mapping; methodology; network; participatory; pattern; process; sensemaking; social cache: joci-3312.pdf plain text: joci-3312.txt item: #479 of 547 id: joci-3313 author: Mabila, Jabulisiwe; Van Biljon, Judy; Herselman, Marlien title: A sustainability framework for mobile technology integration in schools: The case of resource-constrained environments in South Africa date: 2017-08-21 words: 10940 flesch: 40 summary: The four main roles of school districts are to plan and support, and provide oversight and accountability to schools under their care in line with provincial plans (SASA, 1996). Ng & Nicholas (2013); Mabila et al. (2017) adapted from Cisler (2011) Economic Manage ment Financial / economic Use cost benefit analysis framework for ongoing resource needs (staff and equipment) Economic self- sustainability; Motivate/ incentivise community ICT job placement; Use ICTs to enhance existing rural development activities Programme management (budget allocation); Risk identification; Monitoring and evaluation; Change management; Cost-utility model (Meyer & Marais, 2014:217) Financial support (private sector and government) for infrastructure and skills development Economic Social /cultural Culture; People Cultural/ social Organisatio n: fit with goals and culture; Staff: training and involveme nt, behaviours, senior leaders Community participation (target groups), local/ demand- driven needs; Encourage local ownership; Build local partnerships Programme management (managing stakeholders, community); Community (people, organisations internal to specific context) Local participation; Long-term private and public sector partnerships Social Political Politics; Structur e; Strateg y Political institution al Organisatio n: fit with goals; Staff: behaviours, senior leaders Understanding local political context; Cultivating an influential project champion Programme management (managing stakeholders and partners); Change management Change management Political Technologi cal Technic al Technolog ical Choose appropriate technology School ICT (hardware and software selection, infrastructure, connectivity – decisions and issues); School ICT committee; Communication Plan for long-term presence of skilled personnel; Local, skilled personnel should provide technical support Technolog ical Environm ental Environ ment Environm ental Pedagogic al Teacher professional development; Curriculum content; Content management, change management Pedagogic al (Ng & Nicholas, 2013) !71 The Journal of Community Informatics ISSN: 1721-4441 Phase 2 To add value to the SFMTIS developed from the reviewed literature, Phase 2 of the study utilised a case study to demonstrate and refine the SFMTIS developed in Phase 1. keywords: community; development; district; environments; framework; journal; learning; management; mobile; officials; research; schools; south; support; sustainability; tablets; teachers; technology cache: joci-3313.pdf plain text: joci-3313.txt item: #480 of 547 id: joci-3314 author: Botto, Francesco; Teli, Maurizio title: PIE News. A public design project toward commonfare date: 2017-08-21 words: 7196 flesch: 46 summary: Figure 3: PIE News design and implementation approach Five iterative cycles are planned to involve the Design, Implementation and Evaluation tasks: !96 The Commonfare glossary During the design phase of PIE News project the need to have a common glossary among partners emerged. keywords: commonfare; community; currency; design; informatics; issn; journal; news; people; pie; pie news; platform; poor; project; public; users cache: joci-3314.pdf plain text: joci-3314.txt item: #481 of 547 id: joci-3324 author: Bekoe, Stephen; Ayoung, Daniel Azerikatoa; Boadu, Paul; Folitse, Benjamin title: An empirical study on the effects of mobile telephony usage on livelihoods in Brong Ahafo region of Ghana date: 2018-02-02 words: 6423 flesch: 52 summary: This research makes an original contribution to ICT4D (mobile phone) debates on the effects of mobile phone use on socio-economic development to policy- makers, researchers, academicians and practitioners in the field of ICT for development particularly in Ghana and also elsewhere. Users acknowledged the impact of mobile phones in their ability to !130 Stephen Bekoe CSIR - Institute for Scientific and Technological Information, Ghana Corresponding Author. keywords: access; africa; ahafo; brong; community; data; development; information; journal; mobile; people; phones; research; study; use cache: joci-3324.pdf plain text: joci-3324.txt item: #482 of 547 id: joci-3325 author: Kermish-Allen, Ruth; Kastelein, Kate title: Toward a Sociocultural Learning Theory Framework to Designing Online learning Communities in Citizen Science date: 2017-12-18 words: 6229 flesch: 47 summary: Community informatics provides insights from online citizen science communities which may be utilized to improve a number of areas including sustainability, educational, and economic issues (Eagle, Hague, Keeble, & Loader, 2005) Studies of invasive species, for example, or farming in drought conditions, provide the opportunity to connect with others trying to find solutions to similar problems. Scardamalia and her colleagues (Hewitt & Scardamalia, 1998; Oshima, Scardamalia, & Bereiter, 1996; Zhang et al., 2009) have further defined four essential design principles, or opportunities for engagement, that must be present for knowledge building communities to function: keywords: building; citizen; communities; community; education; informatics; journal; knowledge; learning; online; science; theory cache: joci-3325.pdf plain text: joci-3325.txt item: #483 of 547 id: joci-3329 author: Obeysekare, Eric Ryan; Mehta, Khanjan; Maitland, Carleen title: Bringing Community Back to Community Health Worker Studies: Community interactions, data collection, and health information flows date: 2017-12-18 words: 10876 flesch: 53 summary: These changes were aimed at maximizing the potential income that could be earned by Mashavu CHWs while also making Mashavu itself financially sustainable. Mashavu CHWs are given basic medical equipment including a scale, tape measure, and blood pressure device, and are trained in their use. keywords: chws; collection; community; community health; customers; data; health; health information; healthcare; individuals; information; journal; mashavu; service; systems; work; workers cache: joci-3329.pdf plain text: joci-3329.txt item: #484 of 547 id: joci-3330 author: Bentley, Caitlin M; Chib, Arul; Poveda, Sammia C title: Exploring capability and accountability outcomes of open development for the poor and marginalized: An analysis of select literature date: 2018-02-02 words: 13179 flesch: 40 summary: This article investigates the links between open development dimensions, transformation processes and outcomes. Theoretical framework Towards open development dimensions keywords: accountability; actors; analysis; approach; capability; community; data; development; dimensions; information; issn; journal; open; openness; outcomes; power; processes; research; structures; studies; technology; transformation cache: joci-3330.pdf plain text: joci-3330.txt item: #485 of 547 id: joci-3359 author: Villanueva-Mansilla, Eduardo title: Editorial: Michael Gurstein and the future of Community Informatics date: 2018-02-12 words: 1166 flesch: 46 summary: Michael Gurstein and the future of community informatics (editorial). And there is where the strength and relevance of community informatics lies, and should remain, in the coming years. keywords: community; informatics; journal cache: joci-3359.pdf plain text: joci-3359.txt item: #486 of 547 id: joci-3364 author: Namatovu, Esther; Sæbø, Johan Ivar; Kaasbøll, Jens Johan title: Mobilities of the Community Health Work Practice: Mobile Health system Mediated Work date: 2017-12-19 words: 9246 flesch: 53 summary: We examined our interview transcripts and field notes and grouped data with similar experiences and meanings into codes and later identified themes and concepts from the data relating to the use of the mHealth system, including themes such as: Work practices, their normative order, role of human agency and technology agency, emerging mobilities and the relationship between mobilities and work practices. We can understand how structures are transformed and what influences the change in community health work. keywords: community; data; field; health; hsas; informatics; journal; mobilities; mobility; paper; phone; social; system; technology; work cache: joci-3364.pdf plain text: joci-3364.txt item: #487 of 547 id: joci-3394 author: Al-Saggaf, Yeslam; Shariati, Saeed; Morrison, Mark title: Women in Iran: The effect of marital status and the presence of family dependents at home on their use of the internet date: 2017-12-18 words: 7054 flesch: 50 summary: The above discussion focuses more on internet access and internet use and less on frequency of internet use. Iran women flout dress code in online campaign. keywords: access; community; family; home; informatics; internet; iran; journal; study; time; usage; use; women cache: joci-3394.pdf plain text: joci-3394.txt item: #488 of 547 id: joci-3395 author: Parmaxi, Antigoni; Vasiliou, Christina; Ioannou, Andri; Kouta, Christiana title: Empowerment of women through an innovative e-mentoring community platform: implications and lessons learned date: 2017-12-18 words: 7195 flesch: 47 summary: Women face the so-called glass ceiling effect “the unseen, yet unbreachable barrier that keeps minorities and women from rising to the upper rungs of the corporate ladder, regardless of their qualifications or achievements” (Federal Glass Ceiling Commission, 1995). To this aim, we aspire to develop Womenpower, an innovative e-mentoring community platform that intends to link women mentors and mentees in the areas of academia, business, and healthcare. keywords: community; design; development; equality; gender; informatics; journal; mentoring; platform; process; prototype; technology; users; women cache: joci-3395.pdf plain text: joci-3395.txt item: #489 of 547 id: joci-3399 author: Hespanhol, Luke; Davis, Hilary; Fredericks, Joel; Caldwell, Glenda Amayo; Hoggenmüller, Marius title: The Digital Fringe and Social Participation through Interaction Design date: 2018-11-05 words: 5441 flesch: 36 summary: The digital fringe is, by definition, fairly broad and highly diverse in itself, being an overarching term for the wide range of demographics and communities often excluded from the mainstream discourse about digital technology adoption and innovation. The intention is to foster digital skills within and across communities, investigate the role of proxies in digital inclusion as an enabler of social interactions, and discuss design strategies and methods for sustaining digital inclusion to eliminate the dilemma of under-participation in the future. keywords: communities; community; design; digital; fringe; inclusion; issue; journal; media; participation; people; technology cache: joci-3399.pdf plain text: joci-3399.txt item: #490 of 547 id: joci-3400 author: Villanueva-Mansilla, Eduardo title: On travails and perspectives: the future of JoCI date: 2018-11-14 words: 1063 flesch: 54 summary: A number of situations forced us to take a longer-than expected break, but now it is time to catch up and bring the Journal into action, again. We intend to keep the Journal going. keywords: community; informatics; journal cache: joci-3400.pdf plain text: joci-3400.txt item: #491 of 547 id: joci-3403 author: Beh, Jeanie; Pedell, Sonja; Mascitelli, Bruno title: Achieving digital inclusion of older adults through interest-driven curriculums date: 2018-11-07 words: 8891 flesch: 55 summary: Articles Achieving digital inclusion of older adults through interest-driven curriculums One outcome of increased life expectancy is that older adults are leading active lives in their third age as they seize opportunities to learn new skills, pursue new interests and hobbies to challenge themselves. Thus, this article examines interest-driven curriculums in order to achieve digital inclusion for older adults. keywords: adults; classes; community; informatics; interest; journal; learning; model; participants; phase; screen; self; social; study; technology; theory; touch cache: joci-3403.pdf plain text: joci-3403.txt item: #492 of 547 id: joci-3404 author: Korte, Jessica Lauren title: The Supportive Roles of Adults in Designing with Young Deaf Children date: 2018-11-07 words: 10321 flesch: 51 summary: Having educational backgrounds and existing relationships with the children seem to have influenced the educational staff members’ behaviours within the design sessions, because they also: • educated children and the lead designer to increase sign vocabulary and clarity; • educated children and the lead designer in Deaf cultural norms, which promoted communication; Adult interactions with children Adults involved in YoungDeafDesign Collaboration or partnership Lead designer, Auslan Language Model, Participant E’s parents Supporting and facilitating Lead designer, educational staff, parents Interacting with children’s world Familiar adults (educational staff, parents) were present to emotionally support the children. Deaf children bring particular needs, abilities and experiences related to their youth, physical deafness and cultural Deafness to the technology design process, making their involvement in design vital. keywords: activities; adults; children; community; deaf; design; design sessions; druin; involvement; language; parents; participant; sessions; technology cache: joci-3404.pdf plain text: joci-3404.txt item: #493 of 547 id: joci-3405 author: Ireland, David; Bradford, Dana; Farr-Wharton, Geremy title: Social Fringe Dwellers: Can chat-bots combat bullies to improve participation for children with autism? date: 2018-11-07 words: 6485 flesch: 44 summary: OT(1, 2) and ST(1, 2) also spoke to the opportunities for technology to engage ASD children at home, where that technology would assist in leading to positive outcomes for the child, such as cultivating social interactions skills. Based on technology reviews and stakeholder interviews, we are developing modules for a machine learning artificial intelligence platform (a chat-bot) that assists children attending an Australian mainstream school to recognise and respond to social bullying and sarcasm, allowing bullied autistic children to develop the social prowess to withstand their aggressors. keywords: asd; autism; bullying; chat; children; community; development; informatics; interaction; journal; spectrum; technologies; technology cache: joci-3405.pdf plain text: joci-3405.txt item: #494 of 547 id: joci-3406 author: Schutt, Stefan title: The Online Lab: Piloting video-based digital participation for isolated young people with high functioning autism date: 2018-11-07 words: 7772 flesch: 54 summary: Qualitative evaluation methods consisted of the following, with the aim of collecting data from as many kinds of project stakeholders as possible, including families living in remote and regional areas: • online posts and comments by participants, written throughout the pilot and collected at the conclusion of the pilot; • mentors’ and coordinator’s field notes, written throughout the pilot and collected at the conclusion of the pilot; • online questionnaires with Online Lab participants, undertaken at the conclusion of the pilot; • semi-structured telephone interviews with participants’ parents/guardians, undertaken at the conclusion of the pilot; • two Online Lab mentor focus groups, undertaken at the conclusion of the pilot. Mentors also observed that Online Lab participants tended to prefer operating within one technology platform rather than switching between them. keywords: autism; community; evaluation; face; journal; lab; mentors; online; participants; people; pilot; project; sessions; technology; video cache: joci-3406.pdf plain text: joci-3406.txt item: #495 of 547 id: joci-3407 author: Sarantou, Melanie Augusta; Akimenko, Daria; Escudeiro, Nuno title: Margin to Margin: Arts-Based Research for Digital Outreach to Marginalised Communities date: 2018-11-07 words: 8965 flesch: 47 summary: Later on the ‘Voices’ exhibition focused on more personal works of artists and art communities, narratives of fulfilment and happiness. Margin to Margin drew on various platforms to enable mediation and the sharing of information, art processes and stories. keywords: art; artists; australia; communities; community; journal; making; margin; mediation; participants; processes; project; researchers; video cache: joci-3407.pdf plain text: joci-3407.txt item: #496 of 547 id: joci-3408 author: Bilandzic, Ana; Casadevall, Dario; Foth, Marcus; Hearn, Greg title: Social and Spatial Precursors to Innovation: The Diversity Advantage of the Creative Fringe date: 2018-11-07 words: 10326 flesch: 52 summary: We studied the social navigation patterns of entrepreneurs and start-up founders, and their awareness and opinion about homogeneity in innovation spaces. The tool gives its users the opportunity to discover networks and innovation spaces that are at the creative fringe, that is, marginalised from mainstream spaces and hubs for creativity and innovation. keywords: community; design; diversity; foth; groups; informatics; innovation; innovation spaces; issn; journal; new; participants; people; spaces; study; technology; tool; use; work cache: joci-3408.pdf plain text: joci-3408.txt item: #497 of 547 id: joci-3409 author: Silva, Cláudia; Mora, Adolfo R.; Straubhaar, Joseph D. title: Critical Importance of Emphasising Working-Class Parents in Digital Inclusion: A US Latino/a Case Study date: 2018-11-05 words: 10830 flesch: 56 summary: The case is particularly interesting because the organisation, which is primarily a youth centre, realised they needed to start including parents in their programs in order to achieve their first and foremost institutional goal: to increase the number of low-income youth in US colleges. For this study, we use Pierre Bourdieu’s theories of capital to analyse how the organisation integrates education in their digital inclusion program—called ¡TechComunidad! — and thus how they instil techno-dispositions and cultural capital about how US education works in parents of children in kindergarten to 12th grade (K-12). keywords: access; austin; capital; children; community; computer; digital; divide; education; google; internet; journal; organisation; parents; program; techcomunidad; technology; use cache: joci-3409.pdf plain text: joci-3409.txt item: #498 of 547 id: joci-3410 author: Holzmeyer, Cheryl title: Wider Worlds of Research for Health Equity: Public Health NGOs as Stakeholders in Open Access Ecosystems date: 2018-11-22 words: 6990 flesch: 46 summary: Another analysis of the use of health research in policy-making observes, “A key barrier to the use of research is the potential users' lack of awareness of a study or body of work and why it may be relevant. The data below are from the initial and exit surveys completed by public health NGO participants, conducted between March 2013 and June ! keywords: access; articles; community; community informatics; health; informatics; journal; knowledge; ngos; participants; peer; public; research; study cache: joci-3410.pdf plain text: joci-3410.txt item: #499 of 547 id: joci-3411 author: de Moor, Aldo title: Participatory Collaboration Mapping in Malawi: Making Mike’s Community Informatics Idea(l)s Work date: 2018-11-23 words: 2538 flesch: 38 summary: His contributions have been numerous: his vision and passion about the field; his deep insight that it is not the technologies per se, but how they are being put to effective use that truly empowers communities; his heartfelt conviction that Community Informatics researchers and practitioners strongly depend on one another to achieve that goal; his tireless efforts, from lobbying at the highest international political levels to guiding young researchers and practitioners asking for his advice; and, of course, establishing The Journal of Community Informatics and the Community Informatics Researchers mailing list as crucial fora for the field to develop. In this personal tribute, I focus on three concepts promoted by Mike in particular that continue to inspire me in my own work: the notions of Community Informatics, Effective Use, and Community Innovation. keywords: community; informatics; journal; malawi; mapping; participatory cache: joci-3411.pdf plain text: joci-3411.txt item: #500 of 547 id: joci-3412 author: Richardson, Jayson W.; Nash, John; Lingat, John Eric M. title: What Do Mobile-Connected Cambodians Do Online? date: 2018-12-04 words: 10913 flesch: 49 summary: A- block questions focused on internet use and access. Table 1 describes the three-form approach The current research focuses solely on a subset of the broad survey approach described above, reporting only on Forms 1 and 2 of Z-Block and A-Block (demographics and internet use and access). keywords: access; cambodia; development; education; facebook; information; international; internet; journal; media; mobile; respondents; smartphone; survey; technology; use; users cache: joci-3412.pdf plain text: joci-3412.txt item: #501 of 547 id: joci-3413 author: Kermish-Allen, Ruth; Kastelein, Kate title: Using Q-Sort Methodology to test the Non-hierarchical Online Learning Community (NHOLC) Framework date: 2018-11-22 words: 8568 flesch: 49 summary: Framework The Non-Hierarchical Online Learning Community (NHOLC) conceptual framework was designed to leverage the understanding of sociocultural learning theory and community informatics to inform design principles for citizen science online learning communities that inspire online collaboration and local environmental action. The findings of this paper provide tangible design principles that can be used to develop or revise online learning communities for citizen science instead of re- inventing the wheel for each newly emerging project. keywords: collaboration; community; factor; framework; learning; learning community; members; nholc; online; participants; project; science; study cache: joci-3413.pdf plain text: joci-3413.txt item: #502 of 547 id: joci-3415 author: Foko, Thato title: Developing a Framework for Sustainable Information and Communication Technology Platforms for Resource Scarce Rural Communities date: 2018-11-27 words: 8265 flesch: 42 summary: London: Grahm and Trotman Lesame, Z. (N.d.), Telecentres and sustainable community development in South Africa, Department of Communication Science, University of South Africa, College of Human Sciences. Assessing Community Telecentres: Guidelines for resaerchers, IDRC, Ottawa, World Commission on Environment and Development (1987). keywords: access; community; development; government; information; journal; platforms; social; south; support; sustainability; tam; tcs; technology; telecentres; use; users cache: joci-3415.pdf plain text: joci-3415.txt item: #503 of 547 id: joci-3424 author: Villanueva-Mansilla, Eduardo title: Editorial: a time to pause date: 2019-07-02 words: 494 flesch: 52 summary: Technical support has also created a number of challenges, including a too long period during which the Journal was basically inoperative due to its server being bombarded by spammers. However, as it happens, the realities of producing such a Journal had been always challenging. keywords: journal cache: joci-3424.pdf plain text: joci-3424.txt item: #504 of 547 id: joci-3425 author: Howard, Mark title: Social movement theory and the Italian radical community archives: A question of valence? date: 2019-06-30 words: 8568 flesch: 39 summary: The assumptions in play in disciplinary thought disqualify the practice and theory of radical social movements as a credible mode of analysis of the social and political condition. Coupled with academic positivism and a reductionist approach to the epistemology of testimony, disciplinary thought treats the discursive work of radical social movements (RSMs) (speech acts and written communication that develop and articulate ideas of the radical actor) as the material of the theorist, an objectification that abstracts the social documents from their context and prejudices the response of SMT to the archival work of the Italian radical community. keywords: community; community informatics; informatics; italy; knowledge; movement; politics; practices; research; smt; social; subject; theory; thought cache: joci-3425.pdf plain text: joci-3425.txt item: #505 of 547 id: joci-3426 author: Margolis, Robin title: May They Reminisce Over You: On The Potential of Archives as Homespace date: 2019-06-30 words: 10183 flesch: 44 summary: For archivists invested in the concerns of community archives, the introduction of digital and electronic records into these models has resulted in greater inclusion of community knowledge and pluralisation. The Journal of Community Informatics ISSN: 1721-4441 allowing definitions within community research to emerge from within the community is fundamental. keywords: archival; archives; communities; community; community informatics; history; informatics; institutions; issn; journal; lis; mama; new; people; records; research; storytelling; systems; white; work cache: joci-3426.pdf plain text: joci-3426.txt item: #506 of 547 id: joci-3427 author: Wright, Steve title: The nature of ‘document work’, and its implications for radical community archives and their holdings date: 2019-06-30 words: 9245 flesch: 57 summary: In conclusion: some brief implications of document work for radical archives I hope that this brief introduction to Potere Operaio’s genre repertoire and communications circuit has helped not only in making sense of how such documents were created and used, but has also provided some useful insights into the practices of an important ensemble of political militants from the 1960s and 1970s in Italy. This paper will explore the meaning of document work within the practices of members of Potere Operaio [Potop], one of the most influential of the revolutionary groups formed in Italy during the late 1960s. keywords: borio; community; documents; grandi; group; informatics; issn; journal; left; members; negri; operaio; pistoia; potop; radical; rome; time; work cache: joci-3427.pdf plain text: joci-3427.txt item: #507 of 547 id: joci-3428 author: Ali-Hassan, Hossam; Sekharan, Vineeth; Kim, Theresa title: Internet non-use among the Canadian older adult population: General Social Survey (GSS) date: 2019-06-30 words: 6491 flesch: 52 summary: Older adult use of the Internet has been strongly associated with significant decreases in social isolation levels and reduced risk of depression (Cotton et al., 2014; Tsai et al., 2015; Khosravi, Rezvani & Wiewiora, 2016; Chopik, 2016). Hassan ready The Journal of Community Informatics ISSN: 1721-4441 Article Internet non-use among the Canadian older adult population: General Social Survey (GSS) Benefits of Internet use for older adults include the ability to access informational resources, facilitate social connections and use online communication resources. keywords: adults; canada; factors; health; internet; internet non; internet use; journal; non; social; study; use cache: joci-3428.pdf plain text: joci-3428.txt item: #508 of 547 id: joci-3429 author: Grzeslo, Jenna title: Building communities, bridging divides: Community technology centers and social capital date: 2019-06-30 words: 7811 flesch: 55 summary: While looking at the role of social capital in community development, Woolcock and Narayan (2006) add that social capital increases capacity by stating, “Social capital refers to the norms and networks that enable people to act collectively” (p. 32-33). The search for empowerment: Social capital as idea and practice at the World Bank (pp. 31-62) Bloomfield, CT: Kumarian Press. !97 http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/39370 Articles Building communities, bridging divides: Community technology centers and social capital Introduction Literature Review Defining CTCs Social Capital Methodology Results Conclusion Funding Statement: This project received support from the Don Davis Program in Ethical Leadership, in the Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications, at Penn State University. keywords: access; bonding; bridging; capital; center; community; ctcs; individuals; informatics; internet; issn; journal; research; technology cache: joci-3429.pdf plain text: joci-3429.txt item: #509 of 547 id: joci-3430 author: Intahchomphoo, Channarong; Vellino, André; Gundersen, Odd Erik title: Connecting with Youth at Risk: Indigenous Organizations Use of Facebook date: 2019-06-30 words: 7972 flesch: 49 summary: Secondly, Facebook is also used to engage urban indigenous youth at risk with indigenous organizations that provide social programs and outreach. Given that urban centers pose significant risks for urban indigenous youth (Miller et al., 2011), it is critically important to develop an understanding of how indigenous organizations use social media like Facebook to disseminate information to their targeted populations, particularly urban indigenous youth, who use Facebook and other social media heavily and daily. keywords: canada; communities; community; facebook; health; information; interviews; journal; organizations; ottawa; people; research; risk; use; youth cache: joci-3430.pdf plain text: joci-3430.txt item: #510 of 547 id: joci-3436 author: None title: joci-3436 date: None words: 3210 flesch: 45 summary: Email: liisa.horelli@aalto.fi Concordia University, Canada (Editorial Advisory Board: Jennifer Cowley, Marcus Foth, Reinout Kleinhans, Joanna Saad-Sulonen, Carlos Nunes Silva, & Patrick Sunter) Over a year and a half ago, we proposed a Journal of Community Informatics (JoCI) special issue on urban planning and community informatics (CI). Their work attempts to devise an integrated framework for understanding the 'smart cities' agenda from a new approach to urban planning enhanced by CI. keywords: cities; city; community; digital; informatics; issue; planning; urban cache: joci-3436.htm plain text: joci-3436.txt item: #511 of 547 id: joci-3438 author: None title: joci-3438 date: None words: 1477 flesch: 12 summary: In an article entitled Smart Cities - A $1.5 Trillion Market Opportunity the author from the consulting firm Frost and Sullivan identifies eight key aspects that define a Smart City: smart governance, smart energy, smart building, smart mobility, smart infrastructure, smart technology, smart healthcare and smart citizen as follows. Wikipedia gives us this definition: a smart city is an emerging conceptual view of a city that promotes the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to engage with citizens to develop social capital and intellectual capital, to make better use of hard infrastructure (physical capital), reduce usage of environmental capital and support smart growth (sustainable economic development). keywords: cities; citizens; city; infrastructure cache: joci-3438.htm plain text: joci-3438.txt item: #512 of 547 id: joci-3439 author: None title: joci-3439 date: None words: 10027 flesch: 49 summary: We will also base our framework on these dimensions later on, although we will not adopt the following definition of smart cities that the report ends up with: Smart city uses ICTs to optimize the efficiency and effectiveness of useful and necessary city processes, activities and services by joining up diverse elements and actors into a seamlessly interactive intelligent system (Manville, 2014, 88). Alternative stories about smart cities The alternative smart city already exists, comprising myriads of initiatives where technology has been used to empower community networks. keywords: approach; cities; citizens; city; community; course; global; governance; informatics; life; new; participatory; people; planning; public; research; smart; students cache: joci-3439.htm plain text: joci-3439.txt item: #513 of 547 id: joci-3440 author: None title: joci-3440 date: None words: 7396 flesch: 57 summary: As discussed by Oldenburg, third places are low profile, neutral, inclusive, accessible, accommodating, filled with regulars, conversational, and playful. These characteristics of third places were outlined before information and communication technologies (ICTs) like the Internet, mobile phones, and social networking services (SNS) - e.g., Facebook and Twitter - became widespread and integrated into the fabric of everyday life (Weiser 1991). keywords: characteristics; example; figure; icts; oldenburg; online; people; places; properties; public; space; study; technology cache: joci-3440.htm plain text: joci-3440.txt item: #514 of 547 id: joci-3441 author: None title: joci-3441 date: None words: 9661 flesch: 49 summary: For the future development of augmented reality apps the focus should be on the effective use approach (Gurstein, 2003), to better meet the users' needs that became apparent in the field test. Younger people play 3D games more frequently, thereby gaining initial opportunities to experience 3D simulation, especially with augmented reality visualizations (Figure 8). keywords: app; development; field; figure; information; mobile; participants; participation; people; planning; processes; project; reality; urban; use; visualization cache: joci-3441.htm plain text: joci-3441.txt item: #515 of 547 id: joci-3442 author: None title: joci-3442 date: None words: 5662 flesch: 49 summary: In addition to raising the need for pedestrian urban maps, this article has proposed a methodology for collecting and analyzing pedestrian data. In particular, the importance of pedestrian maps for urban planning cannot be overstated. keywords: city; collection; community; data; gps; mapmaking; maps; navigation; pedestrian; research; urban cache: joci-3442.htm plain text: joci-3442.txt item: #516 of 547 id: joci-3443 author: None title: joci-3443 date: None words: 9281 flesch: 48 summary: The involved end-users of PPGIS applications have often consisted of government organizations, and this array of users has seldom included community organizations, which in reality, have a central role in the debates around self-organizing urban development (cf. Although the PPGIS tools have often been developed alongside official planning processes and with the help of advanced software, community organizations may be able to utilize PPGIS solutions on their own. keywords: beach; beautiful; community; development; organization; organizing; pacific; planning; ppgis; public; research; self; softgis; study; survey; urban cache: joci-3443.htm plain text: joci-3443.txt item: #517 of 547 id: joci-3444 author: None title: joci-3444 date: None words: 10567 flesch: 51 summary: 4: The two groups behind the project, with matching expertise and interests that aligned to bottom-up planning, and participatory technology design. This study proposes a novel approach to combining planning with participatory technology design. keywords: community; design; engagement; group; leimert; neighborhood; new; participants; participation; participatory; payphone; planning; process; project; public; social; space; story; technologies; technology; university cache: joci-3444.htm plain text: joci-3444.txt item: #518 of 547 id: joci-3445 author: None title: joci-3445 date: None words: 9443 flesch: 45 summary: We suggest that the following research question will provide important insights into the involvement of newcomers in American new gateway communities: With what processes and methods can newcomers in rural new gateway communities be empowered to participate in local governance and how do these processes and methods relate to planning and community informatics? Ultimately, we imagine residents of rural new gateway communities initiating and managing both the workshops and analytic process, in a manner more similar to participatory GIS (Dunn, 2007) or facilitated-volunteered geographic information approaches (Seeger, 2008). keywords: affairs; analysis; communities; community; data; information; maps; new; participants; participation; participatory; people; perry; places; planning; process; research; rural; workshop cache: joci-3445.htm plain text: joci-3445.txt item: #519 of 547 id: joci-3446 author: None title: joci-3446 date: None words: 9066 flesch: 40 summary: As the name suggests, Urban Spacebook is conceptualized as an interactive map-based platform-essentially a website and a mobile app-which merges the communicative and networking aspects of social network technology (e.g., Facebook) with visual representations of movement and city experiences (e.g., GPS-based maps). Inspiration was also obtained from situationist practices, such as dérive (Sadler, 1998), as a way to interrupt the 'usual' by slowing down, and provoking new experiences of and in city space. keywords: city; design; dublin; experiences; experiment; gps; inhabitants; participants; participation; planning; platform; process; space; urban cache: joci-3446.htm plain text: joci-3446.txt item: #520 of 547 id: joci-3447 author: None title: joci-3447 date: None words: 10102 flesch: 41 summary: Instead civic-cyber life needs to draw lessons from urban planning traditions that emphasize deep and meaningful civic engagement or community control in questions about local urban planning and design (e.g. Sandercock, 2003; Friedmann, 2010; Coehlo, et al., 2013). AREN'T CITIES AND CITIZENS ALREADY SMART? Smart People has been identified as critical for Smart Cities' - extract from IEEE-CCD White Paper (De Obeso-Orendain et al., 2014) keywords: chennai; cities; citizenship; city; civic; community; data; governance; government; ict; india; information; infrastructure; issues; pedestrian; planning; research; residents; smart; toilets; urban; work cache: joci-3447.htm plain text: joci-3447.txt item: #521 of 547 id: joci-3448 author: None title: joci-3448 date: None words: 7755 flesch: 44 summary: While some individuals use the possibilities for public expression on social networks as if they were in public spaces, the 'terms of service' documents (which are legal contracts) expose limitations and constraints to their usage which go well beyond the ones enforced in the public domain: even if the data and information is produced from social network users as a form of their own expression, their possibility to use it for their own purposes - or even for public good - is somewhat limited, due to the fact that it represents the major source of revenue for the aforementioned service providers. The objective of the identity analysis was to identify the same users across different social networks, and different instances of the same content inside or across networks. keywords: city; content; data; ecosystem; event; example; information; location; networks; people; research; social; time; users cache: joci-3448.htm plain text: joci-3448.txt item: #522 of 547 id: joci-3449 author: None title: joci-3449 date: None words: 3191 flesch: 52 summary: Social media refers to a group of Web applications that allow for the creation and exchange of user-generated content (Kaplan & Haenlein, 2010). Social media are also widely used to coordinate events in the physical world in real time, because they offer access to social networks, expanding significantly the social sphere (Pereira et al., 2013). keywords: figure; icts; information; media; new; november; people; project; social; users cache: joci-3449.htm plain text: joci-3449.txt item: #523 of 547 id: joci-3450 author: None title: joci-3450 date: None words: 7278 flesch: 47 summary: To achieve these objectives one needs to understand in depth the unique characteristics offered by local wireless networks in contrast with the public Internet. Local wireless networks are cheap to build, and they can be owned and maintained by local authorities, organizations, even individuals. keywords: citizens; city; community; design; hybrid; information; interactions; internet; networks; new; public; right; social; space; technology; wireless cache: joci-3450.htm plain text: joci-3450.txt item: #524 of 547 id: joci-3451 author: None title: joci-3451 date: None words: 4998 flesch: 46 summary: An investigation of linkages between organisational social capital and information and communication technologies in environmental community organisations. A recent community sector report (ACOSS, 2013) notes that 24% of community organisations did not use any form of social media and only 4% posted blogs. keywords: adaptive; australia; capacity; community; dhakal; etsos; ict; icts; information; organisations; social cache: joci-3451.htm plain text: joci-3451.txt item: #525 of 547 id: joci-3470 author: Foko, Thato Emmanuel; Mahwai, Nare Joyce; Phiri, Charles Acheson title: Lessons from the field: What researchers learned from evaluating ICT platforms for rural development and education date: 2020-12-22 words: 5411 flesch: 43 summary: In an ideal world, field researchers would have all the necessary skills to collect perfect data, and equally perfect knowledge of the communities they need to work with when implementing research projects. The basis for this stemmed from the following assertions: The Journal of Community Informatics 16 (2020), 141-153 ISSN: 1721-4441 146 • Because the DD was designed in such a way that knowledge is self-acquired, it was crucial to hear and learn directly from the beneficiaries and respondents to share the lessons from other DDs. keywords: april; community; dds; evaluation; field; informatics; journal; knowledge; participatory; project; researchers; respondents cache: joci-3470.pdf plain text: joci-3470.txt item: #526 of 547 id: joci-3473 author: Anderson, Sasha; Daniel, Marguerite title: Refugees and social media in a digital society: How young refugees are using social media and the capabilities it offers in their lives in Norway date: 2020-12-22 words: 9196 flesch: 47 summary: How and why young refugees use social media in their everyday lives in Norway Uses & Gratifications of social media by young refugees in Norway Social media platforms used Motivations for using social media Behaviours on social media Use Facebook and Youtube most Use Skype to talk with people Each platform has its own function Connect with home country through SM Talking and keeping in contact with family and friends Use SM to find and share information Expressing opinions and political views Do not respond to negative comments Manners and use of language are important to me Do not like to share private information Access and limitations to social media use in Norway Access to social media Limitations and barriers to social media use Mostly access social media on the phone Accessing Internet and SM in Norway is easy Use of SM has increased since being in Norway Studying limits use of SM Working limits time spent on SM Social media fatigue Achievements enabled by social media use Reported achievements from social media use Activities enabled by social media SM enables learning Learned Norwegian through social media SM allows communication with family and friends Findings The presentation of the findings broadly follows the structure of global themes in Table 1, with the emphasis on the first two: How and why young refugees use social media in their everyday lives in Norway and Achievements enabled by social media use. keywords: access; capabilities; communication; community; facebook; information; learning; media; norway; participants; refugees; study; use cache: joci-3473.pdf plain text: joci-3473.txt item: #527 of 547 id: joci-3485 author: Chundur, Suguna title: Digital Justice: Reflections on a Community-Based Research Project date: 2020-12-22 words: 10020 flesch: 45 summary: This community technology outreach center’s mission is to improve quality of life for the people of the economically-depressed location where the center resides through offering introductory classes in digital technologies. The participant group showed an awareness of the larger, more intangible issues involving digital technology that affect their lives in many ways. keywords: community; data; divide; education; group; information; journal; learners; learning; participants; photovoice; research; skills; stage; technology; themes; users cache: joci-3485.pdf plain text: joci-3485.txt item: #528 of 547 id: joci-3489 author: Kante, Macire; Ndayizigamiye, Patrick title: An analysis of the policies of Information and Communication Technologies for Agriculture in Mali date: 2020-12-22 words: 7453 flesch: 49 summary: Cette étude recommande la refonte des deux documents en réponse aux résultats de l'étude Keywords: ICT policy; Agricultural productivity; Extension services; Developing countries; Mali Mots clés: politique des TIC; Productivité agricole; Services de vulgarisation; Pays en voie de développement; Mali Kante, M., & Ndayizigamiye, P. (2020). Furthermore, it has been argued that ICT policies can help increase agricultural production (Chavula, 2014; Kunyenje, 2019) in developing countries. keywords: agriculture; countries; documents; extension; farmers; ict; ict policy; information; journal; mali; national; policies; policy; research; services; study cache: joci-3489.pdf plain text: joci-3489.txt item: #529 of 547 id: joci-3490 author: Gustafsson, Mariana; Wihlborg, Elin title: ‘It is unbelievable how many come to us’:: A study on community librarians’ perspectives on digital inclusion in Sweden date: 2021-12-01 words: 9764 flesch: 44 summary: Library inclusionary practices By facilitating access to learning, economic, health and civic engagement opportunities, libraries engage in a critical part of digital inclusion services, which is a vision for the role of libraries in a democratic society (IFLA/FAIFE, 2016, 2020). The findings in our case study support the thesis that advancing digitalization, in terms of increasing complexity of information systems and extent of digital public services, involves different varieties of digital exclusions that shift in focus and nature (van Dijk & Hacker, 2003) and go beyond traditional divides such as class, genders, ethnicity ( Bertot, 2016; Molnar et al., 2015). keywords: access; bertot; community; digital; digitalization; government; inclusion; information; internet; libraries; library; literacy; motala; new; public; services; sweden; users cache: joci-3490.pdf plain text: joci-3490.txt item: #530 of 547 id: joci-3492 author: Lupi, Lucia; Antonini, Alessio; De Liddo, Anna; Motta, Enrico title: Actionable Open Data: Connecting City Data to Local Actions date: 2020-12-22 words: 10380 flesch: 44 summary: 1721-4441 3 Article Actionable open data connecting city data to local actions Open Data are recognised as invaluable resources at the city level for improving local services, community engagement and businesses initiatives, but their use still struggles to have the desired impact. Indeed, city data are often perceived as resources able to provide value on their own, promising to reveal the solutions to local problems and opening new unforeseen economic opportunities and development. keywords: actions; activities; actors; city; city data; community; data; information; journal; local; needs; open; organisations; public; use; users cache: joci-3492.pdf plain text: joci-3492.txt item: #531 of 547 id: joci-3494 author: Pankomera, Richard; van Greunen, Darelle title: ICT Framework to Support a Patient-Centric approach in Public Healthcare: A Case Study of Malawi date: 2020-12-22 words: 11005 flesch: 42 summary: One participant who leads a team of ICT health applications in a non-governmental organization stated: “there are few systems analysts and programmers to develop healthcare systems.” Figure 2: Research process for developing ICT framework (Jabareen, 2009) keywords: applications; approach; centric; community; data; framework; health; healthcare; healthcare services; ict; ict framework; information; issn; journal; malawi; patient; public; sector; services; systems cache: joci-3494.pdf plain text: joci-3494.txt item: #532 of 547 id: joci-3496 author: Chen, Kenzen title: Bridging the Digital Divide in a Remote Elementary School: A Teacher's Reflection on Invisible Work date: 2020-12-22 words: 8423 flesch: 54 summary: I had intentioned to give more structured, discipline-based instructions to 5th grade students while giving freedom for 2nd grade students to explore their own laptops (2011/09/01, journal). Study design To discover the experiences of teachers’ hidden work, regarding efforts towards closing digital inequalities, and the changes of remote elementary school students while learning with the XO laptops, this investigation was designed to be a qualitative case study (Stake, The Journal of Community Informatics 16 (2020), 77-99 ISSN: 1721-4441 83 1995; Merriam, 1998; Yin, 2009), because it explored a bounded and particular system and was intended to generate a holistic explanation, rather than to confirm or criticize pre- existing theoretical underpinnings. keywords: case; children; community; education; grade; informatics; issn; journal; laptops; learning; research; school; students; study; teachers; technology; work; xos cache: joci-3496.pdf plain text: joci-3496.txt item: #533 of 547 id: joci-3498 author: Rhinesmith, Colin title: A legacy to continue date: 2020-12-22 words: 885 flesch: 48 summary: I strongly hesitate to say that community informatics, in general, and this Journal, more concretely, have the answers to these tremendous global challenges facing us today. However, I will say that community informatics and this Journal have helped to remind us over the years that our sense of community and our need as human beings to stay connected remains incredibly important regardless of technology. keywords: community; journal cache: joci-3498.pdf plain text: joci-3498.txt item: #534 of 547 id: joci-3519 author: Andre, Marie Kettlie title: Ethics in Social Design: Definitions, Models, and Perspectives date: 2021-12-01 words: 8708 flesch: 46 summary: These reasons validate the need to develop ethical standards in computer technology and social system design and usage. Conversely, Flusser (1993) and Dallman (1998) stressed the necessity to have a code of ethics in social systems design and use that space to promote and maintain social systems’ integrity. keywords: blank; community; computer; design; designers; ethics; facebook; information; journal; new; platforms; standards; systems; technologies; technology; users cache: joci-3519.pdf plain text: joci-3519.txt item: #535 of 547 id: joci-3576 author: Stratton, Caroline title: Planning to maintain the status quo? A comparative study of digital equity plans of four large US cities date: 2021-12-01 words: 10931 flesch: 38 summary: A comparative study of digital equity plans of four large US cities Caroline Stratton Assistant Professor, School of Information, Florida State University, USA cstratton2@fsu.edu The term digital equity is at the forefront of municipal government planning to mitigate digital inequality. Adopting an approach from critical discourse studies, comparative analysis of the texts demonstrates how digital equity plans conceive of digital equity, characterize current problematic circumstances, and prescribe actions to make change. keywords: access; city; community; digital; equity; francisco; government; inequality; internet; kansas; planning; plans; public; residents; san; seattle; technology; use cache: joci-3576.pdf plain text: joci-3576.txt item: #536 of 547 id: joci-3595 author: Pine, Kathleen H; Hinrichs, Margaret; Love, Kailey; Shafer, Michael; Runger, George; Riley, William title: Addressing Fragmentation of Health Services through Data-Driven Knowledge Co-Production within a Boundary Organization date: 2022-12-31 words: 10252 flesch: 42 summary: These studies have indicated a strong belief that sharing health services data would lead to improvements in healthcare delivery. While a wealth of community based behavioral health services data is available (and thus could be used to identify service problems and improve health services delivery), use of these data is hampered by the fact that individuals with behavioral health disorders are served by multiple service sectors and providers in a community (Bhugra et al., 2014). keywords: behavioral; boundary; community; data; data sharing; health; healthcare; informatics; journal; knowledge; knowledge co; organizations; participants; production; research; sectors; services; sharing cache: joci-3595.pdf plain text: joci-3595.txt item: #537 of 547 id: joci-4216 author: Latif, Farhan title: Book Review: The Promise of Access: Technology, Inequality, and the Political Economy of Hope date: 2021-12-01 words: 1751 flesch: 43 summary: Greene uses the term “Access doctrine” to draw attention towards the mythical nature of the assumptions that access to digital technology may eliminate poverty and class imbalances. A challenge for The Promise of Access is then to distinguish the critique of technology from the critique of capitalism and proclaim the subjectivity towards the role of digital technology in contemporary society. keywords: access; capitalism; greene; institutions; technology cache: joci-4216.pdf plain text: joci-4216.txt item: #538 of 547 id: joci-4427 author: Renyi, Madeleine; Hegedüs, Anna; Schmitter, Paul; Berger, Fabian; Ballmer, Thomas; Maier, Edith; Kunze, Christophe title: Lessons Learned: The Multifaceted Field of (Digital) Neighborhood Development date: 2022-03-31 words: 8746 flesch: 37 summary: Previous experiences show that neighborhood projects differ between urban and The Journal of Community Informatics ISSN: 1721-4441 5 rural areas and are also strongly influenced by structural and cultural differences in the national welfare systems. A further criterion was that digital neighborhood technology was implemented or planned to be implemented in a timely manner. keywords: citizens; community; content; development; digital; groups; informatics; issn; journal; neighborhood; platform; projects; providers; requirements; researchers; study; support; technology; users cache: joci-4427.pdf plain text: joci-4427.txt item: #539 of 547 id: joci-4679 author: Mersereau, Michel title: Constructing Household Routines with the Internet: Assessing the role of the Internet in Normalizing Household Productivity date: 2022-03-31 words: 9611 flesch: 43 summary: Data collected from TCHC residents suggests that household internet services inform the organization and efficiency of household routines by minimizing the labour and financial expenditures2 associated with the household activities. Comparing monthly labour-time expenditures reported by residents across banking, nutrition, and healthcare activity areas prior to and after the adoption of household internet services evidences a decrease of 32% in the overall hours expended on these activities across the participant cohort (Table 4). keywords: access; activities; activity; community; digital; financial; household; income; informatics; internet; issn; journal; labour; participants; residents; services; time cache: joci-4679.pdf plain text: joci-4679.txt item: #540 of 547 id: joci-4712 author: Fink, Alexander; VeLure Roholt, Ross title: Surfacing Human Service Organizations’ Data Use Practices: Toward a Critical Performance Measurement Framework: From the 2021 Community Informatics Research Network (CIRN) Conference date: 2022-03-31 words: 7637 flesch: 57 summary: It also included a national study of youth- serving organizations with a strong focus on data use. This phenomenon is one of the few in this area that recognize the problematic foundations and impacts of performance measurement strategies in a way that demonstrates awareness of systematic oppression and injustice in data use. keywords: collection; community; data; measurement; organizations; people; program; staff; use; work; youth cache: joci-4712.pdf plain text: joci-4712.txt item: #541 of 547 id: joci-4720 author: Rhinesmith, Colin title: Community informatics in pandemic times date: 2021-12-01 words: 686 flesch: 55 summary: This could allow for new ideas and perspectives to enter JoCI leadership, and to respect the individual personal and professional constraints that inevitably arise. This new co-leadership model has encouraged us to consider several new ideas, which I will use this space below to elaborate upon. 1. keywords: journal cache: joci-4720.pdf plain text: joci-4720.txt item: #542 of 547 id: joci-4749 author: Farinosi, Manuela; Cirulli, Adriano; Fortunati, Leopoldina title: The impact of the pandemic on communication between local government and citizens in a small village in Tuscany: From the 2021 Community Informatics Research Network (CIRN) Conference date: 2022-03-31 words: 7927 flesch: 37 summary: A greater knowledge of these specificities in the dynamics of local communication in small towns and villages becomes essential, therefore, to identify, through comparative studies, which models and tools can be adopted in different contexts by local administrations to achieve effective public communication in rural and urban contexts. According to Centorrino (2020), alongside the infodemic (Yang et al., 2021; Brennen et al., 2020; Zarocostas, 2020) a comdemic also took place, that is, an overabundance of actors who wanted to be accredited in the field of public institutional communication. keywords: administration; citizens; communication; community; covid-19; emergency; government; informatics; issn; journal; media; municipality; pandemic; peccioli; public cache: joci-4749.pdf plain text: joci-4749.txt item: #543 of 547 id: joci-4806 author: Ali, Christopher; Simmerman, Abby; Lansing, Nicholas title: Towards a connected commonwealth: The roles of counties in broadband deployment in Virginia date: 2022-12-31 words: 12369 flesch: 54 summary: Such sentiments were reflected in our survey of Virginia counties, with rural counties accusing state policymakers and lawmakers of urbannormativity and a bias towards wealthy areas of Virginia. USTelecom, the trade association for the major telecommunications companies found discrepancies between FCC reported coverage and their own coverage reports in 53% of rural Virginia counties (Stegeman, 2019). keywords: access; areas; broadband; broadband deployment; community; counties; county; deployment; development; digital; divide; fcc; funding; informatics; infrastructure; issn; journal; policy; research; rural; state; survey; urban; virginia cache: joci-4806.pdf plain text: joci-4806.txt item: #544 of 547 id: joci-4828 author: Meza-Cordero, Jaime title: Digital Literacy and Long-Term Labor Outcomes: Impacts from the One Laptop per Child Program in Costa Rica date: 2022-12-31 words: 10005 flesch: 60 summary: The 2012 and 2013 student surveys have a mean age of 9.6 years for primary school students. Results The results present an analysis estimating repeated cross sections for primary school students only. keywords: age; aspirations; baseline; computer; computer use; education; gender; home; hours; household; laptop; program; school; students; table; time cache: joci-4828.pdf plain text: joci-4828.txt item: #545 of 547 id: joci-4948 author: Shakya, Shobhit; Drechsler, Wolfgang title: ICT and Institutional Transformations in the Global South: A Study of the Rejuvenation of the Guthi Institution in Nepal date: 2023-06-22 words: 10061 flesch: 54 summary: A prime example of such a guthi in function and name, but not in a legal sense, is Nepal Lipi Guthi (Nepal Lipi Guthi, n. d). The Journal of Community Informatics ISSN: 1721-4441 11 Nepal Lipi Guthi (NLG) was established as NGO in 1980 with the aim of promoting Nepal’s native scripts (lipi).13 The mode of establishment is similar to how the guthis of the past would have been established with a charitable purpose in mind. keywords: activities; buddhist; communication; community; facebook; guthi; heritage; ict; informatics; institution; issn; journal; kathmandu; nepal; newar; public; research; shakya; social; valley cache: joci-4948.pdf plain text: joci-4948.txt item: #546 of 547 id: joci-5228 author: Rhinesmith, Colin title: Envisioning the Future of Community Informatics date: 2022-12-31 words: 595 flesch: 41 summary: Rhinesmith_editorial_final The Journal of Community Informatics ISSN: 1721-4441 1 Editorial Envisioning the Future of Community Informatics Colin Rhinesmith, Co-Editor-In-Chief, The Journal of Community Informatics, crhinesmith@metro.org This November marked the 20th anniversary of the Community Informatics Research Network (CIRN) conference at the Monash Centre in Prato, Italy, co-sponsored by Monash University and the Metropolitan New York Library Council. Lastly, I am excited to announce that in the new year we will begin our planning to offer additional types of submissions to The Journal of Community Informatics (JoCI), including creative works, such as poetry and visual art. keywords: community; journal cache: joci-5228.pdf plain text: joci-5228.txt item: #547 of 547 id: joci-5234 author: Sexton, Anna; Shepherd, Elizabeth; Duff, Wendy title: Relational and person-centred approaches to archival practice and education date: 2023-05-26 words: 9161 flesch: 42 summary: This testimony shows how powerful the affective value of care records is for the people whose childhoods are captured there. In another part of the relational landscape surrounding care leavers and care records, records and information professionals also need better support since they face challenges in processing access requests (Shepherd et al., 2020). keywords: approaches; archival; archives; archivists; care; community; journal; people; person; practice; recordkeeping; records; research; trauma; work cache: joci-5234.pdf plain text: joci-5234.txt