item: #1 of 547 id: joci-2027 author: None title: joci-2027 date: None words: 1058 flesch: 36 summary: Anikar Haselhoff’s very interesting preliminary look at a field project examining Cybercafes in India from a Community Informatics perspective “Cybercafés And Their Potential As Community Development Tools In India’, Anna Malina and Ian Ball’s review of the community technology policy processes in Scotland in “ICTs And Community And Suggestions For Further Research In Scotland”, Larry Stillman and Randy Stoecker’s paper on a case study of a Community Informatics program in Australia looking for its way forward “Structuration, ICTs, And Community Work.” Randy Stoecker’s valuable and provocative essay on whether “Community Informatics Is Good For Communities?” keywords: areas; canadian; communities; community; development; field; government; icts; informatics; issue; local; need; networking; policy; practitioners; processes; research; researchers; self; technology; understanding 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: action; agents; capacity; change; clear; communities; community; community networking; context; control; daily; development; end; experience; gcnp; global; governance; human; icts; identity; individual; informed; internet; life; movement; nation; nature; need; networking; networks; new; online; open; organization; organize; person; practice; process; protocol; public; question; radical; relationship; self; social; society; state; structure; systems; technologies; things; understanding; use; view; way; world 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: advocacy; applications; approach; australia; bieber; broader; building; capital; centers; clear; communication; communities; community; community development; community informatics; computers; core; definition; design; developed; development; economic; education; elites; emphasis; face; field; focus; forms; good; group; gurstein; icts; identity; important; informatics; issues; local; members; model; n.d; needs; neighborhood; new; november; organizing; paper; participatory; people; place; plan; popular; practice; press; process; projects; questions; relationships; research; second; sense; service; set; social; standards; states; stoecker; strong; study; support; systems; technologies; technology; theory; toledo; training; united; university; urban; use; ways; work; workers; york 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: access; activities; areas; argentina; associates; august; banks; benefits; best; buenos; calls; capital; case; champions; citizens; civil; communities; community; community cooperatives; connections; cooperative; cost; country; credits; del; director; distance; economic; economy; educational; engagement; entel; enterprises; factor; fecotel; federation; financial; free; group; icts; important; individuals; information; innovations; institutions; international; internet; interview; investments; key; large; las; lines; local; long; los; low; main; management; manager; market; members; monthly; months; national; network; new; number; october; organizations; pesos; pinamar; private; privatization; providers; public; readiness; role; santoianni; schools; services; servicios; shareholders; social; society; source; state; subscribers; success; support; sustainability; tccs; teachers; technological; technologies; technology; telecommunications; telecommunications community; telefónica; telephone; telpin; telpin´s; time; tourist; traditional; training; usd; users; world; year 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: access; affected; agriculture; animals; area; available; bbc; change; communication; communities; community; computer; conditions; contact; control; coordinators; countryside; crisis; cumbria; data; day; defra; department; disease; environment; epidemic; european; families; farmers; farming; farming community; farms; fmd; fmd crisis; food; foot; government; important; infected; information; inquiry; interaction; internet; interviews; isolation; livestock; local; maff; measures; members; ministry; mouth; movement; national; needs; network; new; news; online; outbreak; paper; pentalk; people; personal; phone; place; radio; reports; risman; role; rural; skills; slaughter; social; sources; spread; support; system; technology; time; training; university; use; way; website; world 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; areas; bangalore; class; classes; computers; countries; cybercafes; developed; development; different; digital; divide; education; english; findings; groups; help; high; home; important; income; india; information; internet; internet access; internet usage; lack; language; level; low; lower; main; middle; model; new; number; order; people; percent; percentage; place; point; projects; public; research; respondents; rural; sec; sec groups; services; shows; skills; study; survey; table; training; upper; urban; usage; use; users; work 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; addition; aid; approach; areas; argyll; available; bellsmyre; benefits; better; capital; care; ccis; citizens; city; civic; communities; community; computers; council; cultural; data; democracy; demos; design; development; different; digital; digital communities; digital inclusion; divide; e.g.; economic; edinburgh; electronic; evaluation; executive; funding; future; government; groups; help; homes; icts; inclusion; increase; information; initiative; interaction; internet; involved; issues; july; key; learning; levels; life; line; local; london; making; malina; needs; networking; networks; new; objectives; opportunities; outlined; participants; participation; people; policy; political; problems; processes; project; public; questions; real; relationships; report; research; residents; respondents; scotland; scottish; services; social; society; support; sustainability; technology; term; time; training; types; urban; use; virtual; voluntary; ways; wellman 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; action; agency; analysis; area; available; basic; cbr; change; communication; community; computer; coordinators; costs; council; courses; data; database; definitions; development; different; difficult; directories; directory; effective; files; focus; forms; funding; gaps; giddens; good; government; group; hardware; high; house coordinators; houses; human; ict; icts; important; information; infrastructure; initial; interest; internet; interviews; issues; knowledge; lack; level; local; lot; mail; maintenance; management; meeting; melbourne; need; neighbourhood; neighbourhood houses; network; new; number; organisations; paper; participants; particular; people; person; perspective; phone; planning; possible; press; print; problems; process; project; public; region; relationships; report; research; researchers; resources; science; services; set; skills; social; software; staff; state; strategy; structural; structuration; structuration theory; students; suburbs; support; survey; sustainability; technical; technologies; technology; theory; things; time; training; troubleshooting; university; way; website; week; western; work 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: community; corner; paper; 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: cal; communities; kenny; meeting; research; ricta; video 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: classroom; communities; education; high; home; internet; kihs; nation; north; ontario; school; secondary; 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: broad; communities; community; context; day; development; future; icts; informatics; initiatives; issue; journal; level; local; matter; organizational; research; sustainability; technology; work 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: academic; action; active; analysis; approach; black; brighton; building; cna; cohesion; communication; communities; community; community informatics; community research; community technology; components; contribution; day; design; development; diversity; dynamic; elk; fundamental; funding; gurstein; human; ict; informatics; initiatives; issues; knowledge; lakota; life; local; london; nature; needs; neihardt; network; networking; paper; participatory; perspective; policy; power; practice; process; project; purpose; research; researchers; schuler; shared; social; society; sustainability; system; taylor; technical; technology; term; understanding 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: able; access; cell; communication; communities; community; disaster; early; effective; events; example; ict; important; information; knowledge; lmws; local; means; mile; need; net; resources; role; social; system; tews; traditional; tsunami; usable; use; useful; warning; ways 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: access; action; applications; areas; article; australia; building; business; centres; colle; communication; communities; community; content; dcita; development; digital; divide; economic; economy; enterprise; evaluation; example; facility; factors; fortier; global; goals; government; group; gurstein; hearn; human; hunter; icts; industries; industry; information; infrastructure; initiatives; international; internet; jenkins; july; key; knowledge; learning; local; manderville; members; necessary; needs; networking; new; online; opportunities; people; productivity; projects; queensland; regional; research; rural; services; significant; simpson; skills; social; strategies; sustainability; sustainable; technologies; technology; training; university; use; way; women 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: access; adoption; approach; architecture; business; capability; central; challenge; change; citizen; civic; commercial; common; communication; community; community portal; components; computing; context; data; delivery; departments; developers; development; different; directgov; disparate; electronic; enterprise; evidence; existing; framework; functionality; future; generation; government; grid; implementation; information; integration; interactive; interactivity; issues; joining; july; lack; level; line; local; local government; management; musgrave; national; need; network; new; office; paper; particular; people; phillis; portal; portal development; problems; process; project; public; reality; regional; report; research; sector; service; significant; sites; social; society; socitm; software; standards; support; survey; sustainability; sustainable; systems; technical; technology; transactional; use; user; way; web 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; activities; addition; areas; associates; broadband; canada; canadians; cap; cent; cln; communication; communities; community; community access; community digital; community organizations; content; core; cost; development; digital; digital divide; divide; economic; education; ekos; evaluation; federal; financial; focus; funding; funds; government; health; households; human; important; income; individual; industry; inequalities; information; infrastructure; interest; internet; issues; lack; learning; level; literacy; local; low; main; major; needs; network; new; non; number; olt; online; organizations; ottawa; past; people; program; project; provincial; public; public access; reddick; related; remote; report; research; resources; rideout; rural; services; sites; skills; social; society; staff; support; survey; sustainability; sustainable; technical; technologies; technology; term; time; training; users; years 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: activities; analysis; approach; appropriate; areas; benefits; building; business; case; cindio; citizens; communities; community; companies; competences; complex; consultancy; costs; crucial; csfs; development; different; economic; effective; evaluation; example; features; financial; foundation; general; goals; identity; indicators; information; infrastructure; innovation; institutional; interactions; issues; knowledge; learning; literature; local; macro; management; managerial; members; mission; model; needs; network; new; non; online; online communities; organizations; performance; personal; personnel; possible; preece; private; problems; profit; projects; public; rcm; related; relevant; requirements; scholars; services; set; social; society; socio; software; sources; specific; staff; strategies; structure; sustainability; technical; term; time; university; value; way; web; wenger 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; analysis; arts; aspects; australia; available; board; cambridge; carley; case; ccnr; centre; change; collaborative; committee; communication; communities; community; community networking; continuum; council; creation; democracy; democratic; development; dynamic; electronic; factors; framework; funding; future; giddens; government; groups; human; icm; individuals; information; inquiry; institutional; internet; interpretive; issues; kaufer; key; knowledge; levels; libraries; library; major; melbourne; modalities; modality; model; monash; needs; networking; new; notion; organisation; orlikowski; paper; people; policy; power; project; public; relationships; relevant; report; research; resources; rheingold; role; schauder; situation; slv; social; society; state; state library; structuration; structure; support; sustainability; systems; technology; theory; time; typologies; typology; university; upward; use; vicnet; victoria; virtual; way; years 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: access; activities; adopters; adoption; australia; awareness; building; capacity; capital; change; ci initiatives; communication; communities; community; community capacity; community development; community members; community social; development; different; diffusion; diverse; economic; education; effective; example; existing; external; framework; funding; future; government; greater; groups; icts; implementation; importance; individuals; information; infrastructure; initiatives; innovation; interaction; internet; leadership; levels; limited; local; members; needs; networks; new; norms; opportunities; organisations; outcomes; paper; participation; people; policy; potential; process; processes; projects; regional; research; role; rural; sense; services; shared; skills; social; social capital; social infrastructure; social networks; soft; strategies; strong; support; sustainability; sustainable; technologies; technology; terms; theory; time; training; trust; understanding; use; values; way; widespread 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: 2nd; applications; approach; ashkanasy; behaviour; books; bounded; capital; caring; chichester; climate; cognition; communication; communities; community; connections; cooper; corporate; culture; different; diversity; eco; ecology; eds; elements; email; emotion; emotional; emotional intelligence; emotionality; england; environment; experience; expression; factors; feelings; feminist; fineman; focus; framework; gender; human; härtel; individual; information; intelligence; issues; journal; knowledge; labour; lazarus; learning; life; links; london; lot; management; meyerson; model; mumby; nature; need; new; organisational; organizations; particular; payne; people; personal; phone; power; practice; processes; publications; putnam; quorum; rafaeli; rational; rationality; reason; recent; research; role; sage; self; service; skills; social; staff; status; structure; study; support; supportive; sustainability; sutton; technology; term; theory; time; training; trust; understanding; volunteers; water; way; western; westport; wiley; wire; women; work; workplace; zerbe 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: able; actants; active; actor; analysis; attitude; building; business; case; centre; clear; committee; communities; community; computers; concept; development; different; discussion; drv; dwars; economic; enrolment; entrepreneurial; framework; funding; government; hsrp; human; icts; implementation; important; information; interests; internet; issues; local; management; manager; meeting; model; money; mpcc; municipal; municipality; network; new; new mpcc; number; opp; participants; passive; people; person; pniel; point; power; previous; problems; process; project; project manager; research; result; river; role; rural; section; situation; skills; south; struggle; study; success; successful; sustainability; technology; telecentre; themes; theory; things; tourism; training; translation; underlying; understanding; use; valley 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: access; activities; area; centreconnect; civic; communities; community; community groups; community organizations; community technology; computing; contexts; county; course; design; example; experience; goals; groups; gurstein; help; idea; important; information; issues; lack; learning; long; material; members; mission; need; new; nexus; october; online; organization; paper; participatory; planning; practical; problems; process; project; research; resources; role; shared; site; social; staff; state; students; support; sustainability; technical; technologies; technology; technology use; term; time; tools; training; university; use; ways; web; website; work 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: access; activities; areas; australia; ballarat; bbbonline; benefits; building; business; canberra; case; cecc; communications; communities; community; development; economic; egerton; engagement; establishment; example; figure; funding; government; groups; high; high high; ict; identifying; implementation; information; infrastructure; initial; initiatives; internet; key; learning; local; low; mconline; medium; members; micro; moorabool; ongoing; online; operators; opportunities; organisations; program; project; regional; renewal; research; residents; rural; services; shire; significant; skills; small; social; support; survey; table; tourism; township; training; universities; university; victoria; web; website; wendouree; west; working 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; connectivity; development; field; notes; technology; wireless 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; chasquinet; community; connectivity; development; el chaco; equipment; government; health; internet; local; quito; schools; small; telecenter; training; use 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: aboriginal; broadband; canada; communities; letter; martin 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: access; areas; assessment; available; broadband; communications; community; cuwin; development; documentation; economic; free; future; globe; impact; implementers; information; interference; international; issues; major; need; network; networking; new; non; open; people; policy; problems; project; proprietary; public; regulatory; research; social; software; source; spectrum; systems; technical; usage; use; users; wireless 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: academic; communities; community; community informatics; current; development; editorial; ict; informatics; issue; journal; larger; new; policy; practice; professional; research; social; support; technologies; technology; use; welcome; work; world 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: able; access; action; active; approach; areas; association; capacity; case; cdf; change; commission; communication; communities; community; community development; conference; connect; context; convention; decision; development; discrimination; domestic; duty; empowerment; equality; equipment; european; european women; evaluation; evidence; example; face; foundation; funding; gender; gender equality; goals; government; groups; help; home; human; ict; individual; information; international; internet; introduction; issues; journal; learning; level; life; lives; lobby; local; main; making; means; members; national; needs; network; networking; new; online; order; organisations; paper; participation; partner; people; phase; place; platform; policies; policy; positive; potential; process; programme; project; public; range; report; rights; sector; services; skills; social; society; support; technology; training; use; voluntary; way; web; website; women; world; years 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; community; development; information; infrastructure; keewaytinook; local; material; nation; net; network; okimakanak; ontario; people; program; remote; services; video 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: academic; access; action; agenda; alberta; alliance; analysis; broadband; canada; canadian; case; civic; clement; cns; communications; communities; community; community informatics; community networking; community technology; context; cracin; cultural; design; development; digital; divide; economic; economy; eds; federal; framework; funding; goals; government; gurstein; human; ict; icts; industry; informatics; infrastructure; initiatives; innovation; international; internet; issues; journal; learning; leslie; loader; local; members; michael; moll; need; networking; networks; new; online; organizations; oxford; participation; participatory; policies; policy; political; press; programs; project; public; relations; research; researchers; resources; rural; services; shade; shaping; significant; sites; social; society; studies; study; support; sustainability; technical; technologies; technology; toronto; university; use; vol; york 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: 2003a; access; applications; approaches; appropriation; building; business; cape; centre; cirn; cis; civil; civil society; communication; communities; community; community informatics; context; cultural; democracy; development; discipline; education; effective; experience; governance; government; gurstein; hewitt; http://www.electronicgov.net/pubs/index.shtml; http://www.ssrc.org/programs/itic; icts; information; information society; international; internet; issues; journal; local; march; network; new; partnerships; peninsula; pigg; pinder; policy; practice; private; public; report; research; riley; role; service; social; societal; society; summit; systems; teaching; technologies; technology; university; use; world; wsis 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: access; agriculture; applications; areas; available; business; communication; community; computer; conferencing; connectivity; doctors; education; english; eye; fibre; fig; group; health; help; india; internet; issue; journal; kiosk; language; local; logue; low; lsp; means; model; needs; operator; pcos; people; power; remote; rural; services; set; software; taluka; technologies; technology; tenet; tier; use; video; villages; world; year 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; activities; actors; america; american community; approach; appropriate; argentina; available; basic; bolivia; brazil; building; caribbean; central; challenges; chasquinet; chile; collective; colombia; communication; communities; community; community informatics; community telecenters; computer; conditions; connectivity; cost; countries; course; cuba; development; digital; direct; discussion; dominican; economic; ecuador; education; effective; efforts; endeavors; face; financial; focus; foundation; global; government; groups; guatemala; human; ict; idrc; implementation; inclusion; information; interaction; international; internet; interviews; issues; journal; lack; latin; learning; level; lists; local; mailto; main; major; majority; management; meeting; members; menou; mexico; movement; national; needs; network; ngo; nicaragua; number; objectives; online; open; operation; operators; opportunities; order; organizations; paraguay; participants; participation; particular; people; peru; place; population; possible; private; process; production; programs; project; public; regional; research; resources; result; role; sector; september; services; set; sharing; significant; social; somos@telecentros; specific; staff; stakeholders; state; stories; support; sustainability; telecenters; telelac; time; training; uruguay; use; users; venezuela; virtual; vision; way; web; years 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: access; action; activities; activity; affective; altheide; analysis; applications; basis; bonding; bridging; building; capital; cognitive; communication; communities; community; community social; computer; context; development; different; dimensions; discussion; ecology; economic; elements; empirical; enforceable; example; factors; figure; flora; formats; forms; functions; groups; ict; important; information; institutional; interaction; internet; journal; knowledge; leonard; literature; local; loose; members; nature; networks; new; notion; online; onyx; organization; paper; people; person; personal; place; potential; press; reciprocity; related; relationships; research; resources; review; rural; shared; social; social capital; society; sociology; software; solidarity; strong; studies; support; technologies; technology; time; transactions; trust; university; use; virtual; way; wellman; world 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: america; community; connectivity; economies; elites; governance; government; informatics; latin; national; poor; power; programs; public; region; remittance; sectors; system; today 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: access; american; available; business; case; chicks; college; community; computer; computing; conditions; control; cord; corporations; design; details; digital; divide; electricity; environment; example; extension; farm; floor; good; high; icts; informatics; infrastructure; intel; james; jose; jose miguel; large; learnings; light; limited; little; local; locus; means; miguel; needs; nots; paper; participation; people; places; power; result; room; small; tech; technologies; technology; things; time; understanding; use; village; way; work 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: approaches; cis; communication; community; community informatics; countries; cultural; development; different; example; gurstein; ict; independent; information; institutions; investigations; level; local; modern; moscow; new; non; policy; post; processes; programs; projects; real; research; results; role; russia; social; society; socio; soviet; stafeev; state; studies; technologies; traditional; use 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; broad; commitment; countries; developed; development; economic; internet; knowledge; ldc; policy; programs; public; social; societies; use 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; activities; analysis; areas; assessment; association; available; average; benefits; better; building; capacity; case; centre; changes; colombia; communications; communities; community; community telecenters; corpotunía; decisions; development; differences; different; early; economic; education; effective; evaluation; framework; general; global; group; health; human; icts; idrc; impact; important; index; indigenous; individuals; inforcauca; information; institutional; international; internet; las; local; los; making; media; needs; new; nonusers; operators; organizations; people; performance; personal; poverty; programs; project; public; radio; research; results; rights; role; rural; services; significant; social; sources; staff; studies; study; support; survey; sustainability; sustainable; table; technologies; telecenter; telecenter users; telephone; terms; training; types; use; users; way; web; women; work; world 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: 2005; access; addition; africa; awareness; benefits; buy; cape; cape access; case; ccf; ccfs; center; chigona; colle; communities; community; computing; critical; data; development; different; esterhuysen; facilities; factors; findings; hosting; hours; information; infrastructure; initiatives; institutions; interviews; issues; libraries; library; local; location; management; marketing; members; model; new; number; observations; operations; paper; phase; project; public; qualitative; research; rural; schools; smart; south; studies; study; success; telecenter; users 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; activities; available; canada; canadian; cap; cap sites; cap yi; centre; clement; communities; community; community access; community networks; computer; context; coordinators; development; digital; divide; economic; effective; federal; funding; goals; government; gurstein; icts; implementation; individual; industry; industry canada; information; infrastructure; initiatives; interest; internet; interns; issues; knowledge; lack; level; like; local; lower; mainland; mandate; means; mechanisms; moll; networking; networks; order; organizations; people; policy; program; public; regional; reporting; resources; result; shade; sites; social; society; specific; success; support; technical; technology; term; time; training; universal; universal access; urban; use; users; vcn; way; year; youth 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; acquaintances; activities; adults; available; beginning; budapest; case; change; children; circle; collection; community; computer; corvinus; course; cserénfa; ctc; data; department; deployment; digital; earlier; experiences; experiment; family; friends; group; home; ict; impacts; information; internet; internet access; job; jobs; kaposvár; knowledge; living; local; mother; negative; network; number; participants; partners; pcs; pensioners; people; person; policy; positive; primary; project; recreation; relations; research; resource; school; settlement; siklós; small; social; sociology; source; spread; student; study; table; technology; time; university; use; village; villagers; visitors; visits; year; young 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: access; adoption; analysis; best; caste; census; communication; communities; community; compatibility; complexity; confidence; data; development; diffusion; district; economic; educational; efforts; framework; government; heads; higher; households; illiterate; important; income; india; information; innovation; keelaiyur; kidaripatti; kiosk; kiosk users; limit; local; lower; male; officials; operators; overall; ownership; population; project; proportion; research; rogers; roman; rural; sample; sari; services; social; socio; source; status; study; survey; sustainability; table; technology; telecenters; thaniyamangalam; theory; thiruvadavur; ulagapitchampatti; users; village; village population; villages village 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; aguablanca; analysis; approach; area; assessment; assets; available; benefit; capital; case; community; context; demographic; development; dfid; economic; education; equity; evaluation; example; factors; financial; focus; formal; framework; gómez; human; icts; idrc; impact; important; indicators; information; internet; key; level; likely; livelihood; local; natural; number; outcomes; paper; people; physical; policy; poor; positive; poverty; project; public; purpose; quality; related; research; residents; resources; risks; rural; services; sl framework; social; specific; strategies; study; sustainable; sustainable livelihoods; technologies; technology; telecentre; term; time; universal; use; users; vulnerability; way 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: access; africa; approach; capital; case; communities; community; development; drishtee; enterprise; essential; financial; foundation; government; high; ict; india; information; key; kiosk; m.s; market; model; needs; partners; people; potential; program; services; social; sustainability; swaminathan; telecentres; today; training; value; work 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: ability; access; africa; aids; areas; basic; border; cape; cell; clinics; communication; communities; community; computer; context; countries; development; disease; divide; eastern; economic; education; esikelo; farm; global; government; greater; groups; health; hiv; human; icts; information; international; internet; kwazulu; limpopo; lives; living; local; marginalized; natal; national; need; people; personal; phone; poor; poorest; purpose; relevance; rsa; rural; security; society; south; south africa; spread; technologies; technology; time; townships; umlazi; urban; use; villages; water; women; workers; world; years; young; zimbabwean 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: access; center; centre; communities; community; development; human; hunger; important; information; internet; knowledge; life; like; local; multipurpose; need; people; power; principles; programmes; project; radio; role; sengerema; society; sustainable; telecentre; way; wisdom 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: applications; communities; community; computing; development; end; fundamental; goals; ict4d; icts; information; level; local; means; papers; personal; shared; strategy; success; systems; use; user; world 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: acceptable; action; activity; africa; answer; behaviour; business; code; communication; computer; conduct; corporate; cyberethics; data; disagree; effects; employees; ethekwini; ethekwini municipality; ethical; ethics; example; factors; harm; high; ict; information; internet; issues; long; minimal; moral; municipality; negative; negative effects; new; number; people; personal; place; potential harm; privacy; process; property; public; right; rules; service; social; software; south; time; undecided; use; values; view; wrong 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; activities; agencies; change; chaotic; clear; clients; communication; consumption; contact; different; difficult; digital; digital inclusion; domestication; drug; economic; edinburgh; eds; everyday; example; exclusion; family; hand; help; higher; homeless; homeless individuals; homeless people; homelessness; icts; implications; important; inclusion; individuals; information; internet; interview; lack; life; lives; meanings; mobile; mobile phones; needs; networks; number; outreach; people; person; phones; point; policy; problems; public; research; respect; respondents; scotland; second; service; skills; social; social inclusion; society; status; study; subculture; support; technologies; technology; time; touch; university; use; useful; uses; ways; workers 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: access; action; applications; approach; broader; building; capital; case; challenges; city; communication; communities; community; context; cultural; design; development; different; economic; eds; educational; effective; ethnographic; focus; foth; framework; housing; ict; icts; information; innovation; interaction; international; internet; life; local; location; master; media; methodology; methods; neighbourhood; network; networked; new; new media; paper; participation; people; physical; place; planned; planning; press; project; public; queensland; relationships; research; residential; residents; site; social; society; socio; specific; studies; study; systems; tacchi; technology; theoretical; theory; understanding; university; urban; use; uses; village; wellman 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: 2001; accounting; africa; associated; available; benchmarking; benchmarks; benefits; business; communication; communities; community; community informatics; concept; cost; cost accounting; cost management; cost maturity; costing; cycle; developmental; digital; discourse; divide; education; efforts; financial; gartner; general; ict; individual; informatics; informatics projects; itu; johannesburg; lack; level; life; management; maturity; measurement; methodologies; model; need; organizations; ownership; paper; particular; practical; process; projects; reference; required; research; solutions; systems; tco; technologies; technology; telecom; time; total; training; understanding; value; view; world 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: access; active; activities; axis; bromont; canada; capabilities; capability; capital; citizen; city; collective; collective portal; communities; community; community development; community players; competences; concept; connected; degree; des; development; dimension; dynamics; développement; emergence; example; figure; framework; france; governance; hand; icts; influence; information; internet; knowledge; learning; les; level; local; local development; management; means; members; model; nature; networking; networks; online; organizations; participation; people; players; portal; position; possible; practice; process; project; prévost; public; relational; research; resource; result; sherbrooke; strategic; strategy; system; technologies; technology; territorial; theory; tool; typological; virtual; web 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: champaign; collaborative; communities; community; education; graduate; icts; ilabs; illinois; informatics; inquiry; learning; library; practice; pragmatic; science; software; university; urbana; use; work 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: action; activity; center; civic; cognitive; communities; community; computer; context; cooperative; extension; human; informal; information; infrastructures; interested; investigates; journal; knowledge; learning; library; networks; organizations; park; penn; research; school; sciences; social; special; state; studies; support; technology; university; workshop 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: bard; carroll; community; design; development; farooq; ganoe; groups; information; j.m; learning; local; members; merkel; participant; participatory; pennsylvania; projects; role; rosson; state; sustainable; systems; technology; university; work; workers; xiao; zone 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: artifacts; cambridge; center; cognition; cois; collaboration; communities; community; computer; conceptual; cops; creativity; design; designers; different; distances; environments; fischer; human; individual; information; interaction; knowledge; learning; new; participation; people; practice; press; research; social; systems; talk; university; user; voices; work 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: cambridge; capital; communities; community; companies; education; group; huysman; information; knowledge; learning; new; opportunities; practice; press; projects; research; social; students; universities; university; wulf 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: activities; available; blogs; citizens; community; computer; content; deliberation; discussion; forums; greater; group; information; interaction; kavanaugh; local; online; political; public; support; tools; virginia; web; wikis 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: access; agents; bourdieu; capital; class; communities; community; cultural; digital; divide; economic; educational; freire; ict; inequality; information; kvasny; life; people; position; reproduction; resistance; role; school; self; skills; social; society; theories; theory; underserved; working 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; capability; communities; community; connectivity; content; democracy; economic; high; information; internet; learning; level; networks; new; participation; public; service; social; speed; t1.5; technical; technologies; technology; telecommunications; use 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: activities; appropriation; communication; configuration; delegation; design; development; end; environments; home; ict; information; professional; settings; support; systems; technologies; technology; tools; usage; user; work; wulf 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: activities; carroll; communities; community; computing; design; developmental; group; ist; knowledge; learning; members; mentoring; needs; phases; research; roles; rosson; social; students; teachers; technology; university; women; work 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: action; activity; actors; aims; broadband; broader; cambridge; capacity; change; chicago; choices; civic; civic network; committee; community; cultural; design; designers; developmental; dispositions; eds; ends; example; form; fraser; institutional; logics; macro; means; network; networking; new; order; organizational; outlook; particular; planning; power; practices; press; products; progressive; project; publics; radical; reflexive; relation; resources; social; structural; university; urban; view 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; acm; action; activities; activity; actors; analysis; approach; appropriation; available; blogs; broader; building; cambridge; capacity; capital; carroll; center; change; choices; citizens; civic; class; cognition; cognitive; cois; collaborative; collective; committee; communication; communities; community; community informatics; community learning; companies; computer; computing; concepts; conference; configuration; content; cooperative; cops; core; creativity; cultural; democracy; design; designers; development; developmental learning; different; digital; discussion; divide; economic; eds; education; end; environments; example; existing; faculty; farooq; fischer; focus; forms; foundation; goals; greater; group; help; high; home; human; ict; icts; ideas; ilabs; important; individual; informal; information; information technology; infrastructures; inquiry; institutions; interaction; interested; international; internet; issue; john; journal; knowledge; kvasny; learning; legitimate; level; library; life; lifelong; local; logics; long; macro; making; management; means; members; merkel; multiple; national; necessary; needs; network; networking; new; online; open; opportunities; order; organizations; park; participants; participation; participatory; particular; past; people; peripheral; phases; place; planning; political; potential; power; practice; press; problems; processes; products; professional; progressive; projects; public; questions; range; references; reflexive; relevant; reproduction; research; researchers; resistance; resources; respect; role; rosson; school; science; self; service; set; settings; shared; sharing; situated; skills; social; society; socio; software; special; specific; state; structure; students; studies; support; sustainable; systems; technical; technological; technologies; technology; term; theoretical; theories; theory; time; tools; understanding; universities; university; urban; use; user; voices; ways; web; wenger; women; work; workshop; wulf; years; york 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: activities; approaches; communities; community; discussions; end; funders; ict4d; icts; informatics; issue; little; research; society; summit; support; use; useful; world; wsis 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: agency; computers; country; donor; ict; land; locals; ministry; money; movie; new; ngo; officer; people; pilot; program; project; short; war 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: access; american; behavioral; benefits; business; canada; canadian; capital; civic; communication; communities; community; community networks; computer; connectivity; context; definition; development; discussion; economic; education; face; following; forms; funding; funds; general; good; government; groups; haythornthwaite; healthy; help; icts; idea; important; indicators; information; instance; internet; issues; july; levels; life; likely; literature; local; n.d; networking; networks; new; number; online; overall; paper; participation; people; place; policy; portes; positive; potential; press; public; quality; question; research; resources; rural; scientist; sense; september; set; social; social capital; social networks; society; specific; strong; support; technology; terms; things; tools; types; unhealthy; university; use; virtual; ways 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: access; assessment; available; case; center; classes; committee; communication; communities; community; community members; computer; concept; conditions; container; costa; country; critical; decision; design; developed; development; different; director; dominican; dominican lincos; dominican republic; educational; embeddedness; entebbe; equipment; experience; extent; fact; government; granqvist; high; ict; icts; individual; information; internet; issues; large; limited; lincos; lincos case; lincos communities; lincos officials; lincos project; lincos sites; lincos staff; local; making; marginalized; members; new; observation; office; officials; ordinary; participation; people; persons; political; population; poverty; power; problems; process; project; republic; research; rica; services; set; similar; sites; situation; social; software; staff; study; technological; technologies; technology; theoretical; time; units; usage; users; website; working; world 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: accounts; appropriation; cambridge; change; communication; community; cultural; determinism; development; different; example; feenberg; form; heidegger; ict; icts; information; instrumental; internet; interpretation; london; media; model; modern; nature; new; power; press; relationship; social; society; substantivism; systems; technological; technology; theory; thought; understanding; university; use; values; way; ways; western 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: abstract; actual; approach; available; barlow; boal; bodies; certain; clarke; collective; communication; communities; community; computer; context; crang; culture; cyberspace; discourse; doel; eds; electronic; expression; face; fernback; field; form; holmes; idea; identity; information; internet; language; les; life; london; lévy; meaning; networks; new; notion; online; paper; paris; people; phenomena; physical; point; political; politics; presence; real; reality; relationship; research; rheingold; routledge; réseaux; sage; sciences; sense; simulation; social; society; stone; talk; technologies; technology; term; theory; time; turkle; use; virtual; virtual community; virtual reality; virtuality; way; weissberg; words; world; york 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; american; august; benefits; broadband; building; business; capital; change; children; cih; civic; communication; communities; community; computer; connectedness; connection; connectivity; connectors; data; day; digital; divide; early; economic; education; email; engagement; example; families; family; findings; free; friends; future; government; group; high; home; ict; icts; impact; income; information; interest; internet; interview; involved; involvement; know; life; lives; local; low; media; naisbitt; need; neighbourhood; neighbours; networks; new; new zealand; online; parents; participants; people; point; potential; project; public; questions; rainie; research; scheme; school; sense; social; strategy; studies; study; success; support; technological; technologies; technology; telephone; things; time; transformation; universal; use; users; view; wellman; zealand 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: available; cameras; citizens; community; computers; concept; crime; free; fujii; home; houses; internet; jikei; jikei network; network; ohta; project; property; residents; security; software; system; technology; watch; yoshiura 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: access; aotearoa; approach; communities; community; craig; digital; digital strategy; draft; funding; government; icts; information; initiatives; new; new zealand; partnerships; policy; process; projects; research; significant; strategy; sustainability; technology; wellington; williamson; world; zealand 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: 2004; access; activities; africa; areas; available; business; communication; communities; community; countries; country; crime; crit; data; development; disagree; dwellers; econet; economic; economy; employment; family; global; government; greater; growth; gsm; impact; income; industry; information; inhabitants; introduction; item; itu; job; limited; lines; major; management; market; mobile; national; network; nigeria; nigeria rural; nigerians; nitel; number; obs; operators; opportunities; people; perception; phones; poor; population; poverty; private; rate; research; respondents; result; rural; rural areas; rural economy; sector; services; significant; south; stakeholders; study; support; system; table; telecommunications; telephone; time; today; total; university; urban; use; users; value; vodafone; wireless; world; years 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: accounts; activities; africa; amio; amio credit; amio teller; available; banking; benefits; business; center; computerization; computers; coop; cooperative; cost; credit; daily; data; database; day; deposits; desktop; development; employees; environment; field; financial; following; handheld; impact; implementation; information; introduction; loan; loan officers; local; mali; management; members; microfinance; mobile; mobile technologies; mother; network; new; number; nyèsigiso; officers; operations; order; outlets; page; pcs; pilot; pocket; pocket pc; portfolio; power; processing; project; saf; savings; services; sites; small; software; staff; strategy; support; system; table; team; technical; technologies; technology; teller; time; training; transactions; use 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; article; community; countries; developed; development; global; icts; internet; issue; level; local; means; opportunities; range; self; services; social; use 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: access; action; actors; anonymous; anthony; bill; body; briggs; broadband; broadcast; builders; building; cable; communication; community; community intranet; concerns; corporate; developer; development; different; dispute; domain; estate; face; flanders; flow; free; hollow; house; individual; infrastructure; interactive; interests; interpersonal; intranet; issues; jacob; kookaburra; kookaburra hollow; like; local; macpherson; making; manager; media; meetings; message; moral; particular; people; personal; place; position; postings; power; private; problems; program; public; purpose; quality; questions; register; representative; residents; segment; signs; solidarity; space; target; television; telstra; terms; time; use; values; way 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: access; adoption; agencies; alignment; analysis; approach; australia; business; change; communication; communities; community; context; countries; data; decision; development; diffusion; digital; divide; economic; education; example; factors; framework; funding; heeks; human; ict; icts; impact; implementation; indicators; information; information systems; information technology; innovation; international; intervention; issues; journal; knowledge; lack; layer; level; macro; management; meso; national; new; non; organizational; oxford; people; perspective; policy; poor; potential; poverty; press; process; programme; projects; research; researchers; resources; rural; social; socio; strategies; strategy; study; swatman; systems; technology; theories; theory; understanding; university; view; wilde; world 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; activities; actors; additional; basis; benefit; business; canada; cap; capacity; capital; case; change; charitable; commercial; communication; communities; community; community access; community networks; context; cooperative; core; cost; decision; definition; development; discussion; early; economic; effective; enterprise; example; fee; financial; free; freenet; funding; funds; generational; good; government; groups; icts; individuals; information; infrastructure; initiatives; internet; kaul; management; market; means; mission; model; needs; networking; networks; new; non; online; operations; organizations; paper; particular; percent; potential; private; profit; profit organizations; profit sector; program; projects; provision; public; public good; regard; report; resources; revenue; sector; services; significant; similar; sites; social; society; staff; status; support; sustainability; technological; technologies; technology; understanding; use; vancouver; vcn; venture; viability; way 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: ability; access; assets; canada; capacity; capital; categories; chat; circumstances; collaborative; communication; communities; community; development; discussion; economic; economy; effective; evaluation; goals; ideas; important; individuals; information; interaction; interest; internet; issues; journal; knowledge; learning; line; local; model; networking; new; opportunities; participants; people; pilot; potential; project; questions; regions; reimer; research; resources; room; rural; sessions; sharing; similar; skills; social; table; technologies; technology; time; use; useful; virtual; workers 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: ability; access; advantages; area; arguments; available; baller; bandwidth; barriers; broadband; business; cable; communities; community; companies; computers; connection; consumer; cost; course; data; deployment; development; devices; different; economic; end; example; fact; fixed; free; goals; government; groups; industry; information; interest; internet; issue; july; kind; legislation; market; mesh; mobile; model; municipal; municipalities; need; networking; networks; new; nodes; number; open; paper; people; perspective; policy; potential; problem; provider; public; radio; regulation; routing; service; signals; site; social; source; spectrum; standard; state; support; technical; technology; telecommunications; use; users; waves; way; web; wired; wireless; wireless internet 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: accent; america; cada; community; comunitaria; con; del; desarrollo; ecuador; editorial; english; esta; están; general; global; icts; informatics; iniciativas; issue; joci; las; latin; local; los; mucho; network; para; por; que; region; significant; una; work 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: activistas; america; appropriation; apropiación; base; communities; community; como; comunidades; comunitaria; con; del; desde; different; discusión; edición; especial; esta; este; grassroots; huerta; icts; informática; issue; joci; las; latin; local; los; luis; networks; otro; para; parte; por; que; red; sobre; social; somos@telecentros; sostenibilidad; sustainability; también; telecentros; trabajo; tuy; una; vilma; way 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; acciones; actividades; actores; además; administración; administradores; agraria; agricultores; agricultura; agua; ahora; algunos; ambiente; analizar; análisis; apoyo; artículo; asociaciones; así; atención; años; base; bien; bossio; cada; cambios; cancino; capacidad; capacitación; caso; cepes; chancay; ciertos; claro; comerciales; comisiones; comisión; como; computadoras; comunicación; comunidad; con; con el; con la; con los; confianza; conseguir; contexto; continuidad; cooperativas; correo; corto; cuanto; cultural; darle; de desarrollo; de huaral; de información; de la; de los; de una; de usuarios; debe; decir; decisiones; del; delgadillo; desarrollo; desde; después; development; directa; dirigentes; donde; económico; edad; educación; efectos; ejemplo; el desarrollo; el proyecto; el sistema; el uso; ello; embargo; en el; en la; en los; enlace; entre; especialmente; esta; este; estos; estudios; está; evaluación; experiencia; finalmente; financiamiento; financiera; financieramente; flujos; fondos; fortalecimiento; fue; fuentes; fueron; fukao; funcionamiento; general; gracias; haber; había; hace; han; hay; herramientas; huaral; humanos; idea; importante; inei; información; información agraria; infraestructura; ingresos; inicial; inicio; instituciones; internet; investigación; junta; junta de; junta y; la información; la junta; la mayor; lado; las; las comisiones; legal; lima; llegar; local; locales; los; los agricultores; los que; los telecentros; los usuarios; luego; manera; marzo; matos; mayor; mayoría; medio; mejorar; menou; miembros; mientras; ministerio; muy; más; nacional; necesidades; nivel; nuevas; obtener; organizaciones; organización; origen; otros; para; para el; para la; para que; parte; participación; permiten; pero; personal; perú; plataforma; plazo; población; política; por; por el; por la; porque; posibilidad; principal; problemas; proceso; proenza; propias; propiedad; proyecto; proyecto se; puede; página; público; que; que el; que la; quienes; radio; realiza; recursos; reforma; regantes; relación; resultados; riego; rural; sea; sección; sector; sectores; sectoristas; ser; servicios; sia; sido; siempre; sin; sino; sistema; sobre; social; sociales; socios; software; son; sostenibilidad; sostenibilidad social; sostenible; stoll; sus; sólo; también; tanto; tarifa; tecnologías; tecnológica; telecentros; telecomunicaciones; tiempo; tiene; tierra; todo; trabas; través; tres; técnica; término; una; usan; uso; uso de; usuarios; valle; venta; vez; web; y de; y el; y en; y la; y los; y que; ésta; útil 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; acciones; actores; actuales; algunos; alto; américa; apropiación; argentina; aunque; ausencia; autoorganización; años; aún; baja; bajos; bienes; brecha; buenos; calle; capacidad; casi; caso; castells; ccts; cibercafés; ciberespacio; cibers; ciudad; ciudadanos; civil; community; como; como la; completamente; computadoras; comunidades; comunitarias; con; con el; concepto; conectividad; conexiones; conexión; consumidores; cooke; cooperativas; creación; crean; creciente; crecimiento; crisis; ctcs; cuando; culturales; cyber; dado; datos; de acceso; de internet; de la; de los; de una; de usuarios; debe; debido; deciden; del; densidad; desarrollo; desde; digital; diversos; dos; economía; económico; educativas; el estado; el uso; ellos; embargo; emprendimientos; empresas; en argentina; en el; en la; en los; en un; enfoque; entel; entre; equipamientos; espacio; estado; estatales; este; estos; estrategias; estudio; está; existen; fecotel; finquelievich; frecuencia; fue; generación; general; gestión; grandes; grupos; habitantes; hacia; han; hasta; herramientas; hipótesis; hogar; hora; importantes; individuales; información; informática; ingreso; iniciativas; innovaciones; innovación; instituciones; instituto; interior; internet; invención; johnson; jóvenes; la información; la población; la sociedad; la tecnología; las; las comunidades; las cooperativas; las personas; latina; locales; locutorios; los; los cibercafés; los cibers; los usuarios; lugares; línea; mail; manera; mayor; mayores; mediante; medio; menores; menos; mercado; millones; mismos; modo; muchos; mujeres; mundo; muy; más; necesidades; nivel; niveles; nodos; nueva; nuevos; número; organizaciones; otras; otro; para; para el; para las; parte; participación; país; países; perfil; pero; personas; plantea; plazo; poblacional; población; pobreza; políticas; por; por el; por las; poseen; presencia; prince; privados; problemas; proceso; propiedad; prácticas; pueden; público; que; que el; que las; qué; razones; readiness; recursos; red; redes; relacionado; relaciones; resolver; respecto; rifkin; régimen; satisfacer; sea; sector; según; sentido; servicios; sin; sino; sistema; sobre; social; sociales; sociedad; socio; solo; soluciones; son; steven; sus; susana; sólo; también; tanto; tecnología; tecnológicos; telecomunicaciones; telefonía; telefónicas; tener; tics; tiempo; tiene; tipos; todas; todo; trabajo; través; tuomi; una; uno; uso; uso de; usos; usuarios; utilización; van; vez; y de; y el; y en; y la; y los; y que; áreas; éxito; últimos 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: 2006; acceso; acerca; acerca de; acuerdo; además; algunos; algunos de; allá; alto; amigos; análisis; aquellos; arcelia; aspectos; asuntos; así; así como; aun; años; bernal; búsqueda; cabo; cada; características; casi; caso; chat; clase; comercio; como; como lo; compartir; computadoras; comunicación; comunidad; comunitarios; con; con el; con la; con los; con un; conapo; conclusiones; condiciones; conectar; conexión; contacto; contenido; contexto; cosas; cotidiana; crear; cual; cuales; cuando; cuatro; cuenta; cultura; datos; de la; de los; de migración; de sitios; de su; del; dentro; desde; después; diaspora; dispersas; donde; durante; el de; el sitio; embargo; emigrantes; en el; en la; en los; encontró; entre; entrevistas; eran; eritrea; eritreos; esas; esta; estado; este; estos; estudio; están; eua; eventos; extranjero; familia; fenómeno; finalmente; fotos; fuera; fueron; funcionalidad; galería; general; gente; guerrero; hacia; han; hasta; hay; hecho; herramientas; historia; hogares; identidad; identificar; igual; incluye; inegi; información; internet; investigación; juchipila; la comunidad; la gente; las; lazos; lejos; libro; llamada; local; locales; los; los emigrantes; los que; los servicios; los sitios; los usuarios; lugares; línea; manchester; manera; mantener; mas; mayoría; medio; mensajes; mexicanos; miembros; migración; miller; misma; moyahua; muchos; municipal; municipio; muy; más; méxico; nacional; necesidad; nivel; niveles; noticias; nuevas; número; objetivo; obtener; ofrecen; oportunidades; origen; otra; otros; para; parte; particular; patria; país; penetración; pequeñas; pero; personas; población; por; por la; presencia; presenta; principales; principalmente; propósito; proveen; proyectos; puede; público; que; que el; que se; que viven; radio; reforzar; respecto; resultados; rol; secciones; sección; servicios; servicios que; sido; siempre; siguiente; similar; sin; sitios; sitios web; slater; sobre; sociales; son; sus; sus comunidades; sustentan; tabla; tal; también; tanto; tecnologías; tiene; tipo; trabajo; través; trinitarios; una; usados; usan; usando; uso; usuarios; vez; vida; visitas; viven; viviendo; vivo; web; web de; webmaster; y el; y la; zacatecas; índice 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: 2001; acceso; acción; administración; algunos; américa; apropiación; así; atención; años; brecha; caribe; casos; centros; cmsi; comisión; como; comunalidad; comunicación; comunidades; comunitaria; con; condiciones; conocimiento; construcción; cultura; de las; declaración; del; desarrollo; desarrollo de; digitales; diálogo; el desarrollo; en el; en los; entre; esta; este; estos; estrategias; extensionistas; extensión; formas; freire; hacia; han; hasta; hilbert; importancia; incorporan; indígenas; información; infraestructura; instalación; internacional; introducción; la apropiación; las; las comunidades; las tic; latina; local; los; los pueblos; manera; mayoría; mediante; misma; modelos; modo; mundo; más; método; méxico; nacional; necesidades; nuevas; objetivos; para; para el; para la; parte; participación; países; personas; planeación; población; políticas; por; posibilidad; potencial; principios; proceso; promoción; promover; propias; proyectos; pueblos; pueden; que; que las; realidad; rendón; resolución; resultados; rural; sean; ser; sido; sino; sistema; sobre; social; sociales; sociedad; sujetos; sus; también; tanto; tecnologías; telecentros; telecomunicaciones; tic; tres; una; uso; usuarios; utilización; vida; y el; y la 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; 2002; acceso; acción; actividades; actores; además; adultos; agentes; algunos; allá; alumnos; aplicación; aprendizaje; artículo; así; autoridades; años; base; brown; básica; búsqueda; cada; calidad; cambio; campo; características; casos; centros; clase; cobertura; como; computadoras; comunicación; comunidad; comunitarias; con; con el; con la; con los; conceptual; condiciones; conevyt; conexión; conocimiento; construcción; contenidos; contextos; crear; cuando; cuatro; cómputo; de educación; de la; de los; de un; decir; decisiones; del; desarrollo; descubrimiento; desde; diagnóstico; digital; dinámica; diseño; disponible; distintos; dominio; donde; durante; educación; educandos; educativo; el desarrollo; el modelo; el uso; elaboración; ellas; ello; embargo; en el; en las; en un; enero; enfoque; entre; equipamiento; equipo; eran; escolar; escolares; escuelas; esta; estaba; estado; este; estos; estrategias; estudiantes; están; evaluación; experiencia; falta; fase; favorecer; finales; fue; fuerte; general; grupo; grupo de; habilidades; habían; han; huerta; humano; impacto; implementación; importante; inclusión; inea; información; inicial; innovación; institucional; integración; inteligente; intención; internet; interés; introducción; investigación; investigadores; jonassen; jóvenes; la educación; la tecnología; la vida; las; las políticas; las tic; learning; local; locales; lograr; los; los maestros; lugar; maestros; manera; materiales; mayoría; mediación; mediadores; mediante; mejor; metodología; mientras; mismo; modelo; muy; más; méxico; nacional; necesidad; nivel; nuestro; nuevos; objetivos; organizaciones; otra; otro; para; para el; para la; parte; participación; participantes; partir; pensamiento; pensar; penso; pero; personas; perspectiva; plazas; población; políticas; por; por el; porque; porras; pregunta; presente; primera; problemas; procesos; profesores; programa; promoción; promotores; propios; propuesta; propósito; proyecto; práctica; puebla; puede; punto; pública; que; que el; que los; ramos; razonamiento; realidad; realizar; recuperado; recursos; reflexión; reforzar; regionales; región; relaciones; relevante; research; responder; respuesta; resultados; rural; salinas; sep; ser; servicios; sicom; sido; significado; significativo; sin; sino; sistema; situaciones; sobre; social; sociales; solución; son; sostiene; sujetos; supuesto; sus; sólo; también; tanto; tareas; tecnología; tecnológica; teja; telesecundarias; tic; tiempo; tienen; tipo; todos; trabajo; transferencia; través; tres; técnico; una; universidad; uso; uso de; usos; usuarios; utilizado; vida; vinculada; visión; y de; y el; y la 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: acciones; actividades; alumnos; ambiental; anp; aspectos; así; base; biodiversidad; brigadas; cada; capacidades; capacitación; caso; como; computación; comunidad; con; con la; condiciones; conocimiento; conservación; contenidos; cotahuasi; cuales; cultural; de la; de los; de monitoreo; del; del cotahuasi; del programa; dentro; desarrollo; desarrollo de; desde; difusión; docentes; educación; educativas; ello; en el; en la; entre; escolar; escuela; espacio; esta; estado; este; estudio; figura; finalidad; formal; fueron; gestión; grupos; han; implementación; implementando; importancia; información; inicio; instituciones; instrumentos; intercambio; internet; investigación; la comunidad; la subcuenca; las; local; locales; los; los recursos; líderes; manera; mayor; monitoreo; monitoreo ambiental; más; nacional; naturales; nivel; operación; orientado; paisajística; para; para el; para la; parte; participación; permite; población; por; principalmente; proceso; programa; que; recursos; relación; reserva; sostenible; subcuenca; subcuenca del; sus; también; tanto; tecnologías; tic; través; una; uso; uso de; web; y la; zonas 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: acceso; actividades; actores; alcanzar; algunos; americano; americas; américa; apoyo; artículo; association; basados; bases; cada; canadá; capacidad; capacitación; caribe; chaco; chasquinet; chile; community; como; comunicación; comunidades; comunitarios; común; con; concepto; conforman; conocimiento; continente; continuación; coordinación; creación; cuenta; de las; de telecentros; del; demostrado; desarrollo; distintas; ecuador; el desarrollo; el pit; elaboración; elaborar; en el; entre; este; estos; etapa; evolución; exchange; experiencia; experticia; facilitando; falta; fortalecer; fortalecimiento; fue; fundación; físicos; ganadoras; global; globalización; gran; han; información; intercambio; internet; joven; largo; las; las comunidades; las redes; latina; los; los participantes; los que; medios; mejorar; miembros; modo; movimiento; movimiento de; muchos; muy; más; méxico; necesidades; objetivos; operadores; oportunidad; otros; para; para el; parte; participación; participantes; participar; países; pero; personas; piloto; pit; poder; por; procesos; programa; propuestas; proyecto; puede; que; red de; redes; representa; resultados; sean; sido; sin; sino; sobre; social; solo; son; sus; tabla; tap; telecentros; tipo; todos; trabajo; transnacionales; través; una; una red; uso; vez; virtuales; web; y el 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: acceso; actuales; ahora; alcanzar; apoyo; aprender; asodigua; buscar; cada; como; computadora; comunicación; comunidades; comunitarios; con; condiciones; conocer; conocimiento; contar; del; desarrollo; desde; digital; donde; educación; electrónico; era; escuelas; espacio; estamos; estos; fueron; guatemala; hace; hemos; importante; indígenas; información; integral; intercambio; internet; las; locales; los; medios; muchas; más; necesidades; niños; nos; nosotros; nuestra; nuestros; oportunidad; otros; para; participación; permite; personas; pobreza; podemos; por; procesos; propio; pueblos; que; redes; rurales; sabemos; ser; sido; sin; sobre; sociales; sololà; somos; sus; también; tecnologías; telecentro; tiene; través; una; utilizar; vida 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: acceso; administración; adultos; alcaldía; algunos; apertura; aprendizaje; articulación; año; años; barrios; beneficio; cada; cargo; ciudad; ciudadanos; como; comunicación; comunidades; comunitarios; con; con el; con los; conectividad; conocimiento; contenidos; continuidad; cotidianidad; dar; de la; de los; del; del proyecto; derechos; desarrollo; desarrollo de; desde; diferentes; dificultades; edades; el desarrollo; elaboración; en el; en la; en los; enfoque; entre; equipos; espacios; esta; este; esto; estrategia; estratos; existentes; experiencias; facilitadores; formación; fortalecimiento; fueron; gestión; grupos; habilidades; habitantes; hacer; horarios; implementación; importante; iniciativa; inició; instituciones; internet; interés; jóvenes; la ciudad; las; las comunidades; las salas; libre; local; locales; los; los procesos; los telecentros; los usuarios; línea; manera; manizales; mayores; muy; más; módulos; necesidades; niñ@s; operación; oportunidad; otros; para; para el; para la; parte; participación; partir; permitan; permitió; personas; población; por; posibilidades; procesos; programas; propuesta; propósitos; proyecto; que; quien; recursos; redes; salas; servicios; sobre; sociales; sus; tecnologías; tecnológicos; telecentros; tenía; tienen; total; trabajo; tuvieron; una; uso; uso de; usuarios; virtuales; vulnerables; web; y de; y la; y los; área 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; agents; brazilian; broadband; capacity; cgi.br; challenges; civil; community; computers; country; development; digital; digital inclusion; divide; federal; free; government; home; ibge; ict; important; inclusion; income; infrastructure; initiatives; internet; level; local; min; municipalities; national; observatory; people; place; policy; program; project; public; resources; responsibility; schools; social; society; telecenters; use 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; analizar; aprender; aprendizaje; apropiación; artículo; autores; bar; cada; canibalismo; celular; celulares; como; con; configuración; confrontación; control; creolización; culturales; cíclico; cómo; del; desarrollo; diferentes; diversos; ejemplo; entre; ese; esos; esta; este; está; evolución; fin; forma; gente; hacer; impacto; las; latina; los; marco; mediante; modos; más; móviles; para; poder; por; proceso; pueden; que; qué; región; ser; sobre; social; son; sus; sólo; tecnología; tecnológica; telefonía; teléfonos; teórico; tiene; tres; una; usuarios; vez 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: administraciones; américa; aquellos; beneficiarios; bien; buena; burocracia; chile; clivajes; como; comunidades; con; consenso; cuando; definir; del; desde; documento; década; ejemplo; embargo; enfrentar; entre; esta; estado; este; esto; evaluación; fuera; funcionarios; gobiernos; grupos; hacer; hacia; importante; información; internacionales; lado; las; latina; locales; los; menos; metas; mientras; mismo; muchos; muy; más; naciones; nip; para; parte; particularmente; países; pero; plan; planes; políticas; por; problemas; proceso; provee; puede; punto; pública; que; región; relación; resultado; revisión; rol; ser; servicios; significativa; sin; sirve; situación; sobre; sociales; sociedad; son; sus; tema; tienen; una; unesco 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: age; capital; castells; cohesion; collaboration; common; communities; community; computer; context; cooperation; development; different; electronic; environment; generation; global; human; ict; individuals; information; institutions; internet; isbn; issues; knowledge; making; network; network capital; networked; new; open; participation; people; personal; processes; project; public; relationships; results; set; social; social capital; society; software; specific; staff; terms; use; virtual; wellman 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; administration; agenda; ambivalence; author; bridge; bush; change; community; computer; critical; d.c; department; different; digital; digital divide; distributive; divide; drawing; economic; economy; education; equity; example; experiences; feenberg; figure; foundation; goods; gutzman; haves; high; ict; income; inequality; information; internet; interview; issues; jennings; july; justice; labor; lives; low; market; material; national; new; nots; ntia; opportunities; opportunity; paradigm; people; points; policy; poor; popular; powerful; press; programs; public; research; resources; ruth; service; skills; social; solutions; system; technological; technologies; technology; telecommunications; theory; troy; u.s; universal; use; washington; women; work; year; york; young; ywca 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: abstractions; access; action; actors; acts; analytic; approach; arnold; binaries; binary; case; centre; changes; commercial; common; communities; community; community network; connected; connections; construction; desire; different; digital; discussion; education; end; example; exchange; fig; good; grabher; ground; groups; heterarchic; hierarchical; hierarchy; high; icts; identity; individuals; information; infrastructure; internet; latour; laws; links; local; london; market; modernist; network; new; nodes; oxford; particular; post; postings; power; private; profit; project; public; relations; research; rise; science; self; sense; social; social network; society; sociotechnical; space; studies; subject; system; technical; technologies; technology; terms; theory; things; time; use; virtual; way; web; wellman; world 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: bank; communities; community; informatics; nations; network; value; way; wealth; world 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: access; advisory; andy; broadband; communities; community; degree; digital; goals; good; government; group; implementation; informatics; knowledge; local; networks; new; nzds; open; opportunity; people; policy; public; society; strategy; williamson; zealand 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: abraka; academic; access; adomi; browsing; clients; cybercafes; day; delta; frequency; highest; hours; information; internet; library; nigeria; okiy; omodeko; open; otolo; overnight; pages; resources; respondents; response; ruteyan; search; service; sites; state; students; study; table; times; university; use; users 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; acoss; adoption; analysis; applications; associates; australian; barriers; benefits; burt; business; canada; canadian; capacity; ccnr; centre; communications; community; community sector; cost; development; effective; example; foundation; funding; government; ict; information; information technology; initiative; internet; issues; knowledge; lack; level; leverus; limited; links; major; management; national; needs; networking; networks; new; non; organisations; paper; potential; profit; reported; research; resources; sector; sector organisations; services; significant; size; skills; social; society; staff; strategic; studies; support; surman; surveys; taylor; tbc; technologies; technology; usa; use; voluntary; voluntary sector; websites; wyatt 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: acceptance; access; africa; areas; available; cafés; capita; city; communications; competence; computer; countries; country; customers; cybercafés; dar; development; differences; diffusion; digital; divide; economic; education; english; factors; fees; gdp; general; groups; high; higher; ict; important; indonesia; information; infrastructure; internet; internet cafés; internet use; knowledge; language; large; learning; mail; main; ministry; national; new; number; online; people; policy; poor; population; potential; rate; research; respondents; salaam; school; sites; social; sources; speed; staff; students; study; table; tanzania; technology; telecommunications; time; today; total; transport; university; use; users; world; years; yogyakarta 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: age; agents; coefficient; community; community radio; constant; data; delivery; east; economic; education; expenditure; extension; factors; ghana; households; households willingness; ict; income; information; information delivery; level; low; married; membership; northern; organization; people; policy; poverty; primary; private; private radio; radio; region; regression; respondent; results; rural; rural households; rural women; significant; source; squared; statistic; study; survey; table; technologies; technology; upper; variable; west; willingness; women 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: communication; communities; community; design; designing; development; effective; field; ict; information; members; online; practice; process; requirements; research; social; systems; technologies; use; users 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: access; activities; analysis; appropriate; aspects; available; collaboration; collective; communication; communities; community; community members; community systems; components; computer; constraints; context; cpal; data; design; designers; development; different; discussion; ecs; eds; effective; enabling; environment; example; framework; future; goals; group; gurstein; help; individuals; influence; informal; information; interactions; issues; katz; kinds; knowledge; levels; management; members; model; need; new; norms; online; organizational; participants; participation; pass; people; policies; press; processes; purpose; research; resources; rice; secomm; section; services; set; shared; sharing; social; software; support; systems; tasks; technologies; technology; time; use; virtual; voting; working 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; ccd; changes; communities; community; community information; components; design; design process; design theory; development; features; feedback; framework; goals; hunt; impact; increase; information; information systems; internet; isdt; kernel; members; message; networks; new; online; phase; process; product; project; prototype; research; scavenger; set; social; social capital; students; system; systems design; theories; theory; trust; university; users 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: active; age; application; approach; case; cindio; citizens; communication; communities; community; community members; community networks; composition; computer; data; design; development; different; dirette; effective; employees; fact; government; hippel; idea; information; innovation; innovative online; interaction; internet; internet users; involved; involvement; issues; italian; italy; lead; linee; local; members; milan; municipalities; municipality; needs; networks; new; newham; online; online public; organization; orsay; oyk; people; population; possible; press; product; project; province; public; public services; rate; rcm; rcm members; registered; research; role; services; set; social; software; studies; subscribers; support; system; technical; testing; true; users; von; voters; voting; web; years 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: activity; adjustment; anchoring; approach; capacity; capital; carroll; community; computer; computing; concept; context; decision; design; effective; effective use; effectiveness; example; goals; group; historical; human; information; interaction; knowledge; learning; making; management; new; opportunity; order; organizations; participatory; pennsylvania; practice; problem; process; project; requirements; research; scenarios; social; state; students; study; sue; support; system; team; technology; time; ugrr; university; usability; use; users; way; work 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: analysis; approach; assumptions; axelrod; base; behavior; better; case; communication; communities; community; complex; components; conceptual; conflict; construction; cooperation; data; design; design hypotheses; design problem; design theory; development; different; dynamics; effective; effects; empirical; example; feedback; figure; gaming; hypotheses; important; information; information systems; interventions; jane; knowledge; level; loops; members; meta; methodologies; methodology; model; need; new; online; paper; particular; people; point; possible; practice; problem; process; relations; reputation; requirements; research; results; segmentation; set; simulation; size; social; specific; stock; study; support; system dynamics; systems; technical; technologies; theoretical; theories; theory; theory components; theory development; time; use; useful; values; virtual; ways 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: access; activities; activity; authors; building; challenges; collaborative; collaborative information; communities; community; community information; consensus; design; designers; development; documents; effective; evaluation; features; icts; important; individual; information; information need; information retrieval; knowledge; local; manner; means; members; meyer; nature; need; new; order; paper; particular; people; problem; process; query; retrieval; retrieved; search; seeking; sharing; social; study; support; system; tasks; team; technology; use; user; view; way; work 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; accountability; activities; additional; address; adequate; administrative; age community; analysis; areas; arrangements; available; barriers; basic; benefits; better; board; brunswick; canada; capacity; cder; centre; challenges; changes; channel; citizens; client information; client services; clients; common; communication; communities; community access; community development; community intermediaries; community organizations; community resources; community services; computer; considerable; constraints; contact; content; core; costs; critical; current; data; delivery; departments; different; difficult; easier; economic; education; effective; electronic; employment; employment resources; environment; example; external; external organizations; face; federal; figure; financial; focus; fredericton; funders; funding; government; government information; government services; group; h&w; health; health information; health services; high; home; human; ict; ict training; impact; important; income; increase; influences; information; information age; information delivery; information information; information technology; infrastructure; intermediary; internal; internet; internet access; issues; job; job placement; knowledge; lack; language; learning; levels; like; line; literacy; local; long; low; mail; maintenance; majority; making; management; means; meet; mental; methodology; minority; needs; network; networking; new; non; nrc; number; ongoing; organization clients; organization staff; organizational; outcomes; partnerships; people; person; personal; placement organization; policy; potential; preferred; problems; process; processes; programs; project; provincial; public; range; reports; research; resources; resources organization; respondents; result; role; rural; s&t; service delivery; services; significant; site; situation; skills; social; social services; software; specific; speed; staff; staff ict; staff members; staff resources; study; support; support staff; sustainable; system; technical; technologies; technology; telephone; time; training organization; types; university; upgrading; use; volunteers; web; wellness; wellness centre; wellness information; work; years 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: aboriginal; appropriate; ci researchers; code; communities; community; conduct; confidentiality; consent; cultural; data; decisions; ethical; ethics; free; guidelines; information; informed; knowledge; participants; participation; process; research; researchers; respect; use 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: access; activities; areas; beijing; change; china; chinese; choice; city; colleagues; communities; community; computer; convenience; day; different; early; effective; entertainment; example; face; factories; family; friends; group; home; ict; important; information; internet; interviewees; jobs; life; lives; long; migrant; migration; mobile; money; need; networking; networks; new; old; online; people; phone; popular; press; programs; room; rural; school; service; social; song; television; time; touch; university; urban; use; wang; ways; websites; wei; women; workers; working; world; xie; years 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: access; communities; community; family; gender; informatics; instances; internet; local; opportunities; 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: access; areas; benefits; bengal; common; communication; computers; data; development; different; economic; education; empowerment; female; gender; governance; government; gram; group; icts; india; information; initiatives; level; literacy; local; low; male; members; offices; panchayat members; panchayats; percent; plan; process; programmes; representatives; rural; section; self; skills; social; state; study; technologies; technology; tiers; training; use; west; women; women members; world; year 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: better; computer; development; education; family; gender; high; home; ict; india; information; it@school; kerala; level; male; master; participation; programmes; project; schools; sitcs; skills; social; society; software; state; support; teachers; time; trainers; training; use; women; work 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: actions; agents; case; certain; collection; commons; communities; community; context; cultural; design; digital; digital collection; farms; figure; gathering; giddens; human; information; information commons; institutions; interaction; knowledge; knowledge commons; members; memories; museum; objects; paper; partnership; people; place; project; properties; public; research; resources; role; sharing; signification; social; stories; structuration; structure; study; systems; technology; theory; time; tragedy; understanding; victoria; wofg; women; work; world 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: act; advancement; air; air project; benefit; church; communities; community; community radio; content; developed; development; direct; economic; education; efforts; empowerment; equality; family; feminist; forms; future; gad; gender; group; home; husbands; huyer; ictd; icts; important; individual; information; interactive; interviews; introduction; issues; knowledge; level; link; local; mang’elete; marginalized; members; membership; mwethia; mwethia members; needs; new; ongoing; opportunities; opportunity; order; participants; participation; people; personal; place; political; positive; post; potential; program; programming; project; public; radio; radio mang’elete; recordings; research; researchers; rights; self; share; shifts; social; space; station; status; sterling; structuralism; system; technology; time; topics; use; voice; way; women; work 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: actions; activists; agreement; batliwala; batsú; cafta; collective; committees; communication; communities; community; consequences; costa; costa rica; country; development; different; favor; feminist; feminist movement; fight; gender; government; group; health; human; icts; important; information; international; internet; issues; key; media; movement; mujeres; organizations; participation; patriotic; people; political; power; process; public; radio; referendum; resources; rica; rights; role; social; social movement; space; struggle; sulá; technologies; terms; time; use; 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: access; affect; analysis; asia; assessment; barriers; care; case; collection; communication; community; considerations; countries; cultural; data; design; development; different; digital; discussion; dissemination; distance; economic; education; evidence; findings; gender; gender analysis; gender inequality; good; groups; hafkin; health; health information; health projects; healthcare; hygiene; icts; idrc; implementation; inequalities; inequality; influence; information; integrated; integration; interventions; issues; knowledge; lack; level; literature; making; male; methodology; motherhood; needs; network; objectives; ottawa; pan; panacea; pdas; phase; potential; power; practices; problem; program; project; proposal; questions; related; relations; report; research; researchers; rural; safe; sanitation; section; services; sex; social; socio; specific; studies; study; system; technical; technology; terms; tools; training; uganda; uhin; understanding; use; women; workers; world 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: authors; ccid; change; collective; communication; communities; community; community informatics; dominant; feminist; gender; gendered; global; information; institutions; issue; learning; local; new; notion; practice; publics; social; society; space; special; 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: able; access; chhattisgarh; content; data; development; evaluation; exposure; family; gender; governance; government; gram; husband; icts; india; information; language; level; male; members; officers; personal; potential; present; problems; process; rural; rural e; rural governance; rural women; sarpanchas; scheme; self; simputers; state; study; system; technology; training; use; village; women; women sarpanchas; work; working 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; andhra; areas; asia; august; better; bills; centers; centre; change; citizen; communication; communities; computers; countries; customers; data; decision; delhi; development; digital; divide; economic; eds; education; efforts; empowerment; eseva; eseva centers; family; findings; friends; gender; global; governance; government; greater; groups; help; high; human; icts; impact; income; india; information; initiatives; international; internet; interviews; issues; karan; knowledge; lack; level; licenses; like; lives; low; making; mathur; media; nath; new; online; opportunities; participation; payment; people; poor; poverty; pradesh; problems; process; programs; project; r.r; registration; related; report; research; respondents; rural; self; semi; services; skills; social; society; software; state; status; studies; study; support; survey; table; technologies; technology; trade; training; transactions; urban; use; users; women; working; world; years; yrs 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: active; agency; agents; author; centre; change; communication; community; computing; contexts; contribution; cultural; development; different; digital; diverse; economic; eds; engagement; ennis; european; experiences; expertise; experts; feminist; gender; group; ict; inclusion; information; innovators; internet; knowledge; learning; local; london; model; need; new; participation; people; perspectives; policy; political; positive; power; press; processes; programmes; project; relationships; representation; research; roles; routledge; shaping; skills; social; society; status; stewart; students; study; support; technical; technological; technology; theoretical; understanding; university; use; voices; webster; women; york 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: ability; access; africa; age; basic; communities; community; confidence; courses; development; discussions; economic; employment; empowerment; female; figure; focus; gender; group; ibid; ict; ict training; impact; improved; increase; information; initiative; international; internet; issues; knowledge; lives; opportunities; order; palestinian; positive; program; research; rural; rural women; self; skills; social; society; status; technology; terms; tool; trainers; training; unifem; use; women; work 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: access; airlines; area; bano; basic; businesses; center; classes; computer; computer classes; context; conversations; course; daily; delhi; delhi metro; denim; development; different; director; dmrc; economy; employees; employment; ethnographic; everyday; extended; families; family; farida; fees; field; force; foundation; gender; gendered; global; help; high; home; ict; ict center; ictd; important; income; india; industry; informal; information; institute; interviews; jobs; knowledge; labor; learning; literacy; lives; local; low; main; manufacturing; maulana; members; metro; minority; minority women; modern; money; month; muslim; narratives; national; new; open; opportunities; participants; period; political; popular; practices; press; private; program; project; public; research; resource; school; sector; seelampur; seelampur women; service; skills; small; society; south; space; staff; state; students; study; system; teaching; technologies; technology; ticketing; time; training; university; urban; women; work; working; years; young; young women 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; aids; analysis; approach; areas; availability; average; barriers; basic; big; center; clinic; cluster; community; cost; countries; country; cross; data; density; development; dhs; different; distance; education; ethiopia; evaluation; facilities; facility; figure; gender; ghana; gis; gps; health; hiv; impacts; important; information; infrastructure; integrated; investments; issues; key; layers; lesotho; level; mapping; measure; mobility; mode; monitoring; mopwt; multiple; national; network; new; opportunities; ownership; particular; pilot; population; possible; primary; problem; questions; related; relevant; results; road; rural; sector; services; social; spatial; specific; study; support; survey; table; time; transport; use; women 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: ability; access; airtime; alliance; approach; areas; article; bangladesh; bank; borrowers; business; business model; capital; cases; cent; children; communication; community; costs; day; decision; development; different; economic; empowerment; family; findings; gender; grameen; grameen bank; grameen telecom; grameenphone; household; husbands; ict; income; information; initiative; innovative; interview; john; journal; knight; knowledge; ladies; level; life; making; market; members; microcredit; mobile; mobile phone; model; network; operators; partners; partnership; people; phone; phone program; poor; poverty; price; program; reduction; resources; role; rural; section; sector; self; services; set; shared; social; society; socio; strategies; study; success; technology; telecom; telecommunications; telephone; users; village; village phone; villagers; vp business; vp model; 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; acoss; adoption; age; australia; barriers; benefits; communications; community; data; dcita; design; differences; digital; divide; ecos; email; environmental; female; findings; gap; gender; ict; icts; information; interactions; internet; lack; leaders; level; local; members; nonprofit; organizations; paper; perth; reported; research; retrieved; sector; significant; skills; social; specific; support; survey; table; technology; terms; total; trend; university; uptake; use; volunteers; websites; western; women; years 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: aboriginal; analysis; approach; article; authors; broadband; canada; case; communities; community; delivery; development; experience; field; health; ict; infrastructure; issue; keewaytinook; myknet.org; nations; net; network; northern; okimakanak; online; ontario; partnership; photo; policy; public; publications; remote; research; researchers; resources; services; social; special; staff; technology; telehealth; theme; training; university; use; videoconferencing; videos; women; youth 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: advanced; areas; communities; community; delivery; development; example; ict; informatics; infrastructure; local; net; new; north; northern; opportunities; paradigm; range; remote; resources; rural; service; significant; use 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: aboriginal; access; activities; align; amp; article; bbs; broadband; budka; canada; canadian; communications; communities; community; computerization; council; cracin; cree; cultural; development; e.g.; eds; education; england; environment; february; figure; fiser; groups; high; homepages; important; indian; indigenous; information; infrastructure; internet; introduction; journal; landzelius; local; london; media; members; movement; myknet.org; national; nations; native; network; new; non; northern; okimakanak; online; online.ca; ontario; peoples; personal; public; publications; radio; region; regional; remote; research; respondents; satellite; school; services; social; staff; style="text; support; survey; technology; television; u> 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: access; agencies; atlantic; broadband; building; canada; capacity; challenges; communication; communities; community; community development; control; council; cultural; desk; determination; development; different; economic; education; health; help; ict; infrastructure; interaction; interviewee; local; locations; members; molyneaux; nations; nations communities; need; net; networks; ontario; organizations; o’donnell; paper; partners; people; policy; providers; remote; research; rural; self; services; social; society; staff; support; technical; technologies; technology; time; travel; use; uses; 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: aboriginal; access; alternative; analysis; atlantic; audience; available; camera; canada; challenge; colonialist; communication; communities; community; context; critical; culture; experience; feminist; gender; groups; historical; ideology; images; indian; indigenous; information; internet; issues; judges; knowledge; literacy; mainstream; mary; media; model; nations; nations people; nations women; new; online; online videos; participatory; participatory video; people; perspective; potential; power; process; public; public sphere; publications; representation; research; sage; sandra; share; social; society; sphere; stereotypes; technology; theory; use; video; visual; website; white; 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: aboriginal; access; bsc; canada; canadian; care; centre; communities; community; conditions; current; diabetes; et al; expenditures; fnihb; government; health; health canada; health care; health services; impact; indicators; information; inuit; issues; journal; kotm; lavoie; manitoba; martens; national; nations; nations health; needs; number; numerical; nursing; ontario; ottawa; people; policy; population; potential; prevention; program; provincial; rate; report; reserve; secondary; services; stakeholders; study; system; telehealth; telemedicine; tertiary; tool; type 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: aboriginal; access; canada; communities; community; data; development; employment; experiences; funding; future; icts; information; initiatives; key; kori; local; nations; needs; net; northern; ocap; online; ontario; participants; program; research; researchers; self; skills; stories; study; training; video; workers; yict; 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; annual; aprc; beaton; broadband; canada; canadian; case; collection; communication; communities; community; conference; connectivity; development; education; ict; indigenous; informatics; journal; keewaytinook; kuhkenah; march; nations; net; network; o'donnell; october; okimakanak; online; ontario; ottawa; paper; perley; photo; policy; practices; project; publications; ramírez; remote; report; research; rural; smart; society; stories; study; technology; telehealth; university; video; videoconferencing; walmark 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: aboriginal; access; action; activity; address; administrative; afn; alberta; areas; authority; available; barriers; benefits; british; broadband; building; canada; canada health; capacity; care; care services; centre; challenges; change; chii; chii telehealth; clinical; columbia; common; communications; communities; community; community health; comprehensive; conference; connectivity; consultations; coordination; costs; criteria; critical; current; delivery; development; education; engagement; essential; exhibit; expansion; factors; federal; financial; fnih; following; funding; future; health authority; health care; high; human; impact; implementation; improved; increase; informant; information; infoway; infrastructure; integrated; integration; interoperability; interviews; inuit; investment; issues; jurisdiction; key; ko telehealth; lack; leadership; level; limited; local; long; management; manitoba; march; medical; mental; model; nations; nations access; nations communities; nations health; nations telehealth; need; network; new; northern; nursing; ongoing; ontario; operational; opportunities; organizations; participants; participation; partnership; patient; percent; phase; pilot; place; plan; planning; policies; policy; position; potential; primary; privacy; process; professionals; program; project; proposal; providers; province; provincial; provincial health; provincial telehealth; quality; quebec; readiness; regional; regional health; relationships; remote; report; requirements; reserve; resources; role; rural; saskatchewan; section; services; sessions; sites; social; solutions; staff; stakeholders; standards; state; status; strategic; strategy; success; successful; summary; support; sustainability; systems; technical; technology; telecommunications; telehealth; telehealth development; telehealth investment; telehealth projects; telehealth services; telemedicine; territorial; time; training; travel; tribal; use; utilization; videoconferencing; vision; wellness; working; workshop; year; yukon 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: access; broadband; community; course; development; economic; fact; high; information; internet; investment; means; opportunities; outcomes; program; public; services; speed; support; technology; training; use; way; world; wrong cache: joci-2459.htm plain text: joci-2459.txt item: #148 of 547 id: joci-2460 author: None title: joci-2460 date: None words: 1535 flesch: 41 summary: Community informatics research, unlike more traditional branches of informatics, is very strong in analyzing the context of use of ICTs, including the stakeholders involved, their interests and goals, and many essential cultural determinants. Community informatics research in general is strong in taking such a comprehensive socio-technical systems view. keywords: align; communities; community; definitions; development; general; hard; informatics; li>.05) including Town D which had stressed the value of their directory for health service information. Other sources of health information All 1125 respondents were given the opportunity to indicate where they find information about health services. keywords: access; age; area; australian; awareness; categories; centre; chief; community; computer; council; data; directories; directory; entries; government; health; health information; health services; home; important; information; internet; level; local; mail; number; office; page; people; percent; private; providers; public; queensland; research; respondents; responses; rural; search; services; site; source; study; survey; table; total; town; use; web cache: joci-2553.htm plain text: joci-2553.txt item: #178 of 547 id: joci-2554 author: None title: None date: None words: 13603 flesch: 54 summary: This unequal distribution of digital technology access and use between different groups in society has been named “the digital divide” (Parsons & Hick, 2008). Digital technology access and use as 21st century determinants of health: Impact of social and economic disadvantage. keywords: ability; aboriginal; aboriginal group; abs; access; adelaide; areas; australia; available; barriers; basic; broadband; bureau; canberra; capital; catalogue; centre; children; commonwealth; community; computer; connection; costs; department; determinants; different; digital; digital access; digital technology; disadvantaged; discussion; divide; e.g.; education; employment; employment group; english; example; family; financial; focus; free; government; gradient; group; half; health; home; households; housing; housing group; ict; ict access; icts; income; information; internet; internet access; lack; landline; language; learning; levels; library; life; likely; limited; literacy; location; lower; mobile; mobile phone; need; newman; non; number; online; opportunities; participants; particular; pay; people; phone; population; private; public; quality; range; research; resources; services; skills; social; society; socioeconomic; south; state; statistics; status; study; support; survey; technical; technologies; technology; time; turn; university; use; want; ways; wireless; women; work; world; years cache: joci-2554.htm plain text: joci-2554.txt item: #179 of 547 id: joci-2555 author: None title: None date: None words: 7813 flesch: 50 summary: Conclusions Our research problem dealt with the questions concerning the added value of CI to participatory urban planning and the characteristics and consequences of CI-assisted participatory planning and design to ICT-mediated citizen participation. a competition at school in order to get ideas from other young people, in addition to the use of UM - Development of  technical skills Session 4 - Examination of the material - Being interviewed by a reporter from the Youth Department   (+) best session (+) got a good idea of what young people  really want (-) no checking of the places mentioned by other young people - Ability to analyze the collected material - Ability to present the project and the group’s perspective to strangers Session 5 - Participatory planning workshop with the architect - Translation of proposals to UM (+) the architect was a nice guy (+) it was good to be able to see exactly what the relevant  ideas were (-) too little time - Ability to work in a group and to build consensus - Ability to articulate design-related ideas - Ability to work with a professional - Dev. of technical skills Session 6 (extra) - Participation in the wiki design session organized for the Roihuvuori residents   (+) a lot of nice people (+) nice to use materials like cardboard and legos (+) easy to work with adults (-) too little time (-) difficult to build on the proposals of other people (-) those who could not take part in the session were sad - Ability to collaborate with adults - Ability to work with and build on the ideas of other age groups Session 7                - Checking of  comments on UM - Advertising the final presentation in the IRC Gallery and Facebook - Getting acquainted with the real time, online video broadcast platform Floobs (+) Floobs was fun - Writing info texts about a public event in one’s own language, targeted at one’ s own age group Session 8 - Preparation of the  presentation for the final event - Practicing of video recording and broadcasting on Floobs (+/-) stress related to the public presentation (-) difficulties in writing the script for the presentation - Dev. of technical skills - Learning how to make a public presentation and to communicate the group’s message Session 9 - Final presentation meeting (architect presents his plans, youths present the process they have followed) - Video recording and online broadcast (+) own presentation (+) the architect’s proposal (+) the small size of the audience (-) no introductions and shaking hands when people came in - Learning about participatory planning processes, actors and activities involved - Becoming confident to speak in public Session 10 - Collective assessment of the whole process - Interviewing of young people by the researchers - Viewing of the video recording of the wiki design and the final event (+) what was done felt important (+) keywords: ability; activities; adolescents; age; application; approach; architect; article; building; case; centre; children; citizen; city; collaborative; communities; community; community informatics; design; development; different; digital; empowerment; face; field; figure; governance; group; gurstein; helsinki; horelli; ict; icts; ideas; informatics; issues; learning; local; mediated; mediator; neighbourhood; new; online; participants; participation; participatory; participatory design; participatory planning; people; phase; planning; presentation; process; processes; project; public; real; research; residents; roihuvuori; saad; self; session; skills; social; stakeholders; study; sulonen; systems; technology; tools; urban; urban planning; use; wallin; website; work; yard; young; youth cache: joci-2555.htm plain text: joci-2555.txt item: #180 of 547 id: joci-2556 author: None title: None date: None words: 8605 flesch: 50 summary: Conclusion The theoretical concepts of community, virtual community, the commons, and gatekeeping, as manifested on Craigslist, describe the intricacies of developing a virtual commons that meets the idealism of Internet trailblazers who founded virtual communities when cyberspace was just beginning to be explored.  Commons or gated community? A theoretical explication of virtual community and the example of Craigslist   Daniel Schackman State University of New York at New Paltz   Abstract An explication of theoretical concepts of community, virtual community, the commons, and gatekeeping exemplified by Craigslist.org, a virtual community in which gatekeeping is revealed to have considerable salience.  keywords: access; ads; american; august; broader; building; castells; city; classified; commercial; commons; communication; communities; community; community members; concept; construct; content; craigslist; culture; cyberspace; day; development; dewey; discussion; ebay; email; english; example; founders; free; gatekeepers; gatekeeping; geographic; goals; help; home; human; impact; information; interests; internet; jobs; language; life; line; local; members; messages; mission; model; networks; new; newmark; news; non; number; open; ostrom; park; particular; people; place; portal; postings; potential; press; principles; public; real; real world; record; resources; role; section; september; services; set; shared; shoemaker; sites; social; society; standards; theoretical; time; tragedy; u.s; urban; users; utopian; values; virtual; virtual commons; virtual communities; web; work; world; world communities; york cache: joci-2556.htm plain text: joci-2556.txt item: #181 of 547 id: joci-2557 author: None title: None date: None words: 7814 flesch: 59 summary: The structure of such systems do not change overtime. The rules that govern such systems are also time reversible. keywords: ac3; action; adaptive; adaptive system; agency; aid; approach; bangalore; case; causality; center; change; city; coin; communication; community; complex; constraints; construction; context; contextual; data; development; different; discussion; ethnographic; event; family; feedback; framework; free; girl; group; historical; history; human; india; individual; juarrero; layout; life; local; members; mobile; new; oil; order; parts; pattern; person; phase; phone; population; possible; relationships; representations; research; residents; sarsu; second; sensitive; slums; sms; social; structure; study; sudarshan; sudarshan layout; system; technology; time; urban; users; volunteers; way; work; world; youth cache: joci-2557.htm plain text: joci-2557.txt item: #182 of 547 id: joci-2558 author: None title: Journal of Community Informatics Special Issue: Information and Communication Technology in Brazil date: None words: 1574 flesch: 36 summary: The first two articles examine and evaluate concrete experiences aiming at strengthening the democratic processes in Brazilian communities, emphasizing the importance of the interplay between technological mechanisms available in the internet and bottom up community mobilization and organization. The reader will encounter examples of well-established and large scale experiences, as well as recent and fast growing ones; articles that study large metropolises and others that focus small communities; a diversity of theoretical and methodological approaches (qualitative and quantitative). keywords: analysis; articles; brazilian; communication; communities; community; digital; graduação; ibict; ict; inclusion; information; internet; issue; journal; large; learning; low; portal; process; programa; research; resources; rio; social; special; state; technology; use; virtual cache: joci-2558.htm plain text: joci-2558.txt item: #183 of 547 id: joci-2559 author: Gurstein, Michael title: Editorial: Community Informatics in Brazil date: 2011-09-09 words: 1100 flesch: 20 summary: This linking of community process, emergent self-awareness, self and community empowerment, with ICTs particularly for marginalized populations is at the very core of a community informatics and thus this issue and the practice of community informatics in Brazil has much to teach all of those with an interest in or activities to support Community Informatics anywhere in the world. Community Informatics for many is a linking of the processes of community development with the content, affordances and historical and technological dynamics of Information and Communications Technologies. keywords: articles; brazil; community; development; digital; education; informatics; internet; issue; linking; processes; self; special; strong; technology; understanding cache: joci-2559.pdf plain text: joci-2559.txt item: #184 of 547 id: joci-2560 author: None title: Internet use in Brazil: speeding up or lagging behind? date: None words: 5637 flesch: 48 summary: The main focus is how internet access is actually growing and how the different types of internet use are evolving in the direction of citizenship and community building. Types of internet use and characteristics of data There are many possible approaches when one tries to focus on the democratization perspective of internet access and use. keywords: access; activities; adult; american; analyses; aspects; banking; brazil; brazilian; broadband; capital; characteristics; communication; community; countries; country; cultural; data; demographic; development; different; digital; divide; educational; everyday; evidence; evolution; example; family; fragoso; government; growth; home; ibge; important; inclusion; income; increase; individual; information; informação; initiatives; instrumental; internet; internet access; internet use; large; level; life; network; number; old; outstanding; period; pnad; population; public; purposes; results; services; sites; social; socio; table; technology; types; use; uses; wellman; years cache: joci-2560.htm plain text: joci-2560.txt item: #185 of 547 id: joci-2561 author: None title: Participation and Deliberation on the Internet: A case study on Digital Participatory Budgeting in Belo Horizonte date: None words: 11204 flesch: 53 summary: Democracy, deliberation and design: the case of online discussion forums. Whereas impolite posts result of human emotions only (open to public apology), uncivil ones offend the dignity of the interacting actors, and consist a serious threat to democracy and political discussions. keywords: access; analysis; arguments; aspect; available; belo; brazil; brazilian; budgeting; case; certain; citizens; city; comments; communication; criterion; dahlberg; data; debate; deliberation; deliberativeness; democracy; democratic; design; different; digital; discursive; discussion; dpb; dryzek; example; fact; forums; goal; habermas; hall; hand; high; horizonte; ideal; identification; important; information; internet; issue; janssen; kies; lack; low; marques; messages; model; moderation; new; number; officers; online; online deliberation; open; order; participants; participation; participatory; people; point; political; position; possible; post; present; process; program; project; public; reasons; reciprocity; reflexivity; region; research; respect; rude; space; sphere; studies; study; tools; traffic; uncivil; users; validation; values; vote; voting; ways; website; wilhelm; work; york cache: joci-2561.htm plain text: joci-2561.txt item: #186 of 547 id: joci-2562 author: None title: Participatory Development of Technologies as a Way to Increase Community Participation: the Cidade de Deus date: None words: 9880 flesch: 48 summary: These small organizations, known as community-based organizations (CBOs) or community organizations, have their own characteristics particularly through having a strong relation with their population. This Web Portal was developed as a university extension project by the Technical Solidarity Lab (SOLTEC/ UFRJ)[2] in partnership with Cidade de Deus’ community based organizations (CBOs). keywords: actions; actors; alinsky; articles; articulation; author; capital; case; cdd; changes; cidade; collective; communities; community; community portal; concept; construction; content; conventional; creation; dagnino; decisions; demands; desenvolvimento; deus; development; different; economic; franco; fundamental; greater; icts; important; increase; information; inhabitants; integration; issues; janeiro; journal; knowledge; level; local; local development; main; management; means; meetings; members; methodology; necessary; needs; networks; new; organizations; organizing; outside; participation; participatory; people; phase; place; point; population; portal; possible; power; problems; process; processes; project; public; relations; research; resources; results; rio; role; sense; small; social; social capital; society; solidarity; strong; system; technical; technologies; technology; tecnologia; term; time; use; users; way; web cache: joci-2562.htm plain text: joci-2562.txt item: #187 of 547 id: joci-2563 author: Rodrigues, Carla Lopes; Valente, José Armando title: Mastering Of Hypermedia Resources By Virtual Learning Communities: Possibilities And Constraints For Interaction, Communication And Construction Of Network Knowledge. date: 2011-06-11 words: 7646 flesch: 45 summary: Later, other network participants created their own accounts. A face-to-face group meeting was scheduled to use the Multimedia Forum resources, as shown in Figure 10. 17 Figure 10: Re@ge participants using Multimedia Forum resources One of the physicians, who is a virtual network partner, prepared a brief presentation on how he could remotely assist in the development of the activities conducted on Re@ge. keywords: access; actions; activities; agents; aids; alegre; asynchronous; audio; audiovisual; available; campinas; chat; city; collaborative; communication; communities; community; construction; content; data; development; different; digital; distance; education; environment; face; family; field; figure; forum; group; health; healthcare; help; hypermedia; ict; icts; inclusion; information; infrastructure; interaction; knowledge; learning; means; monte; multimedia; network; order; participants; paulo; pedreira; people; possibility; process; program; project; public; purpose; re@ge; rede; research; resources; sakai; services; set; social; stage; stakeholders; support; são; technologies; telecenter; text; tidia; tools; use; users; video; vila; virtual; virtual community; virtual learning; website cache: joci-2563.pdf plain text: joci-2563.txt item: #188 of 547 id: joci-2564 author: None title: Situating Learning for Digital Inclusion in the Social Context of Communities date: None words: 4615 flesch: 44 summary: The program includes an introductory course in which the elements of the HTML language will be introduced to the students, and practical activities in which the students will work in the development of the projects of learning portals. A summary of the activities that are being developed in the program of learning for digital inclusion, with regard to the development of the projects of learning portals, is presented below. keywords: activities; approach; authentic; community; context; design; development; digital inclusion; free learning; inclusion program; information; knowledge; language; learning; learning portals; learning situations; phase; program; projects; prototypes; school; situations; social; social context; social inclusion; students; teachers; use cache: joci-2564.htm plain text: joci-2564.txt item: #189 of 547 id: joci-2565 author: None title: Garden Of Literacies: ICDT Contributing To The Construction Of New Realities For Digitally-Excluded Senior Citizens date: None words: 5615 flesch: 52 summary: The concept of literacy practice is taken to a higher level of abstraction and refers both to the behavior and to the social and cultural conceptualizations which provide the context for reading and writing, that is to say, it is associated with the way a social group culturally uses the written language. Therefore, literacy practices reveal the concepts, values and beliefs typical of a culture. keywords: access; action; activities; activity; addition; approach; aspects; awareness; campinas; channels; citizens; communication; concept; construction; context; convergence; cultural; culture; different; digital; educational; events; figure; garden; group; historical; icdt; information; language; learners; learning; level; life; literacies; literacy; lives; media; mediators; new; order; orkut; paulo; person; practices; process; purpose; reading; realities; reality; relationship; research; results; senior; social; study; subject; support; são; technologies; technology; transformations; use; verbal; web; websites; writing cache: joci-2565.htm plain text: joci-2565.txt item: #190 of 547 id: joci-2566 author: None title: Evaluating ICT adoption in rural Brazil: a quantitative analysis of telecenters as agents of social change date: None words: 8068 flesch: 48 summary: This period of research and development served to identify an appropriate methodology to deploy community telecenters in remote rural communities of the country (Figueiredo, 2005).  The impacts of community telecenters in rural Colombia. keywords: access; adoption; age; ages; b se; binary; brazil; brazilian; change; civic; communication; communities; community; computers; data; demographics; development; diffusion; digital; distance; earth; electrical; engagement; entertainment; factors; fun; gems; government; health; hours; human; ict use; icts; impact; inclusion; individuals; information; international; internet; itu; journal; learning; literacy; logistic; love; milho; model; motivation; network; ngo; odds; older; operation; population; power; practice; professional; public; regression; research; respondents; results; retrieved; rural; sample; sanitation; school; skills; social; society; statistics; structural; study; table; technologies; telecenter; tombadouro; use; users; variables; verde; work; years cache: joci-2566.htm plain text: joci-2566.txt item: #191 of 547 id: joci-2567 author: None title: “School of the Future” Research Laboratory/USP: action research and emerging literacies studies in WEB 2.0 environments date: None words: 5480 flesch: 42 summary: Instituted in 2009 (and consequently without solid indicators to be presented), the aim of this project is to provide the youth community of São Paulo state (mainly) with information on their rights and all public policy matters pertaining to this segment, as well as to establish a communications structure that motivates youth to participate in the programs carried out by the State Government through participation in the Youth Web Portal. Therefore abstracts of action research projects and programs are presented, as well as a general overview on theoretical studies approaches to study emerging literacies on WEB 2.0 contexts through virtual ethnography. keywords: access; acessasp; action; activities; arts; brazil; castell; citizenship; communication; community; conjunction; context; culture; cyberculture; department; development; different; digital; digital inclusion; dissertations; eca; education; environments; escola; ethnography; faber; figure; financing; future; government; inclusion; information; institution; internet; knowledge; laboratory; learning; line; literacies; literacy; main; management; master; nap; network; new; observatory; paulo; paulo state; period; ponline; portal; process; production; program; projects; public; purpose; research; school; scientific; senac; social; society; state; students; studies; são; são paulo; target; teachers; teaching; technology; theoretical; university; users; usp; virtual; web; youth cache: joci-2567.htm plain text: joci-2567.txt item: #192 of 547 id: joci-2568 author: None title: The “Rede Brasil de Bibliotecas Comunitárias”: a space for sharing information and building new knowledge date: None words: 4515 flesch: 45 summary: According to the authors, in order to understand the information flows in social networks, one must investigate broadly, both the connections and interactions of the actors in a given social network as well as its interrelations with similar communities, for the members of these networks also have contact with other networks and social spaces. Keywords: Social networks; Community Libraries; Public Libraries; Public Policies for libraries   1 INTRODUCTION The Rede Brasil de Bibliotecas Comunitárias (RBBC) (The Brazil Network of Community Libraries) was created after identifying the lack of formal spaces to debate the reality of Community Libraries in Brazil, a fact that became clear during the II Seminário Internacional de Bibliotecas Públicas e Comunitárias, which took place in November 2009 in the city of São Paulo and was organized by the Secretaria de Cultura of the government of São Paulo State. keywords: access; actors; analytics; bibliotecas; brazil; brazilian; collection; community; community libraries; comunitárias; construction; country; data; debate; forums; google; graph; group; important; information; informação; internet; knowledge; librarianship; libraries; library; material; meeting; members; municipal; network; new; number; open; participants; paulo; people; photos; present; process; projects; public; rbbc; reading; rede; retrieved; set; sharing; social; social network; source; spaces; state; são; time; topic; use; videos; visits; way cache: joci-2568.htm plain text: joci-2568.txt item: #193 of 547 id: joci-2569 author: None title: The Development of an Information System for the Solidarity Economy Movement date: None words: 5743 flesch: 49 summary: Computing professionals are quickly absorbed by the traditional market, and rarely suffer the marginalization that leads people to create Solidarity Economy enterprises. This article aims to describe and analyze the development process of Cirandas (http://www.cirandas.net), an information system geared towards the Solidarity Economy community in Brazil. keywords: access; addition; advisory; article; brazil; brazilian; capital; capitalist; cirandas; communities; community; creation; development; economic; economy; economy community; economy movement; enterprises; entities; fbes; forum; free; freedom; functionalities; government; important; information; kind; mapping; members; model; movement; national; networks; new; people; point; possible; process; production; products; public; real; resources; retrieved; sees; service; social; society; software; solidarity; solidarity economy; solidária; state; support; system; technology; time; training; users; virtual; virtual community; workers cache: joci-2569.htm plain text: joci-2569.txt item: #194 of 547 id: joci-2570 author: None title: Welcome to JoCI Reviews date: None words: 124 flesch: 60 summary: Welcome to JoCI Reviews Welcome to JoCI Reviews   Kate Williams University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Reviews editor   This is the first issue of JoCI with reviews, and we invite more.  Start the review with a citation, including the price of the item and some kind of link to the item or more information about it, keeping in mind JoCI’s global readership that may or may not be able to get the original item.   keywords: item; joci; reviews cache: joci-2570.htm plain text: joci-2570.txt item: #195 of 547 id: joci-2571 author: Lenstra, Noah title: Mídia Cidadã: Utopia Brasileira. São Bernardo do Campo: Melo, J.M. de, Gobbi, M.C. & Sathler, L. (Eds.) (2006). date: 2011-09-22 words: 580 flesch: 35 summary: Perhaps of most interest to non-Brazilian audiences may be the essays on Folk-Communication, which draw on the theories of Luiz Beltrão, written in the 1960s and 1970s, on how the de-linked, marginalized Brazilian under-class stays informed and participates in processes of communication through “activist mediators” able to operate as bridges between mass media and local communities. Bahia, citing Coelho Neto, describes the resiliency of the movement: “Political repression has not in any way stunted the increase or proliferation of community radio, owing to its popular appeal – it is common that the community will save the equipment from the stations invaded by police and private agents and, in surprising rapidity, re-open the station.” keywords: brazilian; citizenship; communication; community; conference; essays; folk; media; movement; radio; são; technology cache: joci-2571.pdf plain text: joci-2571.txt item: #196 of 547 id: joci-2572 author: None title: Fullilove, Mindy Thompson date: None words: 909 flesch: 52 summary: And as Fullilove continues her work with communities (for details see rootshock.org), it is possible to imagine her embracing some of the findings of community informatics. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/53970697     Aiko Takazawa University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign     Root Shock is a book about how communities experience and even recover from shock. keywords: 1950s; african; american; communities; community; displacement; fullilove; informatics; mindy; new; people; renewal; root; shock; social; thompson; urban; work; york cache: joci-2572.htm plain text: joci-2572.txt item: #197 of 547 id: joci-2586 author: None title: None date: None words: 5441 flesch: 46 summary: More than simply adding the technological affordances of Web 2.0 to a traditional archive, however, our project uses these new capabilities as a heuristic for reconsidering the very nature of an archive, both what it is and what it can do for stakeholder communities and audiences. Our SEAAM philosophy is based on the idea that the ecology of a healthy digital archive requires sustained engagement by as many stakeholders as possible, and that ideally the ability to grow the metadata for digital archives rests more in the hands of stakeholder communities and less in the hands of designers and archivists. keywords: access; anderson; approach; archive; biblical; ccmat; centered; collection; communities; community; cultural; davidson; design; development; digital; feedback; gerizim; hart; hebrew; holon; humanities; interface; interviews; israel; iterative; manuscripts; mcleod; meetings; members; metadata; michigan; msu; multiple; needs; new; participants; practices; process; project; prototypes; research; ridolfo; samaritan; samaritan community; scholarly; scholars; specific; stakeholder; start; state; technology; texts; textual; tool; torah; tsedaka; unique; university; useful; user; walkthroughs; warren; web; wide; years cache: joci-2586.htm plain text: joci-2586.txt item: #198 of 547 id: joci-2587 author: None title: None date: None words: 8587 flesch: 44 summary: Technology Explorations The second thread in our project is a series of empirical requirements studies and prototyping efforts that have explored how community members might react to and appropriate new technologies (e.g., aggregation of local community information, and location-based, mobile, and wireless services). First, we recognized that the solution to a robust community calendar was not to simply gather and present local community information via a portal, but instead work toward a more dynamic vision of continuous collection, where the information we present is created and broadcast from a wide variety of community sources. keywords: access; action; activities; activity; arts; borough; businesses; calendar; carroll; central; challenges; citw; civicinity; college; commercial; community; community information; community members; community network; community partners; content; database; design; development; downtown; dscid; events; example; feeds; festival; ganoe; goals; government; groups; information; information technology; infrastructures; initial; interests; internet; j.m; knowledge; learning; local; location; management; media; members; mobile; network; new; news; non; nonprofit; organizations; participation; participatory; partners; pennsylvania; planning; possibilities; potential; practices; process; profit; project; prototype; public; research; respect; rosson; series; services; site; skills; social; specific; stakeholders; state; statecollege.com; support; sustainable; technologies; technology; term; threads; time; tools; updates; use; user; value; variety; web; website; wide; wireless cache: joci-2587.htm plain text: joci-2587.txt item: #199 of 547 id: joci-2589 author: None title: None date: None words: 7250 flesch: 48 summary: it is not difficult to identify a relationship between community learning and community development, indeed Falk & Harrison describe community learning as the processes and outcomes (the “oil in the cogs”) that produce and sustain community development (1998). Sometimes the outcomes are excellent and students make significant contributions to community learning, capacity building and community development. keywords: academic; access; action; active; activities; brighton; building; capacity; capital; centre; change; cna; communications; communities; community; community development; community informatics; community learning; content; critical; day; development; dialogic; dialogue; digital; education; effective; engagement; environments; forum; goals; groups; gurstein; hove; ict; informatics; knowledge; learning; life; local; london; media; model; modules; moulsecoomb; nature; needs; networks; packham; parents; participation; participatory; partnerships; people; portslade; power; practice; press; processes; project; purpose; research; service; set; share; social; story; strategy; students; support; technological; telling; theory; university; use; way; website; workshops; year cache: joci-2589.htm plain text: joci-2589.txt item: #200 of 547 id: joci-2592 author: None title: None date: None words: 10813 flesch: 46 summary: PADR supports Urban Informatics research in developing new technological means (e.g. using mobile and ubiquitous computing) to resolve contemporary issues or support everyday life in urban environments. The paper discusses the nature, aims and inherent methodological needs of Urban Informatics research, and proposes PADR as a method to address these needs. keywords: action; action design; action research; activities; approach; artefact; aspects; baskerville; clients; communication; communities; community; community informatics; computing; conference; context; cultural; design; design research; design science; developed; development; different; disciplinary; dourish; dsr; e.g.; environment; ethnographic; evaluation; everyday; field; figure; focus; foth; goals; hand; hci; hearn; ict; implications; important; informatics; informatics research; information systems; interaction; intervention; issues; journal; life; media; methodological; methodology; methods; mobile; needs; new; opportunities; organisational; padr; paper; participatory; particular; people; place; planning; practice; problem; process; project; public; related; relevant; research; researchers; role; science; science research; setting; social; socio; soft; space; stage; stakeholders; studies; study; systems; technical; techniques; technological; technologies; technology; theory; ubicomp; ubiquitous; understanding; urban; urban informatics; use; venable cache: joci-2592.htm plain text: joci-2592.txt item: #201 of 547 id: joci-2593 author: None title: None date: None words: 9058 flesch: 45 summary: However, the respect of mutual anonymity is a long way from the respect that forms the basis of working with known facilitators and partners of community research. The lower rungs of her ladder do not map directly onto design research based in communities, though notions of empowerment and the basic understanding of a peer relationship with participants in research projects are fundamental to successful engagement. keywords: academic; academic research; action; activities; activity; approach; benefit; change; commitments; common; communities; community; consent; contexts; cultural; day; design; different; egglestone; engaged; engagement; ethical; experience; form; funding; groups; human; ideas; information; informed; interests; involved; involvement; issues; key; knowledge; light; making; meaning; meet; meeting; members; new; open; outcomes; ownership; paper; participants; participation; participatory; particular; partners; people; place; political; position; post; potential; power; proceedings; process; processes; project; relations; research; researchers; rogers; schutz; sense; series; share; social; society; subjects; summit; symposium; team; technology; thought; time; understanding; university; use; utd; voice; way; ways; work; working; workshop; world cache: joci-2593.htm plain text: joci-2593.txt item: #202 of 547 id: joci-2594 author: None title: joci-2594 date: None words: 10406 flesch: 50 summary: In the FP7 FIRE context an ICT test bed is: “a platform for experimentation for large development projects”. It was organized in nine work packages (work package being the prescribed unit for work organization in FP7 projects). keywords: 2010; access; action; affirmative; air; applications; architecture; areas; available; bed; beds; business; case; commission; communications; communities; community; company; conditions; conference; confine; consortium; context; contract; data; december; delay; deliverable; design; developed; development; different; dtn; economic; european; example; experimentation; federation; field; figure; final; fire; fp7; future; gender; grazing; group; hand; hardware; herders; husbandry; ict; idea; industry; information; initiative; innovation; instance; interest; interface; internet; jokkmokk; knowledge; lapland; large; level; life; line; local; ltu; luleå; maria; matter; meis; members; mobile; n4c; n4c work; need; networking; networks; new; nodes; number; opportunities; overall; participation; partners; place; plan; power; practices; process; project; real; region; reindeer; remote; report; research; results; rural; scale; science; scientific; services; set; site; small; social; society; software; staff; staloluokta; standard; studies; summer; support; sweden; swedish; systems; tannak; team; technical; technologies; technology; test; test bed; time; tolerant; tracking; udén; university; use; users; winter; women; work cache: joci-2594.htm plain text: joci-2594.txt item: #203 of 547 id: joci-2595 author: None title: joci-2595 date: None words: 1814 flesch: 26 summary: As well they can act as a "bridge" or interpreter between the dominant "bureaucratic" (and research) discourse and the language and understanding at the community level and provide a means for communities to access resources from universities and elsewhere which they might not otherwise be able to access.

O'Donnell in private communication pointed out the role of community champions as central figures in community research (as in other areas). The first question to ask is how have university community relations evolved in the context of the broad evolution of universities and particularly the current widely observed trend toward corporatization of universities, university research and even university teaching. keywords: broader; communities; community; context; corporate; course; issue; left; local; overall; papers; programs; relationships; research; researchers; self; style="margin; support; systems; understanding; universities; university 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: 2009; action; communication; communities; community; conference; conversation; day; development; dialogic; effective; forms; goal; human; icts; identity; importance; information; internet; journal; learning; life; links; making; media; networked; networks; new; opportunities; participants; participatory; people; place; practices; process; question; relations; research; researchers; social; society; technologies; technology; time; university; urban; use; way 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: access; adult; amp; approach; blogs; building; capital; case; change; children; cih; cih participants; city; class; cohesion; communications; communities; community; community internet; computer; conference; connectedness; content; craig; cultural; data; development; digital; divide; early; economic; education; experiences; face; families; family; findings; framework; free; funding; government; group; help; history; home; ibid; ict; implementation; important; income; indigenous; information; internet; internet use; interviews; involvement; issues; key; learning; level; literacy; local; low; means; media; meetings; ministry; model; national; networks; new; new zealand; numeracy; online; outcomes; ownership; paper; parents; participants; participatory; partnership; people; pilot; practice; project; qualitative; regional; relationship; research; researchers; role; scheme; school; share; skills; social; social cohesion; social media; society; stories; strategy; studies; study; successful; support; technology; time; title="">

New social movements have arisen on the net. keywords: > academy; > code; > denison; > jones; > journal; > katzman; > mannheim; > markus; > paper; > polska; > volume; activists; actors; age; autospace; background:#e6e6e6;padding:2.75pt; black 1.0pt; cambridge; carlaw; century; change; char;text; class="article_subhead; class="msonormalcxspmiddle; class="reference; communication; communities; community; control; culture; demonstrations; digital; div; download/2751; dropout; early; email; empowering; empowerment; etc.); facebook; fang; font; free; furet; goody; governments; grid; icts; ideograph; impact; individuals; influence; influence; information; innovation.; international; internet; internet; joci; left; li >; like; literacy; literate; markoff; media; media; mobile; mode; modern; monday; movements; networking; networks; new; none;border; none;padding:2.75pt; number; numeric; online; openness; organization; organizations; ozouf; padding:2.75pt; political; politics; popular; population; press; publishing; recent; research; respondents; revolution; right; right;layout; sans; serif","sans; shulman; size; size:11.0pt'>phones; size:11.0pt;font; smith; social; society; solid black; span lang="en; src="https://openjournals.uwaterloo.ca; state; studies; style=; style='font; survey; szlachecka; tapscott; td width="42; technologies; technology; tools; traditional; university; use; valign="top; watt; width:31.15pt;border; width:33.85pt;border; width="580; width="83; wikis; williams; woolf; world; writing; yearbook 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: academics; access; aged; ageing; areas; available; canada; chat; communication; communities; different; discussion; discussion forum; e.g.; email; engagement; england; face; facebook; focus; forum; groups; health; interactive; international; internet; issues; jones; journal; june; listserve; live; long; manitoba; march; media; members; messages; methods; national; new; number; office; older; older people; online; organisations; paper; participants; people; person; phase; population; posts; professionals; project; qualitative; recruit; recruitment; research; rural; screen; service; social; stakeholders; statistics; study; support; table; team; technology; time; twitter; university; urban; use; users; wales; webcasting; webcasts; week; workpackage; younger 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; advice; answers; better; capital; case; characteristics; close; communication; communities; community; community informatics; community members; component; connections; context; data; decision; depth; discussions; example; face; factors; friends; good; group; help; human; ict; important; individuals; information; internet; issues; journal; knowledge; leaders; level; majority; making; malaysia; members; narayan; networks; new; norms; number; online; opportunities; organization; people; prejudice; process; qualitative; question; questionnaire; reasons; relationships; research; respondents; responses; role; section; semi; services; sociability; social; social capital; society; strong; structured; study; support; systems; table; technology; terms; togetherness; trust; understanding; usj; usj virtual; virtual; virtual community; volunteerism; web; willing; world; years 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: 21st; ability; access; activities; administration; administrators; amp; analysis; assessment; assignments; century; cff; cff program; challenges; class="article_subhead; class="reference; classroom; coaches; component; computer; context; critical; daily; dailyIntroduction and example; RESEARCH REPORT; No. 3, April 2001; http://www.ftpiicd.org/files/research/reports/report3.pdf

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Firstly, there is evidence that the public are not particularly interested in using published performance data, preferring to obtain information informally through interpersonal relationships (Marshall et al., 2000; Meijer, 2009; Pidd, 2005; Sipkoff, 2007; Which?, 2007). If performance data are published, it is expected that service consumers will react rationally, by selecting the best-performing providers. keywords: = right; actual; align =; amp; analysis; attention; behaviour; benign; best; better; bird; business; care; causal; center style="margin; changes; col; community; complex; consequences; consumers; context; control; crime; data; decisions; different; dynamics; economic; education; effects; evidence; example; factors; feedback; figure; financial; goddard; goldstein; good; government; hand; health; hood; idea; impact; improvement; indicators; individuals; inflation; information; journal; knowledge; lack; league; li>

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: access; affairs; africa; amp; april; bill; cape; class="endnote_20_anchor; commons; communication; content; creative; data; development; digital; director; economic; floss; freedom; government; ibm; implementation; important; initiatives; innovation; internet; interview; june; keats; knowledge; open; open source; openness; participation; personal; personal communication; policies; policy; practice; rens; research; software; source; south; south africa; technology; traditional; university; users 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: access; accommodations; agencies; agency; analyses; analytical; available; better; budget; bus; cases; city; code; data; degrees; different; distribution; electronic; expertise; form; government; instance; need; note; observation; open; openness; power; presentation; produce; public; resources; restrictions; revenue; round; state; transit; use; vote; ways; zip 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: aging; care; communities; community; health; icts; individual; informatics; issue; life; medical; older; older persons; persons; population; role; service; special; support; systems 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: applications; articles; care; communications; communities; community; computer; design; development; effects; elderly; game; group; health; home; ict; information; internet; nursing; older; online; participants; people; persons; program; radio; reports; research; results; rural; seniors; service; social; states; studies; study; support; system; technology; training; united; use; variety 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: .000º; .001º; cards; cell; cell phone; communication; communication media; contact; correlations; distance; email; face; face communication; frequency; fulk; future; general; generational; grandchild; grandchild relationship; grandchildren; grandparent; harwood; higher; influence; information; initiator; instant; interaction; internet; landline; landline phone; letters; level; likely; media; media richness; media use; medium; messenger; mobile; model; new; note; older; overall; participants; people; phone; quality; question; questionnaire; relational; relationship; research; results; richness; seniors; significant; social; students; studies; study; table; technologies; technology; theory; time; type; usage; use; years 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: activities; age; approach; australia; burmeister; capital; categories; chat; communication; communities; community; community values; computer; contact; data; design; emotional; example; exchange; family; female; figure; flanagan; focus; following; forums; friedman; greypath; greypath community; greypath members; group; house; human; important; inclusion; information; interaction; internet; journal; kahn; key; like; literature; members; mutual; neighbourhood; neighbours; networks; new; nissenbaum; older; online; online community; paper; participants; peers; people; person; personal; pfeil; physical; preece; reason; related; relationships; research; seniors; sense; sharing; similar; site; social; studies; study; support; systems; technology; theme; thing; university; users; values; vic; way; wellman; xie 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: access; active; activities; ageing; australia; available; baltes; burmeister; case; centre; change; chat; communities; community; complex; computer; conference; connections; continued; course; creation; day; design; development; different; early; education; email; engagement; england; event; example; experience; face; factors; flat; forum; foskey; funding; greypath; greypath community; group; hazzlewood; health; help; hybridity; ideas; important; information; interaction; interest; international; internet; involved; late; learning; life; list; local; management; members; membership; neat; need; network; new; non; older; online; online communities; opportunity; overseas; paper; participants; participation; particular; peer; people; personal; place; problem; process; research; seniors; sense; sharing; site; small; smith; social; society; structure; studies; study; success; successful; support; sustaining; technical; technology; terms; time; traffic; university; use; users; value; village; virtual; volunteers; way; web; wellman; world; years 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; alarm level; alex; appropriate; arrangement; care; care action; care subsystem; caregiver; case; chart; conditions; control; data; doctors; elderly; examination; examination data; example; figure; function; graph; health conditions; healthcare; healthcare system; information; internet; intrusive; level; limit; medical; message; module; multi; non; organizations; patient; people; physical; physical examination; quality; report; research; rule; shows; state; stis; subsystem; system; tele; time; transition; use; value; westgard 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; activities; adult; adult children; age; aging; analysis; behaviors; better; board; care; children; china; chinese; common; communication; computer; conference; connected; daily; data; daughter; dual; face; families; family; family communication; family members; farm; father; game; game playing; gaming; harper; health; home; information; interactions; intergenerational; internet; interviews; life; local; members; message; mother; networking; new; non; older; online; pairs; parents; participants; patterns; physical; play; players; playing; proceedings; qq farm; relationships; remote; research; retired; safe; social; son; space; study; support; time; topics; usa; way; xie 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: ability; access; active; adults; age; aging; city; civic; classes; communication; communities; community; computer; course; data; digital; email; engaged; engagement; family; female; follow; friends; good; health; ict; impact; important; improved; information; internet; january; life; living; mental; month; new; oats; older; older adults; online; opportunities; participants; participation; people; poor; population; program; seniors; services; skills; social; society; students; study; support; surveys; technologies; technology; telephone; time; training; use; world; year; york 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: ability; activities; activity; adults; auckland; balance; benefits; care; community; confidence; context; dynamic; effect; et al; fear; figure; fsst; games; group; health; home; home residents; home staff; ict; intervention; journal; life; mean; medicine; minutes; new; nintendo; nursing; nursing home; nws; older; participants; physical; play; playing; psychosocial; qol; questions; research; residents; results; self; sf-36; social; staff; studies; study; technology; test; time; university; usage; use; video; week; weekly; wii; zealand 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: actions; adults; age; ageing; analysis; approach; capacity; cases; computer; concept; contacts; daily; decline; design; different; everyday; example; experience; factors; feeling; form; generation; goals; health; help; home; human; ict; important; information; interaction; internet; intervention; isolation; journal; kinds; lbd; leikas; life; lives; loneliness; lonely; main; masi; means; media; models; needs; new; older; older people; people; point; possible; practices; problems; process; psychological; psychology; quality; relationships; research; saariluoma; self; service; situation; skills; social; society; solutions; studies; study; technical; technological; technologies; technology; usability; usage; user; way; ways 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: able; addition; adults; align; applications; article; attendees; available; barbara; beginning; blockquote; business; c.c; capacity; care; case; center; changes; children; citizens; club; club members; cognitive; communication; community; computer; computer club; computer use; computing; content; cooper; core; course; data; death; design; development; devices; don; download/3060; early; efforts; electronic; equipment; evans; example; experienced; face; family; flamingo; flamingo park; friends; group; half; hands; health; hearing; helmut; help; home; household; howard; human; husband; img; important; inability; indent; individuals; information; instruction; interaction; interest; internet; joci; jones; knowledge; lack; language; laslo; late; learning; life; like; limited; little; lives; living; long; loss; machine; mail; major; male; marion; mary; media; meetings; members; men; myrtle; need; nelson; neva; neva’s; new; number; older; online; oxford; park; park computer; park residents; participants; people; period; physical; place; population; primary; problems; process; proxy; research; residents; result; room; rossler; sam; second; set; share; skills; social; space; span; span style="font; src="https://openjournals.uwaterloo.ca; strong; study; sturgis; style="font; support; swenson; system; tasks; teacher; technological; technologies; technology; things; time; tutor; understanding; university; unterweg; use; users; vision; way; wife; women; world; years 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: 4th; access; age; aging; chronological; city; computer; czaja; data; digital; education; elderly; eurostat; expectancy; family; fiske; functional; gender; general; grade; grandchildren; group; health; higher; ict; indicators; individuals; ine; internet; interviewees; lack; learning; lee; life; lisbon; main; men; mobile; mobile phone; need; new; non; old; older; people; perception; person; phone; pictures; population; portugal; portuguese; press; rate; ratio; reasons; research; respondents; retired; sample; secondary; significant; social; statistics; stereotypes; study; survey; table; technology; usage; use; users; women; years; years old 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: activity; addition; adults; age; aging; analysis; categories; coding; communication; communities; community; computer; contacts; contents; data; destination; digital; discussions; example; exchange; experience; forum; health; home; impact; information; insights; insurance; internet; journal; kozinets; leisure; life; long; main; making; marketing; members; methods; netnography; nimrod; number; offline; older; older adults; online; online communities; opportunity; participants; people; personal; planning; posts; practical; qualitative; rates; research; resource; results; retirement; seniors; sense; services; sites; social; specific; stories; studies; study; sub; technology; themes; tourism; tourists; tours; travel; traveling; trip; usa; use; web; white; xie 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; aging; american; amy; analysis; antenarrative; approach; articles; average; boards; boje; career; career change; challenges; change; change stories; characters; communication; community; computer; conflict; d.m; department; discourse; discrimination; discursive; dream; economic; eds; employment; exchange; experiences; fragmented; function; gabriel; good; greengard; health; internet; jason; job; labor; later; life; like; magazine; meaning; members; membership; message; message boards; miller; money; mumby; narrative; number; oaks; oct; older; organizational; people; plot; population; positive; posters; posts; power; readers; research; resistant; resources; school; sense; social; space; stories; storytelling; study; success; support; tamara; taylor; technology; time; transitioning; virtual; way; week; worker 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: access; active; adults; age; aging; baby; boomers; cochran; cohorts; college; communication; communities; community; comparison; computer; data; difference; education; facebook; females; figure; florida; friends; games; gaming; higher; home; hours; information; internet; leisure; levels; life; living; mail; master; means; new; older; participants; percentages; population; professionals; programming; programs; recreation; research; results; retirement; sample; self; seniors; significant; social; states; study; survey; table; technology; today; twitter; u.s; usage; use; utilization; villages; week; wii; years; york 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: accessibility; activities; adults; age; aging; available; care; class; college; community; computer; computing; course; digital; disabilities; divide; education; elderly; experience; geriatric; group; health; higher; information; intergenerational; internet; learning; life; mean; new; older; older adults; options; participants; partnerships; population; positive; pre; previous; project; related; research; scores; senior; sensitivity; service; significant; skills; social; staff; students; study; table; technology; training; university; use; windows; work; years 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: adults; age; aged; calls; canada; canadian; case; census; citizens; city; communication; community; computer; connection; cutler; data; different; digital; education; experience; face; fredericton; gibson; good; group; health; high; home; ict; information; international; internet; interview; issues; level; lives; milliken; new; older; older citizens; online; online video; o’donnell; participants; people; person; population; potential; presence; proceedings; project; quality; research; researchers; rural; social; statistics; study; survey; table; technical; technologies; technology; time; training; university; use; useful; users; value; video; video calls; video communications; videoconferencing; week; youtube 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: access; broadband; health; healthcare; high; new; patients; project; specialist; victoria 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: able; ageing; anne; australia; bob; community; computer; connections; contact; data; elsie; email; facebook; family; feist; friends; grandchildren; group; health; home; important; information; internet; interview; joan; life; lives; living; local; members; months; networks; new; new technologies; older; older people; participants; people; personal; pilot; pilot study; place; playing; press; project; quality; researchers; rural; skype; social; study; support; survey; technologies; technology; test; ties; time; use; years 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: access; accessibility; adults; ageing; assistive; available; blind; computer; disabilities; disability; eatt; european; gallagher; i2web; ict; impairment; inclusion; increase; information; ireland; journal; life; literacy; loss; national; ncbi; needs; new; older; older people; online; participants; participation; people; population; products; project; related; research; sensory; service; sight; skills; social; society; technologies; technology; training; user; vicon; vision; vision impairment; visual; web; website; work 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; clark; community; cooperative; focus; group; help; illinois; informatics; issues; lindsey; logistics; people; research; self; seniors; session; skype; technology; university; williams 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: capacity; care; clinical; clinicians; copd; disease; emergency; exacerbation; family; green; health; healthcare; hospital; ivr; management; medical; monitoring; partners; patients; program; red; remote; survey; symptoms; technology; yellow; zones 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: aged; assistance; award; care; centre; community; dementia; device; emergency; family; help; hong; indoor; kong; link; location; mind; mls; mobile; outdoor; people; schsa; seniors; service; social; support; years 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: access; adoption; applications; awareness; benefits; broadband; btop; census; computer; digital; disabilities; divide; driver; goal; health; housing; illinois; income; individual; information; interest; internet; internet skills; internet training; learning; license; low; online; participants; people; percent; personal; practical; program; project; public; sba; second; seniors; skills; step; superhighway; technology; training; training program; u.s; university; use; years 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: area; committee; communications; community; cultural; culture; elderly; heritage; information; intangible; interactions; language; local; macha; members; need; people; person; platform; practices; program; radio; rural; sms; specific; station; tonga; van; vision; wide; young; zambia 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: active; activities; activity; cognitive; dementia; disease; effects; elderly; mental; person; research; reserve; social; technology 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: access; analyser; analysis; available; capability; cape; categories; categorisation; category; chunks; coding; content; data; design; different; early; evidence; example; experience; facilities; features; figure; help; idea; implementation; interviews; management; masters; microsoft; needs; new; nvivo; office; open; order; outputs; paper; possible; process; project; qualitative; qualitative content; qualitative research; research; research data; researchers; results; schutz; simple; social; software; strauss; students; support; team; technology; text; time; tools; town; use; useful; user; way; web; words; work; working 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: access; activities; activity; african; april; areas; cape; clear; communication; computer; coordinators; countries; curricula; department; deployment; development; disadvantaged; doe; education; educators; facilities; factors; figure; findings; framework; goal; guidelines; ict; implementation; information; integration; internet; lack; learners; learning; macassar; mlitwa; policy; primary; process; programs; project; quality; research; resources; schools; secondary; skills; software; south; status; study; subjects; system; teachers; teaching; technology; theoretical; theory; tools; training; use; western 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; action; activities; activity; africa; agency; analysis; approach; areas; aspects; benjamin; business; capacity; case; choice; cliq; communication; community; computer; development; digital; effective; empowerment; equipment; examples; facilitators; factors; financial; findings; framework; free; functional; functionality; gender; governance; government; hours; ict; icts; impact; implementation; improved; income; individual; information; interaction; internet; intervention; issues; journal; key; kleine; lack; life; local; maintenance; management; manager; national; nature; needs; new; ngo; norms; order; outcomes; ownership; participants; participation; participatory; people; percent; personal; poor; potential; principles; problems; process; project; qol; quality; research; resources; rural; self; service; skills; social; south; staff; structure; studies; sustainability; tc1; tc2; tc3; tc4; technical; technology; telecentre; time; training; usaasa; use; users; women 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; approach; body; cape; community; development; economic; focus; ict; informatics; initial; internet; issue; itu; knowledge; mobile; phahlamohlaka; phone; process; research; researchers; review; role; roode; seidet; services; socio; south; south africa; southern; special; study; support; system; use; work; world 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: africa; book; case; community; development; education; informatics; people; pretoria; processes; research; siyabuswa; south; story; success; support; university; young 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; administration; africa; ant; applications; april; available; black; businesses; callon; cape; cape town; case; cellular; channel; citizens; city; coloured; communication; communities; community; constitution; council; country; decision; delivery; department; development; engagement; environment; example; executive; focus; framework; government; group; high; human; ict; implementation; individuals; information; infrastructure; initiatives; interessement; interviews; issues; law; legal; levels; local; local government; making; management; march; means; media; members; mobile; mxit; national; needs; network; new; office; officials; online; organisations; paper; participation; people; policy; political; possible; problem; process; projects; provincial; public; public participation; republic; research; review; role; rose; section; service; smartphone; sms; social; social media; society; south; south africa; stakeholders; strategies; strategy; structures; study; subcouncil; systems; taylor; technologies; technology; theory; translation; use; web; western; western cape; white 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: access; benefits; collective; communities; community; equal; governance; informatics; internet; justice; people; social; society; use 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: access; activities; africa; analysis; atfield; bank; benefits; calls; case; challenges; chigona; communication; community; contact; countries; country; cultural; data; development; different; documentation; economic; employment; factors; findings; framework; friends; government; groups; impact; important; income; information; integration; international; internet; issues; journal; lack; landau; language; literature; little; migration; mobile; mobile phones; nations; networks; new; number; opportunities; outcomes; paper; participation; people; phones; policy; political; potential; process; refugees; research; respondents; rights; sample; section; segatti; services; social; social integration; society; south; south africa; status; studies; study; time; trust; unhcr; united; university; urban; usage; use; voice; world 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: access; animal; area; august; available; bolus; botswana; cattle; cattle farmers; charge; community; council; cow; database; department; district; farmers; food; government; health; identification; information; issue; kraals; lits; livestock; lost; management; matimela; moa; need; number; officers; online; owners; ownership; police; possible; posts; production; questionnaires; requirements; research; respondents; retrieved; services; staff; stray; stray cattle; study; support; system; technology; traceability; tracing; use; villages 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; activities; approach; areas; centres; chinhoyi; communities; community; computerisation; computers; countries; critical; day; developed; development; districts; economic; education; factors; findings; following; government; headmasters; health; heeks; ict; ict4d; icts; iicd; implementation; important; information; infrastructure; international; internet; issues; kariba; lack; learning; limited; literacy; local; low; makonde; mashonaland; mhondoro; model; motivation; need; network; ngezi; partnerships; policies; policy; poor; problems; programme; progressive; projects; province; public; reasons; residents; resources; retrieved; road; rural; schoolchildren; schools; section; services; similar; social; study; success; systems; teachers; technology; training; university; urban; use; west; zimbabwe 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: access; action; africa; analysis; applications; approach; assessment; background; business; business ideas; café; center; communication; communities; community; community members; computer; conference; definition; design; development; different; digital; doorway; economic; emthonjeni; entrepreneurial; entrepreneurship; external; feasibility; financial; following; framework; funding; general; generation; help; high; ict; ict4d; icts; ideas; ideo; implementation; important; income; informal; information; initial; innovation; international; internet; involved; journal; kirzner; knowledge; lack; level; local; main; medupe; members; methods; mobile; monash; needs; new; number; opportunities; order; participants; participation; participatory; ped; people; perspective; phase; possible; potential; power; practice; process; processes; project; research; researchers; results; school; science; selection; september; services; set; skills; social; solutions; south; specific; start; strong; suggestions; support; sustainability; technologies; technology; term; theory; time; tools; training; understanding; ungana; university; use; workshop; zandspruit 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: access; africa; approach; area; authoritative; autopoiesis; broader; care; case; centre; christian; communities; community; concepts; contribution; coupling; data; department; development; economic; education; ferry; framework; giddens; ict4d; ict4d project; ict4d social; impact; influence; information; information systems; interest; means; medical; members; mission; mission social; normative; people; practices; pretoria; production; project; research; resources; rules; school; self; social; social system; socio; south; structuration; study; systems; systems framework; team; technology; terms; theory; thinking; traditional; training; tugela; turpin; university; use; value; vol; way; zulu; zulu community; zulu social 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: acceptance; access; adoption; africa; age; analysis; applications; areas; baumberger; behavioural; brücher; capital; chigona; citizens; communication; community; constitution; convenience; corruption; cost; councillor; data; delivery; democracy; department; different; effort; elections; expectancy; figure; gender; government; government services; home; important; influence; information; initiatives; intention; interaction; interest; internet; interview; issues; journal; lack; level; literature; local; local government; making; medium; mobile; mobile government; mobile phone; mobile services; model; national; need; new; participation; people; phone; political; political participation; politics; positive; privacy; problems; process; projects; public; questions; reporting; research; respondents; retrieved; section; security; services; social; south; study; survey; systems; technology; theory; time; trust; use; utaut; variables; vote; voting; ways 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; actual; adoption; africa; analysis; aspects; barriers; biljon; challenges; cognitive; communication; communities; community; computer; context; countries; data; design; development; device; ease; elderly; experience; findings; function; generational; ict4d; impact; importance; information; insights; inter; interaction; international; issues; journal; knowledge; learning; mobile; mobile phone; model; new; older; paper; participants; people; person; phase; phone; phone accessibility; physical; problems; process; product; questionnaire; questions; report; research; researchers; rogers; social; society; south; students; study; systems; table; technology; telephony; terms; transfer; university; usability; usage; use; usefulness; users; van; w3c; wisdom; world; younger 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: access; activities; activity; actors; addition; america; amp; appropriation; argentina; available; buenos; business; case; castells; castillo; certain; cities; citizens; city; class="article_subhead; class="reference; commerce; commercial; community; company; conditions; context; corporate; countries; creation; degree; developed; development; different; div; div class="reference; diverse; dynamics; economic; economy; example; feria; finquelievich; flows; forms; geographic; global; group; icts; informality; information; initiatives; innovation; involved; knowledge; la salada; labour; latin; limited; local; market; material; mercado; metropolitan; model; network; new; operations; organization; perspective; place; political; portal; possible; practices; present; processes; production; products; recent; region; related; respect; salada; salada market; sassen; schiavo; sector; serra; short; social; space; study; system; technical; technological; technologies; terms; time; trust; urban; users; way; 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: access; actors; america; appropriation; argentina; aui; capital; case; center; children; class="article_subhead; class="reference; communication; communities; computers; connectivity; cultural; development; digital; div; div class="reference; diverse; economic; educational; enterprises; finquelievich; government; helix; highway; human; ict; impacts; important; inclusion; industry; information; infrastructure; inhabitants; initiatives; innovation; institutions; international; internet; knowledge; latin; learning; levels; life; local; long; luis; luis province; main; model; necessary; networks; new; number; paper; penetration; pilp; plan; policies; population; primary; process; programs; projects; province; province´s; provincial; public; punta; regional; relevant; research; resources; san; san luis; school; services; sld; social; society; software; strategies; students; system; teachers; technological; technologies; technology; term; towns; training; ulp; university; use; users; wifi; wireless; world; years 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: analysis; approach; appropriation; authors; case; collaboration; communication; communities; community; context; creation; development; digital; group; ict; individuals; information; innovation; knowledge; labs; living; luis; museums; networks; new; paper; people; process; projects; research; san; services; social; stakeholders; study; technological; technologies; technology; tools; users 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: authors; book; chapter; communities; community; digital; div; habitats; learning; practice; stewards; stewardship; technology; wenger 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: article; attenuated

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: access; action; active; activities; amp; analysis; animacoop; applications; approach; brest; cambridge; capital; city; class="article_subhead; class="reference; collaborative; collaborative tools; common; communication; communities; community; computer; concept; content; contexts; cooperation; course; design; designers; development; different; div; div class="reference; environment; essential; experience; expertise; face; facilitation; facilitators; group; gurstein; ict; individuals; information; initiatives; innovation; internet; involved; journal; june; key; knowledge; learning; lee; local; logic; mcloughlin; members; millerand; multiple; need; network; new; open; outils; participants; participation; participatory; people; platforms; press; process; program; projects; public; réseaux