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- joci-2027
- author: None
- title: joci-2027
- date: None
- words: 1058
- flesch: 36
- summary: Anikar Haselhoff’s very interesting preliminary look at a field project examining Cybercafes in India from a Community Informatics perspective “Cybercafés And Their Potential As Community Development Tools In India’, Anna Malina and Ian Ball’s review of the community technology policy processes in Scotland in “ICTs And Community And Suggestions For Further Research In Scotland”, Larry Stillman and Randy Stoecker’s paper on a case study of a Community Informatics program in Australia looking for its way forward “Structuration, ICTs, And Community Work.” Randy Stoecker’s valuable and provocative essay on whether “Community Informatics Is Good For Communities?”
- keywords: areas; canadian; communities; community; development; field; government; icts; informatics; issue; local; need; networking; policy; practitioners; processes; research; researchers; self; technology; understanding
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- joci-2028
- author: None
- title: joci-2028
- date: None
- words: 6280
- flesch: 60
- summary: So what? Richard Lowenberg recently noted: the changing (nature) of community networks (formalized organizations) to community networking (the diverse process by which an increasing number of communities are taking steps to become inter-networked and to apply this technical level to their economic, civic, cultural, educational and political betterment.). The reason that nobody is writing community networking guides any more is that the locus of community-based radical practice for social change has moved to evolving the state of the art of the groupwares available to augment social networks.
- keywords: action; agents; capacity; change; clear; communities; community; community networking; context; control; daily; development; end; experience; gcnp; global; governance; human; icts; identity; individual; informed; internet; life; movement; nation; nature; need; networking; networks; new; online; open; organization; organize; person; practice; process; protocol; public; question; radical; relationship; self; social; society; state; structure; systems; technologies; things; understanding; use; view; way; world
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- joci-2029
- author: None
- title: joci-2029
- date: None
- words: 8160
- flesch: 53
- summary: Perhaps it is because, in contrast to the other fields I mess around in—community organizing, community development, and community-based research—Community Informatics has always felt like it was separate. In the Beckwith approach, which distinguishes sub-practices within the broader international definition field of community development, we can begin to think in more detailed ways about how Community Informatics can contribute.
- keywords: advocacy; applications; approach; australia; bieber; broader; building; capital; centers; clear; communication; communities; community; community development; community informatics; computers; core; definition; design; developed; development; economic; education; elites; emphasis; face; field; focus; forms; good; group; gurstein; icts; identity; important; informatics; issues; local; members; model; n.d; needs; neighborhood; new; november; organizing; paper; participatory; people; place; plan; popular; practice; press; process; projects; questions; relationships; research; second; sense; service; set; social; standards; states; stoecker; strong; study; support; systems; technologies; technology; theory; toledo; training; united; university; urban; use; ways; work; workers; york
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- joci-2030
- author: None
- title: joci-2030
- date: None
- words: 7810
- flesch: 43
- summary: The military dictatorship (1976-1983) was opposed to community cooperatives; one of the ways to fight them was to diminish their tax benefits. Community engagement is a key factor for the success of community cooperatives.
- keywords: access; activities; areas; argentina; associates; august; banks; benefits; best; buenos; calls; capital; case; champions; citizens; civil; communities; community; community cooperatives; connections; cooperative; cost; country; credits; del; director; distance; economic; economy; educational; engagement; entel; enterprises; factor; fecotel; federation; financial; free; group; icts; important; individuals; information; innovations; institutions; international; internet; interview; investments; key; large; las; lines; local; long; los; low; main; management; manager; market; members; monthly; months; national; network; new; number; october; organizations; pesos; pinamar; private; privatization; providers; public; readiness; role; santoianni; schools; services; servicios; shareholders; social; society; source; state; subscribers; success; support; sustainability; tccs; teachers; technological; technologies; technology; telecommunications; telecommunications community; telefónica; telephone; telpin; telpin´s; time; tourist; traditional; training; usd; users; world; year
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- joci-2031
- author: None
- title: joci-2031
- date: None
- words: 7664
- flesch: 55
- summary: These farmers suggested the names of other farmers who they thought would be willing to be interviewed. This caused confusion among farmers and others seeking information (Cumbria Foot and Mouth Inquiry, 2002, p. 143) Interviewees reported that by the time information had arrived in the mail, not only had they already heard about these measures from other farmers (usually by phone), but the measures outlined had often been overridden by newer ones.
- keywords: access; affected; agriculture; animals; area; available; bbc; change; communication; communities; community; computer; conditions; contact; control; coordinators; countryside; crisis; cumbria; data; day; defra; department; disease; environment; epidemic; european; families; farmers; farming; farming community; farms; fmd; fmd crisis; food; foot; government; important; infected; information; inquiry; interaction; internet; interviews; isolation; livestock; local; maff; measures; members; ministry; mouth; movement; national; needs; network; new; news; online; outbreak; paper; pentalk; people; personal; phone; place; radio; reports; risman; role; rural; skills; slaughter; social; sources; spread; support; system; technology; time; training; university; use; way; website; world
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- joci-2032
- author: None
- title: joci-2032
- date: None
- words: 6902
- flesch: 52
- summary: It is often argued that cybercafes could help bridge the digital divide, as they provide Internet access to people who cannot afford to have Internet connections at their homes or who need help in order to make use of ICT. In India for example, only 2.9 percent of households had Internet access in early 2005.
- keywords: access; areas; bangalore; class; classes; computers; countries; cybercafes; developed; development; different; digital; divide; education; english; findings; groups; help; high; home; important; income; india; information; internet; internet access; internet usage; lack; language; level; low; lower; main; middle; model; new; number; order; people; percent; percentage; place; point; projects; public; research; respondents; rural; sec; sec groups; services; shows; skills; study; survey; table; training; upper; urban; usage; use; users; work
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- joci-2033
- author: None
- title: joci-2033
- date: None
- words: 9629
- flesch: 44
- summary: Many governments began to fear exclusion from the network, predicating a spate of funding to support the development of ICTs in local communities. The Digital Scotland Task Force (2000) report suggests that ICT projects in local communities should be given priority in social inclusion programmes.
- keywords: access; addition; aid; approach; areas; argyll; available; bellsmyre; benefits; better; capital; care; ccis; citizens; city; civic; communities; community; computers; council; cultural; data; democracy; demos; design; development; different; digital; digital communities; digital inclusion; divide; e.g.; economic; edinburgh; electronic; evaluation; executive; funding; future; government; groups; help; homes; icts; inclusion; increase; information; initiative; interaction; internet; involved; issues; july; key; learning; levels; life; line; local; london; making; malina; needs; networking; networks; new; objectives; opportunities; outlined; participants; participation; people; policy; political; problems; processes; project; public; questions; real; relationships; report; research; residents; respondents; scotland; scottish; services; social; society; support; sustainability; technology; term; time; training; types; urban; use; virtual; voluntary; ways; wellman
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- joci-2034
- author: None
- title: joci-2034
- date: None
- words: 11940
- flesch: 57
- summary: Conducting background research through document review To get a sense of the potential scope of ICT sustainability issues among Neighbourhood Houses, we reviewed a variety of documents about Neighbourhood House programs, some recommended through discussion with Neighbourhood House coordinators. A number of Neighbourhood Houses rely on volunteers for IT support, and are happy with the results: You hear stories about other Neighbourhood Houses where the computers are in trouble.
- keywords: access; action; agency; analysis; area; available; basic; cbr; change; communication; community; computer; coordinators; costs; council; courses; data; database; definitions; development; different; difficult; directories; directory; effective; files; focus; forms; funding; gaps; giddens; good; government; group; hardware; high; house coordinators; houses; human; ict; icts; important; information; infrastructure; initial; interest; internet; interviews; issues; knowledge; lack; level; local; lot; mail; maintenance; management; meeting; melbourne; need; neighbourhood; neighbourhood houses; network; new; number; organisations; paper; participants; particular; people; person; perspective; phone; planning; possible; press; print; problems; process; project; public; region; relationships; report; research; researchers; resources; science; services; set; skills; social; software; staff; state; strategy; structural; structuration; structuration theory; students; suburbs; support; survey; sustainability; technical; technologies; technology; theory; things; time; training; troubleshooting; university; way; website; week; western; work
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- joci-2035
- author: None
- title: joci-2035
- date: None
- words: 170
- flesch: 34
- summary: Position Paper: Turning the Corner with First Nation Telehealth To the editor: Keewaytinook Okimakanak Telehealth Services is an important contributing partner in the development and sustainability of community networks in remote First Nations across northwestern Ontario, Canada. In the past, community members were flown to the nearest hospital to receive medical attention or to consult with a specialist.
- keywords: community; corner; paper; telehealth
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- joci-2036
- author: None
- title: joci-2036
- date: None
- words: 305
- flesch: 45
- summary: The participants interviewed for the video stress the innovative potential of ICT in Aboriginal communities – for example encouraging Aboriginal community members, particularly young people, to share their stories. Research issues discussed include: the need for participatory methodologies that involve Aboriginal communities early in the research process, the need to ensure that research builds capacity in communities, the need to encourage community champions, and changing the conventional rules about how research is conducted.
- keywords: cal; communities; kenny; meeting; research; ricta; video
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- joci-2037
- author: None
- title: joci-2037
- date: None
- words: 1011
- flesch: 51
- summary: Currently in Ontario, the Department provides the same per capita funding for elementary school students and secondary school students attending First Nations schools. Aboriginal educators, hand selected by the Minister of Indian Affairs, were mandated by the federal government to examine the challenges that prevent many First Nation students from succeeding in elementary school, high school and beyond.
- keywords: classroom; communities; education; high; home; internet; kihs; nation; north; ontario; school; secondary; students
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- joci-2038
- author: None
- title: joci-2038
- date: None
- words: 1234
- flesch: 29
- summary: Van Belle and Trusler present an analytic case study of an on-going community ICT project in a Developing Country context, warts and all, and provide very useful insights into the “real world” of development and community ICT; while Musgrave approaches these same issues but at a more “macro” level and within a Developed Country context but interestingly reveals somewhat similar institutional constraints on community ICT initiatives. One hopes that when the cycle is completed and the question arises in 3 or 4 years whether to repeat the Journal of Community Informatics’ thematic issues with updates, that the matter of “sustainability” of community ICTs, can be gracefully forgotten and we can go on to other and more productive and creative matters.
- keywords: broad; communities; community; context; day; development; future; icts; informatics; initiatives; issue; journal; level; local; matter; organizational; research; sustainability; technology; work
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- joci-2039
- author: None
- title: joci-2039
- date: None
- words: 5259
- flesch: 42
- summary: With this in mind, the authors analyse and critically evaluate the significance of the emerging symbiosis between community technology and community research. Applying a human-centred perspective of CI to a community technology research and development project the paper concludes with a story about Black Elk, a Lakota shaman, as a metaphor for the relationship between community technology and community research.
- keywords: academic; action; active; analysis; approach; black; brighton; building; cna; cohesion; communication; communities; community; community informatics; community research; community technology; components; contribution; day; design; development; diversity; dynamic; elk; fundamental; funding; gurstein; human; ict; informatics; initiatives; issues; knowledge; lakota; life; local; london; nature; needs; neihardt; network; networking; paper; participatory; perspective; policy; power; practice; process; project; purpose; research; researchers; schuler; shared; social; society; sustainability; system; taylor; technical; technology; term; understanding
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- joci-2040
- author: None
- title: joci-2040
- date: None
- words: 2891
- flesch: 38
- summary: I followed up on what events were happening and learned that the national government had been slow to react to the event so it seems that the local municipality have taken it upon themselves to set up an early warning observatory (they posted someone permanently in the hills above the village to observe the possible beginnings of an avalanche), a local warning system (he has a horn that he can sound), local safe zones (the village is in a very steep valley so it was necessary to reconnoitre and determine what might be safe and what might not), evacuation techniques (complicated because half the residents at anyone time are transient tourists) and all planned, funded and executed by local community resources. That is how do we cover the missing links—the last mile—from the ¨´professional¨ early warning system that governments can do best with high tech (TEWS), and which seems to be the outcome of the recent Kobe meeting on Disaster Planning, to the “effective use” of the output of those systems by local communities for early warning (LMWS)?.
- keywords: able; access; cell; communication; communities; community; disaster; early; effective; events; example; ict; important; information; knowledge; lmws; local; means; mile; need; net; resources; role; social; system; tews; traditional; tsunami; usable; use; useful; warning; ways
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- joci-2041
- author: None
- title: joci-2041
- date: None
- words: 7211
- flesch: 44
- summary: Consequently, greater financial responsibilities are being foisted onto local communities (Alston, 2002). Where ICTs are considered a driving force behind globalisation, it is possible that “globalisation hollows out local communities ….
- keywords: access; action; applications; areas; article; australia; building; business; centres; colle; communication; communities; community; content; dcita; development; digital; divide; economic; economy; enterprise; evaluation; example; facility; factors; fortier; global; goals; government; group; gurstein; hearn; human; hunter; icts; industries; industry; information; infrastructure; initiatives; international; internet; jenkins; july; key; knowledge; learning; local; manderville; members; necessary; needs; networking; new; online; opportunities; people; productivity; projects; queensland; regional; research; rural; services; significant; simpson; skills; social; strategies; sustainability; sustainable; technologies; technology; training; university; use; way; women
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- joci-2042
- author: None
- title: joci-2042
- date: None
- words: 7002
- flesch: 44
- summary: A False Dawn A significant political driver for local government portal development is the UK e-Government deadline of mid-2005 for electronic service delivery. Sustainability Research evidence (Musgrave, 2004) indicates that the majority of UK Community Portal development is based on project-like ‘windfall’ capital and revenue funding streams that are time limited.
- keywords: access; adoption; approach; architecture; business; capability; central; challenge; change; citizen; civic; commercial; common; communication; community; community portal; components; computing; context; data; delivery; departments; developers; development; different; directgov; disparate; electronic; enterprise; evidence; existing; framework; functionality; future; generation; government; grid; implementation; information; integration; interactive; interactivity; issues; joining; july; lack; level; line; local; local government; management; musgrave; national; need; network; new; office; paper; particular; people; phillis; portal; portal development; problems; process; project; public; reality; regional; report; research; sector; service; significant; sites; social; society; socitm; software; standards; support; survey; sustainability; sustainable; systems; technical; technology; transactional; use; user; way; web
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- joci-2043
- author: None
- title: joci-2043
- date: None
- words: 9574
- flesch: 42
- summary: Such an approach also permits us to consider sustainability as being primarily a responsibility of governments to provide funding to community service organizations providing services at the community level as a means of addressing inequalities and social and economic under-development. A second CLN with organizational links to a maritime resource centre provides a number of community services to address civic, economic and social needs.
- keywords: access; activities; addition; areas; associates; broadband; canada; canadians; cap; cent; cln; communication; communities; community; community access; community digital; community organizations; content; core; cost; development; digital; digital divide; divide; economic; education; ekos; evaluation; federal; financial; focus; funding; funds; government; health; households; human; important; income; individual; industry; inequalities; information; infrastructure; interest; internet; issues; lack; learning; level; literacy; local; low; main; major; needs; network; new; non; number; olt; online; organizations; ottawa; past; people; program; project; provincial; public; public access; reddick; related; remote; report; research; resources; rideout; rural; services; sites; skills; social; society; staff; support; survey; sustainability; sustainable; technical; technologies; technology; term; time; training; users; years
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- joci-2044
- author: None
- title: joci-2044
- date: None
- words: 7762
- flesch: 36
- summary: Hence, the issue of the sustainability of online communities becomes more and more relevant: multiple aspects – social, institutional and economical – have to be jointly analyzed to understand how and if a project is really worthwhile. Hence, our aim is to offer a first attempt to define several theoretical propositions on economical sustainability, mainly derived from our ongoing experience and research on online communities.
- keywords: activities; analysis; approach; appropriate; areas; benefits; building; business; case; cindio; citizens; communities; community; companies; competences; complex; consultancy; costs; crucial; csfs; development; different; economic; effective; evaluation; example; features; financial; foundation; general; goals; identity; indicators; information; infrastructure; innovation; institutional; interactions; issues; knowledge; learning; literature; local; macro; management; managerial; members; mission; model; needs; network; new; non; online; online communities; organizations; performance; personal; personnel; possible; preece; private; problems; profit; projects; public; rcm; related; relevant; requirements; scholars; services; set; social; society; socio; software; sources; specific; staff; strategies; structure; sustainability; technical; term; time; university; value; way; web; wenger
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- joci-2045
- author: None
- title: joci-2045
- date: None
- words: 8341
- flesch: 38
- summary: The required institutional framework needs to embody as core those aspects of community networking that have proved troublesome for libraries but where successive cohorts of VICNET staff have done well, namely consistent, close and creative engagement with community building in all its aspects. VICNET has coped well with issues arising in these areas, but in future the interface between community networking and regulatory arrangements will need ever increasing expertise and capacity.
- keywords: action; agency; analysis; arts; aspects; australia; available; board; cambridge; carley; case; ccnr; centre; change; collaborative; committee; communication; communities; community; community networking; continuum; council; creation; democracy; democratic; development; dynamic; electronic; factors; framework; funding; future; giddens; government; groups; human; icm; individuals; information; inquiry; institutional; internet; interpretive; issues; kaufer; key; knowledge; levels; libraries; library; major; melbourne; modalities; modality; model; monash; needs; networking; new; notion; organisation; orlikowski; paper; people; policy; power; project; public; relationships; relevant; report; research; resources; rheingold; role; schauder; situation; slv; social; society; state; state library; structuration; structure; support; sustainability; systems; technology; theory; time; typologies; typology; university; upward; use; vicnet; victoria; virtual; way; years
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- joci-2046
- author: None
- title: joci-2046
- date: None
- words: 9905
- flesch: 34
- summary: In such communities, social inclusion and participation by diverse community members are valued because of the increased potential and opportunities for building community social capital. When lack of access to ICTs or limited ICT skills prevents effective participation by individuals in social, economic or civic activities in their local community or society generally, then opportunities for building community social capital are substantially reduced.
- keywords: access; activities; adopters; adoption; australia; awareness; building; capacity; capital; change; ci initiatives; communication; communities; community; community capacity; community development; community members; community social; development; different; diffusion; diverse; economic; education; effective; example; existing; external; framework; funding; future; government; greater; groups; icts; implementation; importance; individuals; information; infrastructure; initiatives; innovation; interaction; internet; leadership; levels; limited; local; members; needs; networks; new; norms; opportunities; organisations; outcomes; paper; participation; people; policy; potential; process; processes; projects; regional; research; role; rural; sense; services; shared; skills; social; social capital; social infrastructure; social networks; soft; strategies; strong; support; sustainability; sustainable; technologies; technology; terms; theory; time; training; trust; understanding; use; values; way; widespread
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- joci-2047
- author: None
- title: joci-2047
- date: None
- words: 11125
- flesch: 50
- summary: This paper reviews recent approaches, research issues and trends in emotion research and then applies insights from this body of research to the area of community sustainability. Levels of analysis in emotion research vary according to perspective, with emotion considered at individual, group, organisational or community levels (Waldron, 2000).
- keywords: 2nd; applications; approach; ashkanasy; behaviour; books; bounded; capital; caring; chichester; climate; cognition; communication; communities; community; connections; cooper; corporate; culture; different; diversity; eco; ecology; eds; elements; email; emotion; emotional; emotional intelligence; emotionality; england; environment; experience; expression; factors; feelings; feminist; fineman; focus; framework; gender; human; härtel; individual; information; intelligence; issues; journal; knowledge; labour; lazarus; learning; life; links; london; lot; management; meyerson; model; mumby; nature; need; new; organisational; organizations; particular; payne; people; personal; phone; power; practice; processes; publications; putnam; quorum; rafaeli; rational; rationality; reason; recent; research; role; sage; self; service; skills; social; staff; status; structure; study; support; supportive; sustainability; sutton; technology; term; theory; time; training; trust; understanding; volunteers; water; way; western; westport; wiley; wire; women; work; workplace; zerbe
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- joci-2048
- author: None
- title: joci-2048
- date: None
- words: 10798
- flesch: 60
- summary: The success of community development projects is dependent on far more than just infrastructure. How could funding for MPCC projects be provided in a more holistic manner?
- keywords: able; actants; active; actor; analysis; attitude; building; business; case; centre; clear; committee; communities; community; computers; concept; development; different; discussion; drv; dwars; economic; enrolment; entrepreneurial; framework; funding; government; hsrp; human; icts; implementation; important; information; interests; internet; issues; local; management; manager; meeting; model; money; mpcc; municipal; municipality; network; new; new mpcc; number; opp; participants; passive; people; person; pniel; point; power; previous; problems; process; project; project manager; research; result; river; role; rural; section; situation; skills; south; struggle; study; success; successful; sustainability; technology; telecentre; themes; theory; things; tourism; training; translation; underlying; understanding; use; valley
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- joci-2049
- author: None
- title: joci-2049
- date: None
- words: 8901
- flesch: 50
- summary: Building and Sustaining Healthy Communities: The symbiosis between community technology and community research. We define sustainability as a dynamic process in which IT professionals, designers, and researchers work with community groups in ways that give them greater control over technology in their organization.
- keywords: access; activities; area; centreconnect; civic; communities; community; community groups; community organizations; community technology; computing; contexts; county; course; design; example; experience; goals; groups; gurstein; help; idea; important; information; issues; lack; learning; long; material; members; mission; need; new; nexus; october; online; organization; paper; participatory; planning; practical; problems; process; project; research; resources; role; shared; site; social; staff; state; students; support; sustainability; technical; technologies; technology; technology use; term; time; tools; training; university; use; ways; web; website; work
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- joci-2050
- author: None
- title: joci-2050
- date: None
- words: 5586
- flesch: 30
- summary: But how can regional communities ‘grab their share of this wealth’ and use it to strengthen local communities (Simpson, 1999, p. 6)? While university engagement with regional communities is not a new subject the prospect has become increasingly attractive for both universities and regions with identified benefits going far beyond those traditionally seen as possible (Garlick, 2000).
- keywords: access; activities; areas; australia; ballarat; bbbonline; benefits; building; business; canberra; case; cecc; communications; communities; community; development; economic; egerton; engagement; establishment; example; figure; funding; government; groups; high; high high; ict; identifying; implementation; information; infrastructure; initial; initiatives; internet; key; learning; local; low; mconline; medium; members; micro; moorabool; ongoing; online; operators; opportunities; organisations; program; project; regional; renewal; research; residents; rural; services; shire; significant; skills; small; social; support; survey; table; tourism; township; training; universities; university; victoria; web; website; wendouree; west; working
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- joci-2051
- author: None
- title: joci-2051
- date: None
- words: 306
- flesch: 34
- summary: Together these three articles represent a very significant “manifesto” for taking the discussion about community based Wireless and Broadband into all spheres of development, development funding and development policy and give the strongest possible argument of the opportunity and need to incorporate Wireless along with broadband into the mainstream of community informatics thinking and applications. The article prepared by Sascha Meinrath on behalf of the Champaign-Urbana Community Wireless Network and first National (US) Summit for Community Wireless Networks provides a sense of the opportunities which wireless enabled broadband connectivity presents.
- keywords: community; connectivity; development; field; notes; technology; wireless
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- joci-2052
- author: None
- title: joci-2052
- date: None
- words: 1435
- flesch: 58
- summary: How Wi-Fi came to El Chaco Klaus Stoll Fundacion Chasquinet Quito, Ecuador < klaus@chasquinet.org > What happens in the following story is nothing out of the ordinary; it is just how Wi-Fi came to the community of EL Chaco. El Chaco is neither rich nor poor, nobody is starving and nobody has riches, the people of EL Chaco have learned to make do with the basics.
- keywords: chaco; chasquinet; community; connectivity; development; el chaco; equipment; government; health; internet; local; quito; schools; small; telecenter; training; use
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- joci-2053
- author: None
- title: joci-2053
- date: None
- words: 188
- flesch: 28
- summary: The letter documents the need for Industry Canada programs to complete the work which has already begun in developing local broadband infrastructure solutions in Aboriginal communities across Canada. Brian Beaton K-Net / ON-RMO Coordinator Keewaytinook Okimakanak < brian.beaton@knet.ca > Open Letter to Minister Paul Martin: Broadband connectivity in aboriginal communities
- keywords: aboriginal; broadband; canada; communities; letter; martin
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- joci-2054
- author: None
- title: joci-2054
- date: None
- words: 2869
- flesch: 38
- summary: In the months following the summit, based upon the initial framework, an international team of wireless developers fleshed out a twelve-point research and inquiry program to support open spectrum policy development around the globe. First, identify major research that has already been conducted and impacted (or been cited) in regulatory/policy debates, as well as the independent research labs that are most active in contemporary spectrum research areas.
- keywords: access; areas; assessment; available; broadband; communications; community; cuwin; development; documentation; economic; free; future; globe; impact; implementers; information; interference; international; issues; major; need; network; networking; new; non; open; people; policy; problems; project; proprietary; public; regulatory; research; social; software; source; spectrum; systems; technical; usage; use; users; wireless
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- joci-2055
- author: Gurstein, Michael B.
- title: Editorial: Welcome to the Journal of Community Informatics
- date: 2004-10-01
- words: 1728
- flesch: 35
- summary: An analysis and plan for using a major university in a Less Developed Country as a base for a highly innovative program of CI for community transformation (Erwin and Taylor) • A highly significant analysis of the current state of the art with respect to Telecentre development in Latin America and where it might go from here (Menou, Delgadillo and Stoll) 4 The Journal of Community Informatics • A fine paper examining the theoretical background to community use of ICT and giving most useful directions for future research as well as community practice towards this end. CI represents a confluence between theory, practice and policy — between those who research and those who implement; between the theory and findings, and the policy and funding frameworks that in large part determine the available strategies for supporting ICT in communities as elements of development and innovation; and between the practice and policy of enabling communities and others to feed-back and feed-forward into strategies for sustainability and supportive regulatory regimes.
- keywords: academic; communities; community; community informatics; current; development; editorial; ict; informatics; issue; journal; larger; new; policy; practice; professional; research; social; support; technologies; technology; use; welcome; work; world
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- joci-2056
- author: Webb, Susan; Jones, Kate
- title: Women Connect: Phase 2 Report
- date: 2004-10-01
- words: 11956
- flesch: 49
- summary: Women Connect has the potential to contribute to this agenda which is most important as women are the main users of public services and many of the organisations Women Connect currently support provide frontline public services. Recommendations put forward in this evaluation have helped Women Connect to move in a new direction.
- keywords: able; access; action; active; approach; areas; association; capacity; case; cdf; change; commission; communication; communities; community; community development; conference; connect; context; convention; decision; development; discrimination; domestic; duty; empowerment; equality; equipment; european; european women; evaluation; evidence; example; face; foundation; funding; gender; gender equality; goals; government; groups; help; home; human; ict; individual; information; international; internet; introduction; issues; journal; learning; level; life; lives; lobby; local; main; making; means; members; national; needs; network; networking; new; online; order; organisations; paper; participation; partner; people; phase; place; platform; policies; policy; positive; potential; process; programme; project; public; range; report; rights; sector; services; skills; social; society; support; technology; training; use; voluntary; way; web; website; women; world; years
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- joci-2057
- author: Beaton, Brian
- title: The K-Net Story: Community ICT Development Work
- date: 2004-10-01
- words: 890
- flesch: 44
- summary: The accompanying video (http://streaming.knet.ca/fednor/brian_beaton3_300k.wmv) provides a brief overview of some of the work that has gone into building and sustaining the regional network that supports local community based networks (CBNs). brian.beaton@knet.ca > The Kuhkenah Network (K-Net) provides information and communication technologies (ICTs), telecommunication infrastructure and application support in First Nation communities across a vast, remote region of north-western Ontario as well as in other remote regions in Canada.
- keywords: communities; community; development; information; infrastructure; keewaytinook; local; material; nation; net; network; okimakanak; ontario; people; program; remote; services; video
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- joci-2058
- author: Clement, Andrew; Gurstein, Michael; Longford, Graham; Luke, Robert; Moll, Marita; Shade, Leslie Reagan; DeChief, Diane
- title: The Canadian Research Alliance for Community Innovation and Networking (CRACIN): A Research Partnership and Agenda for Community Networking in Canada
- date: 2004-10-21
- words: 6154
- flesch: 36
- summary: Through this framework the question which emerges is how community social capital can be increased, and how community cultural capital can be activated through integrating community technology in the context of a community building initiative. The Canadian Research Alliance for Community Innovation and Networking (CRACIN): The Journal of Community Informatics, (2004) Vol. 1, Issue 1, pp.
- keywords: academic; access; action; agenda; alberta; alliance; analysis; broadband; canada; canadian; case; civic; clement; cns; communications; communities; community; community informatics; community networking; community technology; context; cracin; cultural; design; development; digital; divide; economic; economy; eds; federal; framework; funding; goals; government; gurstein; human; ict; icts; industry; informatics; infrastructure; initiatives; innovation; international; internet; issues; journal; learning; leslie; loader; local; members; michael; moll; need; networking; networks; new; online; organizations; oxford; participation; participatory; policies; policy; political; press; programs; project; public; relations; research; researchers; resources; rural; services; shade; shaping; significant; sites; social; society; studies; study; support; sustainability; technical; technologies; technology; toronto; university; use; vol; york
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- joci-2059
- author: Erwin, Geoff; Taylor, Wallace
- title: Social Appropriation of Internet Technology: a South African platform
- date: 2004-10-16
- words: 4251
- flesch: 34
- summary: The developed curriculum and student learning will link into a range of community based technology initiatives within a context of Community Informatics research. The term Community Informatics (Gurstein, 2000) has recently emerged to describe the use of ICTs for local community benefit and more recently, international researchers and funding agencies have moved towards the term Community Informatics Systems (CIS) as a parallel for Management Information Systems (MIS).
- keywords: 2003a; access; applications; approaches; appropriation; building; business; cape; centre; cirn; cis; civil; civil society; communication; communities; community; community informatics; context; cultural; democracy; development; discipline; education; effective; experience; governance; government; gurstein; hewitt; http://www.electronicgov.net/pubs/index.shtml; http://www.ssrc.org/programs/itic; icts; information; information society; international; internet; issues; journal; local; march; network; new; partnerships; peninsula; pigg; pinder; policy; practice; private; public; report; research; riley; role; service; social; societal; society; summit; systems; teaching; technologies; technology; university; use; world; wsis
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- joci-2060
- author: Jhunjhunwala, Ashok; Ramachandran, Anuradha; Bandyopadhyay, Alankar
- title: n-Logue: The Story of a Rural Service Provider In India
- date: 2004-10-01
- words: 4029
- flesch: 59
- summary: The Rural ATM – A New Technology: TeNeT believes that going beyond normal Internet applications and leveraging ICT to enhance livelihoods would be the primary means of sustaining rural kiosks. This leads us to the third leg - an organisation called n-logue, a rural service provider whose entire focus is rural India.
- keywords: access; agriculture; applications; areas; available; business; communication; community; computer; conferencing; connectivity; doctors; education; english; eye; fibre; fig; group; health; help; india; internet; issue; journal; kiosk; language; local; logue; low; lsp; means; model; needs; operator; pcos; people; power; remote; rural; services; set; software; taluka; technologies; technology; tenet; tier; use; video; villages; world; year
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- joci-2061
- author: Menou, Michel J.; Poepsel, Karin Delgadillo; Stoll, Klaus
- title: Latin American Community Telecenters: "It's a long way to TICperary"
- date: 2004-10-01
- words: 10908
- flesch: 40
- summary: Even though it may not be associated with specific services, a key application and use of community telecenters, in particular among indigenous communities, is the struggle for their rights, which of course goes far beyond outspoken “communication rights”. Both cost and social principles are moving community telecenters towards emphasizing the use of open source software to the greatest extent possible, even though this may in the short term increase the skills shortage they are facing for their staffing.
- keywords: access; activities; actors; america; american community; approach; appropriate; argentina; available; basic; bolivia; brazil; building; caribbean; central; challenges; chasquinet; chile; collective; colombia; communication; communities; community; community informatics; community telecenters; computer; conditions; connectivity; cost; countries; course; cuba; development; digital; direct; discussion; dominican; economic; ecuador; education; effective; efforts; endeavors; face; financial; focus; foundation; global; government; groups; guatemala; human; ict; idrc; implementation; inclusion; information; interaction; international; internet; interviews; issues; journal; lack; latin; learning; level; lists; local; mailto; main; major; majority; management; meeting; members; menou; mexico; movement; national; needs; network; ngo; nicaragua; number; objectives; online; open; operation; operators; opportunities; order; organizations; paraguay; participants; participation; particular; people; peru; place; population; possible; private; process; production; programs; project; public; regional; research; resources; result; role; sector; september; services; set; sharing; significant; social; somos@telecentros; specific; staff; stakeholders; state; stories; support; sustainability; telecenters; telelac; time; training; uruguay; use; users; venezuela; virtual; vision; way; web; years
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- joci-2062
- author: Pigg, Kenneth E.; Crank, Laura Duffy
- title: Building Community Social Capital: The Potential and Promise of Information and Communications Technologies
- date: 2004-10-01
- words: 9246
- flesch: 44
- summary: Coleman (1990) argues that social capital is a “…set of resources that inhere in family relations and community social organization…”(p.300). The results indicate that much work remains to be done before it can be said with any validity that ICTs can, in fact, create community social capital.
- keywords: access; action; activities; activity; affective; altheide; analysis; applications; basis; bonding; bridging; building; capital; cognitive; communication; communities; community; community social; computer; context; development; different; dimensions; discussion; ecology; economic; elements; empirical; enforceable; example; factors; figure; flora; formats; forms; functions; groups; ict; important; information; institutional; interaction; internet; journal; knowledge; leonard; literature; local; loose; members; nature; networks; new; notion; online; onyx; organization; paper; people; person; personal; place; potential; press; reciprocity; related; relationships; research; resources; review; rural; shared; social; social capital; society; sociology; software; solidarity; strong; studies; support; technologies; technology; time; transactions; trust; university; use; virtual; way; wellman; world
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- joci-2063
- author: Robinson, Scott S.
- title: Towards a Neo-Apartheid System of Governance in Latin America - Implications for the Community Informatics Guild
- date: 2004-10-01
- words: 779
- flesch: 27
- summary: The latter today too often ignores the power of national elites who have configured their regulatory regimes to favor quasi-monopolistic market dominance in cahoots with foreign IT hardware and software interests. Plans for the delivery of key government services via online portals may portend a “virtual State” where the programming protocols of the servers remain in the discretionary hands of a few.
- keywords: america; community; connectivity; economies; elites; governance; government; informatics; latin; national; poor; power; programs; public; region; remittance; sectors; system; today
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- joci-2064
- author: Salvador, Tony; Sherry, John
- title: Local Learnings: An Essay on Designing to Facilitate Effective Use of ICT s
- date: 2005-01-31
- words: 5205
- flesch: 59
- summary: Jose Miguel Walking down the road you can see the mud brick house, surrounded by a crumbly wall of adobe. mailto:tony.salvador@intel.com mailto:john.sherry@intel.com Local Learnings 77 Introduction We start with a fairly lengthy description Jose Miguel, his village and his use of computing.
- keywords: access; american; available; business; case; chicks; college; community; computer; computing; conditions; control; cord; corporations; design; details; digital; divide; electricity; environment; example; extension; farm; floor; good; high; icts; informatics; infrastructure; intel; james; jose; jose miguel; large; learnings; light; limited; little; local; locus; means; miguel; needs; nots; paper; participation; people; places; power; result; room; small; tech; technologies; technology; things; time; understanding; use; village; way; work
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- joci-2065
- author: Stafeev, Sergei
- title: Role of Community Informatics in Socio-Cultural Transformations in Russia and the CIS
- date: 2004-10-01
- words: 2492
- flesch: 33
- summary: The discussions were carried out by the recognized leaders of international CI, particularly Prof. Michael Gurstein, Chairman of the Global Network of CI Researchers2, Prof. Michel Menou, leading the series of research CI projects in the countries of Latin America and Prof. Wal Taylor, head of the Internet Academy, Australia. An underlying but most set of criteria for upon carrying out CI research would appear to be those developed by UN Human Development Index (HDI).
- keywords: approaches; cis; communication; community; community informatics; countries; cultural; development; different; example; gurstein; ict; independent; information; institutions; investigations; level; local; modern; moscow; new; non; policy; post; processes; programs; projects; real; research; results; role; russia; social; society; socio; soviet; stafeev; state; studies; technologies; traditional; use
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- joci-2066
- author: None
- title: SEARCHING FOR THE ROLE OF ICTS IN DEVELOPMENT: A CASE STUDY OF A RURAL MULTI-PURPOSE COMMUNITY CENTRE IN THE DWARS RIVER VALLE
- date: None
- words: 989
- flesch: 37
- summary: The question of course, is: Are these objectives for public access programs already fully accomplished in developed countries, or are they for some reason unnecessary, or perhaps beneath the range of interests of governments and public policy? These in turn are seemingly based on an assumption that decisions concerning Internet access and use are best left to individuals (and individual resources) rather than being an aspect of social policy.
- keywords: access; broad; commitment; countries; developed; development; economic; internet; knowledge; ldc; policy; programs; public; social; societies; use
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- joci-2067
- author: None
- title: SEARCHING FOR THE ROLE OF ICTS IN DEVELOPMENT: A CASE STUDY OF A RURAL MULTI-PURPOSE COMMUNITY CENTRE IN THE DWARS RIVER VALLE
- date: None
- words: 9321
- flesch: 39
- summary: Partly as a result of his efforts, other community telecenters have been set up in a neighboring municipality. Thus, in contrast to the cybercafes that have proliferated in cities and towns, which are essentially small businesses offering ICT access, community telecenters have a mainly social purpose and are generally established by organizations committed to building local capacity for ICT use in development.
- keywords: access; acin; activities; analysis; areas; assessment; association; available; average; benefits; better; building; capacity; case; centre; changes; colombia; communications; communities; community; community telecenters; corpotunía; decisions; development; differences; different; early; economic; education; effective; evaluation; framework; general; global; group; health; human; icts; idrc; impact; important; index; indigenous; individuals; inforcauca; information; institutional; international; internet; las; local; los; making; media; needs; new; nonusers; operators; organizations; people; performance; personal; poverty; programs; project; public; radio; research; results; rights; role; rural; services; significant; social; sources; staff; studies; study; support; survey; sustainability; sustainable; table; technologies; telecenter; telecenter users; telephone; terms; training; types; use; users; way; web; women; work; world
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- joci-2068
- author: David Ley
- title: SEARCHING FOR THE ROLE OF ICTS IN DEVELOPMENT: A CASE STUDY OF A RURAL MULTI-PURPOSE COMMUNITY CENTRE IN THE DWARS RIVER VALLE
- date: 2007-03-15
- words: 5948
- flesch: 52
- summary: CCFs co-habiting in public infrastructures There are different models where shared computing facilities co-locate with other community facilities. This is not surprising considering that a substantial number of CCF users became aware of the existence of the facilities while they were using the library.
- keywords: 2005; access; addition; africa; awareness; benefits; buy; cape; cape access; case; ccf; ccfs; center; chigona; colle; communities; community; computing; critical; data; development; different; esterhuysen; facilities; factors; findings; hosting; hours; information; infrastructure; initiatives; institutions; interviews; issues; libraries; library; local; location; management; marketing; members; model; new; number; observations; operations; paper; phase; project; public; qualitative; research; rural; schools; smart; south; studies; study; success; telecenter; users
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- joci-2069
- author: None
- title: SEARCHING FOR THE ROLE OF ICTS IN DEVELOPMENT: A CASE STUDY OF A RURAL MULTI-PURPOSE COMMUNITY CENTRE IN THE DWARS RIVER VALLE
- date: None
- words: 8865
- flesch: 43
- summary: To actualize this potential, an effective networking of CAP sites and a means for the retention within individual sites and the overall network of the knowledge gained is required. In 1996, in response to the demand for training on the technology recently implanted in CAP sites, Industry Canada and what was then Human Resources and Development Canada (HRDC) came together to create the Community Access Program Youth Initiative (CAPYI).
- keywords: access; activities; available; canada; canadian; cap; cap sites; cap yi; centre; clement; communities; community; community access; community networks; computer; context; coordinators; development; digital; divide; economic; effective; federal; funding; goals; government; gurstein; icts; implementation; individual; industry; industry canada; information; infrastructure; initiatives; interest; internet; interns; issues; knowledge; lack; level; like; local; lower; mainland; mandate; means; mechanisms; moll; networking; networks; order; organizations; people; policy; program; public; regional; reporting; resources; result; shade; sites; social; society; specific; success; support; technical; technology; term; time; training; universal; universal access; urban; use; users; vcn; way; year; youth
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- joci-2070
- author: David Ley
- title: SEARCHING FOR THE ROLE OF ICTS IN DEVELOPMENT: A CASE STUDY OF A RURAL MULTI-PURPOSE COMMUNITY CENTRE IN THE DWARS RIVER VALLE
- date: 2007-03-15
- words: 8824
- flesch: 62
- summary: Both solutions are, however, grounded by computer courses for adults at reasonable prices, in order to reduce the digital gap between generations, income groups, and educational levels. International research concerned with the interplay of information technology and local society contains proposals as the establishment of CTCs, voluntary computer courses, and activation of the relevant knowledge of young people in order to combat the accumulation of disadvantages (Schoen, Sanyal, & Mitchell, 1999).
- keywords: + +; access; acquaintances; activities; adults; available; beginning; budapest; case; change; children; circle; collection; community; computer; corvinus; course; cserénfa; ctc; data; department; deployment; digital; earlier; experiences; experiment; family; friends; group; home; ict; impacts; information; internet; internet access; job; jobs; kaposvár; knowledge; living; local; mother; negative; network; number; participants; partners; pcs; pensioners; people; person; policy; positive; primary; project; recreation; relations; research; resource; school; settlement; siklós; small; social; sociology; source; spread; student; study; table; technology; time; university; use; village; villagers; visitors; visits; year; young
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- joci-2071
- author: David Ley
- title: SEARCHING FOR THE ROLE OF ICTS IN DEVELOPMENT: A CASE STUDY OF A RURAL MULTI-PURPOSE COMMUNITY CENTRE IN THE DWARS RIVER VALLE
- date: 2007-03-15
- words: 8826
- flesch: 44
- summary: Socio-economic profile of the kiosk users and the village community We first present a comparative analysis of kiosk users and their respective village communities for each of the five kiosks as well as for the five kiosks combined. Age distribution of kiosk users.
- keywords: access; adoption; analysis; best; caste; census; communication; communities; community; compatibility; complexity; confidence; data; development; diffusion; district; economic; educational; efforts; framework; government; heads; higher; households; illiterate; important; income; india; information; innovation; keelaiyur; kidaripatti; kiosk; kiosk users; limit; local; lower; male; officials; operators; overall; ownership; population; project; proportion; research; rogers; roman; rural; sample; sari; services; social; socio; source; status; study; survey; sustainability; table; technology; telecenters; thaniyamangalam; theory; thiruvadavur; ulagapitchampatti; users; village; village population; villages village
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- joci-2072
- author: David Ley
- title: SEARCHING FOR THE ROLE OF ICTS IN DEVELOPMENT: A CASE STUDY OF A RURAL MULTI-PURPOSE COMMUNITY CENTRE IN THE DWARS RIVER VALLE
- date: 2007-03-15
- words: 7099
- flesch: 50
- summary: Table 1: Application of sustainable livelihoods framework in the Aguablanca telecentre case study SL element: Vulnerability context Livelihood assets Transforming structures and processes Livelihood strategies Adaptations: Seasonality not considered; Some structures and processes (including culture, law and law enforcement) were considered as part of the vulnerability context – risks that residents had to strategically manage, rather than as transformative Natural assets not considered (not very relevant in this case) As has been commonly found in other development projects, there may be unintended negative consequences with the introduction of a telecentre.
- keywords: access; aguablanca; analysis; approach; area; assessment; assets; available; benefit; capital; case; community; context; demographic; development; dfid; economic; education; equity; evaluation; example; factors; financial; focus; formal; framework; gómez; human; icts; idrc; impact; important; indicators; information; internet; key; level; likely; livelihood; local; natural; number; outcomes; paper; people; physical; policy; poor; positive; poverty; project; public; purpose; quality; related; research; residents; resources; risks; rural; services; sl framework; social; specific; strategies; study; sustainable; sustainable livelihoods; technologies; technology; telecentre; term; time; universal; use; users; vulnerability; way
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- joci-2073
- author: David Ley
- title: SEARCHING FOR THE ROLE OF ICTS IN DEVELOPMENT: A CASE STUDY OF A RURAL MULTI-PURPOSE COMMUNITY CENTRE IN THE DWARS RIVER VALLE
- date: 2007-03-15
- words: 2495
- flesch: 50
- summary: Charging for such services would subsidize essential community services. Centre Songhai Telecentre in Benin Social enterprise model is indeed about finding the “perfect balance” between community development and enterprise approach.
- keywords: access; africa; approach; capital; case; communities; community; development; drishtee; enterprise; essential; financial; foundation; government; high; ict; india; information; key; kiosk; m.s; market; model; needs; partners; people; potential; program; services; social; sustainability; swaminathan; telecentres; today; training; value; work
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- joci-2074
- author: David Ley
- title: SEARCHING FOR THE ROLE OF ICTS IN DEVELOPMENT: A CASE STUDY OF A RURAL MULTI-PURPOSE COMMUNITY CENTRE IN THE DWARS RIVER VALLE
- date: 2007-03-15
- words: 5841
- flesch: 54
- summary: Thus, it is not ICTs, available at the government level, helping people survive in the rural areas; it is, rather, community development workers on foot who are providing accurate information to address the concerns of their populations. The way computers are used here does nothing to help spread accurate information about HIV/AIDS to local people.
- keywords: ability; access; africa; aids; areas; basic; border; cape; cell; clinics; communication; communities; community; computer; context; countries; development; disease; divide; eastern; economic; education; esikelo; farm; global; government; greater; groups; health; hiv; human; icts; information; international; internet; kwazulu; limpopo; lives; living; local; marginalized; natal; national; need; people; personal; phone; poor; poorest; purpose; relevance; rsa; rural; security; society; south; south africa; spread; technologies; technology; time; townships; umlazi; urban; use; villages; water; women; workers; world; years; young; zimbabwean
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- joci-2075
- author: None
- title: None
- date: None
- words: 2183
- flesch: 52
- summary: Also Community Radio programmes mainly for dissemination of information important for enlightening communities about what is happening around and enable them to share knowledge and entertainment. Similarly, for Sengerema Multipurpose Community Telecentre and the like to cope with the information revolution as envisaged by the WSIS and MDGs, and most importantly the great need to impart wisdom in communities in a most effective way.
- keywords: access; center; centre; communities; community; development; human; hunger; important; information; internet; knowledge; life; like; local; multipurpose; need; people; power; principles; programmes; project; radio; role; sengerema; society; sustainable; telecentre; way; wisdom
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- joci-2076
- author: None
- title: joci-2076
- date: None
- words: 1664
- flesch: 30
- summary: It is notable that two of these papers were prepared by ICT practitioners working directly in community contexts and developing and applying systems and applications in support of community processes. Yet this new body presents an agenda, has an organizational and decision-making structure, and articulates a vision that completely ignores and by-passes those who will ultimately have to implement ICT4D systems and whose acceptance and effective use will ultimately determine whether these systems and approaches are successes or failure.[3]
- keywords: applications; communities; community; computing; development; end; fundamental; goals; ict4d; icts; information; level; local; means; papers; personal; shared; strategy; success; systems; use; user; world
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- joci-2077
- author: None
- title: joci-2077
- date: None
- words: 6303
- flesch: 51
- summary: In order to help the eThekwini Municipality create and maintain an environment conducive to ethical decision-making, a proposed statement of core values and a corporate Code of Cyberethics needs to be effectively communicated and supported by eThekwini Municipality management. For example, it would be arrogant to impose on eThekwini Municipality employees the ethical ICT standards developed in and appropriate for Hong Kong, or indeed to do the reverse.
- keywords: acceptable; action; activity; africa; answer; behaviour; business; code; communication; computer; conduct; corporate; cyberethics; data; disagree; effects; employees; ethekwini; ethekwini municipality; ethical; ethics; example; factors; harm; high; ict; information; internet; issues; long; minimal; moral; municipality; negative; negative effects; new; number; people; personal; place; potential harm; privacy; process; property; public; right; rules; service; social; software; south; time; undecided; use; values; view; wrong
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- joci-2078
- author: None
- title: joci-2078
- date: None
- words: 9658
- flesch: 50
- summary: This relationship should be studied with respect to all social groups, including homeless people. The lifestyle of homeless people is typically transient, nomadic and built on the immediate gratification of needs, so activities tend to be planned on a minute-to-minute basis.
- keywords: access; activities; agencies; change; chaotic; clear; clients; communication; consumption; contact; different; difficult; digital; digital inclusion; domestication; drug; economic; edinburgh; eds; everyday; example; exclusion; family; hand; help; higher; homeless; homeless individuals; homeless people; homelessness; icts; implications; important; inclusion; individuals; information; internet; interview; lack; life; lives; meanings; mobile; mobile phones; needs; networks; number; outreach; people; person; phones; point; policy; problems; public; research; respect; respondents; scotland; second; service; skills; social; social inclusion; society; status; study; subculture; support; technologies; technology; time; touch; university; use; useful; uses; ways; workers
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- joci-2079
- author: None
- title: joci-2079
- date: None
- words: 6553
- flesch: 43
- summary: Community media research: A quest for theoretically-grounded models. This resonates with developments in new media research (Jankowski, 2002; Matei & Ball-Rokeach, 2003) which has moved on to analyse the new qualities of the third wave of community media, that is, applications including web-based systems such as indymedia, community networks and other location-aware smart mob technologies (Rheingold, 2002).
- keywords: access; action; applications; approach; broader; building; capital; case; challenges; city; communication; communities; community; context; cultural; design; development; different; economic; eds; educational; effective; ethnographic; focus; foth; framework; housing; ict; icts; information; innovation; interaction; international; internet; life; local; location; master; media; methodology; methods; neighbourhood; network; networked; new; new media; paper; participation; people; physical; place; planned; planning; press; project; public; queensland; relationships; research; residential; residents; site; social; society; socio; specific; studies; study; systems; tacchi; technology; theoretical; theory; understanding; university; urban; use; uses; village; wellman
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- joci-2080
- author: None
- title: joci-2080
- date: None
- words: 5077
- flesch: 40
- summary: Total Cost of Ownership [TCO] models TCO is a vital concept in technology cost management, specifically in ICT cost management, and for the purpose of this paper represents a desirable end state of cost maturity. How can these benchmarks and the costing status of individual projects be globally communicated as part of project cost management discourse and learning within the appropriate research network?
- keywords: 2001; accounting; africa; associated; available; benchmarking; benchmarks; benefits; business; communication; communities; community; community informatics; concept; cost; cost accounting; cost management; cost maturity; costing; cycle; developmental; digital; discourse; divide; education; efforts; financial; gartner; general; ict; individual; informatics; informatics projects; itu; johannesburg; lack; level; life; management; maturity; measurement; methodologies; model; need; organizations; ownership; paper; particular; practical; process; projects; reference; required; research; solutions; systems; tco; technologies; technology; telecom; time; total; training; understanding; value; view; world
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- joci-2082
- author: None
- title: joci-2082
- date: None
- words: 6665
- flesch: 38
- summary: Therefore, they are the people to see about guiding or enhancing community development. In addition to promoting the use of ICTs, a learning community project can stimulate public participation in community activities, redefine community governance, and give rise to a relational strategy that can generate the knowledge, distinctive competences, and collective capabilities that influence the direction of community development.
- keywords: access; active; activities; axis; bromont; canada; capabilities; capability; capital; citizen; city; collective; collective portal; communities; community; community development; community players; competences; concept; connected; degree; des; development; dimension; dynamics; développement; emergence; example; figure; framework; france; governance; hand; icts; influence; information; internet; knowledge; learning; les; level; local; local development; management; means; members; model; nature; networking; networks; online; organizations; participation; people; players; portal; position; possible; practice; process; project; prévost; public; relational; research; resource; result; sherbrooke; strategic; strategy; system; technologies; technology; territorial; theory; tool; typological; virtual; web
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- joci-2083
- author: None
- title: joci-2083
- date: None
- words: 1224
- flesch: 39
- summary: Community Inquiry and Informatics: Collaborative Learning through ICT Ann Peterson Bishop Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign < abishop@uiuc.edu > Bertram C. Bruce Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign < chip@uiuc.edu > M. Cameron Jones Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign < mjones2@uiuc.edu > Abstract This paper presents the integration of community informatics with the theory and practice of community inquiry, describing community-based projects in which people simultaneously learn about their community and the production and use of information and communication technologies (ICTs). Developed most fully in the work of John Dewey, community inquiry is based on the premise that if individuals are to understand and create solutions for problems in complex systems, they need opportunities to engage with challenging questions, to learn through participative investigations situated in everyday experiences, to articulate their ideas to others, and to make use of a variety of resources in multiple media.
- keywords: champaign; collaborative; communities; community; education; graduate; icts; ilabs; illinois; informatics; inquiry; learning; library; practice; pragmatic; science; software; university; urbana; use; work
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- joci-2084
- author: None
- title: joci-2084
- date: None
- words: 2173
- flesch: 32
- summary: Schlager is interested in community infrastructures, and has investigated community-based approaches to teacher professional development in TappedIn through the past decade. Community infrastructures that facilitate learning Infrastructure is the socio-technical background that allows work activity to move smoothly.
- keywords: action; activity; center; civic; cognitive; communities; community; computer; context; cooperative; extension; human; informal; information; infrastructures; interested; investigates; journal; knowledge; learning; library; networks; organizations; park; penn; research; school; sciences; social; special; state; studies; support; technology; university; workshop
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- joci-2085
- author: None
- title: joci-2085
- date: None
- words: 1715
- flesch: 53
- summary: For community groups, this is different. This role can be uniquely useful: Community groups are not about information technology any more than they are about plumbing.
- keywords: bard; carroll; community; design; development; farooq; ganoe; groups; information; j.m; learning; local; members; merkel; participant; participatory; pennsylvania; projects; role; rosson; state; sustainable; systems; technology; university; work; workers; xiao; zone
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- joci-2086
- author: None
- title: joci-2086
- date: None
- words: 2686
- flesch: 46
- summary: To analyze the contribution of voices from different communities, we differentiate between two types of communities: communities of practice (CoPs) and communities of interest (CoIs). Communication in CoIs is difficult because they come from different CoPs, and therefore use different languages, different conceptual knowledge systems, and different notational systems (Snow, 1993).
- keywords: artifacts; cambridge; center; cognition; cois; collaboration; communities; community; computer; conceptual; cops; creativity; design; designers; different; distances; environments; fischer; human; individual; information; interaction; knowledge; learning; new; participation; people; practice; press; research; social; systems; talk; university; user; voices; work
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- joci-2087
- author: None
- title: joci-2087
- date: None
- words: 1643
- flesch: 50
- summary: Social capital can serve as an enabler to social learning processes (Cohen & Prusak 2001); Fischer et al., 2004; Huysman &Wulf, 2004), and it represents a precondition for the emergence of communities of practice. Regional networking activities and the joint acquisition of research projects have turned out to be an important means of building social capital.
- keywords: cambridge; capital; communities; community; companies; education; group; huysman; information; knowledge; learning; new; opportunities; practice; press; projects; research; social; students; universities; university; wulf
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- joci-2088
- author: None
- title: joci-2088
- date: None
- words: 1302
- flesch: 44
- summary: Such tools seem particularly well matched to the knowledge management needs of nonprofit community organizations and small, but distributed, public sector agencies such as the public health district. Community or group blogs represent a kind of self-organizing social system that allows a number of individuals to interact and learn from each other through the exchange ideas and information, and to help solve collective problems.
- keywords: activities; available; blogs; citizens; community; computer; content; deliberation; discussion; forums; greater; group; information; interaction; kavanaugh; local; online; political; public; support; tools; virginia; web; wikis
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- joci-2089
- author: None
- title: joci-2089
- date: None
- words: 2052
- flesch: 43
- summary: In what follows, I present social reproduction theory as a basis for understanding how ICT may in fact serve to reproduce, rather than alleviate, inequality. First, Bowles and Gintis (1976) debunk the century-old ideal of public education as the great equalizer among disparate social classes in the U.S. Bowles and Gintis instead argued that public schooling reproduces social and class-based inequities.
- keywords: access; agents; bourdieu; capital; class; communities; community; cultural; digital; divide; economic; educational; freire; ict; inequality; information; kvasny; life; people; position; reproduction; resistance; role; school; self; skills; social; society; theories; theory; underserved; working
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- joci-2090
- author: None
- title: joci-2090
- date: None
- words: 1403
- flesch: 25
- summary: As they did 200 years ago, information networks contribute the glue that binds communities together economically, politically, and socially. The Components of Access: Context, Connectivity, Capability, and Content Access to telecommunications services will not, by itself, guarantee success for communities.
- keywords: access; capability; communities; community; connectivity; content; democracy; economic; high; information; internet; learning; level; networks; new; participation; public; service; social; speed; t1.5; technical; technologies; technology; telecommunications; use
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- joci-2091
- author: None
- title: joci-2091
- date: None
- words: 1175
- flesch: 34
- summary: On the one hand, the quality of products might be improved by involving end users in the early phases of design (the “User-Centred Design” tradition); on the other hand, end users have claimed the right to participate in the development of ICTs that affect their (working) environments (e.g., the Scandinavian tradition of “Participatory design”). By these means, technology needs and usages become more easily describable by end users, and communication among people sharing a similar use background (typically not the professional tool designer) is eased.
- keywords: activities; appropriation; communication; configuration; delegation; design; development; end; environments; home; ict; information; professional; settings; support; systems; technologies; technology; tools; usage; user; work; wulf
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- joci-2092
- author: None
- title: joci-2092
- date: None
- words: 1974
- flesch: 42
- summary: Examples of developmental learning communities in community computing Learning Community Learning Activities Developmental Phases Civic Nexus Analysis of, planning for, and implementation of IT needs in a nonprofit organization Intern, volunteer, web designer, technology committee member, technology committee chair Teacher Bridge Creating Web-based lessons in science and math, using a variety of interactive tools Lurker, member, re-user, adapter, author, coach, program developer Women in IST Problem-based learning of the architecture and programming of Web-based collaborative systems High school friend, college recruit, pre-major, major, alumna The learning communities in Civic Nexus are nonprofit organizations; we are helping them to create sustainable informal learning processes for meeting their own IT needs (Merkel et al., 2004; Merkel et al., 2005). Supporting Developmental Learning Communities We are exploring two facets of developmental learning communities that might be aided by social or technical interventions: (1) recognition and acceptance of phases in community members’ development, and (2) reinforcement of the social ties that motivate developmental activities within the community.
- keywords: activities; carroll; communities; community; computing; design; developmental; group; ist; knowledge; learning; members; mentoring; needs; phases; research; roles; rosson; social; students; teachers; technology; university; women; work
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- joci-2093
- author: None
- title: joci-2093
- date: None
- words: 3932
- flesch: 44
- summary: With civic network design viewed as the locus of conflict and struggle, the designer must consciously cultivate an outlook of reflexivity. This sociological, institutionalist-inspired view of civic network design recommends a certain kind of reflexivity on the part of the designer, one that emphasizes her historicity.
- keywords: action; activity; actors; aims; broadband; broader; cambridge; capacity; change; chicago; choices; civic; civic network; committee; community; cultural; design; designers; developmental; dispositions; eds; ends; example; form; fraser; institutional; logics; macro; means; network; networking; new; order; organizational; outlook; particular; planning; power; practices; press; products; progressive; project; publics; radical; reflexive; relation; resources; social; structural; university; urban; view
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- joci-2094
- author: None
- title: joci-2094
- date: None
- words: 20526
- flesch: 43
- summary: We have worked with the county historical society, the regional emergency management coordinator, a sustainable development group, the enrichment program at the local high school, the local chapter of Habitat for Humanity, the symphony orchestra, the local food bank, an environmental preservation group, a local emergency medical services council, a group that works with at-risk youth, and with a group that trains leaders for community groups. For community groups, this is different.
- keywords: access; acm; action; activities; activity; actors; analysis; approach; appropriation; available; blogs; broader; building; cambridge; capacity; capital; carroll; center; change; choices; citizens; civic; class; cognition; cognitive; cois; collaborative; collective; committee; communication; communities; community; community informatics; community learning; companies; computer; computing; concepts; conference; configuration; content; cooperative; cops; core; creativity; cultural; democracy; design; designers; development; developmental learning; different; digital; discussion; divide; economic; eds; education; end; environments; example; existing; faculty; farooq; fischer; focus; forms; foundation; goals; greater; group; help; high; home; human; ict; icts; ideas; ilabs; important; individual; informal; information; information technology; infrastructures; inquiry; institutions; interaction; interested; international; internet; issue; john; journal; knowledge; kvasny; learning; legitimate; level; library; life; lifelong; local; logics; long; macro; making; management; means; members; merkel; multiple; national; necessary; needs; network; networking; new; online; open; opportunities; order; organizations; park; participants; participation; participatory; particular; past; people; peripheral; phases; place; planning; political; potential; power; practice; press; problems; processes; products; professional; progressive; projects; public; questions; range; references; reflexive; relevant; reproduction; research; researchers; resistance; resources; respect; role; rosson; school; science; self; service; set; settings; shared; sharing; situated; skills; social; society; socio; software; special; specific; state; structure; students; studies; support; sustainable; systems; technical; technological; technologies; technology; term; theoretical; theories; theory; time; tools; understanding; universities; university; urban; use; user; voices; ways; web; wenger; women; work; workshop; wulf; years; york
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- joci-2095
- author: None
- title: joci-2095
- date: None
- words: 1379
- flesch: 42
- summary: In the absence of a firm and grounded participation by end users and end user communities, projects fail to take root and once the funders lose interest doors close, reports are filed, donors and consultants go on to something else and communities are left little better if not worse off than before…as Steve Cisler suggests, more cynical if not more “developed”. One could say that there is a pause in the broad sweep towards publicly funded support for community use of ICTs.
- keywords: activities; approaches; communities; community; discussions; end; funders; ict4d; icts; informatics; issue; little; research; society; summit; support; use; useful; world; wsis
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- joci-2096
- author: None
- title: joci-2096
- date: None
- words: 1103
- flesch: 76
- summary: New pilot projects are being hatched. New projects are coming.
- keywords: agency; computers; country; donor; ict; land; locals; ministry; money; movie; new; ngo; officer; people; pilot; program; project; short; war
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- joci-2097
- author: None
- title: joci-2097
- date: None
- words: 8904
- flesch: 50
- summary: For while ICTs do hold a great potential for immense positive benefits, not just in economic terms, but in broader applications for creating community networks to deal with civic engagement, education, health and other social services, as well as overall general knowledge and connectivity, they are tools, and the potential lies in how they are used, not their mere presence. However, if government is going to fund community networks, it is important to identify which of these networks are more likely to generate positive externalities (that whole range of benefits from the somewhat tangible to the quite intangible such as community self-worth); these externalities are often referred to as social capital, and it is in this special sense that public benefit[1] aspects are attributed to community networks.
- keywords: access; american; behavioral; benefits; business; canada; canadian; capital; civic; communication; communities; community; community networks; computer; connectivity; context; definition; development; discussion; economic; education; face; following; forms; funding; funds; general; good; government; groups; haythornthwaite; healthy; help; icts; idea; important; indicators; information; instance; internet; issues; july; levels; life; likely; literature; local; n.d; networking; networks; new; number; online; overall; paper; participation; people; place; policy; portes; positive; potential; press; public; quality; question; research; resources; rural; scientist; sense; september; set; social; social capital; social networks; society; specific; strong; support; technology; terms; things; tools; types; unhealthy; university; use; virtual; ways
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- joci-2098
- author: None
- title: joci-2098
- date: None
- words: 8378
- flesch: 49
- summary: Although the containers were finally replaced in the first set of Dominican Lincos communities, this was happening only after some three years, implying a very slow and non-interactive response process. While the Lincos website claimed that the technology was selected according to the needs of every individual community, the Lincos office in Santo Domingo distributed similar brochures for local Lincos communities, in which exactly the same set of technologies was listed.
- keywords: access; assessment; available; case; center; classes; committee; communication; communities; community; community members; computer; concept; conditions; container; costa; country; critical; decision; design; developed; development; different; director; dominican; dominican lincos; dominican republic; educational; embeddedness; entebbe; equipment; experience; extent; fact; government; granqvist; high; ict; icts; individual; information; internet; issues; large; limited; lincos; lincos case; lincos communities; lincos officials; lincos project; lincos sites; lincos staff; local; making; marginalized; members; new; observation; office; officials; ordinary; participation; people; persons; political; population; poverty; power; problems; process; project; republic; research; rica; services; set; similar; sites; situation; social; software; staff; study; technological; technologies; technology; theoretical; time; units; usage; users; website; working; world
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- joci-2099
- author: None
- title: joci-2099
- date: None
- words: 4221
- flesch: 47
- summary: Technology contains an “essence”: Heidegger envisages that technology is not about achieving goals but about revealing or bringing forth the use of a resource. The relationship between technology and society, particularly in discussions concerning new technologies, is often assumed to be of a simple deterministic nature; the introduction of new technology causes social change.
- keywords: accounts; appropriation; cambridge; change; communication; community; cultural; determinism; development; different; example; feenberg; form; heidegger; ict; icts; information; instrumental; internet; interpretation; london; media; model; modern; nature; new; power; press; relationship; social; society; substantivism; systems; technological; technology; theory; thought; understanding; university; use; values; way; ways; western
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- joci-2100
- author: None
- title: joci-2100
- date: None
- words: 6718
- flesch: 52
- summary: Virtual reality, virtual community, and social reality are the recurring themes of these reflections, often critiques or polemics, which propose to re-examine old problematics in light of “the virtual”. Hence, most of the articles in our corpus which dealt with virtual communities defined the expression vaguely at best, deferring to a notion of virtuality that was even blurrier—to the point that it is tempting to speak of “virtuality” in the social sciences as, indeed, a virtual concept.
- keywords: abstract; actual; approach; available; barlow; boal; bodies; certain; clarke; collective; communication; communities; community; computer; context; crang; culture; cyberspace; discourse; doel; eds; electronic; expression; face; fernback; field; form; holmes; idea; identity; information; internet; language; les; life; london; lévy; meaning; networks; new; notion; online; paper; paris; people; phenomena; physical; point; political; politics; presence; real; reality; relationship; research; rheingold; routledge; réseaux; sage; sciences; sense; simulation; social; society; stone; talk; technologies; technology; term; theory; time; turkle; use; virtual; virtual community; virtual reality; virtuality; way; weissberg; words; world; york
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- joci-2101
- author: None
- title: joci-2101
- date: None
- words: 8827
- flesch: 51
- summary: Interested in investigating whether such pessimism is warranted, in 2003 we began to research community outcomes of Computers in Homes (CIH), a New Zealand scheme in which free computers and internet access are given to selected low-income, non-internet households for a very small joining fee. Perhaps considerable community benefit will accrue from internet access, but only if it is so resourced that the community itself is not left to manage with minimal support.
- keywords: access; american; august; benefits; broadband; building; business; capital; change; children; cih; civic; communication; communities; community; computer; connectedness; connection; connectivity; connectors; data; day; digital; divide; early; economic; education; email; engagement; example; families; family; findings; free; friends; future; government; group; high; home; ict; icts; impact; income; information; interest; internet; interview; involved; involvement; know; life; lives; local; low; media; naisbitt; need; neighbourhood; neighbours; networks; new; new zealand; online; parents; participants; people; point; potential; project; public; questions; rainie; research; scheme; school; sense; social; strategy; studies; study; success; support; technological; technologies; technology; telephone; things; time; transformation; universal; use; users; view; wellman; zealand
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- joci-2102
- author: None
- title: joci-2102
- date: None
- words: 1797
- flesch: 54
- summary: At the same time, security camera systems are now widely used and have an important role in reducing crime and identifying suspects. Therefore, we have developed an application that provides the minimum functions needed, and currently distribute it free of charge through our Society for e-JIKEI Network website (http://www.e-jikei.org/index_e.htm).
- keywords: available; cameras; citizens; community; computers; concept; crime; free; fujii; home; houses; internet; jikei; jikei network; network; ohta; project; property; residents; security; software; system; technology; watch; yoshiura
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- joci-2103
- author: None
- title: joci-2103
- date: None
- words: 2515
- flesch: 48
- summary: Survey of New Zealand community ICT organisations and projects. A Review of New Zealand’s Digital Strategy Andy Williamson Wairua Consulting Limited < andy@wairua.co.nz > Abstract The advent of New Zealand’s world-leading Digital Strategy underpins the increasing importance of ICTs in community settings.
- keywords: access; aotearoa; approach; communities; community; craig; digital; digital strategy; draft; funding; government; icts; information; initiatives; new; new zealand; partnerships; policy; process; projects; research; significant; strategy; sustainability; technology; wellington; williamson; world; zealand
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- joci-2350
- author: None
- title: None
- date: None
- words: 7953
- flesch: 52
- summary: JED outlines the positive multiplier effects of mobile telecommunications on virtually every sphere of endeavour in the society, previews further prospects targets, highlights challenges and (and possible solutions) and assigns specific roles to government and operators for further optimisation of the benefits of GSM services. On assumption of office on May 29, 1999, the President Olusegun Obasanjo’s administration swung into action to deregulate the telecom sector, most especially the granting of licences to GSM services providers and setting in motion the privatization of NITEL.
- keywords: 2004; access; activities; africa; areas; available; business; communication; communities; community; countries; country; crime; crit; data; development; disagree; dwellers; econet; economic; economy; employment; family; global; government; greater; growth; gsm; impact; income; industry; information; inhabitants; introduction; item; itu; job; limited; lines; major; management; market; mobile; national; network; nigeria; nigeria rural; nigerians; nitel; number; obs; operators; opportunities; people; perception; phones; poor; population; poverty; private; rate; research; respondents; result; rural; rural areas; rural economy; sector; services; significant; south; stakeholders; study; support; system; table; telecommunications; telephone; time; today; total; university; urban; use; users; value; vodafone; wireless; world; years
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- joci-2351
- author: Gagnon, Gisèle
- title: Innovations in Microfinance technologies
- date: 2008-04-26
- words: 7623
- flesch: 47
- summary: 1 or 2 Pocket PCs The following figure shows the interrelations established among the various systems and explains the process surrounding AMIO Teller operations and Pocket PC data synchronization: Page 8 C M C M Date entry op. A single computer is shared by employees for member operations, accounting and managing deposits and loans.
- keywords: accounts; activities; africa; amio; amio credit; amio teller; available; banking; benefits; business; center; computerization; computers; coop; cooperative; cost; credit; daily; data; database; day; deposits; desktop; development; employees; environment; field; financial; following; handheld; impact; implementation; information; introduction; loan; loan officers; local; mali; management; members; microfinance; mobile; mobile technologies; mother; network; new; number; nyèsigiso; officers; operations; order; outlets; page; pcs; pilot; pocket; pocket pc; portfolio; power; processing; project; saf; savings; services; sites; small; software; staff; strategy; support; system; table; team; technical; technologies; technology; teller; time; training; transactions; use
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- joci-2352
- author: None
- title: Editorial
- date: None
- words: 1121
- flesch: 27
- summary: While this development brings access to personal computing into the income range of a larger number in the Developing world, it also serves to highlight the excessive cost of Internet access in many of these same countries resulting from in many cases managed pricing or lack of competition. Additionally, discussions are increasingly recognizing that the Digital Divide is often but a symptom of other “divides” limiting the “accessibility” of Internet based services such as levels of literacy and numeracy, location and geography (with rural and remote areas being particularly ill-served), education and skill levels, gender and (physical) ability.
- keywords: access; article; community; countries; developed; development; global; icts; internet; issue; level; local; means; opportunities; range; self; services; social; use
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- joci-2353
- author: None
- title: None
- date: None
- words: 8192
- flesch: 54
- summary: Community intranets are being promoted as an efficient way of managing community services and amenities, and as a mechanism to mediate and enhance communication, and thus to foster a stronger sense of community within the community. However, the result of Paul’s work within Telstra would not be seen for over a year by Kookaburra Hollow residents.
- keywords: access; action; actors; anonymous; anthony; bill; body; briggs; broadband; broadcast; builders; building; cable; communication; community; community intranet; concerns; corporate; developer; development; different; dispute; domain; estate; face; flanders; flow; free; hollow; house; individual; infrastructure; interactive; interests; interpersonal; intranet; issues; jacob; kookaburra; kookaburra hollow; like; local; macpherson; making; manager; media; meetings; message; moral; particular; people; personal; place; position; postings; power; private; problems; program; public; purpose; quality; questions; register; representative; residents; segment; signs; solidarity; space; target; television; telstra; terms; time; use; values; way
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- joci-2354
- author: None
- title: Some Perspectives of Understanding the Adoption and Implementat
- date: None
- words: 6979
- flesch: 38
- summary: Interestingly, the main focus of the interventions has been on the implementation of ICT projects themselves, rather than on understanding their impacts at the recipient or community level; and such lack of understanding has led to many failures of ICT projects as reported. To ensure this process and achieve successful implementation of ICT projects, Heeks’ (2005a) Information Chain model provides a mechanism to 1) access data from the appropriate sources, 2) assess the data relevance, 3) apply the relevant data to a specific decision, and 4) act upon the decision.
- keywords: access; adoption; agencies; alignment; analysis; approach; australia; business; change; communication; communities; community; context; countries; data; decision; development; diffusion; digital; divide; economic; education; example; factors; framework; funding; heeks; human; ict; icts; impact; implementation; indicators; information; information systems; information technology; innovation; international; intervention; issues; journal; knowledge; lack; layer; level; macro; management; meso; national; new; non; organizational; oxford; people; perspective; policy; poor; potential; poverty; press; process; programme; projects; research; researchers; resources; rural; social; socio; strategies; strategy; study; swatman; systems; technology; theories; theory; understanding; university; view; wilde; world
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- joci-2355
- author: None
- title: None
- date: None
- words: 9582
- flesch: 41
- summary: It addresses the concepts of public goods and social entrepreneurship and their relationship to new funding sources for non-profit organizations. Second, non-profit organizations are increasingly competing against private service providers or finding themselves being co-opted by private firms seeking to advance their marketing through affiliation with “causes” in the non-profit sector.
- keywords: access; activities; actors; additional; basis; benefit; business; canada; cap; capacity; capital; case; change; charitable; commercial; communication; communities; community; community access; community networks; context; cooperative; core; cost; decision; definition; development; discussion; early; economic; effective; enterprise; example; fee; financial; free; freenet; funding; funds; generational; good; government; groups; icts; individuals; information; infrastructure; initiatives; internet; kaul; management; market; means; mission; model; needs; networking; networks; new; non; online; operations; organizations; paper; particular; percent; potential; private; profit; profit organizations; profit sector; program; projects; provision; public; public good; regard; report; resources; revenue; sector; services; significant; similar; sites; social; society; staff; status; support; sustainability; technological; technologies; technology; understanding; use; vancouver; vcn; venture; viability; way
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- joci-2356
- author: None
- title: None
- date: None
- words: 6871
- flesch: 42
- summary: Although much time and effort has been spent on creating local Internet access points for rural communities and to bring high speed internet to rural areas1, very little time has been directed towards expanding local capacity for developing and making effective use of ICT systems within these communities. The primary objectives of the project were to promote collaborative learning around issues which are important to rural communities, and to help people to improve their knowledge and use of Internet technologies to assist them in their work and everyday lives.
- keywords: ability; access; assets; canada; capacity; capital; categories; chat; circumstances; collaborative; communication; communities; community; development; discussion; economic; economy; effective; evaluation; goals; ideas; important; individuals; information; interaction; interest; internet; issues; journal; knowledge; learning; line; local; model; networking; new; opportunities; participants; people; pilot; potential; project; questions; regions; reimer; research; resources; room; rural; sessions; sharing; similar; skills; social; table; technologies; technology; time; use; useful; virtual; workers
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- joci-2357
- author: None
- title: Community Wireless:
- date: None
- words: 6877
- flesch: 47
- summary: While it is true that wireless Internet services make use of existing wired connections, extending wireless services does not require the often labour-intensive physical work, such as excavation or laying cable, that extending wired services might. In the era of wireless Internet networking, issues have begun to develop for many Internet service providers (ISPs).
- keywords: ability; access; advantages; area; arguments; available; baller; bandwidth; barriers; broadband; business; cable; communities; community; companies; computers; connection; consumer; cost; course; data; deployment; development; devices; different; economic; end; example; fact; fixed; free; goals; government; groups; industry; information; interest; internet; issue; july; kind; legislation; market; mesh; mobile; model; municipal; municipalities; need; networking; networks; new; nodes; number; open; paper; people; perspective; policy; potential; problem; provider; public; radio; regulation; routing; service; signals; site; social; source; spectrum; standard; state; support; technical; technology; telecommunications; use; users; waves; way; web; wired; wireless; wireless internet
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- joci-2358
- author: None
- title: Editorial: Community Informatics with a Latin Accent
- date: None
- words: 1033
- flesch: 24
- summary: La variedad de estos desarrollos es aparente solo desde hace poco, con la tecnología saliendo de su condición de proyecto, impulsada desde fuera, para convertirse en un recurso integrado a lo local, “apropiado” localmente, y de esta manera un recurso, naturalmente, en evolución natural, para el empoderamiento de las iniciativas locales. Editorial: Community Informatics with a Latin Accent Editorial: Community Informatics with a Latin Accent Michael Gurstein Editor-in-chief, JoCI, editori@ci-journal.net Para el texto en español, por favor avance hasta el final de la versión en inglés.
- keywords: accent; america; cada; community; comunitaria; con; del; desarrollo; ecuador; editorial; english; esta; están; general; global; icts; informatics; iniciativas; issue; joci; las; latin; local; los; mucho; network; para; por; que; region; significant; una; work
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- joci-2359
- author: None
- title: ICTs and Latin America: An overview from the grassroots until t
- date: None
- words: 1601
- flesch: 41
- summary: Es más bien un logro de parte de la Informática Comunitaria que se entienda que cada comunidad es diferente y cada iniciativa de trabajo debe responder a la realidad local y acorde a la cultura de los actores que la ejecutan. Vilma Tuy lo describe en una forma muy pintoresca a través de su nota desde el campo contando la historia de cómo el telecentro guatemalteco se involucró en somos@telecentros, la red de trabajo de telecentros para América Latina y el Caribe y cuales han sido los beneficios recibidos a partir de este involucramiento.
- keywords: activistas; america; appropriation; apropiación; base; communities; community; como; comunidades; comunitaria; con; del; desde; different; discusión; edición; especial; esta; este; grassroots; huerta; icts; informática; issue; joci; las; latin; local; los; luis; networks; otro; para; parte; por; que; red; sobre; social; somos@telecentros; sostenibilidad; sustainability; también; telecentros; trabajo; tuy; una; vilma; way
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- joci-2360
- author: None
- title: Sostenibilidad de proyectos de desarrollo con nuevas tecnología
- date: None
- words: 9173
- flesch: 43
- summary: En febrero 2001 se realiza un diagnóstico de necesidades de información (Cancino, 2001), financiado por la Cooperación Técnica Alemana (GTZ), que describe de manera general las necesidades de información de los pobladores, su relación con el calendario agrícola y las fuentes de información usadas para obtener esa información. Por último, el firme apoyo de la directiva de la Junta ha ayudado a la introducción de TIC en sus procesos administrativos mejorando la atención a los agricultores.
- keywords: 2001; acceso; acciones; actividades; actores; además; administración; administradores; agraria; agricultores; agricultura; agua; ahora; algunos; ambiente; analizar; análisis; apoyo; artículo; asociaciones; así; atención; años; base; bien; bossio; cada; cambios; cancino; capacidad; capacitación; caso; cepes; chancay; ciertos; claro; comerciales; comisiones; comisión; como; computadoras; comunicación; comunidad; con; con el; con la; con los; confianza; conseguir; contexto; continuidad; cooperativas; correo; corto; cuanto; cultural; darle; de desarrollo; de huaral; de información; de la; de los; de una; de usuarios; debe; decir; decisiones; del; delgadillo; desarrollo; desde; después; development; directa; dirigentes; donde; económico; edad; educación; efectos; ejemplo; el desarrollo; el proyecto; el sistema; el uso; ello; embargo; en el; en la; en los; enlace; entre; especialmente; esta; este; estos; estudios; está; evaluación; experiencia; finalmente; financiamiento; financiera; financieramente; flujos; fondos; fortalecimiento; fue; fuentes; fueron; fukao; funcionamiento; general; gracias; haber; había; hace; han; hay; herramientas; huaral; humanos; idea; importante; inei; información; información agraria; infraestructura; ingresos; inicial; inicio; instituciones; internet; investigación; junta; junta de; junta y; la información; la junta; la mayor; lado; las; las comisiones; legal; lima; llegar; local; locales; los; los agricultores; los que; los telecentros; los usuarios; luego; manera; marzo; matos; mayor; mayoría; medio; mejorar; menou; miembros; mientras; ministerio; muy; más; nacional; necesidades; nivel; nuevas; obtener; organizaciones; organización; origen; otros; para; para el; para la; para que; parte; participación; permiten; pero; personal; perú; plataforma; plazo; población; política; por; por el; por la; porque; posibilidad; principal; problemas; proceso; proenza; propias; propiedad; proyecto; proyecto se; puede; página; público; que; que el; que la; quienes; radio; realiza; recursos; reforma; regantes; relación; resultados; riego; rural; sea; sección; sector; sectores; sectoristas; ser; servicios; sia; sido; siempre; sin; sino; sistema; sobre; social; sociales; socios; software; son; sostenibilidad; sostenibilidad social; sostenible; stoll; sus; sólo; también; tanto; tarifa; tecnologías; tecnológica; telecentros; telecomunicaciones; tiempo; tiene; tierra; todo; trabas; través; tres; técnica; término; una; usan; uso; uso de; usuarios; valle; venta; vez; web; y de; y el; y en; y la; y los; y que; ésta; útil
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- joci-2361
- author: None
- title: Puertas alternativas a la Sociedad de la Información: Accesos n
- date: None
- words: 9178
- flesch: 39
- summary: El aumento de los usuarios de cibercafés es un fenómeno típico de la nueva economía, aunque paradójicamente esto se deba a un principio fordista de los dueños de los cibers: apuestan al incremento del número de usuarios, más que al valor alto de la unidad de tiempo utilizada. Los datos disponibles sugieren que en los próximos años Internet crecerá a ritmos parecidos a los del 2006, por la dinámica propia de la Ley de Moore y la de Metcalfe14.
- keywords: 2004; acceso; acciones; actores; actuales; algunos; alto; américa; apropiación; argentina; aunque; ausencia; autoorganización; años; aún; baja; bajos; bienes; brecha; buenos; calle; capacidad; casi; caso; castells; ccts; cibercafés; ciberespacio; cibers; ciudad; ciudadanos; civil; community; como; como la; completamente; computadoras; comunidades; comunitarias; con; con el; concepto; conectividad; conexiones; conexión; consumidores; cooke; cooperativas; creación; crean; creciente; crecimiento; crisis; ctcs; cuando; culturales; cyber; dado; datos; de acceso; de internet; de la; de los; de una; de usuarios; debe; debido; deciden; del; densidad; desarrollo; desde; digital; diversos; dos; economía; económico; educativas; el estado; el uso; ellos; embargo; emprendimientos; empresas; en argentina; en el; en la; en los; en un; enfoque; entel; entre; equipamientos; espacio; estado; estatales; este; estos; estrategias; estudio; está; existen; fecotel; finquelievich; frecuencia; fue; generación; general; gestión; grandes; grupos; habitantes; hacia; han; hasta; herramientas; hipótesis; hogar; hora; importantes; individuales; información; informática; ingreso; iniciativas; innovaciones; innovación; instituciones; instituto; interior; internet; invención; johnson; jóvenes; la información; la población; la sociedad; la tecnología; las; las comunidades; las cooperativas; las personas; latina; locales; locutorios; los; los cibercafés; los cibers; los usuarios; lugares; línea; mail; manera; mayor; mayores; mediante; medio; menores; menos; mercado; millones; mismos; modo; muchos; mujeres; mundo; muy; más; necesidades; nivel; niveles; nodos; nueva; nuevos; número; organizaciones; otras; otro; para; para el; para las; parte; participación; país; países; perfil; pero; personas; plantea; plazo; poblacional; población; pobreza; políticas; por; por el; por las; poseen; presencia; prince; privados; problemas; proceso; propiedad; prácticas; pueden; público; que; que el; que las; qué; razones; readiness; recursos; red; redes; relacionado; relaciones; resolver; respecto; rifkin; régimen; satisfacer; sea; sector; según; sentido; servicios; sin; sino; sistema; sobre; social; sociales; sociedad; socio; solo; soluciones; son; steven; sus; susana; sólo; también; tanto; tecnología; tecnológicos; telecomunicaciones; telefonía; telefónicas; tener; tics; tiempo; tiene; tipos; todas; todo; trabajo; través; tuomi; una; uno; uso; uso de; usos; usuarios; utilización; van; vez; y de; y el; y en; y la; y los; y que; áreas; éxito; últimos
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- joci-2362
- author: None
- title: None
- date: None
- words: 8690
- flesch: 45
- summary: Agrupación de los servicios de los sitios Web comunitarios Funcionalidad del sitio web % de sitios que lo proveen Herramientas de comunicación 92.5 Exhibición de Media 89.4 Archivo de Consulta 76.6 Información Local 69.1 Comercio 38.3 Tal como lo muestra la Tabla 2, la mayoría de los sitios Web cuenta con información acerca del municipio, sus origines, historia y personas sobresalientes de la comunidad. En el caso particular de los mexicanos viviendo en el extranjero, en EUA en particular, Rinderle (2005) concluye en su trabajo que son una comunidad en Diaspora ya que han experimentado: 1) un desplazamiento físico histórico, 2) desarticulación e hibridez cultural, 3) añoranza por la patria, 4) desplazamiento estructural y una relación compleja entre el estado-nación y la Diaspora, 5) alienación de su ‘nueva patria’, y 6) una identidad colectiva definida por la relación entre su patria y su nueva patria.
- keywords: 2006; acceso; acerca; acerca de; acuerdo; además; algunos; algunos de; allá; alto; amigos; análisis; aquellos; arcelia; aspectos; asuntos; así; así como; aun; años; bernal; búsqueda; cabo; cada; características; casi; caso; chat; clase; comercio; como; como lo; compartir; computadoras; comunicación; comunidad; comunitarios; con; con el; con la; con los; con un; conapo; conclusiones; condiciones; conectar; conexión; contacto; contenido; contexto; cosas; cotidiana; crear; cual; cuales; cuando; cuatro; cuenta; cultura; datos; de la; de los; de migración; de sitios; de su; del; dentro; desde; después; diaspora; dispersas; donde; durante; el de; el sitio; embargo; emigrantes; en el; en la; en los; encontró; entre; entrevistas; eran; eritrea; eritreos; esas; esta; estado; este; estos; estudio; están; eua; eventos; extranjero; familia; fenómeno; finalmente; fotos; fuera; fueron; funcionalidad; galería; general; gente; guerrero; hacia; han; hasta; hay; hecho; herramientas; historia; hogares; identidad; identificar; igual; incluye; inegi; información; internet; investigación; juchipila; la comunidad; la gente; las; lazos; lejos; libro; llamada; local; locales; los; los emigrantes; los que; los servicios; los sitios; los usuarios; lugares; línea; manchester; manera; mantener; mas; mayoría; medio; mensajes; mexicanos; miembros; migración; miller; misma; moyahua; muchos; municipal; municipio; muy; más; méxico; nacional; necesidad; nivel; niveles; noticias; nuevas; número; objetivo; obtener; ofrecen; oportunidades; origen; otra; otros; para; parte; particular; patria; país; penetración; pequeñas; pero; personas; población; por; por la; presencia; presenta; principales; principalmente; propósito; proveen; proyectos; puede; público; que; que el; que se; que viven; radio; reforzar; respecto; resultados; rol; secciones; sección; servicios; servicios que; sido; siempre; siguiente; similar; sin; sitios; sitios web; slater; sobre; sociales; son; sus; sus comunidades; sustentan; tabla; tal; también; tanto; tecnologías; tiene; tipo; trabajo; través; trinitarios; una; usados; usan; usando; uso; usuarios; vez; vida; visitas; viven; viviendo; vivo; web; web de; webmaster; y el; y la; zacatecas; índice
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- joci-2363
- author: None
- title: Estrategias para el Desarrollo de las TICs en Comunidades Indíg
- date: None
- words: 4302
- flesch: 34
- summary: Introducción El trabajo de los gobiernos en América Latina hacia la construcción de la Sociedad de la Información, ha implicado el desarrollo de estrategias nacionales de conectividad y contenidos, entre las que resaltan las enfocadas a la instalación de centros comunitarios digitales, principalmente en zonas rurales y apartadas. El objetivo de la promoción de las TIC, tal como lo reconoce la comunidad internacional, es el de encauzar el potencial de la tecnología de la información y la comunicación para alcanzar los objetivos de desarrollo: “Somos conscientes de que las TIC deben considerarse un medio, y no un fin en sí mismas.
- keywords: 2001; acceso; acción; administración; algunos; américa; apropiación; así; atención; años; brecha; caribe; casos; centros; cmsi; comisión; como; comunalidad; comunicación; comunidades; comunitaria; con; condiciones; conocimiento; construcción; cultura; de las; declaración; del; desarrollo; desarrollo de; digitales; diálogo; el desarrollo; en el; en los; entre; esta; este; estos; estrategias; extensionistas; extensión; formas; freire; hacia; han; hasta; hilbert; importancia; incorporan; indígenas; información; infraestructura; instalación; internacional; introducción; la apropiación; las; las comunidades; las tic; latina; local; los; los pueblos; manera; mayoría; mediante; misma; modelos; modo; mundo; más; método; méxico; nacional; necesidades; nuevas; objetivos; para; para el; para la; parte; participación; países; personas; planeación; población; políticas; por; posibilidad; potencial; principios; proceso; promoción; promover; propias; proyectos; pueblos; pueden; que; que las; realidad; rendón; resolución; resultados; rural; sean; ser; sido; sino; sistema; sobre; social; sociales; sociedad; sujetos; sus; también; tanto; tecnologías; telecentros; telecomunicaciones; tic; tres; una; uso; usuarios; utilización; vida; y el; y la
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- joci-2364
- author: None
- title: None
- date: None
- words: 8821
- flesch: 42
- summary: Hacia un modelo de evaluación de la calidad de instituciones de educación superior. y video y sala de recepción de los canales provenientes de EDUSAT (el sistema nacional de televisión satelital de carácter educativo).
- keywords: 2000; 2002; acceso; acción; actividades; actores; además; adultos; agentes; algunos; allá; alumnos; aplicación; aprendizaje; artículo; así; autoridades; años; base; brown; básica; búsqueda; cada; calidad; cambio; campo; características; casos; centros; clase; cobertura; como; computadoras; comunicación; comunidad; comunitarias; con; con el; con la; con los; conceptual; condiciones; conevyt; conexión; conocimiento; construcción; contenidos; contextos; crear; cuando; cuatro; cómputo; de educación; de la; de los; de un; decir; decisiones; del; desarrollo; descubrimiento; desde; diagnóstico; digital; dinámica; diseño; disponible; distintos; dominio; donde; durante; educación; educandos; educativo; el desarrollo; el modelo; el uso; elaboración; ellas; ello; embargo; en el; en las; en un; enero; enfoque; entre; equipamiento; equipo; eran; escolar; escolares; escuelas; esta; estaba; estado; este; estos; estrategias; estudiantes; están; evaluación; experiencia; falta; fase; favorecer; finales; fue; fuerte; general; grupo; grupo de; habilidades; habían; han; huerta; humano; impacto; implementación; importante; inclusión; inea; información; inicial; innovación; institucional; integración; inteligente; intención; internet; interés; introducción; investigación; investigadores; jonassen; jóvenes; la educación; la tecnología; la vida; las; las políticas; las tic; learning; local; locales; lograr; los; los maestros; lugar; maestros; manera; materiales; mayoría; mediación; mediadores; mediante; mejor; metodología; mientras; mismo; modelo; muy; más; méxico; nacional; necesidad; nivel; nuestro; nuevos; objetivos; organizaciones; otra; otro; para; para el; para la; parte; participación; participantes; partir; pensamiento; pensar; penso; pero; personas; perspectiva; plazas; población; políticas; por; por el; porque; porras; pregunta; presente; primera; problemas; procesos; profesores; programa; promoción; promotores; propios; propuesta; propósito; proyecto; práctica; puebla; puede; punto; pública; que; que el; que los; ramos; razonamiento; realidad; realizar; recuperado; recursos; reflexión; reforzar; regionales; región; relaciones; relevante; research; responder; respuesta; resultados; rural; salinas; sep; ser; servicios; sicom; sido; significado; significativo; sin; sino; sistema; situaciones; sobre; social; sociales; solución; son; sostiene; sujetos; supuesto; sus; sólo; también; tanto; tareas; tecnología; tecnológica; teja; telesecundarias; tic; tiempo; tienen; tipo; todos; trabajo; transferencia; través; tres; técnico; una; universidad; uso; uso de; usos; usuarios; utilizado; vida; vinculada; visión; y de; y el; y la
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- joci-2365
- author: None
- title: TIC y Educación
- date: None
- words: 4109
- flesch: 24
- summary: Su espacio geográfico coincide con el de la provincia de La Unión, considerada como una de las provincias de mayor pobreza a nivel nacional. no un fin dentro del proceso educativo, en este caso particular, orientado al fortalecimiento de la relación escuela-comunidad como parte de una estrategia de desarrollo local sostenible dentro de un espacio representativo de alta montaña como la Subcuenca del Cotahuasi. Descripcion de la subcuenca del cotahuasi La Subcuenca del Cotahuasi se encuentra ubicada en los Andes Occidentales del sur del Perú, al norte de la región Arequipa.
- keywords: acciones; actividades; alumnos; ambiental; anp; aspectos; así; base; biodiversidad; brigadas; cada; capacidades; capacitación; caso; como; computación; comunidad; con; con la; condiciones; conocimiento; conservación; contenidos; cotahuasi; cuales; cultural; de la; de los; de monitoreo; del; del cotahuasi; del programa; dentro; desarrollo; desarrollo de; desde; difusión; docentes; educación; educativas; ello; en el; en la; entre; escolar; escuela; espacio; esta; estado; este; estudio; figura; finalidad; formal; fueron; gestión; grupos; han; implementación; implementando; importancia; información; inicio; instituciones; instrumentos; intercambio; internet; investigación; la comunidad; la subcuenca; las; local; locales; los; los recursos; líderes; manera; mayor; monitoreo; monitoreo ambiental; más; nacional; naturales; nivel; operación; orientado; paisajística; para; para el; para la; parte; participación; permite; población; por; principalmente; proceso; programa; que; recursos; relación; reserva; sostenible; subcuenca; subcuenca del; sus; también; tanto; tecnologías; tic; través; una; uso; uso de; web; y la; zonas
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- joci-2366
- author: None
- title: Exchange Program
- date: None
- words: 4160
- flesch: 41
- summary: Las redes que conforman el movimiento de telecentros de las americas, Wireless WAN creates opportunities for Community Economic Development SWSDA Marieval Enterprise Center Inc TOTAL Tabla 2: Propuestas ganadoras y presupuesto Gráfico 3: Países receptores de experticia de las propuestas ganadoras Gráfico 4: Países oferentes de experticia de las propuestas ganadoras En los gráficos 3 y 4 se detallan los países a los que pertenecen los participantes de las propuestas ganadoras.
- keywords: acceso; actividades; actores; alcanzar; algunos; americano; americas; américa; apoyo; artículo; association; basados; bases; cada; canadá; capacidad; capacitación; caribe; chaco; chasquinet; chile; community; como; comunicación; comunidades; comunitarios; común; con; concepto; conforman; conocimiento; continente; continuación; coordinación; creación; cuenta; de las; de telecentros; del; demostrado; desarrollo; distintas; ecuador; el desarrollo; el pit; elaboración; elaborar; en el; entre; este; estos; etapa; evolución; exchange; experiencia; experticia; facilitando; falta; fortalecer; fortalecimiento; fue; fundación; físicos; ganadoras; global; globalización; gran; han; información; intercambio; internet; joven; largo; las; las comunidades; las redes; latina; los; los participantes; los que; medios; mejorar; miembros; modo; movimiento; movimiento de; muchos; muy; más; méxico; necesidades; objetivos; operadores; oportunidad; otros; para; para el; parte; participación; participantes; participar; países; pero; personas; piloto; pit; poder; por; procesos; programa; propuestas; proyecto; puede; que; red de; redes; representa; resultados; sean; sido; sin; sino; sobre; social; solo; son; sus; tabla; tap; telecentros; tipo; todos; trabajo; transnacionales; través; una; una red; uso; vez; virtuales; web; y el
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- 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
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- joci-2368
- author: None
- title: TELECENTROS MANIZALES: UNA APUESTA POR EL DESARROLLO SOCIAL
- date: None
- words: 4483
- flesch: 22
- summary: Participación de los adultos en los procesos de formación e interacción virtual. En el periodo 2003 a 2004 predominó en las salas la población infantil en edades de los 6 a los 13 años quienes representaban el 29% de usuarios en el Telecentro, además de los jóvenes en edades de los 14 a los 26 años que ocupaban el 53% de los usuarios.
- keywords: acceso; administración; adultos; alcaldía; algunos; apertura; aprendizaje; articulación; año; años; barrios; beneficio; cada; cargo; ciudad; ciudadanos; como; comunicación; comunidades; comunitarios; con; con el; con los; conectividad; conocimiento; contenidos; continuidad; cotidianidad; dar; de la; de los; del; del proyecto; derechos; desarrollo; desarrollo de; desde; diferentes; dificultades; edades; el desarrollo; elaboración; en el; en la; en los; enfoque; entre; equipos; espacios; esta; este; esto; estrategia; estratos; existentes; experiencias; facilitadores; formación; fortalecimiento; fueron; gestión; grupos; habilidades; habitantes; hacer; horarios; implementación; importante; iniciativa; inició; instituciones; internet; interés; jóvenes; la ciudad; las; las comunidades; las salas; libre; local; locales; los; los procesos; los telecentros; los usuarios; línea; manera; manizales; mayores; muy; más; módulos; necesidades; niñ@s; operación; oportunidad; otros; para; para el; para la; parte; participación; partir; permitan; permitió; personas; población; por; posibilidades; procesos; programas; propuesta; propósitos; proyecto; que; quien; recursos; redes; salas; servicios; sobre; sociales; sus; tecnologías; tecnológicos; telecentros; tenía; tienen; total; trabajo; tuvieron; una; uso; uso de; usuarios; virtuales; vulnerables; web; y de; y la; y los; área
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- joci-2369
- author: None
- title: Brazilian Digital Inclusion Public Policy: achievements and cha
- date: None
- words: 3228
- flesch: 32
- summary: Challenges Despite a noticeable evolution in digital inclusion public policy, many challenges are facing the Brazilian Federal Government and also other actors who aim to improve these initiatives. Universal access to facilities in the local level Mostly schools, but also telecenters and other digital inclusion initiatives still have restrictions concerning the use of their facilities by all citizens.
- keywords: access; agents; brazilian; broadband; capacity; cgi.br; challenges; civil; community; computers; country; development; digital; digital inclusion; divide; federal; free; government; home; ibge; ict; important; inclusion; income; infrastructure; initiatives; internet; level; local; min; municipalities; national; observatory; people; place; policy; program; project; public; resources; responsibility; schools; social; society; telecenters; use
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- joci-2370
- author: None
- title: Cannibalism, creolization and baroque mobile use
- date: None
- words: 1655
- flesch: 41
- summary: Luego de primeramente considerar y comparar los pro y contra de los tres enfoques tradicionales de apropiación (pro-social; discursivo; y técnico), profundiza una línea teórica alternativa basada en la noción de “aprender mediante el hacer” y “aprender mediante el uso”. Por ejemplo, los usuarios barrocos tenderían a seguir manuales y personalizar sus teléfonos de acuerdo a las recomendaciones de los proveedores.
- keywords: américa; analizar; aprender; aprendizaje; apropiación; artículo; autores; bar; cada; canibalismo; celular; celulares; como; con; configuración; confrontación; control; creolización; culturales; cíclico; cómo; del; desarrollo; diferentes; diversos; ejemplo; entre; ese; esos; esta; este; está; evolución; fin; forma; gente; hacer; impacto; las; latina; los; marco; mediante; modos; más; móviles; para; poder; por; proceso; pueden; que; qué; región; ser; sobre; social; son; sus; sólo; tecnología; tecnológica; telefonía; teléfonos; teórico; tiene; tres; una; usuarios; vez
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- joci-2371
- author: None
- title: None
- date: None
- words: 2158
- flesch: 43
- summary: Este razonamiento provee una base para la crítica de muchos de los considerandos habituales de la preparación de políticas. Los actores involucrados en cada parte del proceso son significativos, puesto que representan (o no) sectores específicos de la sociedad, y enfrentan cotidianamente la variedad de asuntos asociados usualmente con la sociedad de la información.
- keywords: administraciones; américa; aquellos; beneficiarios; bien; buena; burocracia; chile; clivajes; como; comunidades; con; consenso; cuando; definir; del; desde; documento; década; ejemplo; embargo; enfrentar; entre; esta; estado; este; esto; evaluación; fuera; funcionarios; gobiernos; grupos; hacer; hacia; importante; información; internacionales; lado; las; latina; locales; los; menos; metas; mientras; mismo; muchos; muy; más; naciones; nip; para; parte; particularmente; países; pero; plan; planes; políticas; por; problemas; proceso; provee; puede; punto; pública; que; región; relación; resultado; revisión; rol; ser; servicios; significativa; sin; sirve; situación; sobre; sociales; sociedad; son; sus; tema; tienen; una; unesco
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- joci-2372
- author: None
- title: Network Capital: an Expression of Social Capital
- date: None
- words: 3590
- flesch: 42
- summary: Network capital could then be understood as a measure of the differentiated value in the Information Age that communities structured as social networks generate on the basis of electronic (digital) networks for themselves, for others and for society as a whole. Communities are no longer defined only by place, but also by interest, becoming organized into social networks.
- keywords: age; capital; castells; cohesion; collaboration; common; communities; community; computer; context; cooperation; development; different; electronic; environment; generation; global; human; ict; individuals; information; institutions; internet; isbn; issues; knowledge; making; network; network capital; networked; new; open; participation; people; personal; processes; project; public; relationships; results; set; social; social capital; society; software; specific; staff; terms; use; virtual; wellman
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- joci-2373
- author: None
- title: Trapped in the Digital Divide: The Distributive Paradigm in Com
- date: None
- words: 7286
- flesch: 52
- summary: Their interactions with technologies of state administration, including criminal justice technologies like “offender management” systems (Virtual Arrest 2002), and social service technologies like electronic benefits dispersal (Newcombe 1993). These oversights are an effect of the mismatch between the lived reality of low-income people’s interactions with information technology and the normative solutions suggested by ICT policy and activism.
- keywords: access; administration; agenda; ambivalence; author; bridge; bush; change; community; computer; critical; d.c; department; different; digital; digital divide; distributive; divide; drawing; economic; economy; education; equity; example; experiences; feenberg; figure; foundation; goods; gutzman; haves; high; ict; income; inequality; information; internet; interview; issues; jennings; july; justice; labor; lives; low; market; material; national; new; nots; ntia; opportunities; opportunity; paradigm; people; points; policy; poor; popular; powerful; press; programs; public; research; resources; ruth; service; skills; social; solutions; system; technological; technologies; technology; telecommunications; theory; troy; u.s; universal; use; washington; women; work; year; york; young; ywca
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- joci-2374
- author: None
- title: None
- date: None
- words: 7058
- flesch: 46
- summary: Of course, people involved with Community Networks are far too sophisticated to assume that ICTs of themselves are of particular benefit to communities, but still, it is the technology that is understood to be the facilitator, the catalyst, the cause of effects, the means to an end; it is the technology that we focus on, and that distinguishes the Community Network project from other community projects, and it is the social, read as the community in the “community network”, that is the object of this facilitation2. This representation of community networks as private assets has little in common with traditional representations of community, and little in common with the conceptualization of community implied by the Community Network project.
- keywords: abstractions; access; action; actors; acts; analytic; approach; arnold; binaries; binary; case; centre; changes; commercial; common; communities; community; community network; connected; connections; construction; desire; different; digital; discussion; education; end; example; exchange; fig; good; grabher; ground; groups; heterarchic; hierarchical; hierarchy; high; icts; identity; individuals; information; infrastructure; internet; latour; laws; links; local; london; market; modernist; network; new; nodes; oxford; particular; post; postings; power; private; profit; project; public; relations; research; rise; science; self; sense; social; social network; society; sociotechnical; space; studies; subject; system; technical; technologies; technology; terms; theory; things; time; use; virtual; way; web; wellman; world
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- joci-2375
- author: None
- title: Editorial
- date: None
- words: 626
- flesch: 36
- summary: Perhaps of most significance for Community Informatics is the strength and clarity of the argument indicating the necessity for a “Community Informatics” rather than for ICTs as simple supports for communities or of communities simply going out into the marketplace to find the tools to support them.. Garth Graham in his “Point of View” makes a quite parallel argument concerning the independent status of life lived online (within the network) as compared to life outside of the network and of the degree of overall transformation (including in the nature of the policy environment) which such a development implies. It is the contention of CI and the argument implicit in the various papers in this and other issues, that ICT working in and through communities has the potential to ensure that the opportunity for a contribution to productive value as identified by the Bank is realized both in Less Developed as well as Developed countries and among marginalized populations everywhere.
- keywords: bank; communities; community; informatics; nations; network; value; way; wealth; world
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- joci-2376
- author: None
- title: None
- date: None
- words: 2372
- flesch: 57
- summary: Andy Williamson expressed the hope that New Zealand’s new Digital Strategy (NZDS) represents an opportunity for the practices of community informatics to play a greater role in public policy for development. The main problem I have is that neither the NZDS nor Williamson give me any sense of where the New Zealand focus for community informatics as a practice, or community-based communications initiatives, resides, or even if there is such a focus.
- keywords: access; advisory; andy; broadband; communities; community; degree; digital; goals; good; government; group; implementation; informatics; knowledge; local; networks; new; nzds; open; opportunity; people; policy; public; society; strategy; williamson; zealand
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- joci-2377
- author: None
- title: None
- date: None
- words: 3565
- flesch: 56
- summary: Table 5: Determinants of the choice of cybercafe for overnight internet browsing Determinants Frequency % Fast computer internet response 31 50.8 Security of premises 19 31.1 Reliability of power supply 12 19.7 Cost of internet service 7 11.5 Availability of printers 7 11.5 Proximity 4 8.2 Support/assistance to users 2 3.3 Provision for the use of diskettes 1 1.6 Other 1 1.6 As revealed in Table 5, fast computer/ internet ranks first with 31 (50.8%) as a determinant of where most respondents decide to go for night internet browsing. Findings and discussions Table 1 reveals that more males 36 (59%) than female participated in the study (were using overnight internet access in the cafes when the questionnaires were administered).
- keywords: abraka; academic; access; adomi; browsing; clients; cybercafes; day; delta; frequency; highest; hours; information; internet; library; nigeria; okiy; omodeko; open; otolo; overnight; pages; resources; respondents; response; ruteyan; search; service; sites; state; students; study; table; times; university; use; users
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- joci-2378
- author: None
- title: Surveys of the use of
- date: None
- words: 7592
- flesch: 40
- summary: Canada The use of ICT by community sector organisations has been widely encouraged in Canada, with the Government having been particularly active. Conclusions Surveys of the take-up and use of ICT by community sector organisations are valuable, but they are limited in that they can only provide a generalised picture which is most useful as background to further in-depth studies.
- keywords: access; acoss; adoption; analysis; applications; associates; australian; barriers; benefits; burt; business; canada; canadian; capacity; ccnr; centre; communications; community; community sector; cost; development; effective; example; foundation; funding; government; ict; information; information technology; initiative; internet; issues; knowledge; lack; level; leverus; limited; links; major; management; national; needs; networking; networks; new; non; organisations; paper; potential; profit; reported; research; resources; sector; sector organisations; services; significant; size; skills; social; society; staff; strategic; studies; support; surman; surveys; taylor; tbc; technologies; technology; usa; use; voluntary; voluntary sector; websites; wyatt
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- joci-2379
- author: None
- title: Internet Cafés –
- date: None
- words: 7278
- flesch: 54
- summary: Chachage (2001) reports that the main use of the Internet in Internet cafés were e-mail and that the majority of Internet café users and staff in Tanzania lack knowledge in using Internet resources. In Indonesia, two thirds of Internet users gain access through Internet cafés (Kristiansen et al., 2003), and policy documents from Tanzania indicate that Internet cafés are the main means of Internet access in Tanzania as well (Tanzania Ministry of Communications and Transport, 2003).
- keywords: acceptance; access; africa; areas; available; cafés; capita; city; communications; competence; computer; countries; country; customers; cybercafés; dar; development; differences; diffusion; digital; divide; economic; education; english; factors; fees; gdp; general; groups; high; higher; ict; important; indonesia; information; infrastructure; internet; internet cafés; internet use; knowledge; language; large; learning; mail; main; ministry; national; new; number; online; people; policy; poor; population; potential; rate; research; respondents; salaam; school; sites; social; sources; speed; staff; students; study; table; tanzania; technology; telecommunications; time; today; total; transport; university; use; users; world; years; yogyakarta
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- joci-2380
- author: None
- title: None
- date: None
- words: 5228
- flesch: 49
- summary: Furthermore ICT use depends on the socio-economic characteristics of rural households. Yet the ongoing policy debate concerning ICT in empowering rural households seems tilted to the belief that all Ghana needs is to make ICT available and rural households will jump at the opportunity.
- keywords: age; agents; coefficient; community; community radio; constant; data; delivery; east; economic; education; expenditure; extension; factors; ghana; households; households willingness; ict; income; information; information delivery; level; low; married; membership; northern; organization; people; policy; poverty; primary; private; private radio; radio; region; regression; respondent; results; rural; rural households; rural women; significant; source; squared; statistic; study; survey; table; technologies; technology; upper; variable; west; willingness; women
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- joci-2381
- author: None
- title: joci-2381
- date: None
- words: 5
- flesch: 32
- summary: Community Informatics and Systems Design
- keywords: community
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- joci-2382
- author: None
- title: Introduction to the Special Issue
- date: None
- words: 1307
- flesch: 31
- summary: Dave Bourgeois and Thomas Horan first review the Information Systems Design Theory (ISDT) framework and then create a framework for applying it to community information system design where three kernel theories are identified: Social Capital, Community Centred Development and the effective us of community resources.. While all the above papers give insight into theories and methodologies which support community systems design, De Cindio and her colleagues at the University of Milan discuss how communities can help in improving user-centered approaches to online service design.
- keywords: communication; communities; community; design; designing; development; effective; field; ict; information; members; online; practice; process; requirements; research; social; systems; technologies; use; users
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- joci-2383
- author: None
- title: Towards Systems Design for Supporting Enabling Communities
- date: None
- words: 7839
- flesch: 45
- summary: As noted above, community systems include much more than technology; they also encompass the people, knowledge, processes and resulting support. Section 2 discusses the concept of analyzing and designing communities and community support systems.
- keywords: access; activities; analysis; appropriate; aspects; available; collaboration; collective; communication; communities; community; community members; community systems; components; computer; constraints; context; cpal; data; design; designers; development; different; discussion; ecs; eds; effective; enabling; environment; example; framework; future; goals; group; gurstein; help; individuals; influence; informal; information; interactions; issues; katz; kinds; knowledge; levels; management; members; model; need; new; norms; online; organizational; participants; participation; pass; people; policies; press; processes; purpose; research; resources; rice; secomm; section; services; set; shared; sharing; social; software; support; systems; tasks; technologies; technology; time; use; virtual; voting; working
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- joci-2384
- author: None
- title: None
- date: None
- words: 4643
- flesch: 55
- summary: Much as with information systems to support business processes, further research in this area is needed so that a comprehensive set of theories can emerge to support the development of effective community information systems. More interestingly, this research provided insight into the design of community information systems for both the design process and the design product through the framework of information systems design theory.
- keywords: capital; ccd; changes; communities; community; community information; components; design; design process; design theory; development; features; feedback; framework; goals; hunt; impact; increase; information; information systems; internet; isdt; kernel; members; message; networks; new; online; phase; process; product; project; prototype; research; scavenger; set; social; social capital; students; system; systems design; theories; theory; trust; university; users
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- joci-2385
- author: None
- title: None
- date: None
- words: 7675
- flesch: 47
- summary: In neither project was this idea stated clearly from the beginning: it emerged naturally when everybody involved in the projects was forced to recognise the pivotal role that community networks members were playing during the lifecycle of both projects. 3. A prospective approach: community network members as “everyman” Once accepted the idea that it is possible to rely upon the experiences, the knowledge and the relationships collected within a community network to improve the design of innovative online public services, two methodological problems arise.
- keywords: active; age; application; approach; case; cindio; citizens; communication; communities; community; community members; community networks; composition; computer; data; design; development; different; dirette; effective; employees; fact; government; hippel; idea; information; innovation; innovative online; interaction; internet; internet users; involved; involvement; issues; italian; italy; lead; linee; local; members; milan; municipalities; municipality; needs; networks; new; newham; online; online public; organization; orsay; oyk; people; population; possible; press; product; project; province; public; public services; rate; rcm; rcm members; registered; research; role; services; set; social; software; studies; subscribers; support; system; technical; testing; true; users; von; voters; voting; web; years
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- joci-2386
- author: None
- title: None
- date: None
- words: 4992
- flesch: 49
- summary: However, there is a need for concrete tools to help researchers, practitioners and community groups find ways to work together to achieve effective use. Civic Nexus is a three-year participatory design project with the goal of working with community groups to facilitate their ability to use and to learn about technology as they pursue existing goals and as they envision new directions for their community.
- keywords: activity; adjustment; anchoring; approach; capacity; capital; carroll; community; computer; computing; concept; context; decision; design; effective; effective use; effectiveness; example; goals; group; historical; human; information; interaction; knowledge; learning; making; management; new; opportunity; order; organizations; participatory; pennsylvania; practice; problem; process; project; requirements; research; scenarios; social; state; students; study; sue; support; system; team; technology; time; ugrr; university; usability; use; users; way; work
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- joci-2387
- author: None
- title: WORD template for HCI International 2003 papers
- date: None
- words: 8677
- flesch: 44
- summary: Community information systems require much theoretical research to address concrete design problems. Still, systematic methods for the development of community information systems solidly grounded in theory are rare and may as yet be premature.
- keywords: analysis; approach; assumptions; axelrod; base; behavior; better; case; communication; communities; community; complex; components; conceptual; conflict; construction; cooperation; data; design; design hypotheses; design problem; design theory; development; different; dynamics; effective; effects; empirical; example; feedback; figure; gaming; hypotheses; important; information; information systems; interventions; jane; knowledge; level; loops; members; meta; methodologies; methodology; model; need; new; online; paper; particular; people; point; possible; practice; problem; process; relations; reputation; requirements; research; results; segmentation; set; simulation; size; social; specific; stock; study; support; system dynamics; systems; technical; technologies; theoretical; theories; theory; theory components; theory development; time; use; useful; values; virtual; ways
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- joci-2388
- author: None
- title: -
- date: None
- words: 6460
- flesch: 45
- summary: - Towards Supporting Community Information Seeking and Use Nkechi Nnadi New Jersey Institute of Technology bieber@oak.njit.edu Michael Gurstein Centre for Community Informatics Research, Development and Training gurstein@gmail.com Abstract In this paper we explore issues surrounding the design of systems that will effectively support community information seeking and use. ICTs that support community information seeking and use may also have other beneficial side effects such as enabling quicker response by government agencies to communities needs, raising awareness of important issues, providing transparency in decision making processes and educating the community on environmental and market changes (McNamara, 2003).
- keywords: access; activities; activity; authors; building; challenges; collaborative; collaborative information; communities; community; community information; consensus; design; designers; development; documents; effective; evaluation; features; icts; important; individual; information; information need; information retrieval; knowledge; local; manner; means; members; meyer; nature; need; new; order; paper; particular; people; problem; process; query; retrieval; retrieved; search; seeking; sharing; social; study; support; system; tasks; team; technology; use; user; view; way; work
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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 <natalie.pang@infotech.monash.edu.au> 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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, <I>CRACIN Working Paper </I><I>No.12</I>. 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><a; university; users; wawatay; ways; web; wide; world; years; youth
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- joci-2450
- author: None
- title: Abstract: A Community-based Model for e-service delivery for First Nations: The K-net Approach to Water Treatment in Northern
- date: None
- words: 9373
- flesch: 30
- summary: It is the intention of this paper to begin a more general discussion on overall policy with respect to service delivery in remote and rural indigenous and other communities. As well, the paper will explore how the new opportunities presented by ICT can transform services and service delivery to make these both more efficient and effective while at the same time providing ways for communities themselves to become much more involved in the actual delivery and management of locally essential services.
- keywords: access; approach; appropriate; areas; availability; available; broadband; canada; case; centralized; centre; citizen; communities; community; control; cost; course; degree; design; developed; development; direct; effective; electronic; enabled; example; funding; government; health; hub; ict; individual; informatics; instance; intensive; level; limited; local; local communities; local service; maintenance; management; means; model; monitoring; nations; need; net; network; new; nodes; northern; ongoing; ontario; operation; operators; opportunities; overall; plant; possible; program; providers; provision; public; quality; range; remote; requirements; residents; resources; rural; service; service delivery; service hub; service provider; service provision; service quality; significant; skilled; skills; specific; staff; standards; study; support; system; technical; technology; time; training; treatment; use; wastewater; water; water treatment; way; working; world
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- joci-2451
- author: None
- title: Historical discrimination, racism, and social injustice have left First Nations with a lower quality of life than most Canadian
- date: None
- words: 7033
- flesch: 53
- summary: Our observations and analysis suggests that videoconferencing creates a public sphere in First Nations communities in Northern Ontario. The case occurred in 2007 and connected a number of First Nation communities across Canada for simultaneous audio-visual exchange.
- keywords: aboriginal; access; analysis; atlantic; author; better; broadband; canada; case; citizens; communication; communities; community; counter; development; different; discussion; event; example; fraser; future; government; green; groups; habermas; icts; informatics; lookout; media; meeting; multi; nations; net; network; new; northern; ontario; organizations; paper; participants; people; political; press; public; public sphere; region; regional; remote; research; services; shared; sioux; site; social; society; space; sphere; study; support; technology; telehealth; theory; time; training; university; uses; videoconferencing; york
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- joci-2452
- author: None
- title: Paper for Canadian Journal of Communication
- date: None
- words: 10840
- flesch: 45
- summary: For equitable ICT implementation, the lack of access to computers by significant segments of populations may in fact play a negative impact on community social capital. The examination of the ICT initiatives suggested that although the what of connectivity mattering, it is the how of connectivity that seems to make the most difference in terms of community social capital.
- keywords: aboriginal; aboriginal communities; access; action; alberta; american; areas; basic; bonding; bridging; british; broadband; building; business; canada; capabilities; capacity; capital; case; centres; columbia; communication; communities; community; companies; computers; connections; connectivity; cost; development; different; economic; eds; education; equipment; essential; example; formal; framework; funding; government; health; high; home; human; ict; implementation; increase; industry; information; infrastructure; initiatives; institutions; internet; inuit; investments; journal; key; ktunaxa; leadership; learning; level; local; manitoba; members; model; métis; nations; necessary; need; networks; new; non; norms; northern; nunavut; online; ontario; opportunities; organizations; oxford; paper; participation; people; perspective; policy; potential; press; private; program; project; public; qiniq; related; relations; remote; research; resources; role; school; services; skills; social; social capital; students; studies; study; successful; support; sustainable; technology; telehealth; traditional; training; trust; type; understanding; university; urban; url; use; videoconferencing; walmark; way; wellman; winnipeg; wireless; woolcock
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- joci-2453
- author: None
- title: Videoconferencing for community development: Lessons from K-Net and the Atlantic First Nations HelpDesk
- date: None
- words: 5509
- flesch: 41
- summary: Videoconferencing for community development: Lessons from K-Net and the Atlantic First Nations HelpDesk How K-Net and Atlantic Canada’s First Nation Help Desk are Using Videoconferencing for Community Development Mary Milliken National Research Council, Fredericton, Canada <mary.milliken@nrc.gc.ca> Susan O’Donnell National Research Council, Fredericton, Canada <susan.odonnell@nrc.gc.ca> Elizabeth Gorman National Research Council, Fredericton, Canada <l7bt2@unb.ca> 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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. </P> <P> 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
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- 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><p; particular; practice; research; social; strong; systems; technical; technologies; use
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- joci-2461
- author: None
- title: None
- date: None
- words: 4284
- flesch: 46
- summary: Because community inquiry underlies our approach to system development, we include users as active designers who bring their experiences to bear in designing new iLab tools. A cornerstone of community inquiry is that it aims to respond to human needs by democratic and equitable processes.
- keywords: action; activists; activities; bishop; boricua; bruce; center; chicago; collaborative; communities; community; community inquiry; course; cultural; design; development; dewey; different; digital; education; experience; high; human; icts; ilab; information; inquiry; interaction; learning; librarianship; library; local; members; neighborhood; new; paseo; paseo boricua; people; practices; prcc; process; project; puerto; residents; resources; rican; school; social; software; students; support; technology; tools; university; use; web; work; york; youth
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- joci-2462
- author: None
- title: None
- date: None
- words: 7955
- flesch: 48
- summary: Contrary to Blackburn’s findings for library users as a whole, the traditional professional middle-classes – most likely to be found in Mosaic categories A, B, and C – are not especially big users of the People’s Network in Shropshire, and between them accounted for only 17% of all Mosaic postcodes in the study. The People's Network does not exist as a stand-alone system for library users, but is interconnected with their library habits, their urban geographies, and their socialising patterns to some extent.
- keywords: access; age; analysis; areas; background; blackburn; books; bourdieu; capital; case; categories; category; classes; clear; communities; computers; council; county; data; demographic; different; digital; disadvantaged; educational; environment; general; habitus; home; ict; impact; individual; information; institute; internet; isolation; lack; levels; libraries; library; life; likely; literacy; low; middle; mosaic; mosaic categories; network; new; overall; people; perspectives; plus; population; postcode; profile; public; questionnaire; relationship; report; research; respondents; rural; sample; second; selwyn; service; shropshire; social; study; survey; table; total; towns; traditional; urban; users; visitors; wealthy; webber; working
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- joci-2463
- author: None
- title: Social Entrepreneurship, ICTs and Youth Development in South Af
- date: None
- words: 8364
- flesch: 42
- summary: Applying Existing Ideas in New Ways The above challenges facing secondary education youth development in South Africa and Africa in general call for innovative approaches to meet the educational and training needs of the youth. The quality, relevance and cost of secondary school training are among the various challenges facing youth education in South Africa and other African countries.
- keywords: access; activities; africa; apartheid; application; approach; areas; bank; cape; capital; case; challenges; change; communication; communities; community; community development; computer; countries; development; different; draxler; economic; economy; education; effective; employment; entrepreneurs; essential; figure; goals; government; groups; haddad; help; high; human; icts; ikamvayouth; information; innovative; internet; investment; job; khayelitsha; knowledge; lack; large; learners; learning; level; literacy; local; low; major; mobile; model; needs; new; olivier; opportunities; organization; people; percent; policy; poor; positive; potential; poverty; press; primary; private; process; programs; public; quality; region; report; research; resources; school; secondary; secondary education; sector; skills; social; society; south africa; students; study; sub; success; support; sustainable; system; teachers; technologies; technology; training; university; use; ventures; volunteers; world; young; youth; youth development
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- joci-2464
- author: None
- title: Running head: SOCIAL CAPITAL AND WIRELESS ENCRYPTION PRACTICES
- date: None
- words: 7576
- flesch: 48
- summary: Social Capital Putnam defines social capital as “connections among individuals – social networks and the norms of reciprocity and trustworthiness that rise from them” (19). A longitudinal study on formal social capital and the Internet revealed that the practice of internet adoption occurred more quickly among individuals with higher social capital and that Internet use does not reduce time spent interacting in social networks, which indicates a positive relationship between social capital and the practice of Internet adoption .
- keywords: access; access points; adoption; analysis; area; august; average; business; capital; census; characteristics; city; communication; community; computer; data; demographic; diffuse; diffusion; encryption; factors; figure; group; higher; home; households; hypotheses; important; income; individual; informal; informal social; information; innovations; internet; knowledge; level; likely; local; location; main; members; monitoring; neighborhood; neighbors; networks; new; number; organizations; paper; people; phase; points; population; practices; process; proportion; questions; rate; related; relationship; research; residential; results; rogers; role; second; signal; significant; social; social capital; social networks; status; study; survey; technological; technologies; technology; ties; time; type; units; urban; use; users; values; variables; wireless; wireless networks
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- joci-2465
- author: None
- title: ICTs and Community Participation - Indicative Framework
- date: None
- words: 6613
- flesch: 45
- summary: The initial challenge of sharing community level information with the other entities in the YIP was achieved through the household survey. On the supply side, Imparato and Ruster (2003) suggest that a related enabling structure should be put in place which will be responsive to the demands of the community and can facilitate community participation.
- keywords: access; action; areas; authority; case; change; collection; communities; community; community groups; context; data; decision; democracy; democratic; development; different; economic; evaluation; example; extent; flow; forms; framework; government; groups; icts; indicators; information; initiatives; institutional; internet; issues; jamaica; jaspev; kingston; knowledge; level; local; london; making; nature; new; paper; participants; participation; participatory; policy; political; potential; poverty; problem; process; program; public; purpose; sdc; sharing; social; specific; stakeholders; structure; study; support; system; technologies; terms; troika; use; world; yip; youth
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- joci-2466
- author: None
- title: Communities, Technologies and Participation: Notes from C&T 2009
- date: None
- words: 5532
- flesch: 32
- summary: He cited an Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) blog post about strengthening civic participation, the National Initiative on Social Participation he recently instigated, and concluded with a proposal that everyone [at the conference] should dedicate 2 hours per week for outreach to other communities to promote civic participation. The next day started off with a panel on Community technology to support geographically-based communities, moderated by Marcus Foth (who co-organized the Digital Cities 6 workshop at C&T 2009 and will be chairing C&T 2011), and included Paul Resnick, Fiorella de Cindio, Keith Hampton and me.
- keywords: blog; c&t; civic; cleveland; code; collaborative; collective; comments; communities; community; competitive; computational; computer; conference; discussion; experiment; factors; ibm; information; intelligence; interaction; interesting; internet; karim; keith; keynote; knowledge; life; like; mark; media; members; mozilla; new; notes; number; onecommunity; online; panel; paper; participants; participation; people; physical; places; post; presentation; professional; program; project; public; q&a; questions; recent; reference; research; second; sense; session; shared; sharing; slides; social; spaces; state; success; support; talk; technologies; technology; u.s; users; video; virtual; way; wikipedia; wireless; work; world; wrd
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- joci-2467
- author: None
- title: ROLE OF ICTS IN INDIAN RURAL COMMUNITIES
- date: None
- words: 7671
- flesch: 38
- summary: “Teledensity Target to be Revised for 2006, Says DoT.” Accessed January 30, 2006, from: http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=113956 Singh, P. (2006). Accessed January 30, 2006 from: http://classweb.gmu.edu/nclc348/f03/348socialcapital.htm World Bank (2006).
- keywords: access; activities; agricultural; alleviation; areas; available; basic; benefits; centres; citizens; communication; communities; community; computer; connectivity; content; cost; countries; country; data; development; digital; direct; divide; economic; education; effective; electronic; english; factors; farmers; global; governance; government; groups; hardware; health; help; high; human; icts; icts projects; india; indicators; information; infrastructure; internet; itu; january; kiosks; knowledge; lack; language; learning; level; limited; local; market; means; model; need; network; new; number; online; opportunities; penetration; people; policies; poor; population; poverty; private; problems; programme; projects; providers; public; radio; records; research; role; rural; rural communities; rural icts; rural india; sector; select; self; services; set; social; software; state; successful; support; sustainable; system; tamil; technologies; technology; teledensity; training; transactions; urban; use; users; villages; way; wireless; world; years
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- joci-2532
- author: None
- title: None
- date: None
- words: 1107
- flesch: 29
- summary: The paper by Denison and Johanson takes a unique look at e-research infrastructure and its implications for community research. The paper by Gomez and Baron describes part of a larger study in Colombia, in which expected outcomes of CI were mostly absent: public access to information and communication technologies (ICT) has not helped strengthen community organizations or development activities, most likely due to the political violence that has affected the region.
- keywords: able; best; communities; community; conference; development; ict; information; new; organizations; outcomes; paper; project; research; social; unanticipated; unexpected; university; ways; work; world
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- joci-2533
- author: None
- title: None
- date: None
- words: 979
- flesch: 50
- summary: Or do people interpret such immediacy responses (posting pictures on Facebook instead of Youtube, or real-time video-calls between continents on i-phones? As examples, the paper by Gebhardt, Greif, Raycheva, Lobet-Maris and Lasen examines development of Ketnet Kick, a popular collaborative game in Flanders (Belgium) for pre-adolescents and suggests that the ethical relationship between on and online communities is critical, and children, as children, exist in a ‘netplay’ society, in which research drawing upon child development and media studies in the development of games needs to take place to development meaningful and relevant products.
- keywords: actor; broadband; broadband society; development; europe; gebhardt; icts; lobet; maris; media; new; paper; participation; people; research; society; vincent; volumes; york
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- joci-2534
- author: None
- title: joci-2534
- date: None
- words: 6404
- flesch: 35
- summary: This view is supported by Stillman (2005) and Stillman and Stoecker (2004), who advocate the use of PAR for the research and evaluation of community technology projects for building community capacity that will lead to more effective use of new technologies in the service of community development. Understood here as helping to establish conditions under which the necessary personal and systemic attributes required to identify and address community development challenges can develop and be mobilised into action for the good of the community (Adams, 2005, pp. 4, 5) 4 Defined here in Sen's (1987) terms as what real opportunities you have regarding the life you may lead (cited in Saito, 2003, p. 21) 5 Defined here as the personal and social characteristics that can be mobilised into action for the good of the community (Adams, 2005, p. 4) 6 See Hearn, Kimber, Lennie & Simpson (2005), Simpson (2005) and Knox (2005) for analyses of Australian community technology projects funded under this program
- keywords: action; approach; arden; australia; available; building; capacity; capital; communities; community; community development; community engagement; community informatics; community learning; complexity; conference; critical; data; design; development; digital; divide; education; effective; empowerment; engagement; environment; evaluation; factors; focus; framework; governance; granitenet; granitenet project; group; icts; informatics; journal; key; knowledge; learning; levin; literature; local; mclachlan; members; model; nature; opportunities; paper; participants; participation; participatory; phase; planning; portal; problems; processes; project; public; queensland; reference; research; review; rural; simpson; social; southern; stanthorpe; stillman; strategy; sustainability; team; technology; terms; theory; time; unexpected; university; use
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- joci-2535
- author: None
- title: None
- date: None
- words: 8940
- flesch: 43
- summary: As part of the investigation performed on the Caribbean coast of the country, we included the municipality of El Carmen de Bolívar. El Carmen de Bolívar has a population of 70,000 and forms part of the Montes de María region, also known as the Serrania de San Jacinto, located between the departments of Sucre and Bolívar.
- keywords: access; access venues; activities; addition; armed; bolívar; calls; capital; caribbean; carmen; carmen de; case; children; cities; city; collective; colombia; communication; communities; community; community development; computers; country; cultural; cybercafés; data; de bolívar; development; different; distribution; economic; economy; el carmen; experts; focus; forms; gomez; groups; history; ict; icts; important; informal; information; internet; internet access; interviews; libraries; life; local; maría; massacre; media; methods; mobile; montes; municipalities; municipality; national; networks; operators; organizations; participants; participation; peace; people; pesos; phone; political; population; private; production; programs; projects; public; public access; radio; region; research; rodriguez; salado; sample; school; services; small; social; spaces; state; study; support; surveys; telecentres; television; town; training; types; university; urban; use; users; venues; violence; water; work; young
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- joci-2536
- author: None
- title: None
- date: None
- words: 594
- flesch: 16
- summary: Communities of course, gain from having access to the results of research, being able to draw on the skills of academics and senior students, particularly graduate students who are often able to bridge communities into technologies and resource environments which would otherwise be denied to them. The difficulty also is that research resources and particularly research funding generally is restricted to direct use by researchers (senior or junior) and cannot be used for example, to pay for time on the part of community members who may be participating as “partners” alongside paid researchers or academics who are conducting research as part of their normal academic responsibilities (and compensation schemes).
- keywords: academic; communities; community; ethical; informatics; research; researchers; resources; senior
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- joci-2537
- author: None
- title: Untitled Page
- date: None
- words: 4374
- flesch: 41
- summary: We examine the role of domain, conversation, and functionality roles in modelling community activation. Domain, conversation, and functionality roles We distinguish three types of interrelated roles in collaboration patterns: domain, conversation, and functionality roles.
- keywords: activation; building; change; climate; collaboration; collaboration patterns; communicative; communities; community; computer; consensus; context; conversation; design; domain; editing; editor; enabled; executor; figure; fragmentation; functionality; goal; herrmann; important; information; interaction; language; loop; making; mappings; members; moor; patterns; people; point; report; requirements; roles; section; sensemaking; social; socio; sociotechnical; specific; stages; stakeholders; system; technical; tool; types; usage; use; weigand; workflow
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- joci-2538
- author: None
- title: None
- date: None
- words: 9012
- flesch: 47
- summary: Challenging Warner’s perspective on social movements’ agency In this essay I argue that the case of post-earthquake L’Aquila can aide in deepening our understanding of the potential agency of discursive counterpublics in their transformation into social movements. The case of post-earthquake L’Aquila provides an example of a growing counterpublic engaged in an active resistance to a mainstream discourse and in a process of change-making through poiesis.
- keywords: activism; activists; agency; aquilani; asen; attention; berlusconi; case; center; change; circulation; cities; citizens; city; common; conception; counterpublics; cpa; creative; critical; deem; democracy; disaster; discourse; discursive; downtown; earthquake; emergency; essay; events; government; habermasian; images; international; italian; italy; kind; life; local; l’aquila; making; management; material; media; minister; miracle; miracolo; movements; national; new; order; participation; people; poetic; poiesis; political; politics; possibility; possible; post; potential; prime; private; protest; public; public discourse; public sphere; publicity; reality; reconstruction; red; residents; rhetorics; rubble; sense; situation; social; social movements; space; spectacle; speech; state; text; theory; time; transformation; visibility; warner; way; web; wittenberg; world; zone
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- joci-2539
- author: None
- title: Untitled Page
- date: None
- words: 6023
- flesch: 48
- summary: Thus, the need for “e-learning strategies” has been recognized. Research in the field of ICT support for learning and teaching usually focused on one of these aspects: educational designs, selection and affordances of technologies, e-learning strategies.
- keywords: 2006; academic; addition; arnold; bvu; case; challenge; change; closed; communities; community; comprehensive; der; designs; development; different; diverse; eds; educational; educational resources; expectations; face; faculties; für; higher; hochschulen; ict; implementation; initiatives; innovation; learning; lecturers; lms; management; means; moodle; need; new; online; open; open educational; openness; paradigm; planning; process; project; quality; research; resources; rights; role; services; set; smith; software; strategies; strategy; streaming; students; study; support; sustainability; systems; teaching; technologies; tools; transport; trayner; und; unexpected; universities; university; use; wenger
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- joci-2540
- author: None
- title: None
- date: None
- words: 5058
- flesch: 42
- summary: Finally, a third root of social representation approach is in phenomenology and particularly in the attention to the everyday shared knowledge, to the often implicit meanings and interpretations that allow individuals and communities to communicate and to behave in meaningful ways. On these and other issues, social representation approach and community informatics have many insights to offer, yet efforts are still needed to bridge these two perspectives systematically.
- keywords: approach; citizenship; communication; communities; community; construction; contarello; cultural; culture; different; eds; everyday; example; features; fortunati; framework; goal; human; icts; individual; information; internet; journal; knowledge; life; meanings; media; memory; mobile; moscovici; new; novelties; object; people; perspective; practices; processes; psychological; psychology; representation approach; representations; research; researchers; results; sarrica; second; self; shared; social; social representations; society; technological; technologies; technology; theoretical; theory; thinking; time; unexpected; use; users; wagner; ways; world
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- joci-2541
- author: None
- title: None
- date: None
- words: 6581
- flesch: 47
- summary: Still, after a decade of observations and case studies, it is clear that the effective operation and sustainability of community telecenters can be fraught with substantial challenges. Older adults who praised the use of telecenter ICTs by the young balked at the idea of adopting the technology themselves.
- keywords: access; adoption; adults; age; agricultural; america; areas; bank; barriers; care; caribbean; challenges; change; children; communal; communication; communities; community; computers; cultural; development; digital; dijk; divide; dominican; education; el limón; factors; government; ground; home; human; icts; impact; inclusion; individuals; inequality; information; international; internet; itu; journal; knowledge; learning; limón; literacy; local; meeting; network; new; number; ocoa; older; outside; paper; people; political; population; poverty; prosperity; provide; regular; remote; republic; research; residents; role; roman; rural; school; setting; skills; small; social; society; socio; structural; study; sustainability; technologies; technology; telecenter; tool; training; union; university; urban; use; van; whyte; wilson; world; young
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- joci-2542
- author: None
- title: None
- date: None
- words: 6177
- flesch: 37
- summary: e-Research Infrastructure and Community Research Tom Denison Monash University Graeme Johanson Monash University Abstract Research is increasingly being conducted by multi-stakeholder teams which include the researchers themselves, funding authorities, industry collaborators and community stakeholders inside and outside universities, all of whom have dynamic requirements relating to research data, research artefacts and products, and published outcomes. It will discuss issues including: empowerment, research frameworks, design and methods; and how to conduct ethical research with communities, including protocols, intellectual property, ownership of research data and of outcomes.
- keywords: access; australian; available; case; communities; community; control; data; data management; denison; different; electronic; ethical; ethics; example; facilities; frameworks; indigenous; information; infrastructure; institutional; intellectual; interviews; issues; knowledge; lack; legal; management; monash; need; negotiation; new; outcomes; ownership; participants; participatory; partners; policies; possible; practices; problems; project; property; protocols; questions; range; repositories; research; research data; researchers; resources; results; rights; science; security; significant; social; specific; storage; systems; terms; tools; trust; understanding; university; use; value
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- joci-2543
- author: None
- title: None
- date: None
- words: 3442
- flesch: 47
- summary: Adding the impact of excluding prison inmates would magnify this. About 40 percent of state prison inmates never received a General Education Diploma (GED) or a High School Diploma (HSD) compared with about 14 percent of all adults [2].
- keywords: access; available; basic; black; communications; community; computers; correctional; department; digital; divide; doc; economic; education; facilities; ict; incarcerated; information; inmates; literacy; males; model; need; offenders; percent; policy; population; prison; prisoners; programs; public; rainbow; recidivism; service; skills; social; society; state; technology; training; u.s; use; vocational; washington; web; years
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- joci-2544
- author: None
- title: None
- date: None
- words: 7408
- flesch: 46
- summary: “Career changers” are an important source of teacher education students and their maturity is usually highly valued by employers. Review of these profiles plus data from student conversations and responses to course evaluation surveys, highlight the enabling factors that contributed to university level study success for a small group of teacher education students who studied ‘externally’ by on-line distance education.
- keywords: academic; access; australian; available; backgrounds; campus; care; children; commitments; communication; communities; community; conference; contact; course; data; day; different; digital; distance; economic; education; elliott; experiences; external; face; factors; family; flexible; higher; higher education; home; income; informatics; interaction; internal; issues; learning; line; line learning; living; long; low; materials; new; opportunities; opportunity; options; paper; participation; pay; pedagogies; pedagogy; people; personal; phone; platforms; professional; programs; progression; remote; report; research; review; school; staff; students; studies; study; subjects; success; support; teacher; teaching; technical; technologies; technology; time; tools; universities; university; users; week; work; year
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- joci-2545
- author: None
- title: None
- date: None
- words: 9015
- flesch: 55
- summary: In this regard, it should be remembered that there is only one movement group, in contrast to other social movement cases – for example, other Italian cases such as the “Purple People” movement or the “Anomalous Wave” student movement- in which multiple online groups were created (because there are no official leaders and the movement’s borders are fluid with loose ties, so that anyone can set up a group. Social movements & ICTs: a brief overview Before performing an analysis of the movement of the wheelbarrows, let us first clear up what we mean when we talk of social movements.
- keywords: abruzzo; active; activist; analysis; anna; april; assembly; blogger; blogs; board; case; center; citizens; city; collective; communication; content; coordination; debris; different; dimension; discussion; duomo; earthquake; events; facebook; facebook group; farinosi; february; federico; fundamental; global; group; icts; important; information; internet; interplay; interviews; italian; italy; kavada; like; links; local; luca; l’aquila; media; meeting; members; methods; moment; movement; network; new; newspapers; official; offline; online; order; organization; organized; participants; participation; particular; people; piazza; place; platforms; points; political; possible; post; power; process; proposals; protest; public; reconstruction; research; role; rubble; scarriolate; shared; sharing; sites; small; social; social movements; society; square; sunday; time; town; treré; university; use; video; way; web; wheelbarrows; words; zone
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- joci-2546
- author: None
- title: None
- date: None
- words: 8023
- flesch: 52
- summary: Len thus takes full advantage of changing technologies, strategically mixing and matching new communications technologies with improved transport technologies to make a life that bridges WheatCliffs and the state capital. But that is not to say that communications technologies are insignificant.
- keywords: access; actors; alex; anxiety; arnold; australian; capital; centre; change; children; choice; city; communications; communities; community; connection; contemporary; counter; cultural; data; daughter; day; dilution; distance; district; economic; email; example; experience; families; family; frank; high; home; important; information; internet; isolated; ivy; jane; jen; leisure; len; level; life; like; lives; local; long; lot; marsha; materials; members; mobile; national; new; pack; parents; participants; particular; people; personal; phone; place; population; presence; probe; regional; relation; rural; rurality; significant; small; smith; social; socio; sociotechnical; state; stephen; street; studies; study; systems; technologies; technology; terms; text; time; town; township; university; urban; use; way; wheatcliffs; work; world; years
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- joci-2547
- author: None
- title: None
- date: None
- words: 5135
- flesch: 45
- summary: Failure, success and improvisation of information systems projects in developing countries. Content creation for ICT development projects: Integrating normative approaches and community demand,” Information Technology for Development, 10(2), 85-94.
- keywords: access; agricultural; available; bank; bengal; change; colle; communication; communities; community; conroy; countries; database; developed; development; eds; expert; extension; fao; farmers; financial; functional; gps; groups; harris; icts; important; india; information; initiatives; intermediary; international; internet; issues; journal; knowledge; kumar; lessons; local; management; march; mobile; model; operator; organizations; paper; poverty; project; questions; related; research; resources; role; roman; rural; social; sustainability; sustainable; system; technologies; technology; telecentre; telesupport; university; use; villages; way; web; west; world
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- joci-2548
- author: None
- title: None
- date: None
- words: 3515
- flesch: 22
- summary: Adjeacent And Interrelated Initiatives Agro Vocational Training: On the anvil is an agriculture vocational training initiative for small farmers, where videos of agriculture best practices are being showcased to farmers, through the social entrepreneur route. Eg. Empowerment of small farmers through concerted group participation and resultant collective collaboration and action to deliver productivity gains, reducing their fragmentation/ isolation and wresting control of their lives and livelihoods.
- keywords: ability; access; agriculture; agro; application; appropriate; best; better; business; cost; credit; crop; ecosystem; effective; ekutir; entrepreneur; etc; experts; farmer; fertilizer; finance; food; genuine; growth; health; hubs; ict; impact; income; initiative; interventions; knowledge; large; level; livelihoods; management; manner; market; micro; months; net; orissa; potential; practices; quality; rural; seeds; service; small; small farmer; social; soil; suppliers; supply; time; training; type; urban; village
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- joci-2549
- author: Gurstein, Michael
- title: Investment 58-Poverty 14: TheUN'sBroadband Commission for Digital Development vs. the MDGs
- date: 2010-09-28
- words: 316
- flesch: 71
- summary: Si desea abrir un archivo de una pila, simplemente tiene que hacer clic en él. tan solo tiene que arrastrar una carpeta al lado derecho del Dock y automáticamente se convertirá en una pila.
- keywords: archivo; dock; documentos; forma; las; los; para; pila; que; una
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- joci-2550
- author: None
- title: None
- date: None
- words: 8208
- flesch: 46
- summary: The number of households with Internet access and internet users is still low in Hungary. The high rate of broadband access is to no avail when the number of internet users is so low.
- keywords: able; access; adult; aparhant; average; basic; broadband; broadband internet; clear; communication; community; computers; consultant; contacts; country; data; development; digital; economic; education; experts; fact; friends; group; half; help; households; huf; hungarian; hungarian society; hungary; ict; impact; important; information; information society; infrastructure; institutions; internet; internet access; internet project; internet usage; internet users; knowledge; lack; local; mentor; mobile; molnár; necessary; network; new; non; number; office; opportunities; people; percent; persons; places; population; possible; post; public; research; resources; role; school; services; settlements; small; social; society; source; structure; support; technology; time; tools; use; users; village; world; world internet
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- joci-2551
- author: None
- title: None
- date: None
- words: 7563
- flesch: 41
- summary: How ICT can help: Effective communication through ICT tools Xue (2004) mentions, that public health emergency response requires a low-degree of mediation and a high degree of collaboration. They have also contributed to health preparedness by enhancing science education and community health and services.
- keywords: access; aids; alert; areas; boundaries; broadband; business; care; cellular; center; citizens; collaboration; communication; communities; community; connectivity; coordination; countries; crisis; deployment; development; devices; digital; disasters; education; effective; efforts; emergencies; emergency; example; figure; fit; focus; francisco; global; grassroots; groups; growth; haiti; health; help; high; hiv; ict; information; infrastructure; initiatives; institute; january; large; level; limited; line; local; low; management; march; media; medical; mobile; mobility; multiple; need; new; number; options; organizations; people; planning; preparedness; prevention; problem; protocols; public; public health; related; resources; responders; response; richness; role; san; scale; sector; services; sms; social; stakeholders; support; systems; task; technologies; technology; telecommunications; term; text; theory; time; tools; training; turoff; use; virtual; wireless; world
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- joci-2552
- author: None
- title: None
- date: None
- words: 8746
- flesch: 48
- summary: One definition of telecentre is provided by Reilly & Gomez (2001) stating that telecentres are physical spaces that provide public access to information and communication technologies, notably the Internet, for educational, personal, social and economic development. Composing a tool for development? With the common understanding of telecentres as being tools for development it is of interest to understand Tunjang telecentre as a potential tool for change within the Tunjang community.
- keywords: access; actions; aim; applications; april; aspirations; characteristics; communication; communities; community; community development; community members; computers; content; data; development; education; english; evaluation; expectations; family; global; gomez; government; harris; hours; hunt; ict; ict training; icts; idrc; indicators; individual; information; interest; internet; knowledge; lamoureux; learning; level; local; mail; malaysia; management; march; members; model; motivated; national; needs; new; nitc; objectives; ottawa; outcomes; perspective; potential; primary; problems; project; research; school; services; skills; social; stated; students; study; support; teachers; technologies; technology; telecentre; telecentre evaluation; telecentre services; telecentre users; time; training; tunjang; tunjang community; tunjang telecentre; users; web; work
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- joci-2553
- author: None
- title: None
- date: None
- words: 4621
- flesch: 53
- summary: Accessing the Council directory for health services did not differ among towns (c2 = 2.318, p>.05) including Town D which had stressed the value of their directory for health service information. Other sources of health information All 1125 respondents were given the opportunity to indicate where they find information about health services.
- keywords: 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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.</P> <P> 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
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- 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
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- 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<a href=#_ftn1 name=_ftnref1 title=><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span class=MsoFootnoteReference>[1]</a> 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=""><span; training; trust; tuhoe; university; use; way; ways; wellington; williams; world; years; zealand
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- joci-2601
- author: None
- title: None
- date: None
- words: 3245
- flesch: 39
- summary: Popular education workshops are often interactive and multimodal (Olds, 2004). Multimodality and the analysis and production of various media forms also appear in popular education workshops, following from the principle that literacies are multiple and modes of education cannot be universalised into one standard, print-based mode of knowledge production and transmission (Kincheloe 2008).
- keywords: ability; approach; buildthewheel.org; case; collaborative; community; components; content; culture; curriculum; deuze; development; digital; digital culture; education; educators; information; knowledge; learning; materials; media; models; new; online; organisations; participants; participation; particular; popular; popular education; potential; power; practices; production; remediation; resources; share; site; social; study; technologies; university; users; values; way; workshops; world
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- joci-2602
- author: None
- title: None
- date: None
- words: 6062
- flesch: 46
- summary: Objective To identify the impact of ICT applications on the work practices of social activists engaged in multicultural co-operations at ESF; and to find better design ideas for future prototypes to better support ESF activists in their work. How is technology developed, appropriated and transferred among ESF activists? Table 1: Overview of ICT4CSO Project We gathered empirical data from January 2008 to October 2010.
- keywords: action; activists; activities; actors; application; approach; case; committee; communication; community; complex; conference; content; data; design; different; difficult; empirical; epa; esf; ethnographic; european; field; focus; forum; human; ict; important; information; international; interviews; issues; knowledge; london; mailing; meetings; need; network; new; online; order; organizations; organizing; paper; people; political; practices; process; project; research; researchers; result; rohde; saeed; settings; social; study; support; technology; time; transnational; usage; voluntary; work; working; wulf
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- joci-2644
- author: None
- title: joci-2644
- date: None
- words: 2321
- flesch: 31
- summary: In the Canadian Aboriginal context, First Mile broadband infrastructure reflects the principles of Community Ownership, Control, Access and Possession, or OCAP (see: http://meeting.knet.ca/mp19/mod/resource/view.php?id=4012). First Mile development provides a model for broadband infrastructure and network operations that counters the traditional corporate approach of building from the centre outwards.
- keywords: access; applications; approach; broadband; brunswick; canada; capacity; communities; community; contributions; corporate; development; economic; funding; infrastructure; initiatives; internet; issue; local; mile; nations; needs; networks; new; partners; projects; providers; regional; regions; remote; research; resources; rural; service; social; special; telecom; telecommunications; university; use; users
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- joci-2645
- author: None
- title: joci-2645
- date: None
- words: 1825
- flesch: 20
- summary: What is new and somewhat startling is the full court press by the US government (USG) and its allies and acolytes among the corporate, technical and civil society participants in Internet Governance discussions to extend the use of the highly locally adapted versions of the MS model from the quite narrow and technical areas where it has achieved a considerable degree of success towards becoming the fundamental and effectively, only, basis on which such Internet Governance discussions are to be allowed (as per the USG's statement concerning the transfer of the DNS management function) to go forward. This will of course include for example the major Internet corporations who get to promote their stakes and make Internet policy through some sort of consensus process where all the participants have an equal say and where rules governing things like operational procedures, conflict of interest, modes and structures of internal governance, rules of participation etc. etc.
- keywords: civil; clear; corporations; countries; course; decision; democratic; developed; economic; freedom; global; governance; government; interest; internet; making; model; multistakeholder; neo; policy; processes; public; rules; social; society; stakeholders; technical
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- joci-2646
- author: None
- title: joci-2646
- date: None
- words: 1793
- flesch: 34
- summary: Community networks present the opportunity, as with renewable energy, food and agriculture, community banking and other efforts to vitalize localism, to consider alternate economic and organizational models. Community networks should not necessarily compete with private sector companies to provide commercial services, but should partner with willing telecommunications companies and ISPs to offer local public information services: government, education, libraries, healthcare, culture, economic development and public safety.
- keywords: access; broadband; commons; communities; community; development; ecological; economic; electromagnetic; energy; fiber; high; information; infrastructure; learning; lives; local; mile; models; networked; networking; networks; new; open; providers; public; sector; services; social; spectrum; systems; telecommunications; understanding; use; value; ways; wireless
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- joci-2647
- author: None
- title: joci-2647
- date: None
- words: 6711
- flesch: 48
- summary: More recently, First Mile has been used to refer specifically to ensuring that First Nations communities are connected to broadband in ways that support sustainable, locally-driven services and activities (McMahon, O'Donnell, Smith, Woodman Simmonds & Walmark, 2010; McMahon, O'Donnell, Smith, Walmark, Beaton & Simmonds, 2011). By 2009, the AFN had passed five resolutions at their annual general assemblies recognizing the need for First Nations communities to have adequate broadband connectivity and access to ICT.
- keywords: aboriginal; access; approach; areas; bandwidth; beaton; broadband; canada; canadian; capacity; centre; classroom; communities; community; computers; connectivity; control; council; delivery; development; education; federal; fort; fort severn; funding; government; health; high; ict; indigenous; information; infrastructure; internet; kakekaspan; keewaytinook; kihs; knet; leadership; local; mcmahon; members; mile; nations; needs; network; new; o'donnell; okimakanak; ontario; partners; people; policy; remote; research; residents; resources; rural; satellite; school; services; severn; staff; students; study; support; teachers; technology; telecommunications; training; tribal; use; videoconferencing; walmark; washaho
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- joci-2648
- author: None
- title: joci-2648
- date: None
- words: 4899
- flesch: 47
- summary: Email: michael@law-democracy.org At his inaugural news conference as Chairman of the United States Federal Communications Commission in 2001, Michael Powell infamously responded to a journalist's question by comparing the inability of some Americans to afford Internet access with his own apparent inability to purchase a luxury car. Facilitation of access to electronically transmitted information, as well as of the production, exchange and diffusion thereof, constitutes an obligation of the State… 8 In France, the Constitutional Council in 2009 struck down a controversial law that would have required ISPs to permanently block Internet access of users accused of copyright violations, in part because the freedom to access online communication services was held to be protected under the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen of 1789.9 Although the French decision does not explicitly recognise the Internet as a freestanding right in the way that the Greek Constitution does, this decision was subsequently cited by the Costa Rican Constitutional Court, in a ruling that went considerably further: In the context of a society based on information or knowledge, this imposes upon public authorities, for the benefit of those under their administration, to promote and guarantee universal access to these new technologies.10 At the international level, the importance of the Internet was recognised as early as 1999 by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights: [The Internet] is a mechanism capable of strengthening the democratic system, contributing towards the economic development of the countries of the region, and strengthening the full exercise of freedom of expression.
- keywords: access; art; assembly; available; broadband; canada; challenges; commission; communities; community; content; council; cultural; development; divide; economic; education; example; expression; facebook; freedom; government; human; human right; ibid; information; interest; international; internet; internet access; korea; lack; lanka; nations; nova; obligation; online; penetration; people; place; political; private; programme; public; rates; remote; right; role; rural; scotia; services; social; society; south; sri; states; statistics; underserved; understanding; universal; users; way; web; world
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- joci-2650
- author: None
- title: None
- date: None
- words: 7873
- flesch: 44
- summary: This section summarizes both the samples examined to compare to the historical discourse of broadband development as well as how First Nations communities are using these opportunities to publish their subjugated knowledge. Remote and rural First Nations using First Mile have made it their objective of doing this for themselves.
- keywords: aboriginal; access; affairs; aliant; analysis; annual; applications; available; beaton; bell; benefit; broadband; broadband development; canada; canadian; communities; community; consultation; corporate; dependency; development; digital; discourse; discussion; documents; economic; economy; expansion; federal; fibre; funding; government; groups; health; ict; industry; industry canada; infrastructure; issues; keewaytinook; knet; local; mile; nations; nations communities; need; network; new; northern; northwestern; o'donnell; okimakanak; ontario; organizations; paper; partners; people; policy; programs; project; public; relationship; remote; reports; research; right; rural; service; social; society; state; strategy; support; telecommunications; telecoms; urban; walmark; work
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- joci-2651
- author: None
- title: joci-2651
- date: None
- words: 8415
- flesch: 39
- summary: ICT for Sustainable Development: An Example from Cambodia Helena Grunfeld Research Scholar, Centre for Strategic Economic Studies, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia. But sustainability has not been a central concern of the CA, while the sustainability literature has paid insufficient attention to guaranteed protective security: 'It is worth noting here that even the highly illuminating literature on sustainable development often misses out the fact that what people need for their security is not only the sustainability of overall development, but also the need for guaranteed social protection when people's predicaments diverge and some groups are thrown brutally to the wall while other groups experience little adversity' (Sen, 2000, p.37).
- keywords: access; activities; adaptation; addition; agriculture; agro; approach; areas; attention; bank; benefits; cambodia; capabilities; capability; challenges; change; climate; communication; community; conceptual; consumption; countries; development; different; e.g.; ecological; economic; empowerment; environmental; expansion; farmers; farming; findings; focus; food; framework; freedom; future; groups; growth; health; heeks; human; human development; ict; ict4d; icts; important; information; initiatives; international; internet; ireach; issues; itu; journal; kcm; knowledge; local; management; market; methods; mitigation; mobiles; nations; new; opportunities; organic; paper; participants; people; perspective; policy; positive; potential; poverty; practices; price; project; report; research; resources; results; role; rural; security; sen; services; social; society; specific; study; sustainability; sustainable; sustainable development; systems; techniques; technologies; technology; telecentres; undp; united; university; use; villagers; women; world; wsis
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- joci-2655
- author: None
- title: joci-2655
- date: None
- words: 5117
- flesch: 49
- summary: This research asks if Alberta communities unserved by commercial providers initiated local approaches to internet provision. Access is a primary focus of community informatics as it is required to foster a community's other goals, be they political, economic, or social (Gurstein, 2000).
- keywords: access; alberta; approach; areas; beaver; broadband; businesses; cable; canada; central; communities; community; community informatics; company; corporation; counties; county; december; development; economic; electric; general; government; gurstein; high; home; hsi; informatics; infrastructure; initiatives; innovation; internet; interview; isp; local; manager; member; mile; municipal; network; northern; october; officer; private; province; provision; research; residents; rule; rural; service; society; southern; speed; supernet; town; unserved; village
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- joci-2656
- author: None
- title: joci-2656
- date: None
- words: 8975
- flesch: 50
- summary: On a larger scale, the government of Nunavut has recognized the value of the public access sites in the territory's small, widely scattered, and generally isolated settlements through its immediate intervention to replace the entire $85,000/year in CAP funding received by the territory with funding from the territorial Department of Education (Nunavut takes over community Internet access funding, 2012). Retrieved from http://www.metroland.com/Communities/100073/Arnprior_Chronicle_Guide_EMC Nunavut takes over community Internet access funding.
- keywords: access; access funding; access program; access sites; access terminals; age; approach; april; areas; available; broadband; budget; canada; canadian; cancellation; cap; cap funding; cap sites; centres; communities; community; community access; computer; connectivity; core; cut; cuts; day; development; digital; divide; economic; effective; end; example; federal; free; funding; funds; future; general; government; grants; guelph; gurstein; home; households; ict; icts; income; industry; informatics; internet; internet access; journal; lack; large; level; libraries; library; likely; local; loss; low; mile; moll; needs; network; new; news; non; objective; organizations; pay; people; policy; program; public; public access; public internet; public library; reddick; regional; remote; rideout; rural; services; significant; sites; skills; small; social; support; system; technology; terminals; time; training; urban; use; users; year
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- joci-2657
- author: None
- title: joci-2657
- date: None
- words: 10170
- flesch: 53
- summary: Conducting academic interventions that address technology from within in order to benefit rural Africa is a formidable challenge. This section endeavors to explore management theories affecting views on how to perform and analyse operational internet access activities in rural Africa.
- keywords: academic; access; acm; activities; africa; aid; analysis; approach; areas; aspects; bank; belding; book; broadband; business; challenges; change; communication; communities; community; complex; computing; conference; context; countries; cultural; culture; development; digital; disenfranchised; divide; e.g.; economic; education; engineering; environment; evaluation; evidence; field; funding; geneva; global; group; growth; high; ict; ictd; ieee; important; information; interactions; international; internet; interventions; issues; itu; johnson; journal; knowledge; lack; learning; life; limited; linknet; literature; little; local; london; macha; management; means; mobile; music; mweetwa; nations; need; network; new; number; ong; online; opportunities; orality; organizations; pejovic; people; policy; potential; press; problems; proceedings; progress; projects; publishing; regions; reports; research; resource; results; review; role; rural; rural africa; science; social; society; south; stam; studies; study; sustainable; systems; technical; technologies; technology; telecommunications; time; traffic; ubuntu; unesco; united; university; unwin; use; users; van; village; way; web; western; wireless; world; years; zambia
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- joci-2658
- author: None
- title: joci-2658
- date: None
- words: 1806
- flesch: 48
- summary: Data sources include 73 interviews (57 interviews with home LAN users and administrators, and 16 interviews with Internet providers), as well as documents, archival data and direct observations. Connections between multi-storey buildings through the air coaxial cables Eventually, home LAN services developed from game and file exchange to more advanced and community-oriented services such as chat, file data bases, media galleries, among others.
- keywords: access; administrators; air; belarus; cables; case; computers; connections; data; development; figure; grassroots; home; information; infrastructures; internet; interviews; introduction; isps; lans; links; multi; network; number; private; providers; radio; residential; services; study; technologies; users
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- joci-2659
- author: None
- title: joci-2659
- date: None
- words: 2166
- flesch: 50
- summary: Some local people in cities the size of Fredericton will of course be employed by the large telecom companies to deliver local services, but problems arise when the local population finds itself dependent on expertise outside the city (Philpot, Beaton & Whiteduck, 2014). While some revenues generated by the created jobs and the use of the services stay within the city, large service providers must inevitably focus on capturing new and larger markets, which means their attention is ultimately national rather than local.
- keywords: bell; brunswick; businesses; canada; canadian; challenges; city; communities; community; company; crtc; customers; fibre; fredericton; free; gofred; government; industry; information; internet; larger; local; municipal; network; new; novations; policy; private; providers; public; research; rogers; service; smart; use; wireless
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- joci-2660
- author: None
- title: joci-2660
- date: None
- words: 1969
- flesch: 34
- summary: Parkland County positions rural communications as a means for future economic diversification and building community capacity and considers it a key survival mechanism. The rural municipality may be aware that there are rural communication coverage and capacity issues and may have classified it as a utility, but has decided to let the wireless service providers determine how to build and maintain the communication networks within their community.
- keywords: alberta; areas; broadband; capacity; capital; communications; community; county; coverage; economic; elephant; mobility; municipalities; municipality; network; parkland; partner; preferred; providers; public; role; rural; safety; services; strategy; towers; utility; wireless
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- joci-2662
- author: None
- title: joci-2662
- date: None
- words: 5144
- flesch: 43
- summary: When First Nations communities own and manage their own infrastructure and online services, it is more likely that new opportunities for local investment, enterprise and employment will address local needs and priorities. In the introduction to the articles, Health Canada officials wrote: There is an overwhelmingly consistent finding in the research that confirms colonization contributed significantly to the imbalance of social determinants of health in First Nation communities evident today (Garman & Doull, 2009; p. 2).
- keywords: aboriginal; access; beaton; broadband; canada; canadian; colonialism; communication; communities; community; development; education; efforts; environments; experience; government; health; high; ict; important; information; infrastructure; journal; keewaytinook; kihs; knet; lake; land; local; media; members; nations; network; new; northwestern; o'donnell; ongoing; online; ontario; organization; ownership; paper; people; population; public; remote; research; resilience; rural; school; services; settler; sharing; social; strategy; support; today; tools; urban; use; walmark; whiteduck; work; years
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- joci-2665
- author: None
- title: joci-2665
- date: None
- words: 1400
- flesch: 45
- summary: In Young World Rising: How Youth, Technology and Entrepreneurship are Changing the World from the Bottom Up, author Rob Salkowitz analyzes and highlights several case studies that shed light on how a nexus of youth, technology and entrepreneurship are changing development processes throughout the globe. Furthermore, Young World is also used as a classification for a demographic group, but it also stands to hold a geo-political meaning, which ultimately confuses what he is attempting to say.
- keywords: author; book; change; development; economic; entrepreneurship; internet; netgen; organizations; salkowitz; sector; social; strategies; successful; technology; terms; world; young; youth; yte
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- joci-2666
- author: None
- title: joci-2666
- date: None
- words: 11562
- flesch: 47
- summary: (2005) argue that e-Government initiatives in most local governments are still predominantly non-interactive and non-deliberative. Swedish research shows that there is a lack of empirical studies on the implementation of contact centres in municipalities within the research field of e-Government, although some minor case studies on different perspectives have been done (e.g. Bernhard, 2009, 2010; Flensburg et al., 2009; Bernhard & Grundén, 2010; Grundén, 2010).
- keywords: academic; access; administration; administrators; approach; area; aspects; bernhard; best; calls; case; ccs; centre; citizens; competence; concept; contact; context; customer; development; different; digital; e.g.; elderly; employees; european; example; focus; government; heeks; ict; implementation; important; information; inhabitants; internal; international; internet; interviews; issues; journal; knowledge; lack; levels; like; local; local e; main; management; municipal; municipalities; municipality; needs; new; npm; number; office; open; order; organization; perspective; policy; practice; processes; public; public administrators; public e; public service; publishing; qualitative; questions; reading; related; research; respondent; results; role; section; sector; services; simple; social; stockholm; stop; studies; study; sweden; swedish; technology; telephone; terms; time; tone; touch; university; use; visits; work
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- joci-2667
- author: None
- title: joci-2667
- date: None
- words: 3545
- flesch: 46
- summary: Email: siefera@oclc.org With incredible support from Stuart Freiman and Alisson Walsh of Broadband Rhode Island. The ideas we proposed are starting to make their way into the ideas and language of these officials (Stuart Freiman, Program Director of Broadband Rhode Island).
- keywords: access; action; bbri; broadband; building; communities; community; core; development; digital; discussion; engagement; figure; forum; framework; government; group; ideas; inclusion; information; internet; island; library; local; management; new; pilot; policy; process; project; public; recommendations; rhode; rhode island; sectors; services; staff; stakeholder; state; support; technology; time; use; wide; working
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- joci-2668
- author: None
- title: joci-2668
- date: None
- words: 1753
- flesch: 35
- summary: Library-Based - the first and most important evident learning is their decision to use libraries as the base for broader Internet access and use programs. Alongside these new governmental initiatives (only some of which have made provisions to avoid the difficulties experienced by earlier programs)
- keywords: access; available; community; development; earlier; funding; global; individual; initiatives; instances; internet; internet access; libraries; local; need; new; ongoing; peer; policy; programs; south; support; teams; telecentres; use
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- joci-2670
- author: None
- title: joci-2670
- date: None
- words: 1150
- flesch: 35
- summary: For many of us, myself included, it is likely that after a quick glance noting research methods as the focus of the book being reviewed, we are ready to move on to articles we consider more germane. At 556 pages, the book is a comprehensive, broad introduction to the issues of evaluation and, through the included teaching case studies and bibliography, is an excellent starting point for more advanced explorations into research methods for both the professional and academician alike.
- keywords: book; change; chapters; community; contexts; evaluation; field; formal; information; methods; paradigms; practice; research; science; section; stoecker; systems; techniques
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- joci-2671
- author: None
- title: joci-2671
- date: None
- words: 7769
- flesch: 50
- summary: Yet as technology becomes pervasive, people are considering the use of community technologies to support local engagement. Although there is a growing body of literature in the human computer interaction (HCI) field that focuses on community technologies (Carroll, 2001; Gurstein, 2000; Schuler, 1994), few studies discuss how to design community technologies that are intended to solve local problems.
- keywords: activities; capital; cohesion; collective; communities; community; community members; community technologies; component; connections; crime; design; dimensions; engagement; example; focus; forrest; framework; group; health; high; human; importance; increase; individual; information; interaction; interest; journal; kearns; lack; large; likely; local; members; neighborhood; new; non; paper; participation; people; personal; public; reciprocity; recognition; residents; resources; safety; section; size; small; small groups; social; social capital; social cohesion; specific; support; system; technologies; technology; time; topic; trust; understanding; urban; users; volunteer
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- joci-2672
- author: None
- title: joci-2672
- date: None
- words: 11534
- flesch: 51
- summary: For instance, 100% of Mishkeegogamang community members who participated in the interviews reported having an email address; another 76% reported having a computer in their home. (Mishkeegogamang community member) is a historian really.
- keywords: able; access; activities; addition; available; band; basis; book; broadband; care; cell; center; centre; certain; challenges; communication; communities; community; community members; crystal; daily; darlene; development; different; education; elders; example; facebook; family; good; health; help; history; ict; important; individuals; information; infrastructure; innovation; interested; internet; interviews; kids; kihs; knowledge; land; language; lives; lookout; members; mishkeegogamang; mishkeegogamang community; nations; needs; network; networking; newsletter; office; ojibway; ontario; paper; participants; people; phone; photo; positive; project; radio; regular; remote; research; resource; rural; school; services; sioux; sites; social; station; stories; students; support; team; technologies; technology; telehealth; things; time; traditional; training; use; variety; video; videoconferencing; virtual; visits; website; wellness; youth
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- joci-2673
- author: None
- title: joci-2673
- date: None
- words: 8959
- flesch: 54
- summary: The first proposition focuses on the effect of shared identity in social groups with social ties. Social ties are important and our study shows that the influence of ties is very significant in terms of enforcing the transactions on social ties.
- keywords: actors; american; analysis; behavior; capital; chat; coleman; collective; communities; community; connected; cooperation; data; different; economic; effect; exchange; experiment; face; figure; forms; game; good; groups; habitat; help; high; higher; identity; individual; information; investments; journal; knowledge; lab; life; members; network; new; number; online; pairs; participants; people; performance; personal; persons; players; positive; pre; proposition; public; relations; relationships; requests; research; researchers; resources; review; science; sessions; shared; sharing; social; social capital; social group; social identity; social relations; social ties; sociology; studies; study; systems; table; technology; theory; ties; total; transactions; types; way
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- joci-2676
- author: None
- title: joci-2676
- date: None
- words: 9732
- flesch: 42
- summary: We can see how a generation that has been regarded as mostly oriented to seemingly ludic trivial tasks (such as getting together, gaming, browsing, navigating, sharing, messaging, posting, listening, searching and engaging with media just for fun), through its familiarity and expertise with the use and design of social media technologies, disrupts and transforms traditional activism by providing new environments for relationships, creativity, participation, organization, mobilization and social leadership emergence. Hanging out refers to the process of getting involved in digital social interactions of various kinds such as meeting, communicating, exchanging, sharing and playing using social media.
- keywords: access; active; activism; activists; analysis; arab; august; available; boyd; broadcasting; case; certain; change; cohorts; communication; communities; community; computer; connection; connectivity; content; coordination; creation; crisis; culture; current; data; development; devices; different; digital; digital activism; digital media; digital technology; egyptian; engagement; example; facebook; forms; generation; global; government; groups; help; ideas; important; individuals; information; interaction; international; internet; involved; january; joyce; knowledge; large; like; means; media; methods; mobile; mobilization; movement; networked; networking; networks; new; online; open; order; participants; participation; particular; people; phone; point; political; political activism; possible; practices; process; protest; public; real; recent; resources; revolution; russian; self; sharing; simple; sites; situations; smart; social; social media; social networks; social participation; society; software; spaces; state; systems; technological; technologies; technology; term; time; tools; traditional; twitter; use; users; van; variety; videos; visit; way; weak; web; world; young; youth
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- joci-2681
- author: None
- title: joci-2681
- date: None
- words: 6252
- flesch: 57
- summary: However, the number of government-backed PAVs is quite low compared to those belonging to commercial businesses or privately-owned Internet cafés From 1999 to 2007, the number of Internet users increased by 2,500%, from 1 million users to 25 million. Considering the country's population of 250 million, the density of Internet users is still low (around 10%) when compared with that of mobile phone users (146 million or 63%).
- keywords: access; areas; barrier; behavior; cafés; content; countries; country; data; difference; education; female; female users; frequency; gender; government; health; higher; ict; indonesia; information; international; internet; internet cafés; low; males; mean; non; number; patterns; pavs; people; province; public; purposes; rank; research; respondents; rural; services; significant; social; study; table; technology; terms; urban; urban areas; usage; users; venues; women; yogyakarta
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- joci-2695
- author: None
- title: joci-2695
- date: None
- words: 2721
- flesch: 36
- summary: The article contributes to our understanding of CI research methods by promoting a non-traditional approach to focus groups, notably with respect to focus group size, the active role that the research participants played in setting the agenda and guiding the research, and the use of focus groups to answer questions and to reach consensus (Smith, this special issue). The authors argue that their study of DSR contributes to the literature on CI research methods by introducing a novel approach to curriculum design as an iterative process that includes community feedback and the criteria of relevance and rigor drawn from the DSR framework (Van Biljon, Traxler, Van Der Merwe, and Van Heerden, this special issue).
- keywords: access; approaches; article; authors; community; contributions; curriculum; data; design; development; field; focus; framework; groups; informatics; issue; knowledge; literature; methodological; methodology; methods; papers; particular; practitioners; projects; questions; research; research methods; researchers; social; special; special issue; studies; understanding; university; use
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- joci-2696
- author: None
- title: joci-2696
- date: None
- words: 2058
- flesch: 32
- summary: Fundamental to achieving digital citizenship is access to the opportunity and means to use digital technologies-a commitment to ensuring the opportunity for full Internet access and use to all Canadians. Associated with this is the need to ensure that those who are the least able to undertake effective digital citizenship have access to facilities - Community Access and Innovation Hubs (CAIHs) where the devices, training and supports required for for digital citizenship are made locally available.
- keywords: access; age; canada; canadian; citizenship; communities; community; development; digital; digital citizenship; economic; effective; enabled; form; global; internet; local; national; need; opportunities; participation; policy; program; range; risks; social; support; systems; technologies; training; use
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- joci-2697
- author: None
- title: joci-2697
- date: None
- words: 10409
- flesch: 49
- summary: This pattern showed a movement that occurred during the moments of transition towards design (formulating design goals), which implied a shift in design intentions. In Design Science Research (DSR), moving towards design action is relevant either to the suggestion phase (Vaishnavi & Kuechler, 2013) or to theory building (Venable, 2006), where technological possibilities are identified and decided.
- keywords: acm; action; activities; analysis; analytical; approaches; article; brazil; case; categories; change; cmc; cmcs; common; communities; community; conceptual; concerned; conference; critical; data; decision; design; design goals; design intentions; designing; development; different; directors; ethnography; experience; exploration; exploratory; facebook; favelas; focus; formulation; framework; framing; goals; group; improvement; information; intensive; intentions; interests; interpretation; involved; involvement; keyboard; knowledge; learning; local; making; management; members; methodological; methods; nemer; new; observation; oh.diy; participants; participation; participatory; participatory design; pathways; people; phase; planning; power; press; proceedings; process; production; project; reflection; research; researchers; role; sabiescu; second; social; space; stakeholders; structures; studies; study; technology; theory; tools; transition; university; usa; use; way; york
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- joci-2699
- author: None
- title: joci-2699
- date: None
- words: 9999
- flesch: 51
- summary: Community group environment for people participation and empowerment: the socio-cultural perspective. Focus group discussions were conducted at the community centre in Mafarafara which 'belongs' to the women: Mma C has the keys and the women meet at the centre to do their sewing and to socialise.
- keywords: access; activities; africa; agenda; aim; approach; areas; centre; communities; community; community informatics; consent; context; critical; cultural; data; design; development; digital; discussion; doorway; education; elderly; elderly rural; elderly women; feminist; ferdinand; focus; focus groups; framework; gathering; ict; ict platform; icts; important; information; informed; interaction; issues; journal; linger; mafarafara; members; mma; montell; needs; number; order; paper; participants; platform; power; process; project; questions; research; research participants; research project; researchers; respect; rural; rural community; rural women; sepedi; social; socio; south; south africa; specific; statistics; stillman; team; technical; theoretical; theory; tool; topic; traditional; traditional focus; use; village; visits; walden; way; women
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- joci-2702
- author: None
- title: joci-2702
- date: None
- words: 7551
- flesch: 54
- summary: OPEN DATA IN BRAZIL AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS In this section, a general panorama of open data in Brazil is given, together with some perspectives on the use of open data by social movements. Why do you think open data is important? # Motivations Impediments Improvements 4.1 Work with data and link different information to create arguments There is a mismatch between amount of data released and the capacity of social movements to analyse it Make investments in education for open data use 4.2 Be able to work with data driven journalism There are many barriers to access information Promote publicity about existence of data 4.3 Use data to denounce injustices Open Data is unknown for most social movements Improve knowledge about how to search for data 4.4 Data can give basis to stimulate new claims There is no full transparency in government actions Enable access to information, without discrimination 4.5 Translate data into information for readers Most of the people have little informatics ability 4.6 Produce data in juridical research 4.7 Open data can stimulate analysis 4.8 Open data can stimulate new data 4.9 Validate/legitimate arguments in communication with data 4.10 Use data to understand the capitalist society 4.11 Understand the resistances against oppression with data 4.12 Fight corruption using spending data 4.13 Make better use of information, a central point in class conflicts 4.14 Unveil data manipulation Table 7: Impediments pointed in answers to Question 8. Question 8: What is the main impediment perceived by using data? # Impediments 8.1
- keywords: access; actions; analysis; approach; available; better; brazil; brazilian; building; case; civil; community; conclusions; country; course; data; data course; davies; design; different; educands; education; example; experiences; federal; freire; goal; government; government data; groups; impediments; important; improvements; information; international; issues; janeiro; knowledge; main; means; motivations; movements; need; new; observation; open; open data; open government; order; organizations; participants; people; policies; political; popular; portal; presentations; publication; question; research; results; rio; school; second; social; social movements; society; sources; specific; stage; states; students; table; teaching; technical; tools; training; transparency; united; use; web; wider; work
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- joci-2703
- author: None
- title: joci-2703
- date: None
- words: 7164
- flesch: 43
- summary: Figure 1: Dimensions of mobile digital literacy For any of these categories, it would be a mistake to assume that mobile digital technology merely passively contained and transmitted learning and knowledge; any technology (especially one as powerful and widespread as mobile digital technology) transforms what is known, what is worth knowing, how it gets to be known, how what is known is transformed, shared, preserved, discussed and distributed. Cheung and Hew (2009) summarize the pedagogical uses of mobile technology devices as communication and sharing, investigating, capturing data and analyses, assessing, task management, accessing multimedia and representing meanings.
- keywords: 2012; access; africa; application; approach; appropriate; artefacts; assessment; botha; classroom; community; community informatics; computer; context; course; curriculum; curriculum development; cycle; data; design; development; devices; different; digital; digital literacy; distance; domain; dsr; education; evaluation; facilitators; figure; findings; focus; following; framework; group; hevner; ict; important; informatics; internet; issues; journal; knowledge; learning; level; literacy; methodology; methods; mobile; mobile digital; mobile learning; mobile technology; need; new; online; outcomes; paper; paradigm; phone; process; questions; relevance; relevant; research; school; science; skills; south; specific; study; survey; systems; teachers; teaching; technologies; technology; traxler; university; use; usefulness; workshop
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- joci-2705
- author: None
- title: joci-2705
- date: None
- words: 4011
- flesch: 39
- summary: First Nations in Canada have developed over time the formal OCAP principles to guide this process (Assembly of First Nations, 2007; Schnarch, 2004), and OCAP has now become the de facto ethical standard not only for conducting research using First Nations data, but also for the collection and management of First Nations information in general (FNIGC, 2014, p.1). This understanding holds promise for CI research and practice, as for example in Beaton and Campbell's (2014) demonstration of how local ownership and control of information and communication technologies (ICT) by First Nations supports community resilience against settler colonialism through the daily use of online applications, social media and e-services.
- keywords: analysis; approach; beaton; benefits; canada; challenges; communities; community; conduct; council; data; development; education; effective; ethical; example; field; fnec; fni; focus; ict; indigenous; information; innovation; journal; kind; knowledge; local; members; methodologies; methodology; mile; nations; new; o'donnell; ocap; outcomes; ownership; paper; partners; peoples; policy; process; project; research; researchers; resources; self; smith; social; students; support; survey; technologies; technology; tfn; timiskaming; tuhiwai; university; use; visit; work
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- joci-2706
- author: None
- title: joci-2706
- date: None
- words: 3977
- flesch: 44
- summary: but we know little about how this in turn enables them to have (or prevents them having) access to e-health (ie how the digital divide interacts with e-health access). We argue that what is needed to guide further research on the digital divide's impact on e-health access is a framework which allows us to collect and analyse data that combines the two methodological approaches, each informing the other, and which can identify both the quantitative relationships between and the qualitative explanations for ICT use and e-health access ie ICTs for Health.
- keywords: access; approach; australia; baum; care; citizens; communication; critical; data; depth; determinants; differences; different; digital; dijk; disadvantaged; divide; factors; field; figure; framework; groups; health; health access; healthcare; ict; ict use; icts; individuals; inequities; information; internet; journal; levels; lupiáñez; marmot; medical; methodological; newman; online; people; population; public; purposes; qualitative; research; resources; services; skills; social; social determinants; table; theory; use; van; world
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- joci-2707
- author: None
- title: joci-2707
- date: None
- words: 5044
- flesch: 36
- summary: The STAR (Socio-economic Trends Assessment of the digital Revolution) Issue Report - a policy paper created to inform regulatory and allocation decisions - represents an era in which the potential of community wireless networks was just being explored and several contextual assumptions about impact were first applied and critically examined. Some observers wrote about the potential of this first wave of community networks as an almost ideally suited participatory medium for community and civic organizing (Schuler, 1994 and 1996); yet many of the first networks focused primarily on providing access, with the assumption that social impact would follow.
- keywords: access; analysis; benefits; bina; broadband; broader; building; cases; challenges; collaborative; communities; community; community networks; community wireless; confine; cwns; design; development; different; economic; fact; failures; findings; framework; goals; impact; information; infrastructure; innovation; internet; isf; issue; journal; like; local; municipal; networking; networks; new; organizers; paris; participation; participatory; particular; potential; powell; practices; practitioners; projects; publics; questions; report; research; researchers; retrieved; sandvig; sans; set; social; star; studies; study; sustainability; technologies; technology; tools; users; way; wifi; wireless
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- joci-2719
- author: None
- title: joci-2719
- date: None
- words: 8661
- flesch: 46
- summary: In the case region Sogn & Fjordane, one of 19 regions in Norway, a number of local and regional providers emerged and played an important role in development of local broadband infrastructure. This is the reality of broadband infrastructure development in Norway.
- keywords: access; action; actors; analogue; areas; backbone; basic; broadband; broadband development; broadband infrastructure; businesses; capacity; case; change; communication; communities; community; companies; company; context; coverage; development; different; digital; example; fjordane; forum; global; hanseth; high; information; infrastructure; infrastructure development; initiatives; internet; introduction; isdn; knowledge; lash; lines; local; local broadband; market; model; municipalities; national; needs; network; new; norsk; norway; norwegian; number; old; post; process; processes; providers; public; reflexive; region; regional; relevant; remote; representative; research; resources; roll; rural; sawhney; services; skogseid; social; sogn; speed; stage; study; system; table; technical; technology; telecom; telemuseum; telenor; telephone; teletilsynet; time; understanding
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- joci-2725
- author: None
- title: joci-2725
- date: None
- words: 7193
- flesch: 47
- summary: First Mile broadband development projects reflect the specificity of the places they emerge from. The needs assessment found the majority of demand came from regional public services (health and education), which FCNQ's network was unable to provide without significant investment.
- keywords: aboriginal; access; additional; agents; autonomy; available; beaton; broadband; canada; capacity; challenges; communication; communities; community; connectivity; development; digital; economic; eds; example; figure; funding; government; health; high; information; infrastructure; institutions; internet; inuit; inuttitut; ivujivik; jbnqa; kativik; krg; ksb; kuujjuaq; local; long; manitoba; martin; media; mile; nations; network; new; northern; nrbhss; nunavik; nunavummiut; nursing; o'donnell; operations; organizations; people; pirnoma; policy; political; press; program; projects; provincial; public; quebec; radio; regional; remote; research; residents; satellite; school; secure; segment; self; services; social; space; staff; stations; strong; support; tamaani; technology; television; term; toronto; university; use; villages; walmark
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- joci-2727
- author: None
- title: joci-2727
- date: None
- words: 7051
- flesch: 45
- summary: In this paper, we describe specific challenges faced by Native Hawaiian communities in developing affordable, high-quality broadband access. CONCLUSIONS This exploratory study described challenges faced by Native Hawaiian communities in developing affordable, high-quality broadband access.
- keywords: access; affairs; affordable; americans; andrade; approach; areas; bell; broadband; canada; case; challenges; communications; communities; community; congress; control; cultural; culture; determination; development; digital; divide; economic; federal; fund; government; groups; hawaiian; hawaiian community; hawaiʻi; health; hee; high; home; honolulu; ict; icts; identity; indigenous; information; infrastructure; initiative; internet; islanders; journal; lack; lands; language; library; local; mcmahon; media; mile; municipal; municipalities; nations; native; native hawaiians; needs; network; new; number; ocap; office; ownership; pacific; para; people; policy; political; potential; projects; public; remote; research; rural; self; service; social; states; tapia; technology; telecommunications; u.s; unique; united; universal; university; use; way; wireless
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- joci-2729
- author: None
- title: joci-2729
- date: None
- words: 6590
- flesch: 42
- summary: Reclaiming their beliefs, traditions and institutions can help First Nations communities to resist colonial aggression and reconstruct their identities (Alfred, 2009; RCAP, 1996; Tousignant & Sioui, 2009). The AFN is also proposing that First Nations communities and organizations oversee the public funding required to develop and control the communication infrastructure in their communities.
- keywords: aboriginal; access; afn; anishinabeg; approach; areas; available; broadband; canada; canadian; capacity; centre; challenges; communication; communities; community; community members; community services; control; council; cultural; delivery; development; different; education; funding; future; government; health; ict; indigenous; information; infrastructure; innovation; institutions; internet; journal; kitigan; kitigan zibi; local; members; model; national; nations; need; networks; new; o'donnell; ongoing; online; ownership; people; plan; police; policing; programs; quebec; research; resources; rural; sector; services; social; staff; strategic; strategy; study; support; technologies; technology; time; training; use; ways; whiteduck; zibi; zibi community
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- joci-2738
- author: None
- title: joci-2738
- date: None
- words: 4107
- flesch: 37
- summary: Their proposal for broadband infrastructure construction funds was based on the mandate provided by the Chiefs of FNEC partner First Nations to secure appropriate broadband communications technology and systems to serve the present and future needs of the First Nations. The number of partner First Nations and schools could have been significantly higher if all the communities had been able to access to these equivalent telecom services.
- keywords: access; applications; available; bandwidth; broadband; build; building; cable; canada; capacity; communities; community; complete; connections; connectivity; construction; council; development; education; fibre; fnec; future; government; health; high; ict; information; infrastructure; installation; internet; level; local; member; nations; needs; network; new; optic; organizations; partners; program; project; quebec; regional; remote; research; rural; schoolnet; schools; services; speed; support; system; technologies; technology; telecommunication; videoconferencing; whiteduck
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- joci-2740
- author: None
- title: joci-2740
- date: None
- words: 4846
- flesch: 51
- summary: Connectivity in rural and remote communities across Canada - including First Nations communities - is substandard for many reasons, ranging from costly and difficult technological challenges to non-existent or ineffective government policies. In 2009, the First Nations Education Council (FNEC) reported major shortfalls in funding in Quebec, relative to the population growth and the increased cost of living in First Nation communities.
- keywords: aboriginal; access; broadband; canada; challenges; children; communication; communities; community; computer; connectivity; council; education; families; federal; fnec; funding; high; home; households; ict; important; information; infrastructure; internet; kitigan; kitigan zibi; learning; members; nations; need; new; o'donnell; people; programs; providers; quality; research; school; sector; services; skills; smart; strategy; students; study; support; survey; technologies; technology; tools; use; walmark; whiteduck; zibi
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- joci-2741
- author: None
- title: joci-2741
- date: None
- words: 1997
- flesch: 34
- summary: Keewaytinook Okimakanak is a nonprofit organization established by the Chiefs of six remote First Nations in Northwestern Ontario. First Nations can offer competitive services through community networks that can encourage universal broadband access, affordable service, and competition.
- keywords: access; broadband; canada; comments; commission; communities; community; connectivity; consortium; crtc; development; digital; eeyou; fmcc; group; hearings; infrastructure; innovation; internet; local; mile; nations; network; northern; northwestel; public; regulatory; remote; residents; services; support; technology; telecommunications
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- joci-2746
- author: None
- title: joci-2746
- date: None
- words: 5372
- flesch: 51
- summary: Other uses for technology among Dunn County agencies include word processing and managing spreadsheets. As the project began, agency staff members exuded a sense of uncertainty regarding ICT and how to utilize it effectively.
- keywords: ac*v; agencies; agency; areas; assessment; broadband; building; comfortable; community; county; department; digital; divide; dunn; dunn county; education; efforts; facebook; human; ict; information; internet; learning; literacy; local; media; members; microsoft; national; need; network; new; nonprofit; npos; online; organizations; outreach; partner; presence; program; project; public; resources; rural; sector; service; skills; social; staff; stout; support; survey; technology; time; training; twitter; united; use; user; vista; volunteer; way; web; websites; wisconsin; year
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- joci-2751
- author: None
- title: joci-2751
- date: None
- words: 62185
- flesch: 30
- summary: Thus the lesson that one can take from studying historical patterns of growing literacy and development of the new tools of communication is as follows: most social actors, notably including many non-state and non-business actors such as social movement organizations and their activists, value the increased availability and usefulness of ICTs, strongly perceiving them as tools of empowerment. </p> <p> 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</cite >; digital; div; download/2751; dropout</cite >; early; email; empowering; empowerment; etc.)</span; europe; everything</cite >; facebook; fang; font; free; furet; goody; governments; grid; icts; ideograph; impact; individuals; influence; influence</em >; information; innovation.</cite >; international; internet; internet</cite >; joci; left; li >; like; literacy; literate; markoff; media; media</cite >; mobile; mode; modern; monday</cite >; movements; networking; networks; new; none;border; none;padding:2.75pt; number; numeric; online; openness</em >; organization</cite >; organizations; ozouf; padding:2.75pt; political; politics</cite >; popular; population; press; publishing; recent; research; respondents; revolution; right; right;layout; sans; serif","sans; shulman</cite >; 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</cite >; 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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; daily</em; data; department; development; discretion; districts; div; div class="reference; education; efforts; environmental; equipment; example; federal; focus; frequency; funding; group; high; implementation; implementers; information; inquiry; instruction; journal; k-12; knowledge; lack; laptops; learning; level; limited; literacy; literacy skills; methods; modern; n=119; n=21; necessary; need; new; participants; pennsylvania; perceptions; personnel; policies; policy; practices; problems; program; projects; public; questions; related; research; resources; responses; results; retrieved; school; science; set; skills; smartboards; social; software; specific; state; street; students; studies; study; survey; teachers; teaching; technical; technological; technological literacy; technologies; technology; technology use; thinking; time; traditional; training; u.s; understanding; use; web
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- joci-2756
- author: None
- title: joci-2756
- date: None
- words: 7871
- flesch: 53
- summary: This is not to say that the HDCA approach is absolutely distinct from one that focuses on market development, such as the BOP. In this context, and referring to ICTs for development initiatives Amariles et al.
- keywords: access; agency; approach; bop; bus; buses; business; capability; communication; community; concept; concerned; connections; consumers; content; creation; daknet; deneulin; development; different; digital; economic; eds; examples; fav; finding; firms; focus; freedom; goods; hart; hdca; human; ict4d; idea; india; information; initiative; innovative; internet; items; local; london; market; means; media; mobile; model; new; non; notion; order; paper; participation; participatory; people; poor; poverty; practice; prahalad; press; products; project; pyramid; range; research; rural; sen; services; social; storytelling; tacchi; technologies; technology; underlying; unesco; united; unwin; use; villages; voice; ways; women; world
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- joci-2757
- author: None
- title: joci-2757
- date: None
- words: 7069
- flesch: 49
- summary: Hence, Internet usage, social capital, community connectedness, and objective success are able to explain 32% of the variance of the happiness and satisfaction of grassroots level inventors in Sri Lanka. However, Internet usage is not a significant strong predictor of inventive achievements and success of grassroots level inventors in Sri Lanka.
- keywords: achievements; activities; ahmad; amp; capital; class="article_subhead; class="reference; communication; community; connectedness; countries; development; diener; different; div; div class="reference; economic; figure; grassroots; happiness; helliwell; high; independent; individual; influence; information; innovation; internet; internet usage; inventive; inventors; items; journal; knowledge; lanka; level; level inventors; life; literature; measure; model; new; patent; present; researchers; resources; respondents; results; sample; satisfaction; scale; sense; significant; social; social capital; sri; sri lanka; studies; study; subjective; success; technological; usage; use; variables; wickramasinghe
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- joci-2762
- author: None
- title: joci-2762
- date: None
- words: 7692
- flesch: 48
- summary: The criticisms of QMS theory not being generalizable (Scruggs et al., 2006) is a reductionist criticism which is countered in the appreciation that QMS is an ever-expanding exercise that constantly peels back the multi-layered contexts to reveal a phenomena not previously seen through the standalone constituent studies (Sandelowski et al., 1997). Qualitative Meta-Synthesis is Antithetical to the Qualitative Spirit In integrating qualitative studies, there is the real risk of violating the fundamental spirit of the qualitative approach; that meaning is socially constructed based on the context (Zimmer, 2006).
- keywords: analysis; approaches; barroso; better; common; concepts; constituent; constituent studies; context; criteria; critical; data; development; different; epistemological; et al; example; explicit; field; findings; frame; government; guideline; health; important; information; lee; level; long; meaning; meta; metaphors; metatriangulation; method; models; necessary; new; papers; paterson; phenomenon; primary; process; qca; qma; qms; qualitative; qualitative meta; qualitative research; qualitative studies; quality; reference; relationships; research; review; sandelowski; siau; similar; studies; study; substantive; synthesis; systems; table; terms; theories; theory; thorne; understanding; use; walsh; zimmer
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- joci-2764
- author: None
- title: joci-2764
- date: None
- words: 8310
- flesch: 53
- summary: There is a longer term project, looking at evaluation by producing a ToolKit that would measure each of pre-requisites for community development highlighted above enabling community development groups to highlight areas which need addressing at an earlier time. Reflective analysis of RLabs community situated in Cape Town (see section 2 and 3) will define the pre-requisites for community development, using a grass roots development model.
- keywords: action; africa; agencies; analysis; area; athlone; available; beginning; belief; building; business; cape; champion; civil; civil society; communities; community; community development; core; counselling; development; direct; economic; education; evaluation; events; example; external; face; factors; figure; following; formation; government; grass; group; help; history; identification; idm; impact; important; individuals; innovation; international; key; link; local; london; main; mentoring; method; ministries; model; new; organisations; oxford; participants; people; physical; press; process; profit; programme; project; question; reflective; religious; research; rlabs; roots; sampling; second; section; self; services; skills; social; society; society development; south; space; study; success; sustainability; sustainable; system; table; technology; time; town; training; university; wills; words; work; year
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- joci-2765
- author: None
- title: joci-2765
- date: None
- words: 9485
- flesch: 47
- summary: This case is used to illustrate similarities between Community Informatics, ICT for Development and Visitor Research and how research focussing on the free-choice or self-directed learning that takes place at science centres can possibly also be useful within Community Informatics. This is similar to the goals of science centres throughout the world: the informal setting of the science center is a rich learning environment that nurtures curiosity, improves motivation and attitudes toward science, engages the visitors through participation and social interaction and generates excitement and enthusiasm, all of which are conducive to science learning and understanding (Barriault and Pearson 2010, 91)
- keywords: 2010; africa; allen; analysis; approach; artefact; associated; audio; barriault; case; centres; choice; collection; communication; communities; community; community informatics; computing; conference; context; contextual; cultural; data; design; development; different; digital; disadvantaged; education; engagement; environment; evaluation; example; exhibit; experience; factors; falk; findings; framework; free; groups; hornecker; human; ict4d; impact; important; informal; informatics; intended; interaction; interest; international; interviews; issues; john; journal; knowledge; lack; large; learning; literature; members; methodology; methods; mobile; model; multi; museums; number; order; paper; particular; pearson; people; personal; physical; place; prior; projects; public; related; research; school; science; science centre; self; social; socio; south; space; staff; stillman; studies; study; systems; table; technologies; technology; terms; theories; theory; time; understanding; university; use; useful; users; visitor; visitor research; workshop
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- joci-2768
- author: None
- title: joci-2768
- date: None
- words: 7472
- flesch: 45
- summary: Possible drivers of unsustainability in ICT4D projects are then presented, at systemic as well as at project level. Answering either of these questions requires that a number of specific questions be defined at project level.
- keywords: africa; approach; beneficiary; beneficiary system; benefit; botha; capacity; case; change; counter; department; design; development; donor; drivers; education; environment; example; focus; ford; funding; herselman; ict4d; ict4red; ict4red project; implementation; intervention; learning; level; long; management; mechanisms; need; objectives; order; phase; planning; poor; possible; practical; project; project design; project level; requirements; research; resource; rural; school; skills; solution; specific; strategic; study; success; support; sustainability; sustainable; sustained; system; systemic; table; teachers; technology; term; time; training; view
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- joci-2830
- author: None
- title: None
- date: None
- words: 706
- flesch: 41
- summary: Email: volker.wulf@uni-siegen.de In September 2003, the biannual conference series 'Communities and technologies (C&T)' was started with a meeting in Amsterdam attracting some 350 participants and operating somewhat in parallel with the more policy, advocacy and practice-oriented Community Informatics (CI) conferences in Prato, Italy which began in 2002. For both the C&T and CI streams the concepts 'communities' as well as 'technologies' are somewhat contested.
- keywords: c&t; challenges; communities; community; future; ict; informatics; practice; research; technologies; technology
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- joci-2831
- author: None
- title: joci-2831
- date: None
- words: 13438
- flesch: 44
- summary: Community technology? This is an area where further research has to uncover and better understand the mechanisms by which community members blend these two components in their daily practices.
- keywords: acm; activities; affordances; artifacts; behavior; boundaries; building; cabitza; caire; case; collaborative; collective; common; communication; communities; community; community members; computer; concept; condition; conference; content; conviviality; cooperative; cscw; depression; design; development; different; dimension; effort; engagement; et al; exchange; experience; facebook; figure; functionalities; groups; hand; human; idea; illich; impact; information; interaction; international; internet; interplay; journal; knowledge; level; life; light; local; means; media; members; model; mutual; mynatt; nature; necessary; network; network community; networking; new; number; offline; online; open; pages; people; personal; physical; platform; point; positive; potential; practice; preece; press; principles; proceedings; psychology; related; relationships; research; scale; schmidt; second; self; sense; services; set; sharing; simone; sites; social; sociality; society; sociology; space; specific; studies; study; support; systems; tasks; technical; technological; technologies; technology; terms; time; tools; trust; usability; user; value; virtual; way; words
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- joci-2832
- author: None
- title: joci-2832
- date: None
- words: 5759
- flesch: 44
- summary: They often strengthen economic interactions within local communities, for example, local currencies, like Berkshares, and the Bristol Pound. Incorporating reputation-building mechanisms in future timebanking, volunteering, and peer-to-peer systems is essential to easing the coordination of local community projects.
- keywords: access; acm; activities; activity; affordances; analytics; app; awareness; carroll; cities; citizens; college; communities; community; computer; computing; content; coordination; crowd; currencies; design; development; digital; example; festival; figure; future; germany; han; hours; human; hyperlocality; information; infrastructures; innovation; interaction; internet; january; left; local; management; media; members; mobile; new; news; paper; participation; peer; people; places; planning; public; reputation; research; right; service; shih; siegen; smart; social; sociotechnical; state; suprathresholding; systems; technologies; technology; time; timebanking; tweets; university; users; vision; web; work; workshop; york
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- joci-2833
- author: None
- title: joci-2833
- date: None
- words: 9824
- flesch: 54
- summary: Is Community Informatics good for communities? That is a challenge for research in Community Informatics (CI), to avoid dealing with people as merely our research subjects and consider them to be people with whom to share a common path, despite coming from different histories and going ultimately in different directions.
- keywords: activities; american; approach; building; capital; cases; center; change; characteristic; city; class; communities; community; community informatics; community members; computer; context; ctc; d'andrea; deep; design; development; different; engaged; ethnography; experience; face; favelas; field; figure; focus; future; goals; groups; gurstein; ict; importance; informants; informatics; interaction; interventions; journal; key; laboratory; life; local; long; members; need; nemer; network; new; order; oxendine; parra; participants; participatory; people; places; point; political; practice; press; process; projects; questions; relationships; research; researchers; residents; role; scholarship; second; seniors; shared; sites; social; social relationships; strong; studies; study; technologies; technology; terms; time; trust; turn; understanding; university; use; view; way; work; workshops; world
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- joci-2834
- author: None
- title: joci-2834
- date: None
- words: 11927
- flesch: 48
- summary: The concept of ownership, often in constructs such as local ownership, community ownership, and sense of ownership, is garnering critical attention in community informatics (CI) and Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D) theory and practice. Based on a detailed analysis of the development of community ownership in this project, and in constant dialogue with the community informatics and social science literature, the paper makes three key contributions to CI theory and practice, as well as more specifically to future practice in community networks: An operational definition of local ownership and a conceptual model which highlights relations to other constructs such as responsibility, power and control and emphasises the role of local ownership in moving from passive to active entitlement towards community assets or CI interventions An empirical analysis of the development of local ownership in a community network in rural South Africa, highlighting the critical factors that led to fostering ownership An examination and critical discussion of factors that are positively related with the development of ownership, carried out in dialogue with CI scholarship and highlighting the bearing of and relations with other critical constructs in CI research, such as participation, empowerment, and capacity building These contributions come at a critical stage in community informatics development as a discipline, in which, we argue, a more solid and critical engagement with theory is required to firmly establish its place and the premises for dialogue with other socio-technical disciplines. 2. BACKGROUND AND CONTEXT 2.1.
- keywords: action; active; agent; analysis; behavioural; board; break; building; calls; capacity; care; case; collective; commitment; committee; community; community network; conceptual; constructs; control; cooperative; critical; cycle; data; decision; degree; design; development; effects; efficacy; entitlement; et al; example; exercise; external; factors; forms; high; identity; important; individual; initiative; installation; instance; investment; involvement; key; knowledge; lead; likely; local; local ownership; local people; lra; making; management; mankosi; mechanisms; meeting; members; model; money; moreno; network; outcomes; ownership; paper; participation; passive; patterns; people; phones; pierce; power; practice; previous; process; processes; project; psychological; psychological ownership; relations; research; responsibility; rey; role; rural; self; sense; service; solar; state; studies; sustainability; system; target; team; time; training; use
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- joci-2835
- author: None
- title: joci-2835
- date: None
- words: 4857
- flesch: 49
- summary: We adopt stances in a general way that support them We help promote genuine change We develop technology that communities can use - and continue as best we can to ensure that it evolves and is supported Strengthen our community We identify and develop shared resources and projects We identify and develop shared challenges and visions We collaborate with other communities including activists, civic organizations, community organizers, researchers and academics, students, government officials, artists, musicians, etc. etc. The pecking order of the various approaches, where community work becomes less-than in relation to the other academic pursuits - perhaps because it perceived as less theoretical - is also relevant.
- keywords: academic; academy; approaches; argument; capacities; challenges; change; civic; communication; communities; community; computer; critical; critique; democracy; design; development; example; face; focus; framework; idea; important; information; intelligence; knowledge; large; needs; new; paper; participatory; people; practice; problems; processes; public; relation; relationship; relevant; research; researchers; resources; schuler; science; self; social; society; solving; support; systems; technology; theory; time; use; ways; work; world
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- joci-2836
- author: None
- title: joci-2836
- date: None
- words: 2456
- flesch: 55
- summary: Now, I'm not suggesting that we should help build community technologies for pedophiles. What is needed is Long-term studies of the emerging practices and/or development of technology mediated communities.
- keywords: acm; boundaries; bødker; communities; community; computer; conference; design; good; human; krichmar; making; maloney; need; new; participatory; people; point; practices; preece; proceedings; researchers; technologies; technology; voices; ways; work
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- joci-2837
- author: None
- title: joci-2837
- date: None
- words: 5439
- flesch: 46
- summary: This is not intended to be an exhaustive list of community informatics issues but instead just interesting discussion points that relate in various ways to community informatics. In this article, we propose that community informatics can contribute uniquely to current conceptions of general education.
- keywords: activities; activity; addition; anonymity; applications; banking; class; communities; community; community informatics; concepts; contemporary; course; currency; definition; design; different; discussion; education; egovernment; example; experiences; facebook; general; general education; ict4d; informatics; innovation; issues; learning; lesson; life; local; mobile; new; objectives; online; overview; p2p; placemaking; practice; project; readings; related; research; services; social; society; specific; state; students; studies; technology; thinking; time; topics; trust; undergraduate; universities; university; ways
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- joci-2838
- author: None
- title: joci-2838
- date: None
- words: 3550
- flesch: 44
- summary: However, as Jenny Preece observed (Preece, 2000) superficially, the term online community isn't hard to understand, yet it is slippery to define. Faraj, Jarvenpaa, Majchrzak (2011) go further and argue that online communities are fluid objects whose dynamic depends on tensions that enlighten different, co-existing factors.
- keywords: action; activists; c&t; challenge; cindio; civic; communication; communities; community; computer; conference; countries; decision; deliberation; design; digital; eds; electronic; groups; hierarchical; informatics; initiatives; italian; italy; large; liquidfeedback; local; making; media; movements; networks; new; online; open; organizations; participation; political; press; public; research; schuler; social; society; software; support; systems; technologies; tensions; tools; use; web; world
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- joci-2839
- author: None
- title: joci-2839
- date: None
- words: 3401
- flesch: 46
- summary: Second, with the arrival of The Cloud, communities increasingly depend on community tools that are part of external social networking tools controlled by private parties. Much research and development on communities and their technologies therefore focuses on intra-community aspects: the community lifecycle; community governance and management issues such as facilitation and conflict resolution; and community workspaces and tools.
- keywords: access; account; boundaries; building; case; cirn; collaboration; commons; communities; community; complex; context; control; declaration; design; example; functionalities; governance; identity; informatics; interactions; internet; issues; members; moor; need; network; online; open; paper; patterns; practice; research; social; socio; solutions; space; systems; technical; technical systems; technologies; tools; use; whitworth; wiki; world
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- joci-2840
- author: None
- title: joci-2840
- date: None
- words: 5869
- flesch: 50
- summary: The model presented here offers a simple evolutionary framework that can be used to identify issues, maturity and progress of ICT in a community or group of communities and act as input into the development of policy and localised models for community ICT. A simple way to do this is to link the operationalized five stage model described here with Day's (2004) three component parts of community ICT: Policy, partnerships and practice.
- keywords: access; available; castells; citizens; communication; communities; community; content; council; critical; culture; day; democracy; democratic; design; development; digital; eds; effective; electronic; formal; framework; government; group; gurstein; ict; important; individual; information; initiatives; internet; knowledge; level; life; literacy; local; low; maturity; media; model; need; new; online; paper; participation; partnerships; people; policy; political; potential; practice; public; resources; rheingold; ronneby; service; skills; social; society; stage; strategy; technologies; technology; tool; traditional; use; virtual; way; york; zealand
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- joci-2841
- author: None
- title: joci-2841
- date: None
- words: 5677
- flesch: 60
- summary: Our study is based on a network of computer clubs in socially and culturally diverse neighborhoods in Germany. This computer club is part of a network of computer clubs located in socially and culturally diverse neighborhoods in various cities in Germany.
- keywords: 2010; access; acm; activities; activity; adult; approach; bardzell; building; children; club; communities; community; computer; computer club; computing; conference; craft; crafting; creativity; cultural; design; digital; diverse; dragonflies; e.g.; et al; everyday; experiences; factors; figure; focus; geocaching; help; human; identity; individual; learning; making; neighborhood; participants; parts; position; press; proceedings; process; project; ratto; reflective; relation; research; rosner; school; social; socially; study; systems; technology; trackables; weibert; work
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- joci-2842
- author: None
- title: joci-2842
- date: None
- words: 1833
- flesch: 27
- summary: I've spent much of my working life engaging in one way or another with what is generally termed the Digital Divide (defined as the divide between those who have Internet access and those who do not). Perhaps of even more importance, issues of Internet access (but again not of use) are being taken up by significant corporate and governmental forces (both national and inter-governmental).
- keywords: access; community; companies; countries; country; course; digital; divide; fact; global; good; governance; importance; informatics; infrastructure; internet; internet access; issues; justice; model; numbers; people; policy; poor; social; use; way; years
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- joci-2843
- author: None
- title: joci-2843
- date: None
- words: 8376
- flesch: 34
- summary: Tapping into these local forms of social capital will enable researchers to build effective linkages with local knowledge systems (Adamo, 2001). (1998) define knowledge management systems as tools to effect the management of knowledge and are manifested in a variety of implementations including document repositories, expertise databases, discussion lists, and context-specific retrieval systems incorporating collaborative filtering technologies.
- keywords: absorptive; access; activities; actors; agricultural; agricultural innovation; agricultural knowledge; approach; articulation; attewell; barriers; brokering; capacity; case; challenges; collaboration; communication; communities; community; computer; context; coordination; countries; critical; data; demand; development; different; diffusion; digital; effective; exchange; extension; external; farmers; framework; function; gap; generation; generators; icts; identifying; information; innovation; innovation systems; institutes; institutions; intermediaries; intermediary; international; journal; key; knowledge; knowledge brokering; knowledge management; learning; local; local knowledge; management; multiple; network; new; organizations; paper; partners; policy; potential; processes; products; research; researchers; resources; role; science; scientific; sector; seeker; services; social; strong; study; supply; systems; tacit; technologies; technology; theoretical; theory; tools; understanding; university; users; value
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- joci-2844
- author: None
- title: joci-2844
- date: None
- words: 6486
- flesch: 32
- summary: These entities constitute a basic ontology, which is based on five categories of concepts: social situation, social activity, social networking, social process and social affordance. It will also make it possible to capture how activity in social situations allow people to participate in a community of practice, accessing the views and practices of the other members of the community, and making sense of all kinds of information related to that community.
- keywords: actions; activities; affordances; agent; analysis; approach; aspects; biodiesel; biodiesel social; community; component =; course; development; income; interactions; issues; kinds; learning; material; oleaginous; ontology; particular; patterns; plantation; plants; properties; situations; social; social action; social activity; social component; social context; social development; social inclusion; social networking; social process; social situation; state; structure; systems; terms
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- joci-2845
- author: None
- title: joci-2845
- date: None
- words: 6626
- flesch: 53
- summary: How the community experiences policy implementation and understanding at this level impacts how they would understand education ICT policy. Richard E. Matland (1995) in his article Synthesizing the implementation literature: the Ambiguity-Conflict Model of Policy Implementation proposes a four paradigm model (see figure 3).
- keywords: actors; ambiguity; approach; case; chief; children; communities; community; computer; conflict; conservancy; development; education; elmore; et.al; evidence; figure; fund; goal; government; high; home; ict; implementation; importance; information; integration; internet; involvement; laptops; learners; learning; level; literacy; local; low; matland; ministry; model; namibia; new; olpc; open; ownership; parents; policies; policy; policy implementation; practice; press; primary; principal; principles; process; program; project; republic; research; resources; role; school; software; studies; study; system; teachers; teaching; technology; understanding; university; use; vision
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- joci-2846
- author: None
- title: joci-2846
- date: None
- words: 8519
- flesch: 28
- summary: It was seen that ICTs can both increase and decrease community resilience and the framework thus helps understand both the pros and cons of community informatics. We hope this will prove a fruitful way forward in seeking to deepen the connection between community informatics and community resilience.
- keywords: ability; access; actions; adaptation; adaptive; assets; bank; capacity; centre; change; cities; climate; communication; communities; community; community informatics; community resilience; components; decision; development; digital; disaster; ecological; economic; environment; et al; evidence; example; external; face; figure; financial; folke; foundation; framework; future; global; governance; government; greater; heeks; icts; impact; income; informatics; institutions; international; journal; key; knowledge; learning; literature; livelihoods; local; low; making; management; manchester; media; mobile; model; networks; new; organisation; ospina; paper; planning; political; processes; properties; property; redundancy; resilience; resources; review; risk; scale; self; services; shocks; social; society; structures; sub; systemic; systems; technologies; terms; university; urban; urban communities; urban resilience; use; world
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- joci-2847
- author: None
- title: joci-2847
- date: None
- words: 6779
- flesch: 54
- summary: The first research question asks how people use CICs and what types of information people mostly seek from the CICs. The types of information people sought from the CICs are news (Table 5, Figure 3) (88%), education (59%), entertainment (55%), business (47%), health (27 %), government (23%), agriculture (9 %), and others (3%).
- keywords: access; areas; asia; bangladesh; business; case; centers; cics; communication; community; computers; cost; countries; country; cyber; data; development; digital; districts; divide; economic; education; entertainment; facilities; farmers; fifth; figure; government; grameen; half; high; hypothesis; icts; information; information centers; internet; journal; local; mass; media; need; new; news; operators; people; phone; poor; problems; process; research; results; rogers; role; rural; satisfied; selwyn; services; social; study; table; technologies; terms; training; types; united; university; urban; users; world
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- joci-2848
- author: None
- title: joci-2848
- date: None
- words: 9248
- flesch: 45
- summary: We begin by reviewing the literature on virtual communities and hybrid teams, which together suggest that communities may also operate as hybrid work systems. Information and communication technologies have thus facilitated the emergence of virtual communities.
- keywords: activities; analysis; attention; better; business; capabilities; code; communication; communities; community; computer; design; development; different; dual; email; etzioni; example; face; face meetings; fitzgerald; floss; free; groups; help; hybrid; hybrid communities; information; innovation; interactions; intertwining; interview; issues; jin; journal; linux; literature; local; lug; lugs; mailing; management; meetings; members; new; number; online; ontology; open; open source; opportunities; organization; people; physical; physical representation; potential; problem; products; proprietary; questions; relationships; representation; research; researchers; results; robey; science; second; social; software; source; source software; specific; study; support; systems; teams; technical; technology; theory; time; true; understanding; university; user communities; users; virtual; virtual communities; virtual representation; vol; von; ways; work
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- joci-2849
- author: None
- title: joci-2849
- date: None
- words: 8165
- flesch: 44
- summary: The second dimension is acceptance of the IKBES entrepreneur and the third dimension is viability of IKBES services. Thus responsibilities lie with the government to ensure availability and viability of IKBES services (Bhatnagar, 2004, Lai-Lai, 2001, Rangaswamy, 2006, Toyoma, 2005).
- keywords: acceptance; agencies; agriculture; analysis; approach; availability; available; b2c; better; business; case; centres; centric; chain; challenges; citizens; connectivity; countries; cscs; data; delivery; demand; dependent; digital; entrepreneurs; equation; exercise; figure; fitness; forms; g2c; governance; governance services; government; government services; gram; ikbes; ikbes services; important; india; information; infrastructure; interfaces; internet; kiosk; lai; layer; level; market; measurement; model; modeling; needs; networks; new; operator; order; organization; overall; panchayat; paper; path; personal; pos; presents; primary; private; process; provisioning; regression; research; revenue; rural; rural citizens; sahaj; sample; section; services; size; social; socio; stakeholders; state; structural; studies; study; success; supply; support; survey; systems; table; technical; technology; testing; use; value; variables; vcm; viability; village
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- joci-2850
- author: None
- title: joci-2850
- date: None
- words: 4733
- flesch: 40
- summary: This study showed that an innovative approach towards farmers was practiced during the Green Revolution period for disseminating agricultural information to farmers in India. , ICT in different forms has been widely taken up in India by various local or national non-governmental organizations followed by private and public sector agencies (Saravanan, 2010), as a tool to disseminate agricultural information amongst farmers.
- keywords: adoption; agricultural; agricultural information; analysis; application; area; cent; characteristics; data; delta; distribution; districts; economic; education; experience; extension; farmers; farming; gaurav; government; important; india; information; journal; land; level; like; majority; messages; mobile; mobile voice; n=200; nadu; needs; nigeria; non; phone; practices; relationship; research; rural; satisfaction; school; services; significant; singh; size; small; socio; sources; state; study; surabhi; table; tamil; technologies; technology; usefulness; voice; voice messages; years
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- joci-2851
- author: None
- title: joci-2851
- date: None
- words: 8547
- flesch: 56
- summary: The influence of close family members on older adult technology adoption has also been suggested previously by Coughlin et al. (2009), Russell (2005), Selwyn (2004) and Selwyn et al. (2003). Older adult participants used constant practice and repeated routines to establish habits, so that they would be able to replicate the processes and procedures necessary to carry out the task at hand.
- keywords: able; access; adults; age; aging; australia; children; communication; communities; community; computer; current; czaja; data; devices; difficulties; digital; digital devices; digital technologies; et al; experience; family; greater; home; important; influences; information; internet; journal; laterlife; learning; lee; life; lives; meaningful; members; merv; mobile; need; new; older; older adults; older people; paper; participants; participation; people; person; phone; purposes; qualitative; quality; research; russell; selwyn; senior; sense; skills; social; study; sunny; support; sydney; technical; technological; technologies; technology; tess; time; understanding; use; younger
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- joci-2853
- author: None
- title: joci-2853
- date: None
- words: 12544
- flesch: 52
- summary: Social capital in disaster recovery According to Kaniasty and Norris (1995, p. 1), disasters impede the exchange of support because they disrupt social networks through death or injury, relocation, changes in routine activities, and physical destruction of environments conducive for social interactions. This study examines the role played by ICTs in re-creating places of socialization and maintaining social capital in a post-disaster reconstruction scenario after the disruption of the physical environment that was once important for the creation and maintenance of these relationships.
- keywords: able; acquaintances; affected; aftermath; analysis; bonding; bridging; case; categories; center; changes; citizens; city; communication; communities; community; computer; conference; contact; creation; different; difficult; dimensions; disaster; disaster recovery; disruption; earthquake; ellison; environment; fabric; facebook; following; friends; help; historic; human; icts; identity; importance; information; interactions; international; internet; interviewees; journal; l'aquila; lampe; life; literature; local; maintenance; media; meeting; natural; networking; networks; new; news; offline; online; order; paper; people; personal; phase; phones; physical; place; post; press; previous; problems; process; public; recovery; relationships; relatives; research; residents; resources; response; results; role; safety; sense; sites; situation; snss; social; social capital; social media; social networking; social relationships; socialization; spaces; spatial; students; studies; study; support; sutton; technologies; technology; terms; ties; tools; touch; university; use; users; virtual; way; wellman; years
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- joci-2854
- author: None
- title: joci-2854
- date: None
- words: 925
- flesch: 48
- summary: This can be seen in the context of the disinterest of tech providers and decision makers, and the distance between technology makers and the favelas, which renders it is difficult for those living in the favelas to get decent Internet connection or access high-quality training. With this format, the author aims to involve both academics and the general public in reflecting on the politics of technology making and how it unfolds in the lives of marginalized communities.
- keywords: author; book; community; david; digital; favelas; informatics; lives; makers; nemer; people; public; social; technology; tools
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- joci-2855
- author: None
- title: joci-2855
- date: None
- words: 1152
- flesch: 34
- summary: She proposes a realistic and alternative approach for fighting social injustice by shifting the focus away from the technology to the perspective of those in unprivileged social locations. She provides several insightful critiques: (1) policies aimed to bridge the digital divide are often trapped in a distributive paradigm that sees all high-tech equity issues as distributive issues (xix), they envision equity and justice solely in terms of resources; (2) technology is not approached as a broad concept encompassing cultural and social aspects and the processes around it; and (3) there is a lack of attention to social location - studying social location and everyday life makes the complex inequalities of the information age visible (25).
- keywords: age; approach; book; community; dead; digital; divide; end; equity; eubanks; high; information; issues; justice; location; people; political; social; technological; technology; women
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- joci-2856
- author: None
- title: joci-2856
- date: None
- words: 5353
- flesch: 47
- summary: Another prominent technology initiative which focuses on education development of rural children is the Shilpa Sayura project in Sri Lanka. Among the lessons reported based on their implementation experience are that awareness of technology functional importance would be greater when its use is linked to solving community problems, and not restricted to only school-based content; and that rural children and youth should be encouraged to become active partners in their community growth.
- keywords: access; activities; activity; available; bario; beliefs; cam; children; communication; communities; community; computer; content; countries; data; day; days; development; digital; divide; education; end; experience; findings; groups; ict; implementation; information; interest; international; internet; knowledge; learners; learning; literacy; local; locations; malaysia; mohamad; needs; new; paper; participants; people; place; playground; potential; primary; program; programme; project; remote; research; rural; rural children; sarawak; school; sharing; social; team; technologies; technology; traditions; use; web; world
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- joci-2857
- author: None
- title: joci-2857
- date: None
- words: 6197
- flesch: 46
- summary: Research on digital divide access between ICTs and social and economic development has been undertaken for decades. Hence, digital inclusion policies and appropriation of technology should afford new social realities for those who have been marginalized from (information) society. APPROPRIATION AND POLICIES OF DIGITAL INCLUSION Bonilla (2005) proposes possible ways to escape from an inclusive logic that is linked to an economistic perspective, meaning that being included means to be a consumer.
- keywords: access; approach; appropriation; bonilla; brazil; citizenship; communication; communities; community; contemporary; content; correa; countries; cultural; culture; development; different; digital; digital divide; digital inclusion; dijk; divide; dynamics; economic; education; gap; gaps; government; helsper; houses; human; icts; inclusion; inclusão; inequalities; information; initiatives; international; internet; issues; lan; marginalized; new; order; people; perspectives; physical; policies; policy; political; population; poverty; pretto; problems; programs; public; rights; school; second; sense; skills; social; society; space; technological; technologies; technology; term; use; van; warschauer; ways
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- joci-2858
- author: None
- title: joci-2858
- date: None
- words: 4683
- flesch: 40
- summary: Protocol politics: the globalization of Internet governance. International Journal of Communication 6, 467-483. Mueller, Milton L. (2010) Networks and states: the global politics of Internet governance.
- keywords: access; action; actual; agency; alternative; arrangements; business; cambridge; change; citizens; collective; common; communication; communities; community; consumption; copyright; corporations; countries; course; cultural; decision; demands; democratic; development; different; digital; disorder; economic; environment; forms; global; globalization; good; governance; governments; icann; individuals; intent; interests; international; internet; issue; level; local; media; mit; narrative; nation; need; networks; new; place; policies; policy; political; politics; potential; property; reach; regimes; resources; set; social; specific; state; system; time; trade; transformation; users; way; wealth; world
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- joci-2946
- author: None
- title: None
- date: None
- words: 15113
- flesch: 52
- summary: Different strokes from different folks: Community ties and social support. Thus, social network theorists have proposed, for example, substituting world systems theory for single state modernization theory, network communities for neighborhood communities, political networks for psychologistic interpretations of collective behavior, and vacancy chain analysis for individualistic analyses of social mobility.
- keywords: access; action; activity; actors; american; analysis; approach; bonding; bridging; building; cambridge; case; change; city; close; coleman; communication; communities; community; community groups; community informatics; community networks; community technology; community ties; computer; concepts; connected; contacts; cyberspace; data; development; different; digital; dissertation; divide; durrance; east; eds; electronic; end; england; estate; example; fact; family; ferlander; field; figure; free; gans; granovetter; groups; hampton; help; high; home; housing; important; influence; information; information technology; instrumental; internet; job; journal; kavanaugh; library; life; lin; literature; loader; local; local community; london; members; model; new; online; organizations; particular; people; personal; place; policy; practice; press; project; public; putnam; question; relationship; research; residents; resources; review; routledge; scholars; schuler; set; shaping; social capital; social informatics; social networks; social ties; society; sociology; space; strength; strong; strong ties; studies; study; support; technologies; technology; telecenter; theoretical; theory; ties; time; trust; u.s; university; use; virtual; weak; weak ties; web; wellman; williams; wired; workers; york
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- joci-2947
- author: Sohne, Guido
- title: Community Revenue Collection System
- date: 2009-04-22
- words: 3112
- flesch: 36
- summary: The benefits of computerizing revenue collection are many but there are some aspects, detailed below, that are especially important to a computerized revenue collection system or otherwise appear to be unachievable using traditional solutions. With the current manual system of revenue collection, it is not always clear when and where undercollection is taking place.
- keywords: able; additional; available; basic; benefits; collection; community; control; cost; data; device; features; fraud; functional; future; government; handheld; implementation; increased; mobile; payments; possible; potential; problems; process; revenue; revenue collection; services; smartcard; software; solution; specification; streams; system; technology; time; training
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- joci-2948
- author: None
- title: None
- date: None
- words: 3663
- flesch: 44
- summary: The integration by formal granting organizations of planning processes that emerged from the grassroots is reminiscent of the fervor that surrounded participation in the 1980s and 1990s. This paper provides a reflection on community engagement through an analysis of the meaning of its underlying notion of participation, with a view to help practitioners and project developers locate its real meaning and contribution.
- keywords: action; analysis; approaches; attention; canada; challenge; chambers; community; consultation; control; development; different; dimension; engagement; greenwood; health; importance; information; kanji; ladders; learning; local; london; long; lotz; making; management; meaning; new; notion; organizations; ownership; paper; participation; participatory; people; planning; policy; potential; power; project; research; spaces; stages; stakeholder; term; use
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- joci-2949
- author: None
- title: eJIKEI
- date: None
- words: 1086
- flesch: 43
- summary: However, the psychological burden on the general public related to the recorded images of a security camera system being freely viewed by the owner is huge, and has been an obstacle to the further spread of security camera systems. In a practical example carried out in Kiryu City, Gunma Prefecture, a personal computer (PC)-based security camera system is owned and managed by the owners of retail stores affiliated with the merchant association, and images are encrypted and stored in the system.
- keywords: cameras; concept; engineering; gunma; images; jikei; owner; privacy; security; system; university; viewer
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- joci-2950
- author: None
- title: What’s in a Name
- date: None
- words: 1306
- flesch: 28
- summary: It is probably too soon to say that there is Community Informatics theory, but certainly not too soon to say that there is a vibrant discussion towards Community Informatics theory and that alone distinguishes Community Informatics from many of the other “Informatics’s” that have proliferated in the last decade or so. Area studies in that context was an academic way of trying to catch up with a very rapidly changing intellectual (and activist) world by developing teaching and research programs in such areas as “Women’s studies”, “Latin American studies”, “Canadian studies” and so on and so on.
- keywords: academic; area; case; communities; community; context; development; disciplinary; example; informatics; interesting; research; studies; term; theory; use; way; women; world
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- joci-2951
- author: None
- title: Tl'azt'en Learning Circle (TLC): A Pilot CLC Project in British
- date: None
- words: 7512
- flesch: 42
- summary: Rather, e-health should be viewed as a strategic addition to a comprehensive approach to community health. As a result, UBC eHealth and the Ministry jointly envisioned the introduction of high-speed broadband infrastructure and health content to a rural First Nations community that would help achieve the following goals: Access of community members to general computer training towards use in e-learning and e-health Establishment of a broadband-based e-health curriculum for school students by working with First Nation community leaders and community health nurses Scheduled online continuing health education to community health providers (e.g. community health nurses, First Nation elders and leaders, mothers, etc.)
- keywords: access; british; building; canada; centre; clc; clcs; columbia; communication; communities; community; community health; community members; concept; content; cultural; development; discussions; education; elders; evaluation; example; february; future; goals; government; health; health information; implementation; information; internet; issues; knowledge; learning; lessons; management; meetings; members; ministry; model; monterrey; nation; needs; opportunities; partners; phase; pilot; plan; portal; potential; pras; priorities; process; processes; project; relevant; research; researchers; resources; rural; services; sharing; skills; social; space; staff; support; tache; technical; technology; tlc; tl’azt’en; traditional; training; ubc; ubc ehealth; university; use; visit; web; work; youth
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- joci-2952
- author: None
- title: Profile of a smart community
- date: None
- words: 6439
- flesch: 41
- summary: Members of community networks were asked to identify their current and proposed level of involvement in developing innovative applications. The argument presented is that smart community networks should be good at all of the variables identified.
- keywords: ability; access; achievement; albert; applications; benefits; broadband; building; business; canada; canadian; collaboration; common; communities; community; concept; constructs; content; culture; development; digital; economic; economic development; economy; factors; forum; government; groups; impact; important; industry; information; infrastructure; innovation; intelligent; intelligent community; international; journal; knowledge; lebrasseur; level; multi; networked; networks; new; objects; opportunities; organizations; paper; partnerships; planning; population; private; process; projects; respondents; scale; smart; smart community; social; society; survey; table; technology; telecommunication; transformation; use; users; variable; vision; wide; world
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- joci-2953
- author: None
- title: None
- date: None
- words: 9351
- flesch: 49
- summary: The locational advantage factor of call centre outsourcing might not be observed as an important factor for government call centres as the related theories of international business that are prevailing at this moment are focused on call centre operations of private businesses (As-Saber et. In a report, the National Office for the Information Economy of Australia argued that despite some of the comparable activities, government call centres are different from private sector call centres in terms of their knowledge base and skills sets (NOIE, 2003).
- keywords: 21st; access; activities; adoption; asia; australia; better; business; cellular; centres; century; challenges; citizens; commitment; communication; connections; corruption; costs; countries; country; customer; december; delivery; density; department; developed; development; different; digital; divide; editions; efficiency; electronic; face; framework; g2b; good; governance; government; ict; implementation; important; india; industry; information; infrastructure; initiatives; innovation; international; internet; j.s.l; journal; key; kinder; korea; labour; lack; local; malaysia; management; nations; nature; need; network; new; operations; paper; people; performance; perspective; political; potential; private; process; project; provisions; public; public sector; readiness; reform; role; saber; sector; service; similar; singapore; social; stakeholders; state; successful; systems; technology; telephone; times; tool; undesa; united; university; use; users; value; vision; web; world; yong
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- joci-2954
- author: None
- title: Issues of governance are central to the concerns of all communi
- date: None
- words: 805
- flesch: 16
- summary: In addition, of course in most cases for public sector services there are no realistic alternatives and thus the opportunity to “vote with one’s feet or pocket book” does apply and thus the responsibility of public sector service providers is rather greater and to be held to a higher standard than for commercial service providers. Thus while in Developed Countries e-Government as applied to service delivery might be criticized for disempowering citizens by reducing their opportunity to influence services and service delivery1 the same measures in LDC’s might be seen as a very positive development in that it may represent a significant extension of service provision to the population and the use of this implementations for service delivery to modernize and rationalize the public sector administrative and technological infrastructure.
- keywords: central; commercial; community; countries; delivery; developed; governance; government; informatics; issues; public; sector; service
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- joci-2955
- author: None
- title: E-governance in the developing world
- date: None
- words: 8188
- flesch: 44
- summary: Emphasize that information is a commodity The success of e-administration and e-services programmes relies heavily on the quality of data and information. Create feedback loops in e-governments programmes
- keywords: access; administration; analysis; applications; areas; available; business; capacity; change; citizens; civil; communication; computer; context; counties; country; data; design; development; districtnet; districtnet programme; districts; effectiveness; example; feedback; figure; focus; governance; government; government development; headquarters; ict; impact; implementation; implemented; important; improvement; information; infrastructure; institute; introduction; knowledge; lessons; level; line; local; local government; management; mobile; molg; national; nations; needs; new; operations; order; organization; paper; pilot; processes; programme; public; quality; report; rural; sector; services; skills; society; staff; start; sub; success; support; technical; technology; time; training; uganda; united; use; users; work; world
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- joci-2956
- author: None
- title: joci-2956
- date: None
- words: 23358
- flesch: 22
- summary: COLOR=#000000><FONT SIZE=2 STYLE=font-size: 11pt><SPAN LANG=fr-FR><I>Introduction and example; </I></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT COLOR=#000000><FONT SIZE=2 STYLE=font-size: 11pt><SPAN LANG=fr-FR>RESEARCH REPORT; No. 3, April 2001; </SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT><A HREF=http://www.ftpiicd.org/files/research/reports/report3.pdf></A><A HREF=http://www.ftpiicd.org/files/research/reports/report3.pdf></A><A HREF=http://www.ftpiicd.org/files/research/reports/report3.pdf><FONT SIZE=2 STYLE=font-size: 11pt>http://www.ftpiicd.org/files/research/reports/report3.pdf</FONT></FONT></A><A HREF=http://www.ftpiicd.org/files/research/reports/report3.pdf></A><A HREF=http://www.ftpiicd.org/files/research/reports/report3.pdf></A><FONT COLOR=#000000><FONT SIZE=2 STYLE=font-size: 11pt><SPAN LANG=fr-FR> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT> </P> <P LANG=fr-FR STYLE=margin-left: 1.27cm; text-indent: -1.17cm; margin-top: 0.21cm; margin-bottom: 0.2cm; page-break-before: auto> <FONT SIZE=2 STYLE=font-size: 11pt>Bertucci, G. & Alberti, A. (2003). COLOR=#000000><FONT SIZE=2 STYLE=font-size: 11pt><SPAN LANG=fr-FR><I>European Review of Political Technologies, </I></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT COLOR=#000000><FONT SIZE=2 STYLE=font-size: 11pt><SPAN LANG=fr-FR>[online] available: </SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT
- keywords: /span></font></font></font><font; 10pt">all; = true&db; accountability; accountable; administration; align =; attributes; auto; automation; available; background; bank; bec; birth; break; broad; certificate; citizens; citizens’ civil; color="#000000"><font; color="#000000"><span lang="en; color="#0000ff"><u><a; context; contributions; copies; countries; decision; delivery; developed; development; economic; efez; employee; external; font; font color="#000000"><span; font size=2><span; fr"><i; fr"><span; fr"><span style="font; good; governance; government; gt10; href="http://ideas.repec.org; href="http://search.epnet.com; href="http://www.rdh50.ma; ict; implementation; indent; industrial; information; institutions; kiosk; lang="en; lang="fr; law; ldquo;<font; left; li><p; li><p lang="fr; local; login.aspx?direct =; making; management; manual; medium; morocco; needs; new; normal; number; office; online; order; outcomes; overall; page; paper; pdf; perspective; possible; process; processes; processing; project; public; references; reform; related; request; research; results; right; sector; service; service delivery; size; social; standards; state; style="font; style="margin; system; table; tasks; text; time; transparent; undp; use; way; weight; width=104; width=117; width=139; width=145; width=168; width=190; world; wpa
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- joci-2957
- author: None
- title: None
- date: None
- words: 9678
- flesch: 38
- summary: Community networks were natural partners for community organizations such as libraries and community centres seeking to establish public internet access sites under the CAP program and, today, community networks manage hundreds of such sites across the country. The following review of international and Canadian research highlights three main aspects of civic participation in community networking practice: 1. Community networks as catalysts of local civic participation Information and services, and their impacts, provided by community networks to foster local civic participation, as well as their uptake and use by the community (e.g. local information, ICT access and training, service directories, discussion forums, cultural content, etc.);
- keywords: access; achievements; activities; addition; cambridge; canada; canadian; canadian community; capital; case; centre; civic; civic participation; clement; communication; communities; community; community access; community informatics; community members; community networks; community organizations; computer; content; cracin; cyberspace; development; digital; discussion; early; economic; eds; electronic; engagement; evaluation; evidence; face; federal; free; funding; government; groups; gurstein; health; high; ict; impact; individuals; industry; information; initiatives; interest; internet; internet access; involvement; issues; learning; line; local; local civic; local community; low; members; mit; moll; ncf; networking; new; non; number; organizations; ottawa; paper; participation; policy; political; press; profit; programs; project; public; recent; research; researchers; residents; resources; role; schuler; services; shade; shaping; sites; social; social capital; social networks; society; studies; study; success; support; technical; technology; terms; toronto; training; university; use; users; vancouver; vcn; web; wired; york
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- joci-2958
- author: None
- title: None
- date: None
- words: 9096
- flesch: 41
- summary: The list of e-government services available to Bangaloreans between June 2003 and August 2004 is provided in Table 1. The goals of this mission include enabling modern and transparent budgeting and financial management systems in urban government, city-wide frameworks for planning and governance, access to basic services, transparent and accountable governance and the introduction of e-government services.
- keywords: access; accountability; accounting; administrative; areas; august; available; bangalore; bangalore city; batf; biotechnology; bmp; budget; capital; case; citizens; city; civic; commissioner; communication; computerized; computers; connections; corporation; countries; data; delivery; democracy; democratic; department; development; different; digital; direct; divide; electronic; engagement; features; financial; forms; governance; government; groups; heeks; icts; india; information; information technology; infrastructure; initiatives; internet; issues; karnataka; lack; level; links; local; local government; management; mayor; meetings; need; new; norris; number; officials; online; opportunities; participation; people; policies; policy; political; population; power; press; process; processes; proof; public; representatives; research; resources; retrieved; role; sage; services; social; software; specific; state; state government; statements; studies; study; system; tax; technologies; technology; term; time; transactions; transparency; university; urban; use; ward; wardworks; website; works; world; year
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- joci-2959
- author: None
- title: None
- date: None
- words: 3360
- flesch: 42
- summary: Such streets consequently experience more throughput than less connected and accessible streets. Inspired by (McCall 2003) and seeking to extend the work and principles drawn from the “mapmaker’s dream of mapping the intangible” (Bosworth et al. 1998), this paper addresses a new approach for including fuzzy, qualitative social data into PPGIS visualisations.
- keywords: approaches; area; boolean; case; colour; communities; community; connectivity; data; decision; design; development; empowerment; group; indicator; information; integration; key; local; neighbourhood; new; paper; participants; participation; participatory; particular; place; planning; ppgis; processes; public; qualitative; representation; sense; simple; social; software; space; stakeholders; street; study; syntax; techniques; tool; unsatisfactory; urban; visualisation
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- joci-2960
- author: None
- title: None
- date: None
- words: 3889
- flesch: 49
- summary: IT has proved to be an effective tool for delivering information and providing government services to the citizens, especially the less privileged. Using IT as a tool for delivery of government information and services to the masses requires major rethinking of the working of the government and its processes.
- keywords: appraisal; aspirations; assessment; bpr; business; centric; citizen; common; data; delivery; departments; development; district; end; exercises; figure; governance; government; group; high; hindi; implementation; india; information; information kiosks; institute; interest; kiosks; model; nainital; needs; participatory; people; pilot; place; portal; pra; priorities; processes; project; public; reengineering; roorkee; rua; services; set; state; studies; success; technology; terms; time; uttaranchal; working
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- joci-2961
- author: None
- title: None
- date: None
- words: 2044
- flesch: 47
- summary: The project will ensure this by: Organizing a network of trained volunteers, at least one per precinct, committed to send in truthful precinct election returns via text/SMS for posting in a common database immediately after a precinct finishes its tabulation; Setting up and maintaining a national database of precinct election returns that is accessible to the public (by text/SMS, email, Web, file download, data CDs), where precinct-level data will remain disaggregated and individually verifiable by the public. The database of precinct election returns is then updated.
- keywords: ballots; canvass; citizens; comelec; database; election; honest; level; municipal; national; network; online; precinct; presidential; provincial; public; reports; results; returns; sms; system; tally; text; totals; truthful; volunteers
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- joci-2962
- author: None
- title: None
- date: None
- words: 5214
- flesch: 41
- summary: However, the use of e-government services by citizens is still not an extended practice, even in countries that lead the world in e-government technologies. In less industrialized countries, little published information exists about individuals’ use of e-government services.
- keywords: access; aguascalientes; bank; card; cash; citizens; computers; countries; credit; cultural; electronic; example; findings; focus; government; government services; group; home; icts; impact; individuals; information; internet; kiosks; lack; mexicans; mexico; online; participants; payment; people; perceptions; personal; population; potential; public; public services; research; servants; services; shopping; state; study; technologies; total; transactions; trust; use; utilization; years
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- joci-2963
- author: None
- title: In some earlier writing I asked the question whether there coul
- date: None
- words: 1012
- flesch: 36
- summary: The papers in this issue I think, give a resoundingly positive answer to the first question but still leave open to research and practice the second; that is, does the availability and use of wireless connectivity enhance community and can it be used as a means for building communities? A further difficulty with thinking about a “wireless community informatics” is that wireless as an infrastructure is necessarily virtual and placeless thus immediately making the creation of community connections (the normative integration necessary for community formation) exceedingly difficult.
- keywords: access; communities; community; connection; connectivity; informatics; interaction; issue; question; urban; use; users; way; wireless
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- joci-2964
- author: None
- title: Wireless Networking for Communities, Citizens, and the Public I
- date: None
- words: 1310
- flesch: 30
- summary: Community wireless networks have mobilized groups of citizens, local governments, non-profit organizations, and development agencies to collaborate in creating locally-appropriate communications tools. The current critical juncture, where geospatial communications like wired telephones are being replaced with individual communications like mobile devices demonstrates the powerful roles for community wireless networks in this transformation.
- keywords: applications; cho; citizens; communications; communities; community; connectivity; development; digital; interest; issue; local; media; networking; networks; new; notes; papers; projects; public; social; use; wifi; wireless
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- joci-2965
- author: None
- title: Towards Systems Design for Supporting Enabling Communities
- date: None
- words: 4676
- flesch: 49
- summary: Design alternatives for wireless community networks The community network could take into account changes in conceptions of time in several ways. An important implication for community networks is that a preferred design option for the network may be to establish clusters of wireless islands that are characterized by the use of both mediated and non-mediated communication and by place-based wireless content.
- keywords: access; action; bakardjieva; bias; changes; city; communication; communities; community; community informatics; community network; conceptions; consumption; day; design; development; edmonton; effects; example; face; feenberg; following; groups; historical; human; implications; individuals; informatics; innis; internet; june; mcluhan; media; medium; model; movement; network; new; patterns; people; press; private; scholars; social; society; space; strategy; technological; technologies; technology; telegraph; theorists; theory; time; toronto; understanding; university; urban; use; uses; virilio; virtual; wireless; wireless zones; york; zones
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- joci-2966
- author: None
- title: Place-Peer Community And Civic Bandwidth:
- date: None
- words: 11703
- flesch: 49
- summary: Building community social capital: The potential and promise of information and communications technologies. As Powell (2005) notes, community groups have had an important role in determining how wireless Internet networking infrastructures have been integrated into the broader political and economic cityscape.
- keywords: access; aim; article; bandwidth; building; canadian; capital; case; city; civic; communication; communities; community; community informatics; community networks; community wireless; concepts; connection; cwns; data; democratic; development; different; discourse; economic; eds; example; face; findings; free; global; goals; group; hotspot; ict; ideological; implications; important; individuals; informants; information; initiatives; interaction; interest; internet; journal; key; life; local; local community; london; media; members; motivations; networking; networks; new; notion; order; participation; particular; peer; peer community; people; place; policy; political; portal; potential; press; project; public; questions; real; reasons; related; research; rhetoric; routledge; sense; short; social; social capital; society; study; survey; symbolic; technical; technologies; technology; term; things; toronto; toronto volunteers; understanding; university; urban; use; useful; users; virtual; visions; volunteers; way; wireless; wireless internet; wireless networking; wireless toronto; york
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- joci-2967
- author: None
- title: Anytime
- date: None
- words: 10416
- flesch: 54
- summary: Many of the individuals involved in community wireless networks emerged from the Free Libre / Open Source Software (FLOSS) movement. Thus, they found ways to share Internet access wirelessly with the nearest wired building sometimes across significant distances.2 Today, there are thousands of WUGs, freenets and community wireless networks worldwide in cities including Seattle, New York, Champaign-Urbana, San Francisco, San Diego, Portland, Austin and Boston in the United States, in Montreal and Toronto, Canada; London; Berlin; Paris, Budapest; Tallinn, Estonia; Belgrade, Serbia; Johannesburg, South Africa; and Canberra, Australia; among others.3 Despite similarities in the beliefs and values of community wireless networks, these groups vary considerably in size, membership and activities from country-to-country based on political, economic, legal and socio-cultural factors.
- keywords: access; addition; affordances; american; anyplace; anytime; article; bar; biased; broadband; bryant; budapest; building; business; cities; city; communication; communities; community; community wireless; computer; connected; connectivity; convenience; debates; development; devices; economic; example; figure; following; francisco; free; government; groups; gupta; hall; hampton; home; hotspots; information; infrastructure; internet; language; live; location; mail; media; mobile; models; montreal; municipal; municipal wireless; needs; networking; networks; new; new york; number; nycwireless; office; online; open; order; organizations; paper; park; particular; partnership; people; personal; phrase; policy; possible; practices; project; public; questions; representations; respondents; san; social; software; spaces; specific; spectrum; star; states; studies; survey; technological; technologies; technology; times; ubiquitous; ubiquity; use; users; values; view; visible; way; ways; wifi; wireless; wireless internet; wireless networks; wireless technologies; world; years; york
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- joci-2968
- author: None
- title: None
- date: None
- words: 10878
- flesch: 44
- summary: Several organizations have attempted to define community wireless network or networking. All point to a direct connection between wireless Internet access and the closing of the digital divide.
- keywords: access; actual; analysis; approach; areas; bridge; broadband; building; business; case; cities; citizens; city; claims; communications; communities; community; community wireless; computer; connectivity; context; cost; cultural; data; database; deployment; development; digital; digital divide; digital inclusion; direct; divide; economic; education; efforts; free; gap; goal; government; high; impact; inclusion; income; information; infrastructure; initiatives; internet; internet access; interviews; issues; jobs; key; kvasny; life; local; low; maitland; meinrath; municipal; necessary; network; new; opportunities; ortiz; people; policy; political; portland; press; problem; programs; project; public; quality; question; research; residents; resources; rhetoric; services; skills; social; socio; speed; state; stone; study; subject; systems; tapia; technologies; technology; tempe; terms; theme; training; universal; university; usage; use; users; way; wireless; wireless broadband; wireless networks
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- joci-2969
- author: None
- title: Towards Systems Design for Supporting Enabling Communities
- date: None
- words: 1833
- flesch: 46
- summary: The goal is to create the basis for community-owned ICT enterprises for rural areas, providing voice, data and content services – including community radio and video - to the local people at affordable rates and tailored to local needs. Rural communities are characterised by high levels of poverty and illiteracy, and a very poorly organised civil society still suffers the traumas of Cambodia’s history.
- keywords: areas; cambodia; communities; community; coordinators; development; external; hubs; ict; idrc; internet; kep; local; manager; months; new; number; pilot; process; project; radio; reach; research; rural; services; staff; station; team; village; work
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- joci-2970
- author: None
- title: None
- date: None
- words: 1667
- flesch: 34
- summary: In light of this sector’s extensive involvement with the site, both State Parks and UCLA are committed to a research process at the Park, which deeply involves local communities. With Disney Imagineering R&D, we are collaborating on a temporary large-scale experiential installation located within the Park, which explores public experience of community history and identity, and is supported by connectivity from the Met-Wi deployment.
- keywords: angeles; california; campaign; cens; center; civic; communities; community; computing; cultural; data; deployment; historic; location; los; mobile; network; park; participatory; remap; research; scale; sensing; state; ucla; urban
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- joci-2971
- author: None
- title: ABSTRACT
- date: None
- words: 3306
- flesch: 59
- summary: In order to make this technology really affordable, an inexpensive method of aligning antennas when the other end of the links is not visible has to be found. With this, a kit comprising an inexpensive signal generator and a signal strength detector (Figure 6) is finally available for the wireless networking practitioner that allows for the alignment of antennas at long distances.
- keywords: access; aguila; analyzer; antenna; april; baúl; carlo; cost; dbi; dbm; del; distance; elevation; ends; equipment; figure; gain; generator; ghz; ictp; inexpensive; link; linksys; long; low; mérida; networking; output; pico; point; power; radio; received; routers; signal; site; spectrum; standard; team; technology; tier; time; transmission; venezuela; wifi; wireless; wrt54
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- joci-2972
- author: None
- title: Abstract for
- date: None
- words: 1845
- flesch: 45
- summary: In March however, under pressure from CUPE Local One, the union representing 27 of THT’s workers, Toronto Mayor David Miller asked Toronto Hydro to hold off on the sale, so the city could “consider whether there are other models that work. An important precedent for this is the priority that Toronto Hydro Energy, THT’s sister company which distributes electricity in Toronto, places on energy saving measures, which are counter to its short-term financial interests but respond to strong popular and political pressures to promote long-term environmental sustainability.
- keywords: broadband; businesses; city; company; corporation; fiber; financial; governments; households; hydro; infrastructure; interest; internet; local; major; model; municipal; needs; network; networking; political; private; public; sale; services; telecom; term; tht; time; toronto; wireless; zone
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- joci-2973
- author: None
- title: Life after Connectivity: the Impact of the Community Mesh Network in Mahavilachchiya, Sri Lanka’s E-village
- date: None
- words: 9392
- flesch: 56
- summary: The mesh network has been operational in Mahavilachchiya for 3 months and this survey aims to quantify the impact it has had on the lives of Horizon Lanka students. The various uses of the Internet by Horizon Lanka students are shown in the graph below.
- keywords: areas; average; business; census; center; chat; community; computer; connectivity; content; cost; daily; department; development; economic; education; email; english; foundation; future; government; help; home; horizon; horizon lanka; horizon students; ict; icta; impact; implementation; important; income; information; internet; internet connectivity; internet use; jobs; lack; lanka; lanka students; limited; literacy; literate; local; mahavilachchiya; members; mesh; mesh network; network; news; number; online; opportunities; order; parents; people; place; potential; project; question; research; responses; results; rural; school; schoolwork; sinhalese; sites; sri; sri lanka; statistics; students; study; survey; technology; time; training; usage; use; users; village; villagers; years
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- joci-3025
- author: None
- title: joci-3025
- date: None
- words: 2895
- flesch: 44
- summary: Is the issue trying to help communities use ICTs more effectively, or is it working in a general way to develop communication systems that will help local communities intelligently address the problems that they and the rest of the world face?In some situations, for example, this would mean helping to develop collective problem-solving tools so people can more effectively resist oppression or fight the status quo. The discussion reignited the idea that CI should be used for the benefit of global communities as well as “local” ones.
- keywords: actors; articles; associations; bridging; broadband; civic; communication; communities; community; development; different; electronic; enterprise; example; focus; forces; global; icts; idea; informatics; institutional; issue; local; multi; networks; new; non; organizational; people; practice; public; regional; regions; role; rural; sassen; scalar; schuler; social; society; special; transactions; use; view; world
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- joci-3026
- author: None
- title: joci-3026
- date: None
- words: 738
- flesch: 20
- summary: We talk of rural development and urban environments, of the local as feature of spatial connection and the global as the field in which large processes and interconnections take place. On the other hand CI represents the continuity of community interconnections as the foundation of social being even in the most fragmented and anomic of urban environments and moreover with the technology platform providing the means to enable and sustain these connections over time and through space.
- keywords: age; connections; context; dominant; environments; global; internet; local; opportunities; rural; urban
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- joci-3027
- author: None
- title: joci-3027
- date: None
- words: 17797
- flesch: 40
- summary: De Cindio (2012) discusses and compares the openDCN approach to similar initiatives, such as the well-known FixMyStreet (<A HREF=http://www.fixmystreet.org/>http://www.fixmystreet.org</A>), to illustrate how some features of the software, together with the design guidelines presented in the paper, induce behaviors inclined to deliberation;</SPAN></FONT></FONT></P> <LI><P ALIGN=JUSTIFY><FONT FACE=Times New Roman, serif><FONT SIZE=2 STYLE=font-size: 11pt><SPAN LANG=en-US>ComunaliMilano2011 was set up to foster dialogue between candidates and electors on the occasion of Milan’s 2006 municipal elections. </FONT></FONT> </P> <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=line-height: 0.18in><A NAME=GoBack></A><FONT FACE=Times New Roman, serif><FONT SIZE=2 STYLE=font-size: 11pt>Conceptualized in the 1990s (e.g., Schuler, 1994 & 1996), community networks (including Free-Nets) were probably the first widespread attempt to develop networked information and communication technology (ICT) for a wide range of community affairs.
- keywords: /span><span; 11pt">the; = justify><font; = left><font; access; action; activities; actual; address; agenda; align =; amp; approach; available; case; challenges; cindio; citizens; city; civic; collaborative; collective; communication; communities; community; community networks; complex; context; critical; decision; deliberation; democracy; democratic; design; developers; development; different; dimension; discussion; early; eds; electronic; engagement; environment; example; experiences; face="times; face="times new; facebook; features; focus; free; future; global; government; groups; height; help; ideas; important; indent; information; informed; intelligence; internet; issues; italian; italy; lack; lang="en; large; learning; left; li><p align; liberate; likely; links; local; making; mdash; meetings; milan; movement; municipalities; national; need; networking; networks; new roman; new york; non; number; offline; online; online deliberation; opendcn; order; organizations; page; paper; participants; participation; participatory; particular; people; peraboni; platform; policy; possible; present; press; problems; process; processes; project; protest; protocol; public; reason; region; research; resources; robert; role; rules; schuler; seattle; serif"><font; services; sharing; sites; situation; size; social; society; software; sonnante; space; states; style="font; style="line; style="margin; support; system; tav; technologies; technology; text; tools; united; university; use; useful; variety; voices; voting; way; ways; web; website; world; years
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- joci-3028
- author: None
- title: joci-3028
- date: None
- words: 17921
- flesch: 44
- summary: [Taipei] Taiwan Environmental Information Association [TEIA] [Taipei] ORGANIZATIONAL TRANSFORMATIONS IOP DHK engages in the ‘spider web’ of mutually reinforcing face-to-face & virtual networks AMOO developed as a collaborative online ‘memory map’ project with an open source platform & Creative Commons licensing OURs staff time has increasingly been spent on social media features & e-tools (prompting the hiring of an ICT specialist) TEIA started as a virtual organization, but has increasingly emphasized in-person contacts & grounded eco-projects EOP DHK employs e-newsletters with multimodal links (text / video clips) and ties to physical public events / activities AMOO is a digital formation that invites DIY / self-posted audio, video & text mark-ups for placement onto e-map OURs public video and text inputs are linked into a GIS map mash-up which invites social media public commentaries TEIA publicizes a daily e-newspaper & its website is a key portal for g/local environmental information of relevance to Taiwan PARTICIPATORY TRANSFORMATIONS PSR DHKs website invites the public to upload images; to vote & to discuss Hong Kong public space issues AMOOs participatory digital map platform serves as a multi-lingual public memory forum & historical archive OURs Burning Map Network combines GIS mapping & commentary with online & in-person networking & public events TEIAs volunteer reporters & editors fill the gap in media ‘blind spots’, particularly on civic environmental issues in Taiwan CA DHK encourages multiplexed debate & dialogue on urban politics; land use, infrastructure & sustainability issues AMOOs website includes links to Hong Kong-wide land & conservation issues along with links to sites articulating alternative visions for urban development OURs has links community-based activism to Burning Map, as well as to social media satire / online activism about urban environmental issues TEIA trains civic reporters or editors; it also combines online education & awareness on issues such as local habitat protection; or links to its Environmental Trust SPATIAL TRANSFORMATIONS GLST DHK enabled global interest in its multiplexed (online / physical) Harbourfront International Design Competition AMOO encourages ‘scaling-up’ to broader city-wide conservation & development issues; & temporal scaling with a digital neighbourhood ‘timeline’ feature OURs Burning Map links to broader urban (bio)regional issues in the Taipei basin including climate change; a staffer was also active in g/local Losheng campaign TEIAs Environmental Trust has helped to build global alliances & its volunteer reporters provided digital coverage COP14 Climate Conference in Bali, Indonesia AAF DHK joined a multiplexed alliance to raise awareness of HK Times Square public space issues AMOO cultivates partnerships with Kwun Tong bloggers; with artists & heritage activist groups OURs-besides an ongoing grounded focus-has built alliances within the Burning Map Network, (e.g. with local civic associations) TEIA remediates regional and global green NGO news; & it provides web/ICT support to smaller environmental & other civic associations Table 4: Mapping info-sociational transformations across the case studies (Author). 2. Towards a provisional theory of info-sociations A. Case study research methods The paper draws-upon case studies of local civic associations: two in Taipei and two in Hong Kong.
- keywords: activism; activists; activities; age; alliances; allied; alternative; amoo; approach; archive; asia; associations; author; blog; building; burning; cambridge; case; castells; ceo; changes; chen; china; chinese; cities; citizen; city; civic; civic associations; civic environmental; collaborative; communications; communities; community; concept; concerns; conservation; core; counter; creative; critical; cultural; culture; cyber; cyberspaces; day; dean; december; democratic; design; designing; development; dhk; dhks; digital; discourse; e.g.; east; eco; eds; email; environmental; events; example; external; face; figure; focus; focused; forums; founder; geographic; gis; global; governance; government; graham; green; groups; heritage; history; hong; hong kong; hope; human; ibid; ict; icts; ideas; important; info; information; internal; international; internet; interview; issues; justice; key; knowledge; kong; kwun; land; life; like; limited; links; livability; local; map; mash; media; mobilization; movements; multi; multiplexed; nature; need; neighbourhood; network; networked; networking; new; news; non; novel; ongoing; online; open; organizational; paper; participation; participatory; people; person; physical; place; planning; platform; political; politics; potential; power; practices; press; problems; profit; project; public; real; regional; related; reporters; research; residents; rights; role; routledge; sadoway; sassen; scalar; schuler; science; section; sharing; skills; small; social; sociational; society; socio; source; space; spatial; sphere; spider; staffer; state; studies; study; support; sustainability; table; tactics; taipei; taiwan; technological; technologies; technology; teia; text; theory; threats; time; toggling; tong; tools; traditional; transformations; trust; university; urban; use; uses; video; virtual; website; wikileaks; world; years; york
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- joci-3029
- author: None
- title: joci-3029
- date: None
- words: 8097
- flesch: 47
- summary: The comparative analysis disclosed that the use of e-planning tools and arenas were the most advanced in the CADDIES project and in the Roihuvuori Neighbourhood Yard. We will take a closer look in the next section at the preconditions which have enabled the Helsinki Neighbourhoods Association (Helka) to develop and use e-planning tools in a way that has made it a glocal player.
- keywords: applications; applied; approach; caddies; capacities; capital; case; citizen; city; communication; communities; community; context; countries; decision; development; different; digital; environmental; espoo; everyday; evolution; example; face; figure; finland; finnish; global; governance; helka; helsinki; horelli; icts; informatics; infrastructure; institutional; internet; journal; life; local; making; media; methods; mobile; neighbourhood; network; new; participants; participation; participatory; participatory planning; people; place; planning; player; practice; press; process; processes; project; public; regional; research; saad; services; sites; social; space; stakeholders; structures; studies; sulonen; supportive; technical; technology; theory; time; tools; university; urban; urban planning; use; users; variety; wallin; web; yard
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- joci-3030
- author: None
- title: joci-3030
- date: None
- words: 8770
- flesch: 48
- summary: The setting for this research is regional New Zealand. In terms of soft networks New Zealand became more culturally diverse and tolerant of different lifestyles especially in the urban areas.
- keywords: active; area; articles; asian; bonding; bridging; broadband; building; business; capital; city; common; communities; community; contribution; council; countries; country; cultural; culture; data; development; different; digital; economic; economy; education; evidence; exports; factors; flows; global; government; groups; hard; high; historical; icts; information; infrastructure; innovation; international; internet; islanders; knowledge; large; learning; level; links; local; major; markets; mãori; national; networks; new; new zealand; organisations; pacific; particular; people; period; potential; products; public; regional; regional networks; regions; research; role; rural; schools; sectors; significant; social; soft; soft networks; southland; statistics; storper; strategy; strong; successful; systems; terms; time; trade; trend; urban; use; voluntary; wellington; women; world; zealand
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- joci-3031
- author: None
- title: None
- date: None
- words: 10465
- flesch: 41
- summary: Each selected participant was considered to have a significant stake, either personally or professionally, in the topic of rural broadband access and availability in rural Alberta. Retrieved from http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/publications/reports/policymonitoring/2010/images/96.jpg Sense-making and rural broadband networks We offer in this study in part an examination of policy development and in part the application of a method of qualitative data-gathering and analysis.
- keywords: access; action; adoption; alberta; ambiguity; analysis; areas; availability; benefits; broadband; broadband access; broadband adoption; broadband development; broadband technology; business; canada; capital; case; communication; communities; community; context; cost; data; decision; development; digital; divide; economic; environment; example; expectations; figure; framework; future; global; government; groups; high; individuals; industry; information; infrastructure; internet; isps; local; making; market; meaning; means; mile; nbtf; necessary; network; new; organization; organizing; participation; people; potential; private; processes; prophecies; prophecy; public; question; regulatory; relationship; research; respondents; result; role; roundtable; rural alberta; rural broadband; rural communities; self; sense; services; situation; social; society; spectrum; speed; stakeholders; state; study; supernet; technologies; technology; themes; time; uncertainty; use; van; way; weick; wireless; words
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- joci-3032
- author: None
- title: None
- date: None
- words: 10937
- flesch: 47
- summary: Also, the Deloitte consulting group recently released a study (2007) claiming that the high tax rates on mobile phone services in sub-Saharan Africa are short-sighted, economically-speaking. Deloitte calculated that by cutting taxes on mobile phone services, the governments would see their overall economies grow at a higher rate in the long term, and that as a result, their overall tax receipts would actually rise in the medium to longer term.
- keywords: able; access; adoption; africa; applications; approach; areas; article; available; benefit; building; business; business model; capabilities; case; challenges; communications; continent; corporations; cost; countries; critical; customers; design; developed; development; economic; economy; education; elements; examples; factors; farmers; feedback; fife; future; governments; great; growth; health; hiv; home; hosman; human; ict; important; information; infrastructure; initiatives; innovation; interface; international; issues; journal; july; june; large; level; life; likely; local; long; market; medium; meeting; mobile; mobile phone; model; nations; necessary; needs; new; number; numerous; order; partnerships; people; percent; phone; policy; political; poor; potential; private; process; program; projects; proposition; public; rates; real; relevant; research; researchers; revenue; role; rural; saharan; section; sector; service; sms; society; solutions; south; state; step; study; sub; successful; support; sustainability; technologies; technology; telecom; telecommunications; telephony; term; testing; theory; time; university; use; user; value; ways; world; zainudeen
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- joci-3033
- author: None
- title: joci-3033
- date: None
- words: 2065
- flesch: 24
- summary: Book Review: Development Communication: Reframing the Role of Media Wilson Halder University of Guelph Ontario, Canada whalder@uoguelph.ca Development Communication: Reframing the Role of Media is a welcome addition to the rapidly growing literature of media structures and processes within development communication. McPhail is not afraid to discuss past failures of development communication, such as the low-success rates seen in past top-down approaches to development in the field, or advocate his strong positive opinion towards a bottom-up approach focused on grassroots initiatives of development.
- keywords: approach; book; case; change; chapter; communication; community; context; development; development communication; different; field; foreign; grassroots; information; mcphail; model; modernization; ngos; organizations; participatory; project; reader; role; roma; social; studies; technology; theories; theory; thomas; trade; work
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- joci-3034
- author: None
- title: None
- date: None
- words: 4845
- flesch: 55
- summary: These two latter terms are central to the purposes, spatial, cultural and academic diversity of community informatics in theory and practice (also associated with urban, rural and social informatics). Introduction to Hodges’ model The purpose of this article is to introduce, explain and demonstrate how a conceptual framework can inform our reflections and deliberations upon three key dimensions central to community informatics: the global, local and the more recent emergence of the concept - glocal.
- keywords: access; article; care; career; commission; communities; community; community informatics; concepts; conceptual; content; course; cultural; day; development; domains; earth; eds; education; european; example; figure; forms; framework; globalization; glocal; group; health; history; hodges; human; individual; informatics; jones; key; knowledge; languages; level; literacy; london; march; model; national; need; new; nursing; people; physical; political; practice; press; purpose; research; science; scope; social; socio; space; strip; structure; support; technology; term; time; tool; urban; way; world
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- joci-3035
- author: None
- title: The Promises and Perils of Open Government Data (OGD)
- date: None
- words: 5092
- flesch: 46
- summary: Description of diverse cases of OGD use in practice and accounts that go beyond anecdotes are vital to support the design of open government data policies and practices. To raise such questions is not to argue for or against openness, but to suggest that approaching OGD as a tool of pro-social change necessitates a critical understanding of how OGD creation and use operates in practice and in diverse settings, and that advocates and architects of open data need to account for these complexities when deciding how to act.
- keywords: access; accountability; advocacy; advocates; berry; challenges; change; citizen; civic; common; communities; community; data; datasets; decision; development; different; focus; government; government data; historical; impacts; information; initiatives; interests; issue; key; knowledge; local; making; need; new; note; number; officials; ogd; online; open; open data; open government; open source; opening; openness; paper; platforms; policies; policy; political; potential; practice; processes; public; records; services; social; source; specific; state; support; technological; time; tools; understanding; use; ways; world
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- joci-3036
- author: None
- title: joci-3036
- date: None
- words: 2852
- flesch: 26
- summary: The man on the other end of the phone chuckled when he heard that I was interested in public toilets, and then told me that although the Buildings department was responsible for the construction and maintenance of public toilet structures in the city, they maintained no central register of toilets at the Chennai Corporation’s main office. The type of observational, behavioural, factoidal data that is the current stock in trade of much Developed Country OGD--the voting behaviour of elected members, the routes and timings of government service workers (garbage pick-up, bus timings) , the location of public toilets of interest to upscale demographics and so on were of significantly less interest.</p> <p>What I began to understand was that most of OGD colleagues from Developed/OECD countries, are starting from a default position that their governments' probity, honesty, and at least a degree of financial transparency, could be for the most part assumed.
- keywords: access; administration; app; available; chennai; city; colleagues; context; country; crowd; data; demographics; department; developed; folks; good; government; information; interest; ldc; level; local; maintenance; means; need; number; office; ogd; procurement; public; public toilets; raman; ricardo; rti; significant; structures; students; toilets; transparency; type; win; zone
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- joci-3037
- author: None
- title: joci-3037
- date: None
- words: 12405
- flesch: 51
- summary: This paper builds on earlier works of Benjamin et.al 2007 and Raman and Bawa 2011, which have argued that projects such as digitisation of land records serve as vehicles to reconfigure land information. Further, focusing on the use of open spatial information, it shows that given the varied interests seeking land information, opening such data may allow for violent appropriation.
- keywords: 2005; access; act; agents; amp; archives; bangalore; baviskar; bawa; benjamin; bhatnagar; bhoomi; bhuvaneswari; caste; chawla; chennai; cities; citizens; city; claims; conflicts; construction; context; critical; dalit; data; decisions; delhi; department; developers; development; different; digital; digitized; digitizing; discussions; economic; et.al; example; experience; field; forest; gis; global; governance; government; groups; high; implementation; india; information; information transparency; initiatives; institutions; international; introduction; issue; land; land claims; land information; land records; large; legal; level; local; making; maps; master; multiple; national; nemmadi; new; officials; ogd; open; outcomes; p><a; paper; paradigm; particular; planning; plans; policies; policy; political; politics; poor; power; private; process; production; programmes; projects; public; raman; real; recording; records; relatively; research; revenue; right; role; rtc; rti; section; small; social; society; solomon; spaces; spatial information; state; status; survey; technology; tenure; territory; titles; town; transparency; university; urban; urban land; use; visible; weaker; world
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- joci-3038
- author: None
- title: joci-3038
- date: None
- words: 11076
- flesch: 39
- summary: This is particularly the case amongst private sector re-users of PSI who use public data to develop products and inform business processes, and transparency campaigners engaged in the push for access to government and environmental information. As a result of its acquisition of Swedish non-profit GapMinder's Trendalyzer data visualisation technology in 2007, Google is able to offer a range of interactive visualisations through which citizens and policy makers can explore patterns in public data.
- keywords: access; advocates; agenda; amp; analysis; archives; article; aware; bodies; broader; business; cabinet; civil; civil society; commercial; community; concerns; conference; context; core; corporate; corporation; cost; data; datasets; digital; documents; dominant; drawing; e.g.; economic; engagement; example; foundation; future; governance; government; industry; information; initiative; innovation; interests; interviews; issues; july; key; knowledge; level; local; london; marginal; market; marketisation; n.d; national; new; non; number; office; ogd; ogd advocates; ogd community; okfn; open; open data; order; organisation; paper; peripheral; policy; political; pollock; potential; power; private; processes; production; products; progressive; psi; public; public bodies; public data; public sector; public services; range; raw; relation; research; revenue; sector; sector information; sense; services; shaping; significant; social; society; span; span style="font; state; style="font; supply; task; trading; transparency; unrefined; use; user; valuable; value; years
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- joci-3039
- author: None
- title: joci-3039
- date: None
- words: 42851
- flesch: 20
- summary: Above 100</span></td> <td rowspan=2 style=border-left: 1px solid; border-right: 1px solid; width: 48pt; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: 700; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-align: justify; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal; color: black; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; width=64> <span>Total</span></td> <td style=border-left: 1px solid; border-right: 1px solid; border-bottom: 1px solid; width: 59pt; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: 700; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-align: justify; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal; color: black; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; width=79> <span>% 0-5 </span></td> </tr> <tr style=height: 15pt; height=20> <td style=border-top: 1px solid; border-right: 1px solid; height: 15pt; width: 59pt; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: 700; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-align: justify; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal; color: black; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; height=20 width=79> <span>In Total</span></td> </tr> <tr style=height: 15pt; height=20> <td style=border: 1px solid ; height: 15pt; width: 185pt; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: 700; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; white-space: normal; color: black; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; height=20 width=246> <span>ANDHRA PRADESH</span></td> <td colspan=7 style=border: 1px solid ; width: 364pt; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: 700; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-align: justify; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal; color: black; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; width=485> <span>No. of Enterprises</span></td> </tr> <tr style=height: 15pt; height=20> <td style=border: 1px solid ; height: 15pt; width: 185pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; white-space: normal; color: black; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; height=20 width=246> <span>Animal husbandry, forestry, fishing</span></td> <td style=border: 1px solid ; width: 48pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-align: justify; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal; color: black; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; width=64> <span>984,595</span></td> <td style=border-left: 1px solid; border-right: 1px solid; border-bottom: 1px solid; width: 48pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-align: justify; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal; color: black; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; width=64> <span>5,501</span></td> <td style=border-left: 1px solid; border-right: 1px solid; border-bottom: 1px solid; width: 48pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-align: justify; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal; color: black; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; width=64> <span>2,061</span></td> <td style=border-left: 1px solid; border-right: 1px solid; border-bottom: 1px solid; width: 48pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-align: justify; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal; color: black; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; width=64> <span>1,803</span></td> <td style=border-left: 1px solid; border-right: 1px solid; border-bottom: 1px solid; width: 65pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-align: justify; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal; color: black; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; width=86> <span>977</span></td> <td style=border-left: 1px solid; border-right: 1px solid; border-bottom: 1px solid; width: 48pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-align: justify; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal; color: black; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; width=64> <span>994,937</span></td> <td style=border-left: 1px solid; border-right: 1px solid; border-bottom: 1px solid; width: 59pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-align: justify; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal; color: black; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; width=79> <span>98.96</span></td> </tr> <tr style=height: 15pt; height=20> <td style=border: 1px solid ; height: 15pt; width: 185pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; white-space: normal; color: black; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; height=20 width=246> <span>Manufacture and repair</span></td> <td style=border: 1px solid ; width: 48pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-align: justify; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal; color: black; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; width=64> <span>696,287</span></td> <td style=border: 1px solid ; width: 48pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-align: justify; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal; color: black; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; width=64> <span>25,501</span></td> <td style=border: 1px solid ; width: 48pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-align: justify; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal; color: black; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; width=64> <span>6,974</span></td> <td style=border: 1px solid ; width: 48pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-align: justify; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal; color: black; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; width=64> <span>4,661</span></td> <td style=border: 1px solid ; width: 65pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-align: justify; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal; color: black; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; width=86> <span>2,171</span></td> <td style=border: 1px solid ; width: 48pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-align: justify; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal; color: black; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; width=64> <span>735,594</span></td> <td style=border: 1px solid ; width: 59pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-align: justify; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal; color: black; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; width=79> <span>94.66</span></td> </tr> <tr style=height: 15pt; height=20> <td style=border: 1px solid ; height: 15pt; width: 185pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; white-space: normal; color: black; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; height=20 width=246> <span>Wholesale and retail trade</span></td> <td style=border: 1px solid ; width: 48pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-align: justify; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal; color: black; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; width=64> <span>1,230,073</span></td> <td style=border: 1px solid ; width: 48pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-align: justify; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal; color: black; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; width=64> <span>15,392</span></td> <td style=border: 1px solid ; width: 48pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-align: justify; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal; color: black; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; width=64> <span>6,985</span></td> <td style=border: 1px solid ; width: 48pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-align: justify; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal; color: black; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; width=64> <span>3,621</span></td> <td style=border: 1px solid ; width: 65pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-align: justify; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal; color: black; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; width=86> <span>2,951</span></td> <td style=border: 1px solid ; width: 48pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-align: justify; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal; color: black; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; width=64> <span>1,259,022</span></td> <td style=border: 1px solid ; width: 59pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-align: justify; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal; color: black; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; width=79> <span>97.7</span></td> </tr> <tr style=height: 15pt; height=20> <td style=border: 1px solid ; height: 15pt; width: 185pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; white-space: normal; color: black; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; height=20 width=246> <span>Hotels and restaurants</span></td> <td style=border: 1px solid ; width: 48pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-align: justify; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal; color: black; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; width=64> <span>133,462</span></td> <td style=border: 1px solid ; width: 48pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-align: justify; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal; color: black; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; width=64> <span>4,926</span></td> <td style=border: 1px solid ; width: 48pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-align: justify; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal; color: black; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; width=64> <span>1,390</span></td> <td style=border: 1px solid ; width: 48pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-align: justify; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal; color: black; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; width=64> <span>513</span></td> <td style=border: 1px solid ; width: 65pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-align: justify; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal; color: black; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; width=86> <span>355</span></td> <td style=border: 1px solid ; width: 48pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-align: justify; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal; color: black; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; width=64> <span>140,646</span></td> <td style=border: 1px solid ; width: 59pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-align: justify; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal; color: black; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; width=79> <span>94.89</span></td> </tr> <tr style=height: 15pt; height=20> <td style=border: 1px solid ; height: 15pt; width: 185pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; white-space: normal; color: black; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; height=20 width=246> <span>Public admin, education, health</span></td> <td style=border: 1px solid ; width: 48pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-align: justify; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal; color: black; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; width=64> <span>507,481</span></td> <td style=border: 1px solid ; width: 48pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-align: justify; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal; color: black; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; width=64> <span>36,415</span></td> <td style=border: 1px solid ; width: 48pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-align: justify; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal; color: black; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; width=64> <span>19,619</span></td> <td style=border: 1px solid ; width: 48pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-align: justify; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal; color: black; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; width=64> <span>4,729</span></td> <td style=border: 1px solid ; width: 65pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-align: justify; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal; color: black; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; width=86> <span>1,879</span></td> <td style=border: 1px solid ; width: 48pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-align: justify; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal; color: black; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; width=64> <span>570,123</span></td> <td style=border: 1px solid ; width: 59pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-align: justify; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal; color: black; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; width=79> <span>89.01</span></td> </tr> <tr style=height: 15pt; height=20> <td style=border: 1px solid ; height: 15pt; width: 185pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; white-space: normal; color: black; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; height=20 width=246> <span>Others</span></td> <td style=border: 1px solid ; width: 48pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-align: justify; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal; color: black; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; width=64> <span>359,304</span></td> <td style=border: 1px solid ; width: 48pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-align: justify; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal; color: black; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; width=64> <span>11,129</span></td> <td style=border: 1px solid ; width: 48pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-align: justify; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal; color: black; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; width=64> <span>5,609</span></td> <td style=border: 1px solid ; width: 48pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-align: justify; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal; color: black; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; width=64> <span>1,867</span></td> <td style=border: 1px solid ; width: 65pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-align: justify; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal; color: black; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; width=86> <span>1,456</span></td> <td style=border: 1px solid ; width: 48pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-align: justify; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal; color: black; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; width=64> <span>379,365</span></td> <td style=border: 1px solid ; width: 59pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-align: justify; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal; color: black; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; width=79> <span>94.71</span></td> </tr> <tr style=height: 15pt; height=20> <td style=border: 1px solid ; height: 15pt; width: 185pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; white-space: normal; color: black; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; height=20 width=246> <span>Total</span></td> <td style=border: 1px solid ; width: 48pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-align: justify; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal; color: black; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; width=64> <span>3,911,202</span></td> <td style=border: 1px solid ; width: 48pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-align: justify; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal; color: black; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; width=64> <span>98,864</span></td> <td style=border: 1px solid ; width: 48pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-align: justify; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal; color: black; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; width=64> <span>42,638</span></td> <td style=border: 1px solid ; width: 48pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-align: justify; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal; color: black; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; width=64> <span>17,194</span></td> <td style=border: 1px solid ; width: 65pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-align: justify; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal; color: black; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; width=86> <span>9,789</span></td> <td style=border: 1px solid ; width: 48pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-align: justify; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal; color: black; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; width=64> <span>4,079,687</span></td> <td style=border: 1px solid ; width: 59pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-align: justify; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal; color: black; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; width=79> <span>95.87</span></td> </tr> <tr style=height: 15pt; height=20> <td style=border-top: 1px solid; border-left: 1px solid; border-right: 1px solid; height: 15pt; width: 185pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; white-space: normal; color: black; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; height=20 width=246> <span>% Total</span></td> <td style=border-top: 1px solid; border-left: 1px solid; border-right: 1px solid; width: 48pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-align: justify; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal; color: black; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; width=64> <span>95.87</span></td> <td style=border-top: 1px solid; border-left: 1px solid; border-right: 1px solid; width: 48pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-align: justify; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal; color: black; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; width=64> <span>2.42</span></td> <td style=border-top: 1px solid; border-left: 1px solid; border-right: 1px solid; width: 48pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-align: justify; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal; color: black; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; width=64> <span>1.05</span></td> <td style=border-top: 1px solid; border-left: 1px solid; border-right: 1px solid; width: 48pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-align: justify; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal; color: black; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; width=64> <span>0.42</span></td> <td style=border-top: 1px solid; border-left: 1px solid; border-right: 1px solid; width: 65pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-align: justify; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal; color: black; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; width=86> <span>0.24</span></td> <td style=border-top: 1px solid; border-left: 1px solid; border-right: 1px solid; width: 48pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-align: justify; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal; color: black; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; width=64> <span>100</span></td> <td style=border-top: 1px solid; border-left: 1px solid; border-right: 1px solid; width: 59pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-align: justify; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal; color: black; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; width=79> <span>95.87</span></td> </tr> <tr style=height: 15pt; height=20> <td style=border-top: 1px solid; border-left: 1px solid; border-bottom: 1px solid; height: 15pt; width: 185pt; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: 700; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; white-space: normal; color: black; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; height=20 width=246> <span>BIHAR</span></td> <td style=border-style: solid none solid solid; border-color: -moz-use-text-color; border-width: 1px medium 1px 1px; width: 48pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-align: justify; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal; color: black; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; width=64> </td> <td style=border-style: solid none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color; border-width: 1px medium; width: 48pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-align: justify; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal; color: black; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; width=64> </td> <td style=border-style: solid none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color; border-width: 1px medium; width: 48pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-align: justify; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal; color: black; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; width=64> </td> <td style=border-style: solid none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color; border-width: 1px medium; width: 48pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-align: justify; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal; color: black; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; width=64> </td> <td style=border-style: solid none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color; border-width: 1px medium; width: 65pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-align: justify; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal; color: black; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; width=86> </td> <td style=border-style: solid none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color; border-width: 1px medium; width: 48pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-align: justify; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal; color: black; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; width=64> </td> <td style=border-style: solid solid solid none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color; border-width: 1px 1px 1px medium; width: 59pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; text-align: justify; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal; color: black; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; width=79> </td> </tr> <tr style=height: 15pt; height=20> <td style=border-top: 1px solid; border-left: 1px solid; border-bottom: 1px solid; height: 15pt; width: 185pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: <h2 style=text-align:center>Data Template for District Economic Planning</h2> <h3 style=text-align:center>Sharadini Rath</h3> <p>The place of data in governance is central and indisputable, yet complex and difficult.
- keywords: 10pt; 11pt; 122pt; 137pt; 15pt; 188pt; 1px 1px; 1px medium; 1px solid; 48pt; 59pt; 65pt; 75pt; 76pt; 83pt; 96pt; 97pt; administrative; agencies; agriculture; align; analysis; areas; arial; available; basic; bihar; black; blocks; bureaucracy; capacity; case; census; clear; collapse; color; concerns; data; decision; decoration; development; different; district; economic; economy; education; employment; enterprises; fact; family; farm; font; font size="2">%; functions; governance; government; gps; great; health; height="20; indent; india; information; issues; large; left; level; local; long; lsgs; madhubani; main; making; maps; marginal; members; middle; mlas; needs; non; normal; nowrap; number; open; padding; people; percent; place; planning; plans; point; political; population; possible; power; process; productivity; public; representatives; right; rural; sans; sector; serif; set; size; small; solid solid; space; span><font; state; study; style; style="border; style="height; style="margin; style="text; style="width; table; text; time; total; total</span></td; union; urbanisation; use; vertical; village; way; weight; white; width; width="100; width="129; width="141; width="178; width="183; width="246; width="250; width="64; width="79; width="86; workers; years
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- joci-3040
- author: None
- title: joci-3040
- date: None
- words: 15348
- flesch: 48
- summary: Virtual communities (Rheingold, 1993), online communities (Preece, 2000) and Web communities (Kim, 2000), as well as communities of practice (Wenger, McDermott, & Snyder, 2002) and civic and community networks (Schuler, 1996; Venkatesh, 2003) have been studied extensively. As early experiences with online communities have taught, “good technology in itself will not a community make, but bad technology can sure make community life difficult enough to ruin it” (Wenger, White, Smith, & Rowe, 2005, p.9).
- keywords: access; actors; actual; align; amp; authentication; available; berners; cases; choices; cindio; citizens; citizenship; city; civic; comments; common; communication; communities; community; contract; council; data; davies; decision; deliberative; democracy; democratic; design; dialogue; different; digital; dimension; discussion; eds; edwards; effective; engagement; environment; example; experience; facebook; features; field; following; forum; framework; galateo; gentile; government; grassroots; group; habitat; hall; help; hendler; identification; identity; information; initiatives; interaction; internet; iris; issues; italic;">gemeinschaft</span; italy; journal; lee; life; like; local; making; members; milan; moderator; movement; mutual; need; networks; new; online; online deliberation; open; page; paper; participants; participation; participatory; people; peraboni; platform; policy; political; popolo; possible; posts; practice; preece; problems; process; public; rcm; real; relevant; research; role; rules; schuler; set; shadbolt; shared; sicurezza; significant; site; smith; social; society; software; space; span; stradale; street; style; style="font; style="text; success; support; system; technical; technology; time; tool; use; viola; way; web; weitzner; wenger; white; win; worth; wright
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- joci-3041
- author: None
- title: joci-3041
- date: None
- words: 16522
- flesch: 54
- summary: Effect of performance data publication on behaviour</H3> <P>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><p style="margin; likely; making; management; mannion; market; measurement; measures; media; news; nhs; non; open; organisations; outcomes; paper; particular; people; performance; performance data; performance measurement; perverse; policies; policy; poor; potential; price; providers; public; publication; publishing; quality; reporting; research; response; results; review; right style="margin; school; section; sector; self; service; situation; size; smith; social; society; statistical; style="font; style="margin; system; tables; targets; td width=116; td width=94; time; transparency; understanding; unintended; unwanted; use; ways; width=100; width=243; width=386; width=95; work
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- joci-3042
- author: None
- title: Open Government Data and the Right to Information: Opportunities and Obstacles
- date: None
- words: 7235
- flesch: 43
- summary: While this may be too bold a statement, it can be argued that any links of the OGD movement with other, pre-existing movements demanding for government information, openness or participation, have been underexposed. First, the OGD movement has close ties to the RTI movement, which promotes access to government information as a fundamental right (Access Info 2010).
- keywords: access; accountability; activists; arguments; attention; authorities; availability; available; background; bates; bodies; citizens; civil; commission; council; countries; darch; data; datasets; democracy; differences; different; documents; drivers; economic; european; freedom; general; government; government data; government information; growth; halonen; hand; human; impact; important; information; initiative; innovation; international; janssen; july; law; legislation; level; main; making; mendel; movement; need; new; november; ogd; ogd movement; open; open data; open government; overview; paper; participation; political; possible; power; public; rabin; related; relationship; right; rti; rti movement; sector; society; states; transparency; underwood; united; use; van
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- joci-3043
- author: None
- title: joci-3043
- date: None
- words: 2259
- flesch: 50
- summary: The overarching purpose of my research in the high-altitude wetlands of the Tso Kar basin in Ladakh is to collect spatial data from the local human community and assimilate it with data from other sources. Together, these datasets can be used to create a consolidated and dynamic atlas of the Tso Kar basin wetlands.
- keywords: activities; altitude; basin; changpa; community; data; development; gis; high; imagery; india; information; kar; kar basin; ladakh; local; map; movement; nomadic; participatory; patterns; points; region; remote; resource; rights; road; satellite; spatial; stakeholders; time; tso; tso kar; use; wetlands; wildlife
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- joci-3044
- author: None
- title: joci-3044
- date: None
- words: 3733
- flesch: 57
- summary: My experience with collecting government data at the city level suggests that accessing these benefits may require that open data policies take into account some of the peculiarities of the Indian context, and the ways in which the Indian government stores and uses data. Firstly, simply passing a law on open data may not be enough to make government data widely and easily available to the public, the way in which such data has become available in some other nations.
- keywords: access; addresses; assistant; available; bus; chennai; city; commissioner; corporation; data; department; detailed; engineer; government; information; issues; letter; list; map; meryl; mtc; office; open; poor; public; routes; sampath; sanitation; stops; toilets; transparent; website; zone
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- joci-3045
- author: None
- title: joci-3045
- date: None
- words: 3266
- flesch: 51
- summary: The Apps for Amsterdam contest has provided the civil servants of Amsterdam with a clear communications mandate and a status to negotiate the need to release data with the city officials and policy makers, avoiding long-winded top down policy decisions. Key to making the data available were officers inside the departments who understood the rationale of open data and were able to identify the right people to address the practical issues regarding actually exporting relevant data from the various systems.
- keywords: access; amsterdam; applications; apps; available; city; collaboration; contest; data; datasets; department; developers; economic; efficiency; government; hack; information; innovation; issues; kick; local; media; need; number; open; open data; overheid; participants; people; policy; potential; privacy; prizes; programme; public; society; step; transparency; useful; waag; website
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- joci-3046
- author: None
- title: joci-3046
- date: None
- words: 1623
- flesch: 60
- summary: However, crowd-sourcing priorities is still a great chance to engage interested user groups, both with the voting for data categories and in their use. The freeing of public data is a rather new approach, especially in the European continent.
- keywords: administration; berlin; categories; choice; citizens; city; data; datasets; files; information; interest; list; online; open; people; percent; planning; priorities; public; results; sas; second; survey; voters; voting
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- joci-3047
- author: None
- title: Trustworthy Records and Open Data
- date: None
- words: 3148
- flesch: 39
- summary: Norway has introduced powerful legislation, records standards and well-defined metadata architectures to guide the process of on-going access to digital records and data. Issue Four: Significance of Trusted Digital Repositories for Openness Trusted digital repositories (TDRs) are an internationally accepted, technology-neutral means of ensuring long-term access to digital records and datasets as assets and protecting their integrity, completeness, trustworthiness and traceability.
- keywords: access; accountability; accurate; archives; audit; citizens; complete; context; data; datasets; development; digital; economic; government; information; initiatives; instance; integrity; international; issue; management; national; new; open; open data; openness; people; possible; public; quality; records; reliability; reliable; repositories; requirements; sector; source; standards; systems; time; traceability; transparency; trustworthy
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- joci-3048
- author: None
- title: joci-3048
- date: None
- words: 4469
- flesch: 49
- summary: However, government open policies in practice have often focused on cost reduction over freedom promoting aspects of open content and software. <H2 style=text-align:center>Exploring the politics of Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS) in the context of contemporary South Africa; how are open policies implemented in practice?</H2> <H3 style=text-align:center>Asne Handlykken</H3> <p></p> <h2>Introduction</h2> <div>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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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 </h3> <p> La Salada market <sup>4</sup> 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
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- 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
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- 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 </h3> <p> 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
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- 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
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- 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</em; axis; case; centrality; chat; class="article_image; class="image_caption; class="reference; concentration; diego; dispersion; div; download/3153; email; graphic; green; grid; high; human; image; index; intensive</em; joci; juan; ldi; level; light; link; link space; linking; low; machines; mediation; medium; miguel; mobile; mobile telephone; mono; multi; new; nino; non; olive; orange; pages; people; period; place; presence; red; refuge</em; relationship; repertoires; sara; significant; social; space; src="https://openjournals.uwaterloo.ca; study; subject; system; tci; technological; technological system; technologies; technology; telephone; time; trajectories; trajectory; use; web; webs; young
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- joci-3154
- author: None
- title: joci-3154
- date: None
- words: 1815
- flesch: 31
- summary: Interestingly, there is no counterpart definition in Wikipedia for Community Innovation and yet community innovation having the capacity to find ways to implement social and other innovations, would be key to the successful undertaking of social innovation both at the local level and through aggregation at a regional or national level. Thus, the availability of technology supports at the local level can be seen as a significant contributor to the opportunities for local innovation and, from the perspective of national governments, the investment in the development of local technology infrastructures may be seen within the overall context of a contribution to a national innovation strategy and moreover, one that is truly contributing to social change and adaptation and not simply to an endless quest for competitive advantage in constantly changing global marketplaces.
- keywords: adaptation; approach; benefits; capacity; change; communities; community; competitive; context; global; grassroots; information; innovation; level; local; national; new; place; processes; significant; social; strategies; support; technology; type
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- joci-3155
- author: None
- title: joci-3155
- date: None
- words: 12257
- flesch: 49
- summary: </p> <p> 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, <em>Outils-Réseaux</em> 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</em; research; retrieved; role; science; small; social; software; spaces; specific; step; studies; support; systems; technical; technologies; technology; theory; time; tools; training; understanding; university; use; users; ways; web; williams; work; york
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- joci-3156
- author: None
- title: joci-3156
- date: None
- words: 6633
- flesch: 50
- summary: However, as there are no working examples of how to accomplish the goals in a systemic fashion, we believe that in addition to launching new implementation projects that proclaim the realization of the ideal, there is also a need to engage in critical and focused research into the phenomena of user innovation and unrealized user interests, as well as in the development of the methods, tools and practices that genuine user driven open innovation processes would require. In reality, this lack of support and interest for the more radical aspects of a Living Lab approach does not stop true user driven innovation from taking place, as for example von Hippel describes (2005) and Loppukiri attests to.
- keywords: activities; actors; amp; approach; botero; business; case; class="article_subhead; class="reference; collaboration; communities; community; companies; company; concept; current; design; development; different; div; div class="reference; e.g.; everyday; experiences; external; finland; funding; helsinki; hippel; ideal; information; initiatives; innovation; interest; involved; involvement; kommonen; lab; labs; life; living; means; naukkarinen; new; open; people; practices; proceedings; process; product; project; public; research; results; seniors; social; support; technology; tools; university; user; von; way; work
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- joci-3157
- author: None
- title: joci-3157
- date: None
- words: 8535
- flesch: 50
- summary: Once such conventions evolve and are recognized by a critical mass of community members, they create mutual expectations for compliance, and practically regulate the interactions of community members. (The origins of conventions are not important for our discussion, nor do we have to assume that community members internalize conventions and attribute moral value to them).
- keywords: ability; action; associations; behaviors; boundaries; cambridge; class="article_subhead; class="reference; collaboration; collective; collective action; common; communal; communities; community; computer; consequences; contributors; conventions; cooperation; coordination; div; div class="reference; eds; efforts; example; exit; failures; focus; frameworks; goods; groups; hardin; haythornthwaite; individuals; information; institutions; interactions; interest; internet; journal; key; kollock; large; local; members; monitoring; networks; new; non; offline; online; online communities; options; ostrom; peer; people; place; potential; power; press; production; projects; public; relevant; route; rules; sanctioning; sanctions; scale; self; sense; smith; social; specific; spheres; success; support; traditional; university; users; variety; virtual; wellman; york
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- joci-3158
- author: None
- title: joci-3158
- date: None
- words: 7942
- flesch: 57
- summary: Thus Twitter communities have different configurations as created by their members, thereby reflecting personal communities as described by Castells (2009). Those questions were informed by existent typologies of Twitter and community users as explained above.
- keywords: amp; business; capital; castells; class="article_subhead; class="reference; communication; communities; community; conversations; core; crank; crowd; data; different; div; div class="reference; duffy; example; face; facebook; following; framework; friendships; group; individual; information; interactions; interest; interviews; journal; layer; lists; members; networks; new; observation; online; online communities; participant; participation; people; personal; pigg; preece; proceedings; public; reciprocity; relationships; research; self; shared; sns; sociability; social; software; terms; timeline; tweet; twitter; ups; users; virtual; weak; web
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- joci-3159
- author: None
- title: joci-3159
- date: None
- words: 9050
- flesch: 40
- summary: In line with these considerations, Nath suggests that knowledge networks not only provide an added-value in terms of better flows of information, but can become an alternative institutional model for the promotion of IDC, overcoming the limitations of the model of 'counterpart expert' from North to South. Whether formal (institutional) or informal, knowledge networks serve to share knowledge, experience and relevant information, good and bad practices, connecting people regardless of their place and promoting collaboration between individuals and institutions (Nath, 2000).
- keywords: 1.0pt; @lis; actions; activities; actors; align; america; approach; black; bottom:2.0pt;margin; bottom:2.0pt;text; capital; case; char; class="reference; cooperation; creation; development; different; div; european; example; fact; family:"times; font; global; grid; height; ict; idc; impact; important; indent:-18.0pt; information; international; issues; knowledge; knowledge sharing; lang="en; latin; left:18.0pt;text; left;line; left;text; level; line; local; management; margin; members; mode; network; networking; new; none;border; normal;layout; number; padding:0; phase; policy; possible; process; programme; projects; relations; resources; results; right; right:0; role; second; sharing; social; society; solid; solid black; span; specific; stakeholders; style=; style='font; sustainability; tacit; terms; top:0cm;margin; value; way
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- joci-3160
- author: None
- title: joci-3160
- date: None
- words: 6040
- flesch: 56
- summary: The South African government has operated as an enabler of Living Lab models being undertaken by communities, creating a climate where community development through technology is possible and helping to create networks where the community can gain initial advice and funding. This paper investigates the concept of <em>stakeholder</em> in community projects through: </p>
- keywords: academic; africa; agencies; amp; approach; business; cape; central; champions; change; class="article_subhead; class="reference; collaboration; communication; communities; community; concept; creation; cunningham; developed; development; div; div class="reference; empowerment; european; funding; government; groups; important; informatics; innovation; instant; january; life; living; media; members; messaging; mobile; model; needs; network; new; parker; partners; people; phone; press; project; research; rlabs; role; services; social; south; stakeholders; stoecker; strong; study; support; sustainability; technological; technologies; technology; training; university; user; wills
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- joci-3161
- author: None
- title: joci-3161
- date: None
- words: 6546
- flesch: 54
- summary: Not until recent years have experimental proposals attempted to include museum visitors as content creators. It is a pre-existing dialogue because visitors and museum pieces are in a constant dialogue, even before the interactive pieces appear.
- keywords: approach; art; audience; cases; class="article_subhead; class="reference; collaboration; comments; common; community; concepts; content; cultural; design; development; different; digital; div; div class="reference; ecosystems; end; example; exhibition; experimentation; external; finland; helsinki; ict; ideas; impaired; innovation; institutions; interactive; labs; living; living labs; map; museums; new; open; order; organizations; people; pieces; possible; process; processes; products; project; research; services; society; software; spaces; studies; technology; university; users; visitors; way; website; work
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- joci-3162
- author: None
- title: joci-3162
- date: None
- words: 1610
- flesch: 31
- summary: We have three papers which address system level applications for health: The paper by Loring et al entitled Improving community health equity: the potential role for mHealth in Papua New Guinea explores the implications of mHealth interventions in Papua New Guinea's healthcare system as well as the importance of continuous evaluation to reduce community health inequity and to ensure improved health outcomes. This reflects on means and methods to improve community health by using decentralized health information systems in both Sierra Leone and Kenya.
- keywords: access; africa; benefits; broader; care; communities; community; countries; determinants; development; digital; health; home; icts; improved; information; issue; mobile; new; paper; potential; public; research; role; social; special; support; technical; wellbeing
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- joci-3163
- author: None
- title: joci-3163
- date: None
- words: 994
- flesch: 33
- summary: As well, we know that the cost of health care is in many parts of the world becoming a huge and even unsupportable burden because of the directions in which health care has been evolving. One further observation based both on the papers in this special issue and on some as yet unreleased documents concerning ICTs and Health from the OECD, is that the model of health care being presented would appear overwhelmingly to be focussed on the individual as the health care client and of course, medicine is overwhelmingly focussed on the individual as patient.
- keywords: care; communities; community; delivery; health; icts; individual; informatics; issue; necessary; papers; services; special; support
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- joci-3164
- author: None
- title: joci-3164
- date: None
- words: 11199
- flesch: 45
- summary: The free maternal health care policy could not alone explain this increase, the involvement of private facilities has to be taken into account, but in any case the results are remarkable and were soon distributed globally by the Health Metrics Network as a strong case for investing in health information systems. When developing health information systems at the community level, two levels of users are important: health workers and the community.
- keywords: access; action; africa; approach; appropriate; areas; available; braa; capacity; care; case; central; chiefdom; cloud; communities; community; community health; community level; community participation; computers; context; countries; country; cultivation; data; delivery; design; development; dhis2; different; district; district health; facilities; health; health information; health services; hisp; hmn; important; indicators; information; information systems; infrastructure; institutional; integrated; internet; issue; kenya; key; larger; league; leone; level; local; management; meetings; mobile; national; needs; network; new; officers; online; order; participation; participatory; perspective; place; poor; power; primary; process; processes; project; public; quality; reporting; research; resources; review; sahay; second; server; services; sierra; sierra leone; situation; social; software; standards; strategy; structures; support; system; table; team; technical; technology; time; tradition; training; use; users; warehouse; way; world
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- joci-3165
- author: None
- title: joci-3165
- date: None
- words: 6259
- flesch: 51
- summary: Worked for AusAID, PNG Health Department, Sustainable Development Program, WHO and the Asian Development Bank in strengthening health systems. When appropriately designed and managed, health systems can promote health equity.
- keywords: access; areas; australian; bank; bauze; blaya; broader; capacity; collection; community; countries; data; department; development; effective; email; equity; et al; evaluation; example; factors; feedback; fraser; friel; goals; guinea; health; health equity; health system; impacts; implementation; improvements; inequities; information; initiatives; interventions; key; limited; live; local; loring; mobile; moresby; national; needs; new; new guinea; office; organization; outcomes; paper; papua; papua new; people; phone; png; png health; population; port; potential; quality; range; remote; reporting; research; review; rural; social; staff; support; surveillance; system; technologies; technology; time; university; use; workshop; world
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- joci-3166
- author: None
- title: joci-3166
- date: None
- words: 7716
- flesch: 49
- summary: An Implementation of New Spatial Media New Spatial Media, as conceived below, involves designing and building a framework for collecting, consuming, visualizing and analyzing qualitative spatial data that can in turn be implemented using new spatial media technologies. The questions in the survey were designed in conjunction with a public health community expert to both evaluate the potential to capture qualitative spatial data about community, healthcare, access and stress, and to construct context that could be used in subsequent studies.
- keywords: 2005; access; analysis; application; area; birth; building; bunge; capture; case; chen; coding; community; context; data; database; definition; deprivation; development; efforts; elwood; entry; epidemiology; et al; figure; food; framework; free; geographic; gis; health; heights; high; ideas; implementation; index; information; journal; jung; kennedy; krieger; kwan; literature; locations; low; mapping; maps; measures; media; neighborhood; new; new spatial; nsm; outcomes; oxford; paper; participants; participatory; people; place; postgresql; potential; process; public; public health; qualitative; questions; research; residents; responses; sampson; social; software; space; spatial; spatial data; spatial media; study; support; survey; system; technical; time; transdisciplinary; type; understanding; use; users; viewing; web; work
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- joci-3167
- author: None
- title: joci-3167
- date: None
- words: 9481
- flesch: 47
- summary: Digital stories are not merely creative products with benefits for those who consume them; the process of creating digital stories is in itself an innovative approach to tackling often tabooed social problems such as Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs), depression, or drug addiction. Here we focus on a specific form of digital stories that has proliferated in the past few years.
- keywords: aboriginal; aboriginality; amp; approach; audience; authenticity; authorship; burton; california; canada; carrier; class="reference; communication; communities; community; context; counter; creative; cultural; culture; das; decolonization; digital; digital stories; digital storytelling; div; div class="reference; episkenew; example; experiences; form; garro; genre; global; healing; health; hebron; href=; identity; images; important; indigenous; information; internet; introduction; inuit; land; larger; life; living; local; lulu; meaning; media; narrative; narrator; new; online; oral; participants; particular; people; political; power; practices; press; process; production; project; public; reel; residential; schools; self; sexual; sharing; short; social; space; stories; storytelling; strategies; subjectivity; suffering; technologies; time; tools; truth; university; use; videos; way; words; world; youth
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- joci-3168
- author: None
- title: joci-3168
- date: None
- words: 5013
- flesch: 48
- summary: Reducing disparities in the access and use of Internet health information. Reducing disparities in the access and use of Internet health information.
- keywords: access; african; aids; americans; care; communication; community; cultural; culture; digital; discussion; disparities; divide; education; engagement; ethnic; factors; gilmore; health; health care; health disparities; health information; healthcare; hispanics; hiv; income; information; international; internet; internet health; journal; language; level; literacy; low; native; nursing; online; paper; patient; public; quality; related; research; review; studies; study; use; website; whites
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- joci-3169
- author: None
- title: joci-3169
- date: None
- words: 5173
- flesch: 50
- summary: Moreover, it is suggested that social service professionals engage underserved communities through community-based participatory approaches that promote collaborative ways for developing health technology literacy, for fostering culture and communication strategies, and for understanding the integration of cultural strengths and partnerships in the intervention of community health technologies. Therefore, although the findings of this study can be used as a guide or starting point for future developments of health kiosks in other communities, not all of the findings will be generalizable and applicable to other communities.
- keywords: access; aids; areas; assessment; bilingual; cbpr; communities; community; community members; computer; cultural; development; digital; disparities; divide; example; faq; health; health information; helpful; hispanic; hiv; information; interactive; internet; journal; kiosk; latino; limited; literacy; members; mental; needs; page; participants; partnerships; people; person; present; questions; reported; research; screen; services; site; social; spanish; study; substance; technologies; technology; underserved; use; users; visitors; visits; website; workers
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- joci-3170
- author: None
- title: joci-3170
- date: None
- words: 8267
- flesch: 44
- summary: This broader role in mediating inclusion, connectedness and wellbeing is increasingly acknowledged in relation to other social determinants of health (e.g., Golder et al., 2010; Meredyth et al., 2006), as well as in influencing health and wellbeing outcomes for young people (e.g., Wyn et al., 2005; Blanchard et al., 2007). The aim of MYBus is to provide young people with a range of up-to-date youth-specific information and resources, and it has been fitted with laptop computers, Internet access, Wii games, D.J. console and other gaming devices to support this engagement.
- keywords: abs; access; acma; activities; areas; australia; broadband; capital; cardinia; cardinia shire; case; children; communication; community; connected; connection; council; determinants; digital; digital access; digital inclusion; disadvantaged; divide; e.g.; economic; et al; example; families; family; figure; findings; gibbs; health; home; inclusion; information; internet; journal; lack; life; literacy; literature; local; media; mediation; melbourne; mobile; mobility; morrow; mybus; nansen; new; online; parents; participation; particular; people; population; public; range; relation; relationships; report; research; resources; role; rural; school; services; shire; shire council; shows; social; social capital; study; support; technologies; technology; townships; transport; urban; use; wellbeing; young; young people; youth
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- joci-3171
- author: None
- title: joci-3171
- date: None
- words: 4976
- flesch: 44
- summary: Established private organisations including the MayoClinic (MayoClinic 2011) and WebMD (WebMD 2011) who also provide concussion information, with a smaller number of international sporting federations offering concussion education on their websites (International Rugby Board 2011). The emerging popularity of tablet computers (e.g. the iPad) which incorporate a touchscreen interface also suggests that this could be a medium that users may employ to retrieve concussion information.
- keywords: ability; access; addition; ahmed; apps; april; assessment; best; british; colleagues; communities; concussion; consensus; control; devick; diagnosis; education; et al; facebook; findings; groups; health; healthcare; inc; individuals; information; injury; internet; itunes; journal; june; king; life; management; mccrory; medical; medicine; mobile; mobile technology; national; online; patients; peer; people; potential; practice; process; pulman; recovery; research; response; retrieved; role; scat2; screen; self; social; specific; sport; statement; support; symptoms; technology; test; time; tool; use; users; version; websites
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- joci-3172
- author: None
- title: joci-3172
- date: None
- words: 7936
- flesch: 50
- summary: The use of ICT is embedded in the daily lives of children and adolescents; children and adolescents can play, socialize, create and undertake a range of activities that would not have been imaginable ten years ago. Children and adolescents with chronic illnesses are, with respect to their use of ICT, no different from their peers. It is possible for younger children to have a parent or guardian supervise this list.
- keywords: access; activities; adolescents; age; ages; assessment; cancer; challenges; children; chronic; communication; communities; community; computer; condition; design; development; disease; dublin; education; eile; entertainment; environment; evaluation; experience; family; friends; health; hospital; illness; impact; important; infection; information; initial; internet; isolation; issues; journal; key; levels; long; means; medical; mobile; multimedia; needs; new; number; oncology; online; paediatric; parents; patients; peers; people; phase; pilot; policies; potential; project; psychosocial; range; research; resources; role; school; security; similar; social; solas; specific; support; system; technical; technology; time; treatment; users; virtual; ward; work; world; young; áit
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- joci-3173
- author: None
- title: joci-3173
- date: None
- words: 7471
- flesch: 53
- summary: The number of stroke patients receiving r-tPA (recombinant tissue plasminogen activator) in third world countries is very low. al., 2007) but only 14.7% of stroke patients in India reach hospital within the three-hour window period (Nandigam, 2003).
- keywords: access; acute; american; analysis; areas; attack; bankura; basic; benefits; bengal; blood; cardiac; cardiology; care; cases; catheter; centers; centre; clinical; community; consultation; coronary; cost; countries; critical; data; dispensaries; distance; doctor; east; ecg; effective; effectiveness; emergency; et.al; expiry; facilities; government; health; healthcare; heart; hospital; hour; impact; india; information; internet; ischemic; journal; kolkata; life; local; location; logistic; long; low; management; mean; medical; model; new; north; number; nurses; patients; performance; period; population; press; process; project; quality; rate; ratio; referral; regression; remote; reports; research; results; rtiics; rural; services; siliguri; specialist; state; stroke; study; table; technology; telemedicine; telephone; therapy; thrombolytic; time; treatment; tripura; udaipur; units; use; variable; video; west
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- joci-3174
- author: None
- title: joci-3174
- date: None
- words: 4672
- flesch: 47
- summary: mHealth interventions are mainly deployed in public health and primary healthcare. This could be due to the overarching challenges burdening health systems of the developing world, such that mHealth interventions are conceived and implemented in an atmosphere of enthusiastic urgency to use ICTs to help solve health problems.
- keywords: access; application; areas; awareness; batra; chan; communication; conference; countries; data; development; diagnosis; drug; et al; evidence; field; frequency; health; health information; healthcare; impact; implementation; india; information; interventions; journal; m4d; majority; medical; mhealth interventions; mobile; monitoring; papers; patient; phone; population; potential; projects; promotion; public; quality; reach; remote; research; results; rural; scale; services; settings; sms; studies; study; systems; technology; treatment; use; word; workers
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- joci-3175
- author: None
- title: joci-3175
- date: None
- words: 5470
- flesch: 46
- summary: In order to do this we first describe current practices of health care givers in the Western Cape in capturing and reporting the data of their patients in practice. The literature review is concluded with aspects of mobile health (mHealth) and how patient records have been used to identify all the issues that were important for this study.
- keywords: africa; amp; application; approach; better; cape; care; care data; care service; caregivers; case; communities; community; considerations; context; data; design; development; different; engagement; experiences; facility; figure; hbhc; health care; healthcare; home; important; information; interface; international; literature; main; medical; methods; mhealth; mobile; mobile interface; needs; paper; patient; phones; plan; possible; practice; process; records; report; research; results; service; service design; socio; solutions; south; specific; study; support; systems; team; technical; technology; understanding; university; useful; user; western; work
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- joci-3176
- author: None
- title: joci-3176
- date: None
- words: 5882
- flesch: 65
- summary: 3.2 Daily Activities of community health care workers A community health care worker visits up to four patients on any one workday. Apart from performing duties pertaining to caring for the patients' health, community health care workers have to ensure that the environment the patients live in is clean.
- keywords: able; access; africa; benefits; capturing; care; care worker; caregivers; case; chbc; chcw; community; community health; conditions; daily; data; electricity; emmanuel; environment; forms; gogo; haven; health; health care; healthcare; home; house; ict; information; interviewees; lack; mobile; mobile phones; motherwell; paper; patient; people; phone; poor; problems; record; remote; research; services; social; socio; south; study; support; system; tally; time; use; visit; workers; working
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- joci-3177
- author: None
- title: joci-3177
- date: None
- words: 8528
- flesch: 46
- summary: Nursing students and internet health information. Reasons, assessments and actions taken: sex and age differences in uses of internet health information.
- keywords: access; behaviour; benefits; care; change; choices; communication; computer; conditions; content; delivery; design; dhs; diabetes; different; digital; digital health; divide; education; empowerment; evidence; figure; groups; health; health care; health inequalities; health information; health services; hia; higher; impact; improved; increase; inequalities; information; internet; interventions; journal; knowledge; lack; learning; literacy; literature; local; management; media; medical; midlands; national; new; nhs; office; online; opportunities; outcomes; patients; people; population; potential; practice; professionals; promotion; provision; public; range; recommendations; research; review; self; service; sites; smith; social; sources; specific; staff; stakeholders; statistics; studies; study; support; survey; technologies; technology; training; use; users; web; west; wide; years
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- joci-3178
- author: None
- title: joci-3178
- date: None
- words: 2174
- flesch: 45
- summary: Their contributions represent a small percentage of the programme costs; but are an indisputable demonstration of the value of the programme and send a strong message to the District Health Office that promised but failed to take on the programme as part of their responsibility for community health. If we are to avoid the risk that a community approach becomes a way for state authorities to offload public responsibilities, it is essential that community efforts function within a larger environment that both enables and values these unique characteristics and contributions.
- keywords: approaches; better; centres; change; communication; community; development; different; efforts; evidence; external; groups; health; ict; important; information; international; isabel; level; local; mile; moyo; national; organisations; participation; participatory; people; phukusi; process; programme; sirolli; solutions; way
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- joci-3179
- author: None
- title: Towards the Internet as a Global Public Good
- date: None
- words: 587
- flesch: 37
- summary: But now that the smoke is clearing and hopefully for some at least, the fog is lifting there is now a very significant role for the technical community and CS (in their respective roles and hopefully as a united coalition of coalitions) to articulate and lead the fight for a vision of how the Internet can function as a global public good (as opposed to a battlefield of multiple private interests) and what the governance structure (or process) for such a beast might look like. The quote (variously attributed to von Clausewitz, Palmerston and Anon) that “States don’t have friends, they have interests”, probably should be updated in the context of a (Facebook et al) broad redefinition of the nature of “friends”–to the phrase “States don’t have values, they have interests“..
- keywords: fog; global; good; interests; internet; public; surprising; values
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- joci-3180
- author: None
- title: None
- date: None
- words: 8626
- flesch: 35
- summary: Community resources may include the ability to socialise and to act collectively (Social Capital), which has implications for the authority and legitimacy of community action as well as implications for the exercise of coercive power – over its members, or over other communities. Power, Communities, and Community Informatics: a meta-study Michael V. Arnold and Larry Stillman Community Informatics and views of power and empowerment Community Informatics is an emerging field of research and practice located at the intersection of communities and ICT.
- keywords: access; address; agency; agency relation; analysis; applicability; authority; brute; capital; case; centre; coercion; collective; collective agency; comment; communal; communities; community; community empowerment; community informatics; conference; deployment; development; digital; e.g.; educational; empowered; empowerment; exercise; field; force; foucault; government; ict; individual; individual agency; informatics; interests; knowledge; knowledge resources; latour; legitimacy; legitimacy relation; martin; material; members; model; network; new; papers; participation; people; point; political; potential; power; powerful; practice; prato; projects; propositions; provision; public; relation; research; resources; resources relation; sciences; sense; social; state; structure; studies; subject; technology; theory; time; translation; use; violence; way; wilson; wolske
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- joci-3181
- author: None
- title: joci-3181
- date: None
- words: 5623
- flesch: 47
- summary: More importantly, though global changes have made eastern women aware of their gender-based concerns, they still fail to demonstrate feminist-related behaviours. This is followed by postulating on the moderating impact of online female-related communities of practice in manifesting feminist-related behaviours among eastern women.
- keywords: activism; activities; activity; analysis; attitudes; behaviour; cmin; common; communication; communities; community; constructs; countries; cultural; data; df=; eastern; example; factor; feminist; figure; fit; gender; impact; internet; iran; items; journal; knowledge; learning; literature; manifestation; members; model; moghadam; movements; online; online communities; online women; portal; practice; research; respondents; rmsea; role; sample; significant; social; societies; study; support; survey; table; technology; theory; tools; women
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- joci-3182
- author: None
- title: None
- date: None
- words: 9276
- flesch: 50
- summary: Kom’s users’ satisfaction? Literature Review Generally, community technology access refers to the physical availability of suitable computers equipped with appropriate software for a given activity (Kling et al., 2000), network connections (Van Dijk, 1999, cited in Van Dijk and Hacker, 2003); and digital content made available online (Warchauer, 2003). First, it is a locally driven project where, whenever possible, local communities will be involved at every stage of planning and implementation.
- keywords: access; active; actual; addition; agree; agreement; availability; awareness; barriers; basic; capital; communication; communities; community; community technology; community telecentre; computers; content; development; digital; dijk; divide; economic; education; effective; entertainment; everyday; factor; family; finding; government; groups; hacker; hours; ict; icts; implementation; important; inclusion; income; information; initiatives; integration; internet; involvement; kedai.kom; knowledge; leadership; learning; level; local; local community; main; members; networks; new; number; positive; project; public; related; research; resources; respondents; results; rural; services; sharing; skills; social; students; study; support; table; technical; technologies; technology; telecentre; time; total; training; underserved; usage; users; van; variables; volume; warchauer; willing; years
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- joci-3183
- author: None
- title: None
- date: None
- words: 5857
- flesch: 33
- summary: This study highlights the potential of technology for facilitating public deliberation and promoting collective behavior in addressing community challenges. This study examines the potential of an IT-facilitated environment for promoting cooperative behavior and facilitating collaboration in addressing community challenges.
- keywords: activity; behavior; building; challenges; citizens; collaboration; collective; common; communal; communication; communities; community; computer; control; cooperative; decision; deliberate; deliberation; different; dilemmas; display; efforts; environment; experiment; facilitated; figure; future; goods; group; individual; influence; information; interactions; journal; local; mouse; multiple; norms; number; participants; participation; people; policy; potential; problem; process; project; public; recycling; research; resources; shared; single; social; space; students; studies; study; sustainability; technology; tokens; trust; type; virtual; water; watersim
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- joci-3184
- author: None
- title: None
- date: None
- words: 9989
- flesch: 45
- summary: One noteworthy example of this is the metamorphosis project documenting the importance of story telling in ethnic communities of Los Angeles (Ball-Rokeach, Kim & Matei, 2001; Matei, Ball-Rokeach, Wilson, Gibbs & Hoyt, 2001).[vi] Also, Jeffres, Atkin and Neuendorf (2002) found macro community variables, communication variables (that include media use, channel dependency, neighborhood communication patterns, and interpersonal links), community variables (that include neighborhood activity, community attachment, neighboring and community perceptions) predicting community political involvement and a measure of efficacy at the community level. In England, McCulloch (2003) measured neighborhood social capital with eight questions tapping neighboring, a sense of belonging, willingness to work to improve the community, importance of relations with neighbors, communication with neighbors and attachment,[xvii] finding the summary scale linked to involvement in community organizations, ratings of local services, organizational affiliation and trust.
- keywords: .04; .05; .15; action; active; activities; activity; affairs; american; associations; attachment; attempts; attention; campaigns; capital; categories; citizens; city; civic; civic influence; clubs; communication; community; community involvement; community level; confidence; council; discussion; education; effects; efficacy; engagement; ethnic; face; general; governance; government; groups; hypothesis; important; income; influence; influence attempts; institutions; interest; internet; interpersonal; involvement; items; jeffres; journal; level; life; literature; local; mass; mcleod; measures; media; meetings; membership; neighborhood; networks; news; nisbet; number; officials; organizational; organizational involvement; p<.001; p<.05; partial; participation; past; people; percent; political; predictors; problems; public; putnam; related; relationships; representatives; research; respondents; scale; scheufele; social; social capital; social categories; study; television; time; trust; urban; use; variables; voting; writing
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- joci-3185
- author: None
- title: None
- date: None
- words: 2600
- flesch: 44
- summary: In addition, farmers perceived that training/seminars, farmer field schools, and demonstration, radio, and face to face were effective approaches for technology transfer. From group methods, training/seminar, farmer field schools and demonstrations were perceived as “effective” approaches to technology transfer.
- keywords: addition; adoption; agricultural; approaches; effective; effectiveness; extension; face; farmers; field; information; mass; media; new; pakistan; personnel; radio; research; scale; schools; sources; suppliers; technology; training; transfer; university; use; visits
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- joci-3186
- author: None
- title: None
- date: None
- words: 8099
- flesch: 49
- summary: This theory of active versus passive learning was applied here to enhance our understanding of how learning technology might occur through engagement in telecenter portals and participation in virtual community. This concept provides the framework for this study’s focus on telecenter portals as a measure of user engagement in the construction of knowledge through active learning and use of interactive tools.
- keywords: access; active; adoption; america; analysis; april; arab; areas; brazil; bridging; building; case; challenges; chile; colombia; communication; communities; community; computers; content; countries; country; development; digital; divide; dominican; economic; education; egypt; engagement; face; forum; functions; global; government; highest; home; human; ict; icts; inclusion; index; individuals; inequality; information; initiative; interactivity; international; internet; itu; jordan; journal; june; knowledge; latin; learning; literacy; local; low; mass; mobile; nations; network; networked; new; online; pages; para; participation; penetration; people; personal; photos; poor; population; portals; poverty; promote; readiness; region; republic; research; retrieved; rural; sample; second; sector; site; skills; social; society; study; sudan; syria; technology; telecenter; telecentros; tool; tunisia; undp; urban; use; users; virtual; web; world
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- joci-3187
- author: None
- title: Information and Knowledge Transfer in the rural community of Macha, Zambia
- date: None
- words: 6331
- flesch: 44
- summary: Environment The work takes place in rural communities of Macha, Zambia, with the control located in Murambinda, Zimbabwe. The research is part of the quest for identifying a logical framework designating dynamics of change in rural African communities and engendering leadership capable of inspiring, initiating, implementing, operating, and scaling up of sustainable progress in the local community.
- keywords: acceptance; activities; africa; areas; aspects; assessment; challenges; change; communications; communities; community; complex; context; cultural; culture; data; development; disciplinary; environment; evidence; existence; expressions; findings; formats; high; ict; information; instance; interaction; issues; knowledge; language; literacy; literature; little; local; macha; means; meetings; members; methodologies; methods; networks; new; non; observations; ong; oral; orality; outcomes; paper; people; person; place; processing; progress; realities; research; results; rural; science; scientific; setting; social; stakeholders; stam; study; sustainable; system; technologies; technology; texts; time; tradition; use; van; verbal; way; western; world; writing; written; zambia
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- joci-3188
- author: None
- title: None
- date: None
- words: 7773
- flesch: 53
- summary: Steps included: A literature review of potentially related community informatics, environmental psychology, and evidence-based design research – Summer, 2010. Field observations at a range of public spaces in which ICT is incorporated either formally (e.g., a computer lab at a public library) or informally (e.g., computers at a café) – Summer, 2010. A study by Viseu et al. (2006) indicates that use of public computing spaces is more diverse than often assumed and should not be considered a transitory stepping stone toward “better,” private computer access.
- keywords: access; activities; administration; assessment; behavior; better; bishop; brown; census; center; changes; collaborative; communities; community; computer; computer lab; computing; design; different; digital; director; divide; east; economic; effective; environment; evidence; field; findings; framework; future; gifford; greater; groups; gurstein; health; help; home; ict; illinois; important; inclusion; individual; informatics; inquiry; instance; interviews; key; lab; large; learning; library; like; louis; mary; new; number; objectives; observations; online; outcome; overall; paper; pccs; people; perception; physical; place; private; problem; process; programming; psychology; public; questions; redesign; research; review; role; school; skills; social; space; staff; state; study; support; technology; time; u.s; use; users; viseu; work; york; young; youth
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- joci-3189
- author: None
- title: Information Needs of Rural Communities
- date: None
- words: 2454
- flesch: 43
- summary: Community information centers: e-governance at subdistrict level: a case study. Identification of information needs is essential to the design of information systems in general and to the provision of effective information services in particular (Devadason & Lingam 1996).
- keywords: activities; agriculture; business; career; categories; communities; community; computer; economic; education; family; fig; fishery; health; ict; information; information needs; international; knowledge; level; life; local; matters; needs; oil; opportunity; paddy; palm; planning; portal; religion; rubber; rural; sector; socio
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- joci-3190
- author: None
- title: joci-3190
- date: None
- words: 8382
- flesch: 44
- summary: As stated above, there is multidimensionality in citizenship which is not yet accounted for in public e-service provisions. The Belief System of Botkyrka Municipality before E-service Implementation.
- keywords: activities; actors; administration; availability; available; bekkers; belief; botkyrka; botkyrka municipality; case; central; certain; change; citizens; community; context; core; core values; democracy; democratic; democratic core; democratic values; development; different; e.g.; economic; face; flexible; government; government offices; high; homburg; ict; implementation; important; information; institutional; internet; interview; issues; jenkins; legitimacy; local; local democratic; meeting; municipalities; municipality; needs; new; offices; order; organizations; percent; personal; policy; political; portal; practices; process; processes; provisions; public; public e; public services; research; rhetoric; role; sabatier; services; socio; specific; stop; stop government; sweden; swedish; system; trust; values; way; web
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- joci-3191
- author: None
- title: None
- date: None
- words: 8106
- flesch: 51
- summary: In summary, for community groups like Spring Creek, sustainability of technology use is the key issue for technology adoption. Accounting for our bias in interpretation of the community context and the process of Web site design, we undertook a process of member checking with Spring Creek.
- keywords: acm; activities; approach; carroll; case; community; community computing; community groups; computer; computing; conceptual; conference; content; creek; data; design; development; different; effective; end; end user; environment; eud; eud tools; example; external; figure; groups; gurstein; help; human; information; j.m; kathy; learning; like; local; m.b; making; management; ned; need; new; non; organization; paper; participatory; people; press; proceedings; process; profit; programming; projects; pull; requirements; research; researchers; resources; roles; rosson; scaffolds; september; site; spring; spring creek; study; support; system; technical; technology; tension; time; tools; user; vendor; volunteers; web; web design; web site; wiki; work
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- joci-3192
- author: None
- title: None
- date: None
- words: 2325
- flesch: 39
- summary: Problems Related to Financing PIAPs The typical problem is that PIAPs are not able to obtain enough financial support. Cases and corresponding country names are given in Table 1 below (See References Section for the references of PIAPs cases).
- keywords: analysis; areas; cases; centers; challenges; community; digital; figure; financial; government; hardware; ict; infrastructure; internet; issues; management; network; october; operational; organization; people; percent; percentage; piaps; private; problems; project; public; rural; services; software; support; sustainability; technical; types; use
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- joci-3193
- author: None
- title: Attn: John Tarawe, Conference Chair and Roger Harris, Deputy Conference Chair
- date: None
- words: 11782
- flesch: 52
- summary: Other purposes for community maps include solving or preventing boundary disputes with other communities, initiating discussion with government agencies or logging or mining companies about land uses within or near the community territory, planning a land use or resource management system, documenting baseline demographic and geographic data, and educating children in the community about their culture and traditional land26. Indigenous or rural communities often want to create maps of their territories in order to assert legal recognition of their land rights, document local knowledge, manage community lands, or increase their capacity to communicate and negotiate with external agencies who are sometimes actively deciding the future of community lands.
- keywords: 1995; 2002; access; addition; agencies; analysis; anthropological; areas; bala; bario; benefit; biodiversity; borneo; bulan; capabilities; challenges; change; communities; community; community mapping; community members; computers; conservation; context; cultural; current; data; database; decision; development; digital; documents; ecological; ecology; ethnographic; events; field; forest; geographic; geospatial; gis; government; gps; groups; harris; highlands; historical; history; human; indigenous; information; information systems; international; internet; introduction; issues; itto; journal; kelabit; kelabit community; kelabit highlands; knowledge; kyem; landscape; large; limited; living; local; logging; making; malaysia; management; mapping; maps; meeting; members; methods; monuments; natural; nature; new; outside; oxford; paper; park; participant; participation; participatory; peluso; people; personnel; pgis; planning; political; possible; press; project; ptnp; public; qualitative; recent; remote; reports; research; researchers; resource; rights; role; rural; sarawak; sciences; sites; small; social; songan; space; spatial; state; studies; support; systems; technological; technologies; technology; telecentre; timber; tourists; traditional; training; university; use; villages; ways; work; world; yeo; york
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- joci-3206
- author: Villanueva-Mansilla, Eduardo
- title: Editorial: a legacy to cherish
- date: 2016-04-29
- words: 900
- flesch: 48
- summary: I will hold the position of Editor in Chief for four years, from 2016 to the end of 2019, at which time a new editor should be appointed if the Journal is still relevant and cherished by all the members of this worldwide community on communities. Perhaps we can achieve not just a regularly-published, better looking Journal: while keeping its openness, widening its international presence both in contributions and readership, and keeping with the variety and diversity of subjects that constitute its areas of interest, we, all together, may find ourselves still providing at least part of the collective solutions that communities, through ICT / Informatics / computers / digital media, all around our common home called the Earth, require and demand for their lives.
- keywords: chief; communication; communities; community; dialogue; editor; editorial; emeritus; informatics; journal; legacy; michael; new; possible
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- joci-3208
- author: Ojedokun, Usman Adekunle
- title: ICT and Online Social Movements for Good Governance in Nigeria
- date: 2016-03-02
- words: 6591
- flesch: 47
- summary: The remainder of the paper is divided into four major sections: • the relationship between ICT and social movements globally, • the evolution of online social movement in Nigeria, • the role of ICT in the campaign of online social movements for good governance in Nigeria, and, • the major challenges threatening the online activism of online social movements in Nigeria. 1187 ready The Journal of Community Informatics ISSN: 1721-4441 Articles ICT and Online Social Movements for Good Governance in Nigeria In Nigeria, the availability of different Internet-enabled social media has led to the emergence of online social movements advocating the principle of good governance in the affairs of the state.
- keywords: accountability; action; activism; activities; affairs; africa; availability; challenges; change; communication; community; corruption; country; crisis; demand; democratic; development; different; different online; economic; effectiveness; evolution; exchange; facebook; federal; general; ghobadi; global; good; good governance; governance; government; groups; haase; human; ict; information; international; internet; issn; january; journal; kamungi; law; major; mass; media; members; mobilization; movements; networks; new; nigeria; nigerians; online; online social; organisations; paper; people; physical; platforms; police; policies; political; politics; poverty; principle; protest; public; punch; recruitment; resources; role; rule; social; social media; social movements; society; state; technology; theory; tools; twitter; university; world
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- joci-3213
- author: Harley, David Andrew; Howland, Kate; Harris, Eric Charles
- title: Trajectories to community engagement: Understanding older people’s experiences of engagement with online and local communities
- date: 2016-02-21
- words: 11850
- flesch: 52
- summary: Older people’s use of Social Network Sites while participating in local online communities from an ethnographical perspective. 1213 The Journal of Community Informatics ISSN: 1721-4441 Articles Trajectories to community engagement: Understanding older people’s experiences of engagement with online and local communities The communal benefits of online communities and SNS are enjoyed by many Internet users but remain of limited appeal to many older people.
- keywords: 2012; active; activities; adults; ageing; analysis; catalysts; close; club; communication; communities; community; community informatics; companionship; computer; connections; contact; daphne; different; digital; dropby; email; emotional; engagement; existing; experiences; facebook; family; feeling; forms; friends; friendships; fun; greater; group; health; important; informatics; informatics issn; interactions; internet; interviewees; involved; involvement; isolation; issn; journal; lack; later; life; likely; limited; lives; living; local; local community; loss; making; members; motivations; networking; new; number; older; older people; online; online community; opportunities; participants; particular; people; person; physical; places; play; present; public; relationships; research; retirement; roles; selectivity; sense; shared; sharing; significant; sites; skills; sns; social; socioemotional; spaces; specific; study; support; technology; time; trajectories; trajectory; understanding; use; users; way; world; years; younger
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- joci-3214
- author: Graham, Garth
- title: Cooperating community connections: A changing political reality
- date: 2016-04-15
- words: 6987
- flesch: 52
- summary: In brief summary, the gov- ernance structuring complex adaptive systems, or self-organizing systems like the Internet, is internalized or distributed among the elements that make it up. As a radical practice, it remains the role of community networking to exemplify the transition of governance to complex adaptive systems.
- keywords: action; adaptive; authority; autonomous; autonomy; castells; change; civil; collective; common; communities; community; community informatics; complex; context; control; cprs; culture; declaration; democracy; different; ecology; epistemology; essay; fawcett; global; goods; governance; government; human; idea; identity; individual; informatics; institutions; internet; issn; journal; left; level; liberalism; local; management; nation; need; order; organization; ostrom; people; person; political; politics; pool; power; practice; principles; public; question; quilligan; relational; representative; resources; self; shift; social; society; solidarity; sovereignty; state; systems; true; understanding; way; world
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- joci-3215
- author: McDonald, TJ
- title: ENCITE: A model to help Voluntary Organisations use ICT effectively
- date: 2016-02-14
- words: 4174
- flesch: 39
- summary: This cautious, yet inclusive approach to ICT development was supported in the CI literature by Burt and Taylor (2000), Denison (2006) and Gurstein (2007). The end user lens advocates a participatory approach to ICT development by LVOs, which includes members in all stages of application development.
- keywords: activities; adoption; analysis; appropriate; capital; communities; community; concepts; data; design; development; diffusion; education; encite; end; environment; findings; forms; help; ict; important; inclusion; informants; informatics; initiative; ireland; irish; issn; journal; lens; local; lvos; members; model; needs; operation; opportunities; organisations; o’donnell; paper; plan; problems; role; services; social; society; support; swot; technical; technologies; technology; training; use; user; voluntary
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- joci-3216
- author: Fujii, Yusaku; Yoshiura, Noriaki; Ohta, Naoya; Takita, Akihiro; Ueda, Hiroshi; Maru, Koichi
- title: Abuse Prevention of Street Camera Network by Browsing-History Disclosure
- date: 2016-02-14
- words: 1409
- flesch: 49
- summary: Introduction In developed countries in the near future, street camera networks and/or street lights with network camera functionality will be installed at a high density, similar to street lights, in busy and quiet areas. 1271 The Journal of Community Informatics ISSN: 1721-4441 Points of View Abuse Prevention of Street Camera Network by Browsing-History Disclosure A street camera network, in which many street cameras are installed at a high density, similar to street lights throughout a nation, will have a stronger positive effect in suspect tracking and crime deterrence in the near future.
- keywords: abuse; camera; community; concept; disclosure; high; history; informatics; infrastructure; issn; japan; journal; network; powerful; science; street; surveillance; system; technology; tracking; university
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- joci-3217
- author: Szécsi, Gábor
- title: Mediated communication and mediated communities in the information age
- date: 2016-04-19
- words: 5697
- flesch: 36
- summary: Just as traditional theories of community regard community and society as distinct forms (Tönnies 2001), it is also easy to consider physical and virtual communities as mutually exclusive forms of social organization. In other words, it is by accelerating and mediating linguistic changes leading to a complex notion of global community that electronically mediated communication becomes a source of, as Meyrowitz writes, the “fusion of local and global identities”(Meyrowitz 2005: 30) and, thus, the adoption of the idea of a secondary global language in new, mediated communities.
- keywords: appearance; communication; communication technologies; communities; community; complex; conceptualization; conditions; culture; deliberate; electronic; electronic communication; elements; etzioni; exchange; expansion; forms; global; globalization; human; identity; individual; information; interactions; internet; issn; journal; kind; language; life; linguistic; literacy; local; local communities; mcluhan; media; meyrowitz; mobile; networked; new; new communication; oral; orality; physical; physical communities; process; relation; rules; self; social; space; synthesis; technologies; texts; usage; use; virtual; virtual communities; ways; words; world
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- joci-3218
- author: Sharif, Raed M; Van Schalkwyk, Francois
- title: Introduction
- date: 2016-07-15
- words: 2333
- flesch: 39
- summary: At the same time, the complexity of open data ecosystem and the plethora of actors (local, regional and global suppliers, intermediaries and users) makes a compelling case for opening avenues for more diverse discussion and research beyond the supply of open data. And yet nine years after the ground-breaking meeting in Sebastopol at which the eight principles of open government data were penned, seven after President Obama injected political legitimacy into a movement, and five after eleven nation states formed the global Open Government Partnership (OGP), which has grown six-fold in membership; an email crosses our path in which the authors of a high-level report commit to developing a comprehensive understanding of a continental open data ecosystem through an examination of open data supply.
- keywords: analysis; case; change; community; community informatics; context; countries; csos; data; engagement; evidence; government; impact; informatics; intermediaries; issn; issue; journal; local; model; national; open; open data; outcomes; papers; policy; practices; research; role; social; special; supply; theory; use; user
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- joci-3219
- author: Van Schalkwyk, Francois; Canares, Michael; Chattapdhyay, Sumandro; Andrason, Alexander
- title: Open Data Intermediaries in Developing Countries
- date: 2016-06-16
- words: 8097
- flesch: 42
- summary: This paper explores the concept of open data intermediaries using the theoretical framework of Bourdieu’s social model, particularly his species of capital. To remove some of these barriers and, in so doing, to unlock the potential of open data for all, open data intermediaries are seen as playing a crucial role in linking complex open datasets with user needs, particularly in cases when those users come from grassroots communities.
- keywords: able; access; actors; agents; bourdieu; capital; case; chain; community; complex; countries; cultural; data; data ecosystem; data intermediaries; data supply; definition; development; different; economic; ecosystem; fact; field; flow; forms; framework; function; governance; government; government data; habitus; ict; individuals; informatics; innovation; intermediaries; intermediary; issn; journal; lack; likely; link; model; multiple; new; oddc; open; open data; order; paper; particular; point; possesses; power; press; research; role; situation; social; social capital; sociology; source; south; studies; study; supply; symbolic; systems; technical; technical capital; theory; transaction; types; university; use; users; value
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- joci-3221
- author: Frank, Mark; Walker, Johanna
- title: User Centred Methods for Measuring the Value of Open Data
- date: 2016-06-17
- words: 10594
- flesch: 56
- summary: The literature on data metrics and open data metrics often refers to metadata. This prompted our research question: What is the nature of open data metrics derived from user requirements and are they viable?
- keywords: address; approach; appropriate; assessment; assessor; attributes; available; batini; class; community; community informatics; comparable; context; criteria; data; data quality; datasets; different; discoverability; documentation; e.g.; efficient; example; formats; good; government; granularity; group; high; housing; important; india; information; issn; issues; journal; key; keywords; large; level; limited; list; literature; local; lod; low; measure; medium; metadata; methodology; methods; metrics; need; new; number; objective; open; open data; organisations; participants; portal; possible; potential; practice; problems; project; provenance; quality; relevant; reliability; research; results; sample; similar; small; specific; support; technical; test; time; useful; users; validity; variety; web; workshops
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- joci-3224
- author: Larquemin, Aurelie; Mukhopadhyay, Jyoti Prasad; Buteau, Sharon
- title: Open Data and Evidence-based Socio-economic Policy Research in India: An overview
- date: 2016-06-18
- words: 12640
- flesch: 48
- summary: The idea behind this particular event is to promote adoption of open data policies by governments at all levels: national, regional and local. In this study we focus on OGD released at the national-level while bearing in mind that various departments of state governments and local governments also release public data which are outside the purview of this paper.
- keywords: access; accessible; accountability; act; activities; agencies; analysis; authorities; available; awareness; benefit; better; centre; challenges; changes; collected; collection; community; community informatics; countries; data; data available; data collection; database; datasets; design; development; different; discussions; dissemination; economic; efforts; entities; evidence; fact; figure; findings; following; formats; general; goi; governance; government; government data; impact; important; india; industry; influence; informatics issn; information; initiatives; insights; instance; international; issn; issues; journal; key; knowledge; lack; level; makers; making; metadata; methodology; ministry; mospi; movement; national; need; network; new; official; ogd; ogd portal; online; open; open data; open government; paper; particular; policies; policy; political; portal; potential; process; public; publication; quality; questions; research; researchers; resources; respondents; responses; results; services; sharing; social; society; socio; sources; specific; state; statistical; statisticians; studies; study; survey; system; terms; time; topic; transparency; understanding; use; users; working; workshop
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- joci-3228
- author: Yim, Moonjung; Gomez, Ricardo; Carter, Michelle S
- title: Facebook’s “Free Basics”: For or against community development?
- date: 2016-07-15
- words: 4263
- flesch: 42
- summary: We believe such insight would be especially valuable for the participants in the 40 countries (at the time of writing) who are currently exposed to Free Basics platform. The preceding analysis shows that the relationship between Facebook use—a crucial element of Free Basics service—and individual and community development largely depends on individuals’ IT identity formation and how they choose to use the technology.
- keywords: access; basics; bonding; bridging; capital; carter; certain; collective; community; community development; concerns; contribution; creation; development; different; discussion; example; facebook; free; free basics; good; help; identity; individual; information; issn; journal; listserv; meanings; n.d; net; neutrality; online; participants; people; platform; potential; putnam; researchers; self; services; social; social capital; society; technology; use; users
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- joci-3229
- author: Fink, Alexander
- title: To the Cloud: Big Data in a Turbulent World by Vincent Mosco
- date: 2016-07-20
- words: 1319
- flesch: 54
- summary: Vincent Mosco begins and ends To The Cloud: Big Data in a Turbulent World by exploring metaphors about clouds and applying them to cloud computing. These metaphors offer a way into understanding the history of cloud computing: where it came from, why it began, how its evolved, and the ways it works in our everyday lives.
- keywords: available; big; book; cloud; community; computing; data; everyday; http://www.ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/article/view/1316; informatics; issn; journal; lives; mosco; people; political; social; ways; world
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- joci-3230
- author: Roberts, Tony
- title: Geek Heresy: a heretical view of technology for development
- date: 2016-07-20
- words: 955
- flesch: 46
- summary: Toyama has distilled his extensive experience of applying ICTs to development into three clear theses: packaged technology solutions are insufficient to achieve human development; technology can only magnify existing human capacity and intent; the task of development is therefore primarily one of building existing human capacity which is intent on achieving development goals. Technology is never able to be a substitute for the absence of these capacities but was able to amplify them where they did exist, or as Toyama puts it “technology amplifies people’s capacities in the direct of their intent” (p29).
- keywords: argument; author; book; capacity; case; community; development; effective; geek; heresy; human; informatics; intent; social; technology; toyama
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- joci-3235
- author: Gurstein, Ph.D., Michael
- title: Repurposing Post Offices as Community Innovation Hubs: Digital Inclusion, Equity and De-concentration
- date: 2016-04-26
- words: 3347
- flesch: 27
- summary: Canada in the late 90’s and through the 00’s pioneered globally in the provision of community Internet access services through what were called (in Canada) Community Access Program sites (CAPs) and elsewhere called telecentres. As well, there are issues of the cost of Internet access (including the cost of the associated hardware and software), issues of training and literacy and simple lack of interest (or a failure to identify a need which the Internet would uniquely satisfy as a driver to connect).
- keywords: access; activities; activity; available; broad; broadband; canada; cih; common; communities; community; community informatics; cost; devices; digital; economic; equity; hubs; inclusion; informatics; innovation; interest; internet; internet access; issn; journal; lack; local; need; new; offices; physical; place; platform; program; public; services; sites; social; support; technology; training; use
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- joci-3237
- author: Uys, Corrie; Pather, Shaun
- title: Government Public Access Centres (PACs): A beacon of hope for marginalised communities
- date: 2016-02-15
- words: 10844
- flesch: 48
- summary: One of the strategies employed by government and the private sector to address the digital divide has been to provide basic computing services and internet access to communities in the form of public access centres (PACs), otherwise known as telecentres. Public access centres afford underserved communities access to the Internet to reach the following objectives (Clement, 2004: p. 8): • to decrease the digital divides, • to enhance the economic, social, political cultural capabilities of the community • to enhance the creation of local content • to provide specific online services to the communities • to enhance effective use of ICTs In 2004, underserved communities accounted for 80 percent of the world’s population who were not able to access ICTs while Internet access at one’s home had almost become the !27 The Journal of Community Informatics ISSN: 1721-4441 norm in the developed communities (Rothenberg-Aalami &, 2005: 2).
- keywords: access; access centres; africa; analysis; areas; benefits; broadband; cape; case; categories; centres; chigona; city; communication; communities; community; community informatics; computer; countries; data; development; digital; divide; economic; employment; factors; figure; finding; focus; generalized; government; grade; group; home; hope; households; ict; icts; impact; important; informatics issn; information; infrastructure; international; internet; internet access; issn; itu; journal; keyboard; language; libraries; linear; mobile; model; number; online; pac; pacs; paper; people; percent; person; point; policy; preference; probability; profile; public access; questions; report; research; respondents; results; role; school; services; significant; smart; smart cape; social; society; south; south africa; statistics; study; survey; table; technology; telecentres; town; university; usage; users; value; variables; world
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- joci-3239
- author: Rai, Sumen; Griffiths, Mary
- title: 'Useful' civic hacking for environmental sustainability:knowledge transfer and the International Space Apps Challenge
- date: 2016-02-14
- words: 7882
- flesch: 42
- summary: 1124 ready The Journal of Community Informatics ISSN: 1721-4441 Articles 'Useful' civic hacking for environmental sustainability: Knowledge transfer and the International Space Apps Challenge Civic hackathons have become a popular, experimental process through which to promote public access to open government data and enable innovative civic uses for the information. Introduction As jurisdictions around the world begin to release large quantities of data and information under open government plans, one way in which the reuse of open government data has been promoted is through civic hacking.
- keywords: access; apps; available; benkler; challenge; civic; collaborative; communities; community; community informatics; data; datasets; democratic; desire; development; different; domain; earth; environmental; environmental sustainability; event; example; general; government; government data; grand; group; hackathons; hackers; hacking; hard; information; international; international space; internet; issn; issues; journal; kind; knowledge; list; local; making; nasa; new; non; number; open; open government; organisations; organisers; outcomes; paper; participants; people; perspectives; popular; potential; problems; production; project; public; related; research; reuse; science; scientific; skills; solutions; source; space; space apps; study; sustainability; technology; time; university; usefulness; way; ways; work; world
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- joci-3240
- author: Canares, Michael Parmisano; Marcial, Dave; Narca, Marijoe
- title: Enhancing Citizen Engagement with Open Government Data
- date: 2016-06-19
- words: 15082
- flesch: 48
- summary: The research deals primarily with the research question ‘How can engagement of civil society organisations with open government data be instigated or enhanced?’ To answer the question, action research was conducted in two provinces in the Philippines: civil society organisations in Negros Oriental province were trained, and in the Bohol province were mentored on accessing and using open government data.
- keywords: able; access; accountability; action; activities; actual; advocacy; agencies; analysis; approach; availability; available; better; bohol; budget; building; buswacc; capability; capacity; case; change; citizens; civil; community; community informatics; consulting; context; country; csos; data capacity; data portal; data skills; data training; data use; demand; development; different; disaster; disclosure; documents; economic; education; effective; engagement; example; focus; force; foundation; fund; good; governance; government; government data; group; half; hand; impact; important; increase; individual; information; interested; international; internet; interventions; issn; journal; knowledge; learners; learning; lessons; level; local; local government; making; management; megginson; mentoring; need; negros; new; number; online; open data; open government; order; organisations; oriental; outputs; paper; participants; partnership; people; philippines; plan; policy; portal; practice; process; programmes; project; province; public; quality; reduction; report; research; resources; respondents; results; risk; services; sessions; skills; society; step; successful; supply; task; terms; time; training; transparency; use; useful; users; utilisation; web; work; working; workshop; world
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- joci-3241
- author: Bailey, Arlene; Ngwenyama, Ojelanki
- title: Community Mediation through ICTs: Seeking to Bridge Digital and Community Divides
- date: 2016-03-27
- words: 9196
- flesch: 50
- summary: Safe Space The establishment of community telecentres was viewed by community members as beneficial to community development through the provision of a safe space, particularly for young people. http://www.ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/article/view/1110 mailto:arlene.bailey@uwimona.edu.jm mailto:ojelanki@ryerson.ca mailto:o.ngwenyama@uct.ac.za http://www.ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/article/view/1110 The Journal of Community Informatics ISSN: 1721-4441 telecentre may focus on particular activities based on their community context, they may share a common focus on issues such as community development, social inclusion, and assisting with employment opportunities for community members.
- keywords: able; access; activities; analysis; area; bandura; behavior; bonding; bridging; building; caribbean; challenges; change; cognitive; collective; communities; community; community informatics; community members; computer; conflict; context; countries; crime; criminal; development; different; digital; divide; economic; eds; efficacy; environment; focus; gleaner; gomez; hope; icts; inclusion; individual; informatics; initiatives; integration; interactions; international; interventions; issn; jamaica; journal; learning; mediation; members; model; need; new; newspaper; opportunities; opportunity; organizations; peace; people; perspective; police; potential; prevention; proceedings; programme; project; public; research; review; role; rural; safe; self; skills; social; space; stakeholders; studies; study; technologies; technology; telecentre; theory; town; training; university; use; users; violence; youth
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- joci-3242
- author: Canares, Michael Parmisano; Shekhar, Satyarupa
- title: Open Data and Subnational Governments: Lessons from Developing Countries
- date: 2016-06-21
- words: 9623
- flesch: 45
- summary: 1260 - ready The Journal of Community Informatics ISSN: 1721-4441 Articles, special issue: ODSCSD Open Data and Sub-national Governments: Lessons from Developing Countries Open government data (OGD) as a concept is gaining currency globally due to the strong advocacy of global organizations as Open Government Partnership. The focus on open government data at the national levels also glosses over the differences in the political, social, economic and digital divides that exist at the sub-national levels.
- keywords: access; accountability; analysis; argentina; available; brazil; budget; buenos; capacity; cases; chennai; cities; citizens; city; civil; community; context; countries; country; critical; data; data initiatives; data use; decentralisation; development; different; disclosure; economic; example; factors; foi; formats; framework; governance; government; government data; impact; implementation; india; information; initiatives; intermediaries; issn; journal; kenya; lack; law; legal; level; local; montevideo; national; national governments; ogd; open; open data; open government; organisations; paper; participation; paulo; people; philippines; policy; political; portal; proactive; provision; public; quality; research; resources; rio; sao; social; society; studies; study; sub; supply; synthesis; technical; transparency; use; users; work; world
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- joci-3244
- author: Tredoux, Colin; Louw, Johann; Louw-Potgieter, Joha
- title: Mobile phones and reading for enjoyment: evidence of use and behaviour change
- date: 2016-02-14
- words: 6759
- flesch: 63
- summary: A major advantage of delivery of reading material and interventions through mobile technology is that it is possible to measure engagement with the texts behaviourally, as well as through self-report. The files, however, did include uniform resource locators (URLs) to the material that users accessed, so we were able to use the URL information to obtain individual stories referenced by the URL addresses, thus allowing us to estimate the amount of reading material accessed, in characters, per visit.
- keywords: access; africa; analysis; average; basic; behaviour; books; changes; community; data; department; education; enjoyment; evidence; fundza; gcrp; good; grade; home; informatics; issn; items; journal; large; learners; learning; literacy; long; majority; material; mobile; month; national; number; pages; participants; people; phones; positive; posttest; pretest; programme; questionnaire; questions; readers; reading; report; respondents; results; sample; school; self; significant; site; south; study; table; time; trust; users; week; young
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- joci-3246
- author: Davies, Tim; Perini, Fernando
- title: Researching the emerging impacts of open data: revisiting the ODDC conceptual framework
- date: 2016-06-21
- words: 13723
- flesch: 49
- summary: 1281 - ready The Journal of Community Informatics ISSN: 1721-4441 Articles, special issue: ODSCSD Researching the emerging impacts of open data: revisiting the ODDC conceptual framework This paper revisits the conceptual framework developed for the “Exploring the Emerging Impacts of Open Data in Developing Countries” (ODDC) research project. The framework was designed in 2012 to address persistent gaps in research and theory building around open data as an intervention that has been promoted for a broad range of reasons, from economic benefit, to bringing about greater transparency and accountability.
- keywords: access; accountability; actors; agenda; alonso; analysis; available; benefits; better; brazil; budget; build; capacity; case; challenges; change; citizens; common; community; community informatics; conceptual; conference; context; countries; data initiatives; data research; datasets; davies; decision; demand; democracy; developed; development; different; economic; effective; effects; empowerment; evidence; example; focus; foundation; framework; global; governance; government; government data; greater; groups; http://; impacts; implementation; important; inclusion; india; informatics; initiatives; innovation; institutions; intermediaries; international; international open; issn; issues; journal; kenya; key; kinds; literature; local; making; marginalised; markets; mechanisms; methods; need; network; new; number; oddc; open data; open development; open government; openness; outcomes; paper; participants; particular; perini; policies; policy; political; potential; power; practice; press; process; project; public; questions; range; research; researchers; role; science; section; sector; services; setting; social; society; specific; standards; state; studies; study; supply; support; technical; technology; theory; tools; transparency; understanding; united; university; use; users; value; van; ways; web; wider; working; workshop; world
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- joci-3251
- author: Jalil, Mohammad Muaz; Jalil, Mohammad Shahroz
- title: Understanding Information need and media habit of poor farmers in Bangladesh
- date: 2016-07-18
- words: 6537
- flesch: 50
- summary: However getting buy-in from retailers or input sellers on endorsing such tele-centers might be difficult as it may directly impinge upon their domain as a monopoly source for such information. However fundamentally third party endorsement (local input sellers or extension officers) is a must to ensure farmers and others integrate ICT as one of the source of such information.
- keywords: access; agricultural; agro; aqua; associates; bangladesh; bates; care; case; centers; community; community informatics; crop; development; different; extension; farmers; farming; fertilizer; findings; fish; following; government; group; gurstein; high; icts; important; information; input; internet; issn; issues; journal; katalyst; lead; maize; major; market; media; mobile; newspapers; packaging; peer; poor; poverty; ppi; prawn; program; radio; related; research; respondents; retailers; rice; rural; sectors; sellers; services; social; source; study; table; target; techniques; tele; transportation; understanding; usage; use; watch; weather; world
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- joci-3273
- author: Villanueva-Mansilla, Eduardo
- title: Editorial: Cosmopolitanism versus Traditionalism and the need to talk about a different divide
- date: 2016-11-28
- words: 1451
- flesch: 47
- summary: Of course, the end result is that the actual interests of different communities are ignored: blaming them or demanding that they act as active resistance to globalization just hide the fact that communities are not static, nor can be defined by conservatism, either as a criticism or as a virtue, but that they are also ignored if not despised by those believing fervently in a new order based on social or economic globalization, on a cosmopolitan outlook that almost by definition is enjoyed by a few, by a minority all around the world. mailto:evillan@gmail.com http://ci-journal.net http://ci-journal.net The Journal of Community Informatics ISSN: 1721-4441 From conservative positions, it is precisely that static vision of social life what makes communities a positive factor against the brute forces of modernization by liberal politics.
- keywords: collective; communities; community; cultural; data; different; divide; editorial; fact; globalization; informatics; issues; joci; journal; need; new; open; order; reality; social; world; year
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- joci-3274
- author: Frank, Mark; Walker, Johanna; Attard, Judie; Tygel, Alan
- title: Data Literacy - What is it and how can we make it happen?
- date: 2016-09-19
- words: 2808
- flesch: 57
- summary: This ability is increasingly identified as data literacy. Data literacy is a recent addition to a growing band of literacies such as numerical literacy, statistical literacy and IT literacy.
- keywords: ability; access; approach; available; community; context; data; data literacy; different; et al; frank; government; importance; informatics; internet; issn; issue; journal; key; literacy; movement; open; open data; people; public; right; social; society; sources; special; statistical; tygel; university; use; user; walker; web; wide; woolf; world
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- joci-3275
- author: Wolff, Annika; Gooch, Daniel; Cavero Montaner, Jose J.; Rashid, Umar; Kortuem, Gerd
- title: Creating an Understanding of Data Literacy for a Data-driven Society
- date: 2016-08-09
- words: 8037
- flesch: 56
- summary: Analysis of existing approaches to support data literacy A definition of data literacy Based on the analysis of definitions of data literacy, the mapping to user needs and the survey of existing approaches to teaching data literacy in practice, we propose this following definition of data literacy: Data literacy is the ability to ask and answer real-world questions from large and small data sets through an inquiry process, with consideration of ethical use of data. Through mapping both the space of user needs and the space of individual competences or skills that comprise the definitions of data (and statistical) literacy, we develop a single framework to support the multiple perspectives of data literacy and form a common foundation for the teaching and learning of data literacy skills.
- keywords: ability; analyse; analysis; answer; approaches; available; better; citizen; city; community; competences; complex; context; data; data literacy; datasets; definitions; different; digital; example; explanations; figure; foundational; framework; handling; important; individual; informatics; innovation; inquiry; interpret; issn; journal; knowledge; large; learning; literacy; literacy skills; literate; merged; needs; new; open; order; people; ppdac; problems; process; questions; real; research; role; school; scientist; sets; skills; small; smart; society; space; specialist; statistical; statistical literacy; students; support; survey; table; teaching; thinking; tools; types; understanding; urban; use; visualization; world
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- joci-3276
- author: Crusoe, David
- title: Data Literacy defined pro populo: To read this article, please provide a little information
- date: 2016-08-10
- words: 8983
- flesch: 44
- summary: 123-03-1290 The Journal of Community Informatics ISSN: 1721-4441 Special issue on Data Literacy: Articles Data Literacy defined pro populo: To read this article, please provide a little information Data literacy is of fundamental importance in societies that emphasize extensive use of data for information and decision-making. Data literacy defined pro populo: to read this article, please provide a little information.
- keywords: access; advertising; algorithms; american; analysis; analytics; application; approaches; article; big; big data; collection; commerce; commercial; community; consumer; context; corporate; credit; current; data; data literacy; data use; dataculture; decisions; definition; device; digital; discrimination; education; elements; et al; example; experience; expert; foundation; future; good; government; health; higher; human; important; individual; information; insurance; internet; issn; journal; knowledge; later; life; limitations; limited; literacy; literature; means; members; n.d; national; need; new; open; opportunities; pasquale; people; perrotta; personal; population; populus; practice; predictive; price; primary; privacy; purposes; questions; records; related; research; results; review; school; science; secondary; security; service; significant; social; society; specific; stewards; students; study; subjects; systems; time; tools; turn; u.s; understanding; use; washington; webs; world
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- joci-3277
- author: Matthews, Paul
- title: Data literacy conceptions, community capabilities
- date: 2016-10-22
- words: 4041
- flesch: 40
- summary: 123-04-1348 The Journal of Community Informatics ISSN: 1721-4441 Special Issue on Data Literacy: Articles Data literacy conceptions, community capabilities To delineate and describe the data literacy concept, a core set of data competencies are identified, and a further four varieties – each with a different focus of attention – are described. It is argued that the inclusion focus helps data literacy to be construed as a community capability.
- keywords: analysis; approach; capabilities; capability; carlson; carpentry; classroom; cluster; common; community; competencies; conception; core; data; data literacy; development; education; focus; goal; gummer; important; inclusion; informatics; issn; journal; kingsley; knowledge; learning; literacy; mandinach; needs; new; pop; practical; practice; problem; relevant; research; sen; set; skills; social; sources; technical; term; training; use; work
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- joci-3279
- author: Tygel, Alan Freihof; Kirsch, Rosana
- title: Contributions of Paulo Freire for a Critical Data Literacy: a Popular Education Approach
- date: 2016-10-22
- words: 6339
- flesch: 51
- summary: Figure 1: Data literacy process In this paper, we propose the adoption of elements of Freire's Literacy Method for use in a pedagogical pathway towards data literacy.
- keywords: ability; access; action; approach; aspects; authors; axes; brazil; community; concepts; context; contributions; critical; critical data; data; data literacy; definition; digital; educands; education; elements; emancipatory; eva; example; experience; field; freire; generative; grape; icts; important; information; investigation; issn; journal; knowledge; land; learning; literacy; literacy education; literacy method; method; new; open; order; paper; parallels; paulo; paulo freire; people; perspective; popular; possible; problematisation; process; realities; reality; related; research; social; specific; stage; statistical; thematic; thematisation; themes; time; tygel; understanding; use; view; way; words; work; world
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- joci-3281
- author: Prado, Paola; Tirado-Alcaraz, J. Alejandro; Câmara, Mauro Araújo
- title: Perceptions of ICT use in rural Brazil: Factors that impact appropriation among marginalized communities
- date: 2016-08-09
- words: 5769
- flesch: 48
- summary: Wherever Internet access is available in remote and impoverished areas, the extent to which an individual will use data for the benefit of her community will be mediated by her perception about Internet use and by the social dynamics of the community where she lives. Based on the results from factor analysis, we observe that individual perception of Internet use in these communities can be classified in four broad categories: social benefits for the community, opportunities for the youth, economic benefits for the community, and negative impact for the community.
- keywords: access; adoption; age; analysis; benefits; better; brazil; change; communication; communities; community; community informatics; data; development; digital; divide; economic; education; factor; figure; gap; gender; ict; icts; impact; inclusion; individuals; informatics; informatics issn; initiatives; international; internet; internet use; issn; journal; level; likely; literacy; lower; marginalized; mobile; model; negative; new; number; opportunities; people; perception; poor; populations; prado; public; remote; results; rural; social; society; structural; study; table; technologies; technology; use; variable; women; world; youth
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- joci-3282
- author: Zubiaga, Arkaitz; Mac Namee, Brian
- title: Graphical Perception of Value Distributions: An Evaluation of Non-Expert Viewers' Data Literacy
- date: 2016-08-09
- words: 8512
- flesch: 54
- summary: In this paper we describe two user studies on perception from data visualisations, in which we measured the ability of participants to validate statements about the distributions of data samples visualised using different chart types. In this work, we conduct two user studies to assess the effectiveness of different chart types for visualising one or more distributions of values.
- keywords: ability; accuracy; accurate; agreement; analysis; answer; average; axis; bars; cases; chart; community; comparison; data; density; density traces; different; distributions; error; expenditure; experimental; figure; frequencies; frequency; frequent; function; graphical; histograms; informatics; interpretations; issn; journal; literacy; overall; participants; perception; points; questions; rates; response; results; shows; single; specific; statement; studies; study; suitable; tasks; time; traces; types; user; user study; values; variable; viewers; visualisation; vlss; work
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- joci-3283
- author: Blignaut, Renette; Venter, Isabella Margarethe; Renaud, Karen
- title: Granny gets smarter but Junior hardly notices
- date: 2016-10-03
- words: 5493
- flesch: 62
- summary: The students had the same attitude towards older mobile phone users every year. An intervention was carried out for three years in a row – constituting three snapshots with different student bodies interviewing different older mobile phone owners.
- keywords: abilities; adults; africa; attitude; brain; change; community; data; design; designers; driver; elderly; english; essential; experience; figure; functions; future; groups; heuristics; informatics; interface; issn; journal; mobile; mobile phone; needs; new; older; older mobile; participants; people; perceptions; period; phone; population; renaud; reports; research; south; students; study; technology; time; understanding; usage; users; van; william; years; young
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- joci-3284
- author: Liew, Chern Li; Chowdhury, Gobinda
- title: Digital Cultural Heritage and Social Sustainability
- date: 2016-10-27
- words: 10942
- flesch: 38
- summary: 123-11-1278 The Journal of Community Informatics ISSN: 1721-4441 Articles Digital Cultural Heritage and Social Sustainability This research investigated factors that were perceived to contribute to the social sustainability of cultural heritage information services. Innocenti (2015) recommends that a framework is needed to support and monitor cultural heritage information services which includes defining agreed performance indicators and success parameters.
- keywords: access; accessibility; accessible; advocacy; assessment; available; chowdhury; clear; collection; communities; community; community engagement; community informatics; content; cultural; cultural heritage; culture; current; dch; dch information; dch services; design; development; different; digital; digital collection; digital information; engagement; equity; evaluation; future; heritage; heritage information; horowhenua; identity; important; indicators; indigenous; information; information services; institutions; interests; interface; interviewees; issn; issues; journal; kete; knowledge; lack; language; level; library; liew; literacy; long; main; management; materials; media; needs; new; number; nzetc; nzho; participants; personal; planning; point; policy; practices; project; relationships; relevant; research; resources; responses; sense; sensitivity; services; site; social; social sustainability; society; strategic; strategy; study; support; sustainability; sustainable; technologies; technology; term; themes; time; university; users; value; way; web; work; zealand
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- joci-3285
- author: Bhargava, Rahul; Kadouaki, Ricardo; Bhargava, Emily; Castro, Guilherme; D'Ignazio, Catherine
- title: Data Murals: Using the Arts to Build Data Literacy
- date: 2016-10-22
- words: 8460
- flesch: 56
- summary: They are also leveraging data-informed and algorithm-managed decision making in topics ranging !197 Bhargava, R., Kadouaki, R., Bhargava, E., Castro, G., D’Ignazio, C. (2016) Data Murals: using the arts to build data literacy. In both public and corporate contexts there is a growing demand for greater transparency and more ways to build data literacy among stakeholders and clients.
- keywords: 2012; activities; activity; approach; arts; bhargava; brazil; building; case; change; community; community informatics; concept; connections; context; creative; critical; data; data literacy; data mural; design; digital; discussion; education; escritorio; example; experience; finding; focus; freire; fun; gerais; goals; government; group; image; informatics; informatics issn; interest; issn; journal; large; learners; learning; literacy; local; media; minas; mural; mural process; neighborhood; new; nucleos; outcome; painting; participants; people; plug; popular; press; private; process; project; public; quantitative; quotes; researchers; responses; school; set; shared; short; staff; state; stories; story; students; table; technology; term; theater; time; tools; use; visual; ways; workshop; world; youth
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- joci-3286
- author: Kayser-Bril, Nicolas
- title: Don't ask too much from data literacy
- date: 2016-08-10
- words: 2640
- flesch: 59
- summary: 123-13-1297 The Journal of Community Informatics ISSN: 1721-4441 Special issue on Data Literacy: Notes from the Field Don’t ask much from Data Literacy It can be argued that data literacy skills are all we need for data literacy to be used properly by journalists. Before skills, journalists need a reason to learn and use data literacy.
- keywords: audience; code; community; country; data; data literacy; datajournalism; europe; facts; financial; fox; germany; incentives; informatics; instance; institutions; interested; issn; issue; journalists; literacy; literate; media; mistakes; need; news; person; public; record; research; science; skills; social; states; stories; table; times; united; work; wrong; york
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- joci-3287
- author: Argast, Andi; Zvyagintseva, Lydia
- title: Data Literacy projects in Canada: Field notes from the Open Data Institute, Toronto node
- date: 2016-08-10
- words: 4314
- flesch: 47
- summary: The ‘under-recognized’ tension between the market orientation of information and information as a public good continues to be a defining characteristic of information policy today (Orna, 2008) and has helped shape open data in Canada, creating an environment for hackathons as potential sites of economic development that function in an ostensibly civic framework. In fact, despite well-intentioned claims that access to publicly funded data on topics such as community housing, transit and recreation statistics will enable citizens to engage more actively with their cities and governments, research suggests that the general public is not positioned to benefit from access to open data (Prado and Marzal, 2013).
- keywords: access; approaches; available; bates; canada; canadian; citizens; city; civic; community; data; data literacy; development; digital; event; federal; good; government; groups; gurstein; hackathon; information; initiatives; institute; issn; jam; journal; libraries; library; literacy; municipal; n.d; node; nonprofit; notes; odi; onn; ontario; open; open data; organizations; participants; policy; projects; public; relevant; research; sector; services; sets; social; tech; technology; tools; toronto; tpl; use; workshop
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- joci-3288
- author: Frank, Mark; Walker, Johanna
- title: Some Key Challenges for Data Literacy
- date: 2016-09-23
- words: 1837
- flesch: 57
- summary: In specifying that ‘Data Literacy is...enabling a community to take advantage of data’ we were guided particularly by the contribution from the School of Data (Rogers 2015), whose research suggests that data literacy is inseparable from its function within a community - whether defined in the traditional sense or in the more transitive sense of a group of colleagues or activists approaching an issue. We discuss the motivation for holding the Data Literacy workshop at ACM Web Science 2015 and the key challenges for advancing the praxis and research of data literacy that emerged: defining data literacy; establishing its importance; identifying beneficial projects and building a community.
- keywords: challenges; community; data; frank; groups; informatics; issn; issue; journal; key; literacy; matter; need; open; people; projects; questions; skills; walker; web; work; workshop
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- joci-3289
- author: Wolske, Martin; Rhinesmith, Colin
- title: Critical Questions for Community Informatics in Practice
- date: 2016-11-28
- words: 2912
- flesch: 39
- summary: Community Informatics practice seeks to make “effective use” of technology (Gurstein, 2003) to support community development projects in ways that advance a sustainable approach to community enrichment and power (Stoecker, 2005). On the other hand, individuals belong to multiple, intersecting communities (Young, 1997; Lugones, 2003); this includes those with leadership roles in CI projects.
- keywords: benefits; building; communities; community; community informatics; conference; constituents; critical; cultural; dialogue; document; ethical; ethics; framework; group; guidelines; implementation; important; informatics; issn; journal; knowledge; new; participants; power; practice; practitioners; project; questions; research; set; social; stoecker; systems; technologies; technology; use; values; ways; world; young
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- joci-3290
- author: Villanueva-Mansilla, Eduardo
- title: Agency and technology
- date: 2017-04-22
- words: 1216
- flesch: 40
- summary: This means that we will continue seeking partnerships with interested parties to define new special issues. 1390-7964-2-CE The Journal of Community Informatics ISSN: 1721-4441 Editorial Agency and Informatics This, the latest issue of the Journal of Community Informatics, brings a variety of research on underserved communities around the world.
- keywords: agency; communities; community; design; development; different; editorial; field; informatics; issn; issue; joci; journal; local; means; new; paper; study; team; technology; work
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- joci-3291
- author: Rose, Emma J.; Racadio, Robert; Martin, Travis; Girard, Deidre; Kolko, Beth
- title: Expert yet vulnerable: Understanding the needs of transit dependent riders to inform policy and design
- date: 2017-03-22
- words: 9188
- flesch: 59
- summary: Roommates in their early 20s • Joey • Gabe !10 The Journal of Community Informatics ISSN: 1721-4441 Study findings: Categories of agency for transit dependent riders Observing and interviewing public transit riders gave us insight into the lived experience of the transit dependent. 1262-7802-4-CE The Journal of Community Informatics ISSN: 1721-4441 Articles Expert yet vulnerable: Understanding the needs of transit dependent riders to inform policy and design Transportation is a crucial resource that links people to jobs, social networks, community and services.
- keywords: access; account; actions; actors; acts; agencies; agency; bus; buses; card; challenges; changes; choices; collection; communities; community; community informatics; constraints; data; dependent; dependent riders; design; designers; drivers; example; experience; expertise; fare; figure; findings; giddens; group; help; homeless; human; icts; individuals; informatics; informatics issn; interviews; issn; journal; making; needs; new; options; orca; paper; participants; people; policies; policy; populations; poverty; powerlessness; practice; private; public; research; resourcefulness; riders; routes; services; smart; social; solutions; structuration; structure; study; support; system; team; technologies; theory; time; transfer; transit; transit dependent; transit system; transportation; understanding; urban; use; users; variety; video; vulnerable; ways; work
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- joci-3292
- author: Thinyane, Hannah; Siebörger, Ingrid
- title: MobiSAM: Reflections from a four year case study using technology to increase public participation in local government in South Africa
- date: 2017-07-02
- words: 11139
- flesch: 44
- summary: It is hoped that improving communication between the two parties (local government and their constituency) will result in increased, meaningful participation at the local government level from local citizens. The area experiences a high unemployment rate (63.4%) and low levels of education (39.2% of Makana citizens have received only primary level education or none at all) (Makana Municipality, 2010).
- keywords: able; access; accountability; actors; africa; application; approach; available; basic; case; cdws; citizens; city; civil; communication; community; community informatics; councillors; delivery; department; design; development; different; discussion; education; end; evaluation; example; findings; governance; government; grahamstown; grocott; important; informatics; informatics issn; issn; issues; journal; key; lack; level; local; local government; mail; makana; makana municipality; manager; media; methodology; mobile; mobisam; monitoring; municipalities; municipality; number; order; outages; page; paper; participation; particular; people; performance; perspective; phones; pilot; political; poor; problems; process; processes; project; providers; public; questions; report; reporting; research; resources; rights; role; section; service; service delivery; sessions; siebörger; social; south; south africa; staff; stakeholders; study; support; system; technology; thinyane; time; training; use; users; water; way; work; year
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- joci-3293
- author: Wollersheim, Dennis; Koh, Lee; Walker, Rae; Liamputtong, Pranee
- title: “Happy, just talking, talking, talking”: Community strengthening through mobile phone based peer support among refugee women
- date: 2017-03-22
- words: 8390
- flesch: 53
- summary: Both leaders reported greatly increased mobile phone communication and community knowledge of mobile phone resources. Prior to the program, the women generally had low mobile phone resource, either having no phone, or more often, having a phone that could not make outgoing calls due to having zero call credits.
- keywords: ability; access; appropriate; australia; burmese; calling; calls; capital; communication; communities; community; community informatics; contact; dari; data; economic; education; effects; english; example; existing; experience; family; framework; free; group; health; help; home; individual; information; intervention; interview; intragroup; issn; journal; kelly; knowledge; leader; level; liamputtong; life; mean; members; minutes; mobile; mobile phone; money; need; norms; nuer; numbers; organisation; outcomes; participants; peer; people; personal; phone; physical; post; potential; pre; processes; program; psychology; questionnaires; refugee; related; relationships; resource; seidman; service; setting; shopping; social; social processes; support; system; time; training; tseng; use; value; wide; women; year
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- joci-3294
- author: Zelenkauskaite, Asta; Gonzales, Amy L.
- title: Non-Standard Typography Use Over Time: Signs of a Lack of Literacy or Symbolic Capital?
- date: 2017-03-22
- words: 8149
- flesch: 55
- summary: In doing so, we delve into debates about the role of socio-economic status and media competencies (Hargittai, & Shaw, 2013) as they are represented in NST use in this sample. We do this by examining NST use over a three and a half month period in a sample of US adults living in public housing communities.
- keywords: analysis; baron; capital; communication; communities; community; content; demographic; differences; discourse; e.g.; economic; eds; education; effects; emoticons; example; experience; females; function; gender; group; herring; housing; hypothesis; income; individual; informatics; issn; journal; language; level; ling; linguistic; literacy; media; messages; messaging; mobile; model; new; non; norms; nst; nst use; number; online; overall; participants; people; perspective; phone; population; press; previous; public; punctuation; reading; research; sample; second; signal; sms; social; socio; spaces; standard; standard typography; status; study; symbolic; symbolic capital; table; texting; texts; thurlow; time; types; typography; university; use; users; variables; words; writing; zelenkauskaite
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- joci-3295
- author: Johnson, Peter A; Sieber, Renee E
- title: The Geoweb for community-based organizations: Tool development, implementation, and sustainability in an era of Google Maps
- date: 2017-03-22
- words: 6671
- flesch: 48
- summary: As part of this research, we worked in partnership with two Acton-area community-based organizations to develop and implement Geoweb tools as a way to increase citizen participation in local development issues. This research suggests that Geoweb tools can be classified on the basis of implementation time frame, itself a factor of the application purpose (Figure 4).
- keywords: acton; adoption; business; case; cdrn; citizen; cld; community; community informatics; context; cost; data; development; discrete; economic; environmental; figure; financial; frame; geographic; geospatial; geoweb; geoweb implementation; geoweb tool; gis; google; government; haklay; implementation; implementation time; information; international; issn; johnson; journal; level; local; long; low; manner; map; mapping; maps; ongoing; organizations; participation; region; required; requirements; research; resource; rural; science; set; sieber; site; software; sustainability; technology; term; time; tool; use; users; way
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- joci-3296
- author: Lorini, Maria Rosa; Sabiescu, Amalia; Memarovic, Nemanja
- title: Collective Digital Storytelling in Community-based co-design projects. An Emergent Approach
- date: 2017-03-22
- words: 12881
- flesch: 49
- summary: At the beginning of 2014, group members participated in the exploratory phase of the research project via interviews and focus groups. Meanwhile group members searched for old pictures of their activities (Figure 5).
- keywords: acm; activities; activity; agency; approach; artists; beginning; capabilities; capacity; cape; case; collaboration; collective; collective dst; communication; communities; community; community informatics; community radio; conference; context; creation; creative; cultural; data; design; development; different; digital; dst; dst process; emergent; engaged; engagement; et al; exchange; field; figure; flow; focus; groups; hip; hop; icts; ideas; images; informatics; informatics issn; interaction; interest; interviews; involved; issn; journal; knowledge; limited; local; main; making; mamas; means; media; members; message; methods; music; network; new; paper; participants; participation; participatory; particular; people; phase; pictures; possibilities; possibility; potential; practice; present; presentation; probes; proceedings; process; processes; project; radio; radio station; researcher; sabiescu; sense; skills; social; specific; station; stories; story; storytelling; studies; support; systems; technologies; technology; time; tools; town; use; video; ways; work; youth
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- joci-3297
- author: Jayakar, Krishna; Grzeslo, Jenna
- title: Local Economic Impacts of Investments in Community Technology Centers: An Empirical Investigation
- date: 2017-04-08
- words: 5861
- flesch: 44
- summary: Local economic impacts of investments in community technology centers: an empirical investigation. And yet, the literature on ICTs and development has shown quite convincingly that CTCs may be expected to have local economic impacts.
- keywords: access; activities; analysis; availability; available; broadband; bureau; business; census; centers; communities; community; community informatics; computers; county; ctcs; data; database; department; development; digital; divide; economic; education; effects; general; growth; household; icts; impact; income; individuals; informatics; internet; investments; issn; jayakar; journal; labor; level; libraries; literacy; literature; local; median; model; number; pccs; people; percentage; population; programs; public; quality; research; school; services; significant; skills; small; study; table; technology; telecommunications; training; u.s; users; variables
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- joci-3298
- author: Naude, Filistea; van Biljon, Judy
- title: Scholarly Impact: a Bibliometric and Altmetric study of the Journal of Community Informatics
- date: 2017-03-22
- words: 9576
- flesch: 46
- summary: Altmetrics (also referred to as social media metrics) measure scholarly performance of individual articles based on engagement of scholars and the public with research articles in an online and social media environment (Lin & Fenner, 2013). A study by Naude (2016b) of the Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries (EJISDC) research articles, showed similar results, with 34% single-authored compared to 66% multi-authored articles. !
- keywords: 2012; academic; access; action; africa; alternative; altmetrics; analysis; article; article views; australia; authored; authors; authorship; bibliographic; bibliometric; canada; capital; case; citations; collaboration; communities; community; community informatics; correlation; counts; data; design; development; downloads; electronic; field; google; google scholar; highest; icts; impact; india; indicators; influential; informatics; informatics issn; institute; international; issn; joci; joci articles; journal; level; library; lisbon; measures; mendeley; mendeley readership; metrics; multi; naude; new; number; open; papers; period; positive; publication; queensland; readership; relationship; research; research impact; results; retrieved; review; rural; scholar; scholar citations; scholarly; science; significant; single; social; solms; south; studies; study; swain; systems; table; technologies; technology; total; traditional; university; usa; usage; use; views; von; web; williams; year
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- joci-3299
- author: Cumbula, Salomao David; Sabiescu, Amalia Giorgiana; Cantoni, Lorenzo
- title: Community design: a collaborative approach for social integration
- date: 2017-03-22
- words: 7091
- flesch: 51
- summary: Three classrooms are used as community radio, telecentre, and library. As for the community radio part, support is provided by the Forúm Nacional das radios comunitárias (FORCOM), an organisation that acts as a lobbyist unit to promote and defend the interests of community radios (FORCOM community radio stations, n.d.).
- keywords: access; act team; action; action research; activities; approach; beneficiaries; boys; casa; case; centres; city; cmc; cmcs; communication; communities; community; community informatics; community radio; computers; countries; courses; david; design; development; different; education; girls; group; high; higher; ict; ict4d; icts; implementation; improvement; informatics; initial; international; internet; issn; journal; knowledge; lack; learning; living; local; management; members; mozambique; multimedia; new; number; orphanage; orphans; paper; paz; people; press; program; project; public; quelimane; quelimane cmc; radio; rega; related; representatives; research; resources; services; skills; social; staff; stakeholders; students; successful; support; table; team; technologies; telecentre; training; underprivileged; university; volunteers; world; young; youth
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- joci-3300
- author: Teeters, Leah Anne
- title: Developing Social Alongside Technical Infrastructure: A Case Study Applying ICTD Tenets to Marginalized Communities in the United States
- date: 2017-03-22
- words: 7739
- flesch: 44
- summary: It presents a case study of co-designing a technology application with community health workers, promotoras, working in a historically marginalized community within the U.S. We interviewed promotoras and the Impact directors, reviewed historical and contemporary artifacts on the promotora model, and engaged in participant observations of the promotoras’ and Impact’s work in the community.
- keywords: ability; access; analysis; application; approach; article; better; case; collaboration; collection; communication; communities; community; community informatics; data; design; designing; development; different; directors; diverse; education; email; enhanced; equitable; equity; ethnographic; expertise; food; forms; gardens; greater; group; ictd; impact; informatics; infrastructure; issn; journal; language; lead; learning; local; marginalized; meeting; members; mobile; model; needs; neighborhood; new; non; office; opportunities; organization; participants; participatory; platform; practices; process; professional; profit; promotoras; que; questions; research; residents; resources; skills; social; software; solutions; study; support; system; tablet; team; technical; technological; technologists; technology; tools; understanding; university; use; users; verónica; work
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- joci-3308
- author: Villanueva-Mansilla, Eduardo
- title: Platform communities: a new frontier for Community Informatics?
- date: 2017-09-13
- words: 1400
- flesch: 45
- summary: Trade Unions have been at the base of many local communities all around the world, and even in these ti- mes, when trade unionism has been weakening by so many factors, there is a salient fact: communities born of a shared working experience are still significant political ac- tors, even if negatively so. Disruption of local communities is there, too.
- keywords: better; communities; community; community informatics; conference; control; digital; editorial; experiences; good; informatics; issn; journal; local; markets; new; platforms; social; trade; workers; world
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- joci-3309
- author: Rhinesmith, Colin; Nemer, David; Urbano, Christiana
- title: Introduction: Special Issue CIRN Prato Conference 2016
- date: 2017-08-29
- words: 1285
- flesch: 25
- summary: The Journal of Community Informatics, 13(2), 4—7. The work in this issue provides an opportunity to consider both the richness of the CIRN Prato conference presentations as well as the progression and further development of the field of Community Informatics.
- keywords: approach; articles; authors; cirn; community; conference; development; field; framework; informatics; introduction; issn; issue; journal; methodology; network; notes; papers; participatory; prato; research; special; special issue; technologies
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- joci-3310
- author: Guhathakurta, Meghna
- title: Contested histories, participatory movements and the making of memories in Bangladesh
- date: 2017-09-13
- words: 2466
- flesch: 52
- summary: That is why we see movements, uprisings in different period of time surface, often demanding recognitions of such memories and their consequent realties. All too often, collective memories get conflated with national memories or national consciousness.
- keywords: bangladesh; children; collective; community; creative; day; democracy; development; economic; generation; gonogobeshona; individual; informatics; issn; journal; knowledge; making; memories; military; movements; nation; national; participatory; parties; people; political; politics; power; principles; process; state; use; way; women; world; years
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- joci-3311
- author: Vannini, Sara; Nemer, David; Halabi, Ammar; Sabiescu, Amalia Georgiana; David Cumbula, Salomao
- title: Critical Incidents Analysis: mismatching expectations and reconciling visions in intercultural encounters
- date: 2017-08-29
- words: 10417
- flesch: 49
- summary: Further research on our accounts will show how we, as CIA researchers, will now deal with critical incidents in the field. Then, we explain how the framework is structured and how it can be applied to CI research projects that deal with qualitative – mainly ethnographic – data.
- keywords: able; actors; analysis; approach; avgerou; better; brunello; cases; certain; cia; cia framework; communication; communities; community; community informatics; computer; conflict; context; control; critical; critical incidents; cultural; culture; data; dealing; development; differences; different; ecological; edition; emotional; ethnographic; expectations; experience; favelas; fieldwork; frames; framework; halabi; icts; incidents; informatics; innovation; interaction; intercultural; interests; international; involved; issn; issues; journal; language; local; management; members; mismatches; moments; need; nemer; new; open; outcomes; participants; parties; people; point; posteriori; power; press; project; questions; reflection; relationships; research; researchers; residents; route; salem; second; self; sense; situation; social; stakeholders; studies; study; survey; systems; team; technologies; technology; terms; time; tool; trust; understanding; university; use; voci; way; york
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- joci-3312
- author: de Moor, Aldo
- title: CommunitySensor: towards a participatory community network mapping methodology
- date: 2017-08-29
- words: 9236
- flesch: 41
- summary: To explore the nature of such inter-communal sensemaking, we first present four observations that we !43 The Journal of Community Informatics ISSN: 1721-4441 made while involved in actual participatory community network mapping projects: linking maps across communities; meta-communication matters; tweaking the typologies; and sharing community network patterns. We list some observations from practice about using community network mapping for making inter-communal sense.
- keywords: activities; analysis; approach; building; case; coe; collaboration; collective; common; communal; communities; community; community collaboration; community informatics; community interaction; community mapping; community members; community network; communitysensor; conceptual; connections; context; conversations; core; core community; cycle; data; departments; design; development; different; earlier; ecosystem; elements; essential; evaluation; example; farming; field; figure; focus; force; impact; important; informatics; informatics issn; initial; innovation; interaction; issn; journal; knowledge; language; mapping; maps; members; methodology; moor; need; network; network development; network mapping; new; observations; organizations; participants; participatory; participatory community; pattern; potential; practice; priorities; problems; process; processes; projects; purpose; relationships; relevant; representatives; research; resources; science; sensemaking; sharing; social; specific; stakeholders; terms; tilburg; tools; types; urban; use; working
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- joci-3313
- author: Mabila, Jabulisiwe; Van Biljon, Judy; Herselman, Marlien
- title: A sustainability framework for mobile technology integration in schools: The case of resource-constrained environments in South Africa
- date: 2017-08-21
- words: 10940
- flesch: 40
- summary: The four main roles of school districts are to plan and support, and provide oversight and accountability to schools under their care in line with provincial plans (SASA, 1996). Ng & Nicholas (2013); Mabila et al. (2017) adapted from Cisler (2011) Economic Manage ment Financial / economic Use cost benefit analysis framework for ongoing resource needs (staff and equipment) Economic self- sustainability; Motivate/ incentivise community ICT job placement; Use ICTs to enhance existing rural development activities Programme management (budget allocation); Risk identification; Monitoring and evaluation; Change management; Cost-utility model (Meyer & Marais, 2014:217) Financial support (private sector and government) for infrastructure and skills development Economic Social /cultural Culture; People Cultural/ social Organisatio n: fit with goals and culture; Staff: training and involveme nt, behaviours, senior leaders Community participation (target groups), local/ demand- driven needs; Encourage local ownership; Build local partnerships Programme management (managing stakeholders, community); Community (people, organisations internal to specific context) Local participation; Long-term private and public sector partnerships Social Political Politics; Structur e; Strateg y Political institution al Organisatio n: fit with goals; Staff: behaviours, senior leaders Understanding local political context; Cultivating an influential project champion Programme management (managing stakeholders and partners); Change management Change management Political Technologi cal Technic al Technolog ical Choose appropriate technology School ICT (hardware and software selection, infrastructure, connectivity – decisions and issues); School ICT committee; Communication Plan for long-term presence of skilled personnel; Local, skilled personnel should provide technical support Technolog ical Environm ental Environ ment Environm ental Pedagogic al Teacher professional development; Curriculum content; Content management, change management Pedagogic al (Ng & Nicholas, 2013) !71 The Journal of Community Informatics ISSN: 1721-4441 Phase 2 To add value to the SFMTIS developed from the reviewed literature, Phase 2 of the study utilised a case study to demonstrate and refine the SFMTIS developed in Phase 1.
- keywords: africa; analysis; application; artifact; basic; best; botha; case; communication; community; context; critical; cultural; cycle; dbe; department; design; development; devices; digital; dimensions; district; district officials; dsr; e n; economic; education; environments; evaluation; factors; figure; financial; framework; goals; government; herselman; hevner; ict4red; implementation; informatics; infrastructure; initiative; institutional; integration; issn; journal; knowledge; kumar; leadership; learning; literature; local; long; m e; maintenance; management; methodology; mobile; mobile learning; mobile technology; model; monitoring; n t; need; nicholas; officials; pedagogical; phase; planning; political; process; programme; project; public; research; resource; roles; rural; schools; section; security; sfmtis; skills; social; south; specific; study; support; sustainability; sustainable; systems; tablets; teachers; teaching; technical; technological; technology; term; training; use; van; views
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- joci-3314
- author: Botto, Francesco; Teli, Maurizio
- title: PIE News. A public design project toward commonfare
- date: 2017-08-21
- words: 7196
- flesch: 46
- summary: Figure 3: PIE News design and implementation approach Five iterative cycles are planned to involve the Design, Implementation and Evaluation tasks: !96 The Commonfare glossary During the design phase of PIE News project the need to have a common glossary among partners emerged.
- keywords: access; activities; approach; awareness; basic; collaborative; collective; commonfare; communication; community; community informatics; complementary; conditions; consortium; currency; design; digital; dynamics; early; economy; emergence; end; european; eurostat; evaluation; figure; fumagalli; glossary; good; grassroots; groups; hub; income; informatics; informatics issn; involved; issn; issues; italy; journal; labour; level; local; main; mock; netherlands; network; news; news platform; news project; objectives; online; open; order; organizations; participation; participatory; partners; people; pie; pie news; pilot; platform; poor; poverty; precarious; process; project; public; public design; release; relevant; reputation; research; services; sharing; social; specific; stakeholders; starting; stories; support; sustainability; system; technological; technologies; technology; teli; tools; training; users; welfare; year
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- joci-3324
- author: Bekoe, Stephen; Ayoung, Daniel Azerikatoa; Boadu, Paul; Folitse, Benjamin
- title: An empirical study on the effects of mobile telephony usage on livelihoods in Brong Ahafo region of Ghana
- date: 2018-02-02
- words: 6423
- flesch: 52
- summary: This research makes an original contribution to ICT4D (mobile phone) debates on the effects of mobile phone use on socio-economic development to policy- makers, researchers, academicians and practitioners in the field of ICT for development particularly in Ghana and also elsewhere. Users acknowledged the impact of mobile phones in their ability to !130 Stephen Bekoe CSIR - Institute for Scientific and Technological Information, Ghana Corresponding Author.
- keywords: ability; access; adoption; africa; age; ahafo; brong; brong ahafo; business; capital; castells; coding; communication; communities; community; countries; data; development; discussions; districts; economic; effects; emergencies; face; family; financial; focus; friends; gender; ghana; global; group; gsma; icts; income; information; issn; issues; journal; lack; livelihoods; locations; low; methods; mobile; mobile phones; new; number; nvivo; people; phones; policy; porter; region; related; research; respondents; rural; services; size; social; socio; source; south; study; table; techiman; technologies; technology; telephony; terms; time; use; users; way; wenchi; world
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- joci-3325
- author: Kermish-Allen, Ruth; Kastelein, Kate
- title: Toward a Sociocultural Learning Theory Framework to Designing Online learning Communities in Citizen Science
- date: 2017-12-18
- words: 6229
- flesch: 47
- summary: Community informatics provides insights from online citizen science communities which may be utilized to improve a number of areas including sustainability, educational, and economic issues (Eagle, Hague, Keeble, & Loader, 2005) Studies of invasive species, for example, or farming in drought conditions, provide the opportunity to connect with others trying to find solutions to similar problems. Scardamalia and her colleagues (Hewitt & Scardamalia, 1998; Oshima, Scardamalia, & Bereiter, 1996; Zhang et al., 2009) have further defined four essential design principles, or opportunities for engagement, that must be present for knowledge building communities to function:
- keywords: article; bereiter; building; citizen; citizen science; collaborative; communities; community; community informatics; conceptual; cop; design; development; education; environmental; example; experiences; framework; funds; goals; gonzalez; groups; hoadley; individuals; informatics; instructional; issn; journal; knowledge; learners; learning; local; members; moll; new; online; opportunities; participants; pbe; people; place; practice; principles; projects; purpose; questions; research; scardamalia; science; scientific; scientists; shared; social; sociocultural; technology; theories; theory; tools; traditional; use; wenger; world
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- joci-3329
- author: Obeysekare, Eric Ryan; Mehta, Khanjan; Maitland, Carleen
- title: Bringing Community Back to Community Health Worker Studies: Community interactions, data collection, and health information flows
- date: 2017-12-18
- words: 10876
- flesch: 53
- summary: These changes were aimed at maximizing the potential income that could be earned by Mashavu CHWs while also making Mashavu itself financially sustainable. Mashavu CHWs are given basic medical equipment including a scale, tape measure, and blood pressure device, and are trained in their use.
- keywords: activities; basic; better; business; capital; case; challenges; chws; collection; communication; communities; community; community health; community informatics; community members; countries; customers; data; data collection; development; device; different; effectiveness; example; factors; findings; flows; fukuyama; general; group; health; health data; health information; health workers; healthcare; impact; important; income; individuals; information; information systems; interactions; issn; journal; kenya; know; knowledge; literature; mashavu; mashavu chws; mehta; members; mobile; multiple; networks; numbers; nyeri; observation; organization; personal; potential; programs; quality; receipts; relationships; repeat; research; researchers; review; role; service; social; studies; study; systems; technologies; technology; time; transient; trust; types; understanding; use; venture; women; work; workers; workflows; working; world
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- joci-3330
- author: Bentley, Caitlin M; Chib, Arul; Poveda, Sammia C
- title: Exploring capability and accountability outcomes of open development for the poor and marginalized: An analysis of select literature
- date: 2018-02-02
- words: 13179
- flesch: 40
- summary: This article investigates the links between open development dimensions, transformation processes and outcomes. Theoretical framework Towards open development dimensions
- keywords: accountability; accountability outcomes; actors; agency; analysis; approach; articles; aspects; authors; bentley; cambridge; capabilities; capability; change; chib; citizens; collaboration; communication; communities; community; community informatics; contexts; countries; critical; data; development; development dimensions; development outcomes; development research; different; digital; dimensionality; dimensions; dynamics; economic; eds; effective; findings; focus; forms; framework; governance; government; group; human; ict; ict4d; impact; informatics issn; information; initiatives; international; international development; issn; journal; levels; light; links; literature; london; marginalized; means; multiple; need; networked; new; open; open data; open development; open processes; openness; outcomes; oxford; participation; peer; people; perspectives; policy; political; poor; populations; positive; potential; power; practice; press; processes; production; public; raman; reform; reilly; relations; research; researchers; resources; responsibility; roberts; sen; sharing; significant; smith; social; society; specific; strategies; structures; studies; study; support; systems; table; technology; themes; theoretical; theory; transformation; transformation processes; transparency; understanding; university; use; van; williams; world
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- joci-3359
- author: Villanueva-Mansilla, Eduardo
- title: Editorial: Michael Gurstein and the future of Community Informatics
- date: 2018-02-12
- words: 1166
- flesch: 46
- summary: Michael Gurstein and the future of community informatics (editorial). And there is where the strength and relevance of community informatics lies, and should remain, in the coming years.
- keywords: access; community; community informatics; consumption; critical; digital; global; gurstein; ict; icts; informatics; internet; journal; media; michael; use; work; world
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- joci-3364
- author: Namatovu, Esther; Sæbø, Johan Ivar; Kaasbøll, Jens Johan
- title: Mobilities of the Community Health Work Practice: Mobile Health system Mediated Work
- date: 2017-12-19
- words: 9246
- flesch: 53
- summary: We examined our interview transcripts and field notes and grouped data with similar experiences and meanings into codes and later identified themes and concepts from the data relating to the use of the mHealth system, including themes such as: Work practices, their normative order, role of human agency and technology agency, emerging mobilities and the relationship between mobilities and work practices. We can understand how structures are transformed and what influences the change in community health work.
- keywords: activities; agency; analysis; care; changes; chws; colleagues; communication; communities; community; community health; community informatics; contextual; coordinator; data; example; facility; field; follow; forms; geographical; group; growth; health; hsas; human; important; informatics; interactions; issn; journal; kakihara; like; mhealth system; ministry; mobile; mobilities; mobility; monthly; movement; need; new; nodes; order; organization; paper; patients; personnel; phone; practice; programs; protocols; registers; relations; reporting; reports; requests; research; role; sheller; social; society; space; spatial; structures; study; system; sørensen; technologies; technology; temporal; time; transformations; treating; understanding; university; urry; use; village; visits; way; whatsapp; work; workers
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- joci-3394
- author: Al-Saggaf, Yeslam; Shariati, Saeed; Morrison, Mark
- title: Women in Iran: The effect of marital status and the presence of family dependents at home on their use of the internet
- date: 2017-12-18
- words: 7054
- flesch: 50
- summary: The above discussion focuses more on internet access and internet use and less on frequency of internet use. Iran women flout dress code in online campaign.
- keywords: access; analysis; antonio; available; billon; change; children; communities; community; countries; country; dependants; digital; dijk; divide; education; effect; extent; family; filtering; frequency; higher; home; hrw; income; informatics; infrastructure; internet; internet use; iran; iranian; iranian women; issn; journal; lack; lera; literature; lópez; marital; married; model; movement; online; participants; presence; qualifications; regression; regular; results; rights; role; shirazi; significant; skills; social; society; status; structure; student; study; survey; time; traditional; tuffley; university; usage; use; van; variables; week; weekly; western; women
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- joci-3395
- author: Parmaxi, Antigoni; Vasiliou, Christina; Ioannou, Andri; Kouta, Christiana
- title: Empowerment of women through an innovative e-mentoring community platform: implications and lessons learned
- date: 2017-12-18
- words: 7195
- flesch: 47
- summary: Women face the so-called glass ceiling effect “the unseen, yet unbreachable barrier that keeps minorities and women from rising to the upper rungs of the corporate ladder, regardless of their qualifications or achievements” (Federal Glass Ceiling Commission, 1995). To this aim, we aspire to develop Womenpower, an innovative e-mentoring community platform that intends to link women mentors and mentees in the areas of academia, business, and healthcare.
- keywords: academia; active; aim; approach; areas; business; coi3; cois; communication; communities; community; community informatics; community platform; content; cyprus; data; design; development; different; diverse; empowerment; equality; experiences; expertise; face; female; fidelity; fields; figure; focus; gap; gender; group; healthcare; ict; informatics; interaction; interest; issn; issues; journal; low; members; mentees; mentoring; mentors; need; new; opportunities; parmaxi; participants; participation; perspectives; platform; potential; problem; process; professional; profile; project; prototype; related; research; social; stage; stakeholders; students; team; technology; university; users; vasiliou; women; womenpower; work; workplace; young
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- joci-3399
- author: Hespanhol, Luke; Davis, Hilary; Fredericks, Joel; Caldwell, Glenda Amayo; Hoggenmüller, Marius
- title: The Digital Fringe and Social Participation through Interaction Design
- date: 2018-11-05
- words: 5441
- flesch: 36
- summary: The digital fringe is, by definition, fairly broad and highly diverse in itself, being an overarching term for the wide range of demographics and communities often excluded from the mainstream discourse about digital technology adoption and innovation. The intention is to foster digital skills within and across communities, investigate the role of proxies in digital inclusion as an enabler of social interactions, and discuss design strategies and methods for sustaining digital inclusion to eliminate the dilemma of under-participation in the future.
- keywords: access; acm; address; adults; architecture; areas; article; australia; awareness; basic; caldwell; children; communities; community; computer; creative; cultural; davis; design; different; digital; digital fringe; digital inclusion; disabilities; example; exclusion; foth; fredericks; fringe; fringe communities; groups; hespanhol; inclusion; informatics; innovation; interactions; internet; issn; issue; journal; lack; living; low; media; needs; older; outcomes; participation; particular; people; potential; proceedings; project; refugees; research; roles; section; segments; skills; social; society; solutions; special; specific; stories; support; table; technologies; technology; tomitsch; university; urban; use; waycott; world
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- joci-3400
- author: Villanueva-Mansilla, Eduardo
- title: On travails and perspectives: the future of JoCI
- date: 2018-11-14
- words: 1063
- flesch: 54
- summary: A number of situations forced us to take a longer-than expected break, but now it is time to catch up and bring the Journal into action, again. We intend to keep the Journal going.
- keywords: academic; community; editorial; future; informatics; innovation; issn; issues; joci; journal; new; number; perspectives; practitioners; publication; team; travails; university; work
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- joci-3403
- author: Beh, Jeanie; Pedell, Sonja; Mascitelli, Bruno
- title: Achieving digital inclusion of older adults through interest-driven curriculums
- date: 2018-11-07
- words: 8891
- flesch: 55
- summary: Articles Achieving digital inclusion of older adults through interest-driven curriculums One outcome of increased life expectancy is that older adults are leading active lives in their third age as they seize opportunities to learn new skills, pursue new interests and hobbies to challenge themselves. Thus, this article examines interest-driven curriculums in order to achieve digital inclusion for older adults.
- keywords: access; acm; activities; activity; adults; ageing; australia; autonomy; barriers; beh; bridge; carstensen; classes; cognitive; community; competence; computer; conceptual; confidence; deci; determination; development; devices; different; digital; doi; economic; education; elements; existing; experiences; figure; framework; goals; group; guidelines; hidi; human; inclusion; individual; informatics; interaction; interest; internet; ipad; issn; journal; knowledge; learning; life; lives; mobile; model; motivation; new; older; older adults; online; participants; pedell; people; phase; population; pre; proceedings; renninger; research; researchers; ryan; screen; sdt; selectivity; self; services; situational; social; socioemotional; sst; studies; study; support; table; teaching; technological; technologies; technology; theory; time; tools; touch; touch screen; uptake; use; world
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- joci-3404
- author: Korte, Jessica Lauren
- title: The Supportive Roles of Adults in Designing with Young Deaf Children
- date: 2018-11-07
- words: 10321
- flesch: 51
- summary: Having educational backgrounds and existing relationships with the children seem to have influenced the educational staff members’ behaviours within the design sessions, because they also: • educated children and the lead designer to increase sign vocabulary and clarity; • educated children and the lead designer in Deaf cultural norms, which promoted communication; Adult interactions with children Adults involved in YoungDeafDesign Collaboration or partnership Lead designer, Auslan Language Model, Participant E’s parents Supporting and facilitating Lead designer, educational staff, parents Interacting with children’s world Familiar adults (educational staff, parents) were present to emotionally support the children. Deaf children bring particular needs, abilities and experiences related to their youth, physical deafness and cultural Deafness to the technology design process, making their involvement in design vital.
- keywords: abilities; activities; adults; allsop; approaches; artefacts; article; auslan; case; childhood; children; communication; community; conference; consent; cultural; deaf; deaf children; deafness; design; design activities; design partners; design sessions; design team; designers; development; digital; druin; early; educational; et al; ethical; exclusion; familiar; groups; guha; hearing; informant; informatics; interaction; interpreters; involved; involvement; issn; journal; korte; language; lead; literature; members; model; needs; new; parents; participant; participatory; partners; people; potter; proceedings; program; project; relationship; research; researchers; role; sessions; social; staff; study; support; team; technologies; technology; technology design; user; work; young; young deaf; youngdeafdesign
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- joci-3405
- author: Ireland, David; Bradford, Dana; Farr-Wharton, Geremy
- title: Social Fringe Dwellers: Can chat-bots combat bullies to improve participation for children with autism?
- date: 2018-11-07
- words: 6485
- flesch: 44
- summary: OT(1, 2) and ST(1, 2) also spoke to the opportunities for technology to engage ASD children at home, where that technology would assist in leading to positive outcomes for the child, such as cultivating social interactions skills. Based on technology reviews and stakeholder interviews, we are developing modules for a machine learning artificial intelligence platform (a chat-bot) that assists children attending an Australian mainstream school to recognise and respond to social bullying and sarcasm, allowing bullied autistic children to develop the social prowess to withstand their aggressors.
- keywords: adults; app; apps; asd; associated; autism; autism spectrum; autistic; behaviour; bot; bots; bradford; bullying; challenges; chat; children; clinical; clinicians; communication; community; conversation; designing; development; digital; disorder; early; family; harlie; health; home; impact; individuals; informatics; interaction; interventions; interviews; ireland; issn; journal; learning; life; module; monitoring; need; new; opportunities; parents; people; quality; research; resilience; reviews; school; skills; social; social interaction; spectrum; speech; support; teachers; technologies; technology; therapists; time; tools; user; work
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- joci-3406
- author: Schutt, Stefan
- title: The Online Lab: Piloting video-based digital participation for isolated young people with high functioning autism
- date: 2018-11-07
- words: 7772
- flesch: 54
- summary: Qualitative evaluation methods consisted of the following, with the aim of collecting data from as many kinds of project stakeholders as possible, including families living in remote and regional areas: • online posts and comments by participants, written throughout the pilot and collected at the conclusion of the pilot; • mentors’ and coordinator’s field notes, written throughout the pilot and collected at the conclusion of the pilot; • online questionnaires with Online Lab participants, undertaken at the conclusion of the pilot; • semi-structured telephone interviews with participants’ parents/guardians, undertaken at the conclusion of the pilot; • two Online Lab mentor focus groups, undertaken at the conclusion of the pilot. Mentors also observed that Online Lab participants tended to prefer operating within one technology platform rather than switching between them.
- keywords: acm; affordances; areas; article; autism; children; comments; communication; community; community informatics; computer; conclusion; conferencing; coordinator; data; development; environment; evaluation; face; face lab; factors; families; focus; functioning; games; groups; guardians; high; informatics; interaction; interests; isolated; isolation; issn; journal; lab; labs; mentoring; mentors; new; number; online; online lab; parents; participants; people; personal; physical; pilot; platform; portal; program; project; research; review; school; schutt; sessions; skills; social; spaces; spectrum; stage; survey; team; technologies; technology; terms; time; tools; use; victoria; video; web; weekly; work; young; young people; zoom
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- joci-3407
- author: Sarantou, Melanie Augusta; Akimenko, Daria; Escudeiro, Nuno
- title: Margin to Margin: Arts-Based Research for Digital Outreach to Marginalised Communities
- date: 2018-11-07
- words: 8965
- flesch: 47
- summary: Later on the ‘Voices’ exhibition focused on more personal works of artists and art communities, narratives of fulfilment and happiness. Margin to Margin drew on various platforms to enable mediation and the sharing of information, art processes and stories.
- keywords: activities; activity; akimenko; approach; art; artefacts; article; artists; arts; audiences; augusta; australia; case; communities; community; conversations; cultural; data; design; diagram; digital; documentation; edges; empathy; empowerment; ethical; events; exhibition; experiences; fibrespace; field; figure; finland; finnish; group; identities; identity; inclusion; informatics; issn; journal; knowledge; lapland; like; local; making; margin; marginalised; meaning; mediation; messages; miettinen; murmansk; narrative; new; participants; participation; personal; physical; place; planning; platforms; port; processes; project; radical; researchers; rovaniemi; russian; sarantou; sense; shared; sharing; social; south; stories; storytelling; study; time; tools; university; video; virtual; voices; workshop
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- joci-3408
- author: Bilandzic, Ana; Casadevall, Dario; Foth, Marcus; Hearn, Greg
- title: Social and Spatial Precursors to Innovation: The Diversity Advantage of the Creative Fringe
- date: 2018-11-07
- words: 10326
- flesch: 52
- summary: We studied the social navigation patterns of entrepreneurs and start-up founders, and their awareness and opinion about homogeneity in innovation spaces. The tool gives its users the opportunity to discover networks and innovation spaces that are at the creative fringe, that is, marginalised from mainstream spaces and hubs for creativity and innovation.
- keywords: access; acm; advantage; algorithmic; australia; awareness; bilandzic; bouncken; bubble; business; chambers; community; coworking; creative; creativity; data; design; development; different; digital; diverse; diversity; doi; echo; economy; eds; entrepreneurial; environments; experience; filter; finder; findings; foertsch; forlano; foth; fringe; google; granovetter; groups; help; homogeneity; homogeneous; hubs; human; ideas; ideation; impact; industry; informatics; innovation; innovation spaces; insights; instance; interests; internet; issn; journal; knowledge; learning; like; map; meetup; methods; minded; navigation; need; network; new; open; opportunity; participants; people; physical; places; polanyi; positive; precursors; press; problem; proceedings; process; prototype; public; research; reuschl; science; sense; skill; skunkworks; social; spaces; spatial; specific; start; study; technology; thinking; ties; time; tool; urban; use; users; work; york
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- joci-3409
- author: Silva, Cláudia; Mora, Adolfo R.; Straubhaar, Joseph D.
- title: Critical Importance of Emphasising Working-Class Parents in Digital Inclusion: A US Latino/a Case Study
- date: 2018-11-05
- words: 10830
- flesch: 56
- summary: The case is particularly interesting because the organisation, which is primarily a youth centre, realised they needed to start including parents in their programs in order to achieve their first and foremost institutional goal: to increase the number of low-income youth in US colleges. For this study, we use Pierre Bourdieu’s theories of capital to analyse how the organisation integrates education in their digital inclusion program—called ¡TechComunidad! — and thus how they instil techno-dispositions and cultural capital about how US education works in parents of children in kindergarten to 12th grade (K-12).
- keywords: able; access; article; austin; author; basic; better; bourdieu; capital; case; centres; children; chromebook; city; class; classes; cloud; communication; communities; community; community informatics; computer; computing; connectivity; course; ctcs; cultural; curriculum; data; device; digital; digital divide; dispositions; divide; education; english; event; extra; families; fieldnotes; focus; goals; google; guilley; help; home; icts; important; inclusion; income; informatics; internet; issn; journal; knowledge; latino; learning; lesson; low; mail; media; musel; neighbourhood; new; online; order; organisation; parents; participants; people; program; project; research; school; set; skills; smartphones; social; spanish; specific; straubhaar; students; study; techcomunidad; technological; technologies; technology; technopolis; terms; texas; time; training; university; usa; use; websites; working; youth
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- joci-3410
- author: Holzmeyer, Cheryl
- title: Wider Worlds of Research for Health Equity: Public Health NGOs as Stakeholders in Open Access Ecosystems
- date: 2018-11-22
- words: 6990
- flesch: 46
- summary: Another analysis of the use of health research in policy-making observes, “A key barrier to the use of research is the potential users' lack of awareness of a study or body of work and why it may be relevant. The data below are from the initial and exit surveys completed by public health NGO participants, conducted between March 2013 and June !
- keywords: able; access; activities; advocacy; articles; behalf; brown; communities; community; community informatics; corburn; data; degree; determinants; development; economic; ecosystems; educational; environmental; equity; field; findings; formal; gurstein; health; health equity; health ngos; informatics; informatics issn; initiatives; issn; issues; journal; justice; knowledge; literature; mobilization; multiple; need; new; ngos; open; open access; organization; participants; peer; policies; policy; portal; power; practices; press; public; public health; publishing; questions; range; relevance; research; research access; resources; review; science; social; staff; stakeholders; study; support; surveys; technologies; time; total; university; use; uses; web; work
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- joci-3411
- author: de Moor, Aldo
- title: Participatory Collaboration Mapping in Malawi: Making Mike’s Community Informatics Idea(l)s Work
- date: 2018-11-23
- words: 2538
- flesch: 38
- summary: His contributions have been numerous: his vision and passion about the field; his deep insight that it is not the technologies per se, but how they are being put to effective use that truly empowers communities; his heartfelt conviction that Community Informatics researchers and practitioners strongly depend on one another to achieve that goal; his tireless efforts, from lobbying at the highest international political levels to guiding young researchers and practitioners asking for his advice; and, of course, establishing The Journal of Community Informatics and the Community Informatics Researchers mailing list as crucial fora for the field to develop. In this personal tribute, I focus on three concepts promoted by Mike in particular that continue to inspire me in my own work: the notions of Community Informatics, Effective Use, and Community Innovation.
- keywords: agricultural; case; collaboration; common; communities; community; community informatics; concepts; context; development; effective; extension; field; gurstein; informatics; initiatives; innovation; issn; journal; level; local; malawi; mapping; maps; mike; moor; participatory; process; project; research; stakeholders; use; work
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- joci-3412
- author: Richardson, Jayson W.; Nash, John; Lingat, John Eric M.
- title: What Do Mobile-Connected Cambodians Do Online?
- date: 2018-12-04
- words: 10913
- flesch: 49
- summary: A- block questions focused on internet use and access. Table 1 describes the three-form approach The current research focuses solely on a subset of the broad survey approach described above, reporting only on Forms 1 and 2 of Z-Block and A-Block (demographics and internet use and access).
- keywords: access; account; adoption; asia; average; block; cambodia; case; center; citizens; communication; community; computer; countries; country; data; day; design; development; device; education; english; facebook; freedom; generation; google+; high; ict; ict4d; increase; information; integration; international; internet; internet use; issn; journal; khmer; language; laptop; learning; march; media; media use; mobile; month; new; noted; number; online; open; participants; penh; percent; pew; phnom; phones; political; population; preferred; provinces; questions; reporting; research; respondents; response; richardson; smartphone; social; social media; southeast; students; study; subscribers; survey; survey respondents; table; technologies; technology; times; usd; use; users; world
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- joci-3413
- author: Kermish-Allen, Ruth; Kastelein, Kate
- title: Using Q-Sort Methodology to test the Non-hierarchical Online Learning Community (NHOLC) Framework
- date: 2018-11-22
- words: 8568
- flesch: 49
- summary: Framework The Non-Hierarchical Online Learning Community (NHOLC) conceptual framework was designed to leverage the understanding of sociocultural learning theory and community informatics to inform design principles for citizen science online learning communities that inspire online collaboration and local environmental action. The findings of this paper provide tangible design principles that can be used to develop or revise online learning communities for citizen science instead of re- inventing the wheel for each newly emerging project.
- keywords: ability; action; building; case; citizen; citizen science; collaboration; communities; community; community informatics; community members; components; conceptual; consensus; cop; data; design; different; diverse; environmental; experiences; expertise; factor; findings; framework; goals; groups; important; individuals; informatics; inquiry; issn; journal; knowledge; learning; learning community; local; members; methodology; new; nholc; nholc framework; online; online collaboration; online community; online learning; opportunity; participants; past; perspectives; place; principles; problems; project; public; purpose; questions; real; relevant; research; science; scientists; shared; site; sort; stakeholders; statements; study; use; user; world
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- joci-3415
- author: Foko, Thato
- title: Developing a Framework for Sustainable Information and Communication Technology Platforms for Resource Scarce Rural Communities
- date: 2018-11-27
- words: 8265
- flesch: 42
- summary: London: Grahm and Trotman Lesame, Z. (N.d.), Telecentres and sustainable community development in South Africa, Department of Communication Science, University of South Africa, College of Human Sciences. Assessing Community Telecentres: Guidelines for resaerchers, IDRC, Ottawa, World Commission on Environment and Development (1987).
- keywords: acceptance; access; africa; agency; analysis; areas; awareness; behaviour; business; case; champions; communication; communities; community; community informatics; computer; conference; country; creation; data; davis; development; different; digital; ease; easyseva; economic; fig; financial; framework; future; government; ict; identification; iii; informatics issn; information; internet; issn; january; journal; lessons; local; long; marketing; members; methods; model; needs; new; number; paper; people; platforms; private; project; public; purpose; qualitative; report; research; resources; results; role; rural; self; services; skills; social; society; solar; south; sri; staff; stakeholders; study; success; successful; support; sustainability; sustainable; systems; tam; tcs; technical; technologies; technology; telecentres; time; universal; usage; use; users; utility
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- joci-3424
- author: Villanueva-Mansilla, Eduardo
- title: Editorial: a time to pause
- date: 2019-07-02
- words: 494
- flesch: 52
- summary: Technical support has also created a number of challenges, including a too long period during which the Journal was basically inoperative due to its server being bombarded by spammers. However, as it happens, the realities of producing such a Journal had been always challenging.
- keywords: community; demands; editorial; informatics; journal; support; technical
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- joci-3425
- author: Howard, Mark
- title: Social movement theory and the Italian radical community archives: A question of valence?
- date: 2019-06-30
- words: 8568
- flesch: 39
- summary: The assumptions in play in disciplinary thought disqualify the practice and theory of radical social movements as a credible mode of analysis of the social and political condition. Coupled with academic positivism and a reductionist approach to the epistemology of testimony, disciplinary thought treats the discursive work of radical social movements (RSMs) (speech acts and written communication that develop and articulate ideas of the radical actor) as the material of the theorist, an objectification that abstracts the social documents from their context and prejudices the response of SMT to the archival work of the Italian radical community.
- keywords: 1960s; action; actor; agency; analysis; approach; archives; attention; authority; bologna; cambridge; capacity; certain; collective; communities; community archives; community informatics; contemporary; counter; credibility; della; deranty; disciplinary; discourse; discrimination; discursive; documents; eds; elite; epistemic; epistemology; evaluation; important; informatics; intellectual; issn; italian; italian radical; italy; journal; knowledge; left; london; marxist; materials; meaning; melucci; movement; new; nexus; order; place; political; politics; porta; practices; press; radical community; radical political; radical social; radical subject; radical thought; rancière; rational; research; rhetorical; self; smt; social; social documents; social movement; society; sociological; sociology; sources; spaces; state; strategic; study; subject; testimony; theoretical; theory; thought; university; valence; violence; work
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- joci-3426
- author: Margolis, Robin
- title: May They Reminisce Over You: On The Potential of Archives as Homespace
- date: 2019-06-30
- words: 10183
- flesch: 44
- summary: For archivists invested in the concerns of community archives, the introduction of digital and electronic records into these models has resulted in greater inclusion of community knowledge and pluralisation. The Journal of Community Informatics ISSN: 1721-4441 allowing definitions within community research to emerge from within the community is fundamental.
- keywords: access; african; american; archival; archival storytelling; archives; archivists; article; artists; audience; belarde; black; case; cataloging; classification; collection; colonialism; communities; community; community informatics; connected; cultural; description; design; different; digital; digitization; dominant; drake; duarte; duff; efforts; elders; engagement; existing; forms; gibbons; group; harris; healing; history; homeplace; hooks; human; imagining; impact; indigenous; individual; informatics; informatics issn; institutions; issn; jones; journal; knowledge; legacies; lewis; library; life; lis; mama; materials; mattson; members; memories; memory; methods; mission; model; mrk; new; old; oral; oral history; original; participants; participatory; people; performances; performers; point; potential; power; practice; present; process; professionals; project; provenance; queer; records; reminiscence; research; ritual; rupture; scholar; science; set; settler; smith; social; south; stages; stories; storytelling; study; subject; support; systems; tapes; theater; theories; theorist; theory; time; traditions; translation; understanding; university; use; users; ways; white; work; years; york
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- joci-3427
- author: Wright, Steve
- title: The nature of ‘document work’, and its implications for radical community archives and their holdings
- date: 2019-06-30
- words: 9245
- flesch: 57
- summary: In conclusion: some brief implications of document work for radical archives I hope that this brief introduction to Potere Operaio’s genre repertoire and communications circuit has helped not only in making sense of how such documents were created and used, but has also provided some useful insights into the practices of an important ensemble of political militants from the 1960s and 1970s in Italy. This paper will explore the meaning of document work within the practices of members of Potere Operaio [Potop], one of the most influential of the revolutionary groups formed in Italy during the late 1960s.
- keywords: 1960s; able; accompanying; anteriore; archives; bologna; book; borio; calogero; case; centro; certain; circuit; class; community; community informatics; comrades; dai; daily; day; del; della; dell’operaismo; deriveapprodi; different; documentazione; documents; early; eds; essays; femminista; futuro; genre; globali; grandi; group; history; identity; implications; important; individual; informatics; internal; intervista; issn; italian; italy; journal; july; labour; leaflets; left; life; limiti; lotta; making; mangano; marx; mass; materials; meaning; members; milan; militants; moroni; movement; movimenti; national; negri; new; newspaper; number; operaio; organisation; paper; particular; period; pistoia; place; political; posters; potere; potere operaio; potop; pozzi; practices; press; print; process; publication; quaderni; radical; revolutionary; ricchezze; roggero; role; rome; rossi; scalzone; sense; social; specific; terms; texts; time; trace; turin; university; use; ways; work; workerist; workers; world; years
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- joci-3428
- author: Ali-Hassan, Hossam; Sekharan, Vineeth; Kim, Theresa
- title: Internet non-use among the Canadian older adult population: General Social Survey (GSS)
- date: 2019-06-30
- words: 6491
- flesch: 52
- summary: Older adult use of the Internet has been strongly associated with significant decreases in social isolation levels and reduced risk of depression (Cotton et al., 2014; Tsai et al., 2015; Khosravi, Rezvani & Wiewiora, 2016; Chopik, 2016). Hassan ready The Journal of Community Informatics ISSN: 1721-4441 Article Internet non-use among the Canadian older adult population: General Social Survey (GSS) Benefits of Internet use for older adults include the ability to access informational resources, facilitate social connections and use online communication resources.
- keywords: access; adults; age; aged; analysis; associated; benefits; canada; canadian; characteristics; class; communication; community; data; demographic; digital; educational; factors; findings; general; good; gss; health; high; increased; individuals; informatics; internet; internet non; internet use; issn; journal; living; lower; married; mental; middle; month; non; odds; older; older adults; poor; population; potential; present; provinces; rates; ref; relationship; research; satisfied; school; significant; social; socioeconomic; statistics; status; study; support; survey; technology; use; variables; years; yes
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- joci-3429
- author: Grzeslo, Jenna
- title: Building communities, bridging divides: Community technology centers and social capital
- date: 2019-06-30
- words: 7811
- flesch: 55
- summary: While looking at the role of social capital in community development, Woolcock and Narayan (2006) add that social capital increases capacity by stating, “Social capital refers to the norms and networks that enable people to act collectively” (p. 32-33). The search for empowerment: Social capital as idea and practice at the World Bank (pp. 31-62) Bloomfield, CT: Kumarian Press. !97 http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/39370 Articles Building communities, bridging divides: Community technology centers and social capital Introduction Literature Review Defining CTCs Social Capital Methodology Results Conclusion Funding Statement: This project received support from the Don Davis Program in Ethical Leadership, in the Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications, at Penn State University.
- keywords: access; activities; adults; age; analysis; attendance; bonding; bourdieu; bridging; broadband; capital; center; college; common; communication; communities; community; community informatics; community technology; ctcs; data; degree; development; digital; divide; education; email; hand; home; icts; income; individuals; informatics; internet; issn; items; journal; libraries; life; literature; measure; media; model; networks; new; online; paper; participants; people; public; question; regression; relationship; research; review; role; scale; significant; skills; social; social capital; state; study; swls; table; technology; ties; time; trust; u.s; university; usage; use; variables; visit; weak
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- joci-3430
- author: Intahchomphoo, Channarong; Vellino, André; Gundersen, Odd Erik
- title: Connecting with Youth at Risk: Indigenous Organizations Use of Facebook
- date: 2019-06-30
- words: 7972
- flesch: 49
- summary: Secondly, Facebook is also used to engage urban indigenous youth at risk with indigenous organizations that provide social programs and outreach. Given that urban centers pose significant risks for urban indigenous youth (Miller et al., 2011), it is critically important to develop an understanding of how indigenous organizations use social media like Facebook to disseminate information to their targeted populations, particularly urban indigenous youth, who use Facebook and other social media heavily and daily.
- keywords: aboriginal; access; accounts; adoni; alba; alinga; analysis; areas; behaviour; campaigns; canada; canadian; care; challenges; city; communication; communities; community; content; cultural; culture; data; different; english; facebook; families; forced; friends; health; help; home; images; important; indigenous; indigenous organizations; indigenous peoples; indigenous youth; information; interviews; issn; issues; journal; language; lot; managers; media; mental; migration; national; news; ontario; opinions; organizations; ottawa; outreach; participants; people; personal; population; posts; programs; public; remote; research; risk; rural; social; statistics; study; text; time; urban; urban indigenous; usage; use; videos; work; youth
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- joci-3436
- author: None
- title: joci-3436
- date: None
- words: 3210
- flesch: 45
- summary: Email: liisa.horelli@aalto.fi Concordia University, Canada (Editorial Advisory Board: Jennifer Cowley, Marcus Foth, Reinout Kleinhans, Joanna Saad-Sulonen, Carlos Nunes Silva, & Patrick Sunter) Over a year and a half ago, we proposed a Journal of Community Informatics (JoCI) special issue on urban planning and community informatics (CI). Their work attempts to devise an integrated framework for understanding the 'smart cities' agenda from a new approach to urban planning enhanced by CI.
- keywords: approaches; cities; citizenship; city; community; community informatics; data; design; digital; experiments; formal; forms; global; governance; horelli; ict; icts; informatics; issue; joci; journal; local; new; novel; papers; participatory; places; planning; practices; process; production; public; research; right; smart; spaces; special; staffans; systems; technology; tools; understanding; urban; urban planning; virtual; work
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- joci-3438
- author: None
- title: joci-3438
- date: None
- words: 1477
- flesch: 12
- summary: In an article entitled Smart Cities - A $1.5 Trillion Market Opportunity the author from the consulting firm Frost and Sullivan identifies eight key aspects that define a Smart City: smart governance, smart energy, smart building, smart mobility, smart infrastructure, smart technology, smart healthcare and smart citizen as follows. Wikipedia gives us this definition: a smart city is an emerging conceptual view of a city that promotes the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to engage with citizens to develop social capital and intellectual capital, to make better use of hard infrastructure (physical capital), reduce usage of environmental capital and support smart growth (sustainable economic development).
- keywords: capital; cities; citizens; city; communities; community; developed; digital; energy; government; health; high; individual; information; infrastructure; intelligent; management; policies; public; resources; services; smart; solutions; support; systems; technology; urban; use; way
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- joci-3439
- author: None
- title: joci-3439
- date: None
- words: 10027
- flesch: 49
- summary: We will also base our framework on these dimensions later on, although we will not adopt the following definition of smart cities that the report ends up with: Smart city uses ICTs to optimize the efficiency and effectiveness of useful and necessary city processes, activities and services by joining up diverse elements and actors into a seamlessly interactive intelligent system (Manville, 2014, 88). Alternative stories about smart cities The alternative smart city already exists, comprising myriads of initiatives where technology has been used to empower community networks.
- keywords: aalto; active; activities; alternative; application; approach; architects; article; available; building; case; cities; citizens; city; communicative; communities; community; complex; concept; context; corporate; course; creation; critical; cultural; deliberative; development; different; digital; dimensions; economy; energy; environment; european; evaluation; everyday; example; figure; formal; framework; future; global; good; governance; hand; helsinki; horelli; icts; implementation; informal; informatics; initiatives; integrated; internet; knowledge; learning; life; liveable; local; long; management; manville; means; mobility; multi; need; network; new; organization; participation; participatory; partnerships; people; perspective; piacenza; place; planners; planning; planning approach; political; practice; processes; production; proposals; public; quality; real; research; residents; role; saad; self; services; shaping; smart; smart cities; smart city; social; society; spaces; students; studies; study; sulonen; sustainable; systems; technology; theory; time; tools; university; urban; urban planning; variety; way
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- joci-3440
- author: None
- title: joci-3440
- date: None
- words: 7396
- flesch: 57
- summary: As discussed by Oldenburg, third places are low profile, neutral, inclusive, accessible, accommodating, filled with regulars, conversational, and playful. These characteristics of third places were outlined before information and communication technologies (ICTs) like the Internet, mobile phones, and social networking services (SNS) - e.g., Facebook and Twitter - became widespread and integrated into the fabric of everyday life (Weiser 1991).
- keywords: access; activities; activity; café; characteristics; coffee; communities; community; computer; concept; conference; contemporary; conversation; design; different; digital; example; facebook; field; figure; friends; functions; group; home; human; icts; important; information; interaction; international; internet; like; local; low; mobile; networking; networks; new; notion; observations; observed; oldenburg; online; paris; people; person; phones; physical; places; presence; press; proceedings; profile; properties; public; regulars; researchers; roles; seating; services; social; society; space; study; support; technologies; technology; today; university; virtual; visitors; work; world
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- joci-3441
- author: None
- title: joci-3441
- date: None
- words: 9661
- flesch: 49
- summary: For the future development of augmented reality apps the focus should be on the effective use approach (Gurstein, 2003), to better meet the users' needs that became apparent in the field test. Younger people play 3D games more frequently, thereby gaining initial opportunities to experience 3D simulation, especially with augmented reality visualizations (Figure 8).
- keywords: age; app; applications; approach; area; augmented; augmented reality; better; center; citizens; city; communication; community; comparison; competence; corp; design; development; devices; different; digital; dimensional; eds; environment; experience; field; figure; framework; future; games; gps; groups; important; increase; information; inspections; instruments; interested; knowledge; level; maria; methods; mobile; model; necessary; new; oecd; paper; participants; participation; participation processes; participatory; people; planned; planning; plans; position; possible; procedures; proceedings; processes; project; public; quality; rannersdorf; reality; regional; research; results; schrenk; schwechat; selbstverlag; site; space; spatial; strasse; street; systems; target; technologies; technology; test; tools; tusch; urban; urban planning; use; vereins; vienna; view; virtual; visualization; wallensteinstrasse; ways2gether; zeile
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- joci-3442
- author: None
- title: joci-3442
- date: None
- words: 5662
- flesch: 49
- summary: In addition to raising the need for pedestrian urban maps, this article has proposed a methodology for collecting and analyzing pedestrian data. In particular, the importance of pedestrian maps for urban planning cannot be overstated.
- keywords: actual; analysis; applications; article; behavior; cartography; case; city; collection; community; contemporary; data; data collection; day; design; digital; digital maps; distance; example; figure; friendly; google; gps; human; image; informatics; journal; knowledge; local; london; main; mapmaking; mapping; maps; methodology; mobile; navigation; new; order; path; pedestrian; personal; planning; point; popular; practice; preferences; research; routes; shortest; social; streets; study; subjective; subjects; suggested; suggestions; systems; techniques; terms; time; traces; transportation; tube; urban; users; walking; work; world
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- joci-3443
- author: None
- title: joci-3443
- date: None
- words: 9281
- flesch: 48
- summary: The involved end-users of PPGIS applications have often consisted of government organizations, and this array of users has seldom included community organizations, which in reality, have a central role in the debates around self-organizing urban development (cf. Although the PPGIS tools have often been developed alongside official planning processes and with the help of advanced software, community organizations may be able to utilize PPGIS solutions on their own.
- keywords: aalto; analysis; application; area; available; beach; beautiful; beautiful pb; board; boonstra; broader; broberg; brown; business; california; case; citizens; city; community; community informatics; community organization; context; cooperation; data; design; development; diego; district; dunn; eco; empowerment; environmental; feedback; foth; future; horelli; important; informatics; instance; issues; june; kahila; knowledge; kyttä; local; main; members; new; number; open; order; organization; organizing; pacific; pacific beach; participation; participatory; people; planning; possible; potential; ppgis; process; public; quality; report; research; researchers; residents; respect; respondents; results; role; saad; san; self; social; softgis; spatial; study; sulonen; summary; survey; systems; team; terms; time; tools; town; university; urban; urban development; urban planning; use; wallin
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- joci-3444
- author: None
- title: joci-3444
- date: None
- words: 10567
- flesch: 51
- summary: 4: The two groups behind the project, with matching expertise and interests that aligned to bottom-up planning, and participatory technology design. This study proposes a novel approach to combining planning with participatory technology design.
- keywords: african; american; angeles; approach; arts; assets; ball; build; business; caldwell; case; central; city; civic; collective; communication; communities; community; conversation; cultural; culture; december; deep; design; design process; development; digital; disalvo; engagement; events; example; expertise; fig; figure; focus; future; goal; group; horelli; immediate; important; informatics; infrastructure; innovation; issues; journal; kaos; key; kim; kind; leimert; literacy; local; los; low; media; members; methodology; mobile; music; neighborhood; networks; new; non; old; open; paper; park; participants; participation; participatory; participatory design; participatory planning; particular; payphone; peripheral; personal; physical; planning; power; practices; press; problem; process; project; public; relations; research; residents; rokeach; role; saad; scaffolding; simple; single; site; social; socio; space; stakeholders; stories; story; storytelling; study; success; sulonen; support; systems; technical; technological; technologies; technology; technology design; terms; traditional; university; urban; useful; users; video; way; york
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- joci-3445
- author: None
- title: joci-3445
- date: None
- words: 9443
- flesch: 45
- summary: We suggest that the following research question will provide important insights into the involvement of newcomers in American new gateway communities: With what processes and methods can newcomers in rural new gateway communities be empowered to participate in local governance and how do these processes and methods relate to planning and community informatics? Ultimately, we imagine residents of rural new gateway communities initiating and managing both the workshops and analytic process, in a manner more similar to participatory GIS (Dunn, 2007) or facilitated-volunteered geographic information approaches (Seeger, 2008).
- keywords: affairs; american; analysis; approach; article; broadband; case; cell; center; change; characteristics; city; civic; cognitive; communities; community; community affairs; criteria; data; demographic; design; development; different; education; efforts; engagement; esri; example; field; figure; frequency; gateway; gis; governance; grid; group; high; ict; immigrants; inclusive; individuals; information; integration; involvement; iowa; journal; knowledge; large; latino; limited; local; locations; london; low; making; mapping; maps; meeting; methods; model; modeling; needs; new; newcomers; non; number; organizations; paper; participants; participation; participatory; particular; people; perry; physical; places; planning; points; population; process; processes; providers; public; recreation; research; residents; resources; rural; rural new; service; size; small; social; society; software; spaces; spatial; specific; states; study; table; tech; technology; time; tool; u.s; unique; united; university; urban; use; workshop; york
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- joci-3446
- author: None
- title: joci-3446
- date: None
- words: 9066
- flesch: 40
- summary: As the name suggests, Urban Spacebook is conceptualized as an interactive map-based platform-essentially a website and a mobile app-which merges the communicative and networking aspects of social network technology (e.g., Facebook) with visual representations of movement and city experiences (e.g., GPS-based maps). Inspiration was also obtained from situationist practices, such as dérive (Sadler, 1998), as a way to interrupt the 'usual' by slowing down, and provoking new experiences of and in city space.
- keywords: approach; area; aspects; awareness; city; collaborative; collective; communication; daily; data; dcc; decision; design; development; diary; digital; dublin; environments; everyday; example; experiences; experiment; features; figure; gps; horelli; ict; individual; inhabitants; interactions; knowledge; kyttä; life; local; location; makers; making; map; mapping; maps; media; mobility; movement; new; online; open; opportunities; participants; participation; participatory; people; photographs; place; planners; planning; platform; potential; practices; process; processes; prototype; public; research; routes; saad; sharing; social; space; spacebook; spatial; street; study; sulonen; technological; technology; time; tools; tracking; urban; urban planning; urban spacebook; users; visual; way; web; website; workshop
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- joci-3447
- author: None
- title: joci-3447
- date: None
- words: 10102
- flesch: 41
- summary: Instead civic-cyber life needs to draw lessons from urban planning traditions that emphasize deep and meaningful civic engagement or community control in questions about local urban planning and design (e.g. Sandercock, 2003; Friedmann, 2010; Coehlo, et al., 2013). AREN'T CITIES AND CITIZENS ALREADY SMART? Smart People has been identified as critical for Smart Cities' - extract from IEEE-CCD White Paper (De Obeso-Orendain et al., 2014)
- keywords: access; accountability; address; agenda; approaches; april; available; basic; case; centre; chennai; cisco; cities; citizenship; city; civic; commercial; communication; communities; community; context; corporate; cyber; data; design; development; digital; e.g.; economic; engagement; example; existing; face; figure; focus; forms; framework; gis; global; governance; government; graham; group; high; hindu; ibid; ict; icts; importance; india; informal; information; infrastructure; intelligence; interested; issues; journal; july; key; knowledge; land; level; like; local; making; mapping; maps; market; media; modes; needs; neighbourhoods; networked; new; non; officials; online; organizations; paper; participation; pedestrian; planning; poor; priorities; private; problems; processes; projects; public; recent; region; relation; research; residents; right; road; role; rtw; sadoway; safety; sanitation; science; services; smart; smart cities; smart citizenship; smart city; smarter; social; society; solutions; space; state; studies; study; support; systems; technological; technology; toilets; tools; townsend; traditional; traffic; transparent; transparent chennai; urban; urban planning; use; walk; women; work; working; world
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- joci-3448
- author: None
- title: joci-3448
- date: None
- words: 7755
- flesch: 44
- summary: While some individuals use the possibilities for public expression on social networks as if they were in public spaces, the 'terms of service' documents (which are legal contracts) expose limitations and constraints to their usage which go well beyond the ones enforced in the public domain: even if the data and information is produced from social network users as a form of their own expression, their possibility to use it for their own purposes - or even for public good - is somewhat limited, due to the fact that it represents the major source of revenue for the aforementioned service providers. The objective of the identity analysis was to identify the same users across different social networks, and different instances of the same content inside or across networks.
- keywords: able; acupuncture; analysis; approach; available; casagrande; case; certain; cities; citizens; city; clusters; communities; content; cultural; current; data; days; different; digital; ecosystem; emotional; emotions; event; example; expression; facebook; figure; following; foursquare; geographical; human; information; interventions; issues; italy; knowledge; language; large; location; love; maps; mental; messages; metadata; multiple; networks; new; number; ones; open; operators; organizations; people; place; possibility; possible; process; processing; public; questions; relational; research; results; rome; section; series; service; sets; social; social networks; space; techcrunch; terms; time; topics; turin; twitter; urban; users; visualizations; ways; words
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- joci-3449
- author: None
- title: joci-3449
- date: None
- words: 3191
- flesch: 52
- summary: Social media refers to a group of Web applications that allow for the creation and exchange of user-generated content (Kaplan & Haenlein, 2010). Social media are also widely used to coordinate events in the physical world in real time, because they offer access to social networks, expanding significantly the social sphere (Pereira et al., 2013).
- keywords: access; activism; available; brazilian; cartographies; castells; changes; citizens; city; civic; communication; communities; empowerment; engagement; examples; favelas; figure; ford; foundation; government; icts; indigenous; information; internet; janeiro; january; knowledge; media; networks; new; news; ninja; november; number; online; people; pereira; project; public; rio; social; source; space; state; technologies; uma; urban; urbanias; users; votenaweb; web; wikimapa; words
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- joci-3450
- author: None
- title: joci-3450
- date: None
- words: 7278
- flesch: 47
- summary: To achieve these objectives one needs to understand in depth the unique characteristics offered by local wireless networks in contrast with the public Internet. Local wireless networks are cheap to build, and they can be owned and maintained by local authorities, organizations, even individuals.
- keywords: access; addition; antoniadis; apostol; applications; available; building; case; cities; citizens; city; collective; common; communication; communities; community; concept; corporations; cost; creation; critical; data; design; digital; e.g.; eds; environment; example; facebook; foth; global; hybrid; hybrid city; ict; important; information; infrastructure; interactions; internet; knowledge; lefebvre; life; like; local; local wireless; location; mobile; networking; networks; new; note; online; open; options; ownership; participation; participatory; people; physical; places; planning; platforms; press; privacy; private; processes; proximity; public; research; right; role; routledge; shared; sharing; sidewalk; small; social; software; space; specific; strangers; street; technology; terms; time; today; university; urban; use; users; virtual; web; wifi; wireless; york
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- joci-3451
- author: None
- title: joci-3451
- date: None
- words: 4998
- flesch: 46
- summary: An investigation of linkages between organisational social capital and information and communication technologies in environmental community organisations. A recent community sector report (ACOSS, 2013) notes that 24% of community organisations did not use any form of social media and only 4% posted blogs.
- keywords: access; acoss; adaptive; adopter; approach; australia; broadband; capacity; civil; communication; communities; community; dhakal; digital; eds; email; environmental; etsos; field; findings; framework; funding; future; ict; icts; information; international; internet; journal; lack; leaders; local; management; media; national; need; network; new; note; november; number; order; organisations; paper; perth; planning; policy; potential; report; research; resources; role; sector; social; society; sources; support; survey; technology; university; uptake; urban; use; volunteers; websites; western; world
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- joci-3470
- author: Foko, Thato Emmanuel; Mahwai, Nare Joyce; Phiri, Charles Acheson
- title: Lessons from the field: What researchers learned from evaluating ICT platforms for rural development and education
- date: 2020-12-22
- words: 5411
- flesch: 43
- summary: In an ideal world, field researchers would have all the necessary skills to collect perfect data, and equally perfect knowledge of the communities they need to work with when implementing research projects. The basis for this stemmed from the following assertions: The Journal of Community Informatics 16 (2020), 141-153 ISSN: 1721-4441 146 • Because the DD was designed in such a way that knowledge is self-acquired, it was crucial to hear and learn directly from the beneficiaries and respondents to share the lessons from other DDs.
- keywords: access; africa; april; areas; beneficiaries; better; champions; change; communities; community; community informatics; computers; content; council; country; critical; data; dds; deployment; development; different; evaluation; field; government; ict; implementation; incentives; informatics; issn; journal; knowledge; leaders; learners; lessons; local; members; monitoring; need; new; oecd; participants; participatory; people; planning; project; public; purpose; researchers; respondents; rural; skills; smith; south; stakeholders; study; successful; teachers; technology; time; understanding; usage; use; work; world
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- joci-3473
- author: Anderson, Sasha; Daniel, Marguerite
- title: Refugees and social media in a digital society: How young refugees are using social media and the capabilities it offers in their lives in Norway
- date: 2020-12-22
- words: 9196
- flesch: 47
- summary: How and why young refugees use social media in their everyday lives in Norway Uses & Gratifications of social media by young refugees in Norway Social media platforms used Motivations for using social media Behaviours on social media Use Facebook and Youtube most Use Skype to talk with people Each platform has its own function Connect with home country through SM Talking and keeping in contact with family and friends Use SM to find and share information Expressing opinions and political views Do not respond to negative comments Manners and use of language are important to me Do not like to share private information Access and limitations to social media use in Norway Access to social media Limitations and barriers to social media use Mostly access social media on the phone Accessing Internet and SM in Norway is easy Use of SM has increased since being in Norway Studying limits use of SM Working limits time spent on SM Social media fatigue Achievements enabled by social media use Reported achievements from social media use Activities enabled by social media SM enables learning Learned Norwegian through social media SM allows communication with family and friends Findings The presentation of the findings broadly follows the structure of global themes in Table 1, with the emphasis on the first two: How and why young refugees use social media in their everyday lives in Norway and Achievements enabled by social media use.
- keywords: abujarour; access; achievements; active; age; analysis; approach; asylum; available; capabilities; capability; choice; communication; community; connection; countries; country; development; different; education; english; everyday; example; facebook; family; findings; friends; groups; home; host; ict; important; information; internet; interviews; issn; journal; key; krasnova; learning; lives; media use; motivations; nasim; new; norway; norwegian; opportunities; outcomes; participants; passive; people; platforms; potential; refugees; reported; research; resources; sen; sense; social media; society; studies; study; support; technologies; technology; themes; time; use; value; world; young; youtube
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- joci-3485
- author: Chundur, Suguna
- title: Digital Justice: Reflections on a Community-Based Research Project
- date: 2020-12-22
- words: 10020
- flesch: 45
- summary: This community technology outreach center’s mission is to improve quality of life for the people of the economically-depressed location where the center resides through offering introductory classes in digital technologies. The participant group showed an awareness of the larger, more intangible issues involving digital technology that affect their lives in many ways.
- keywords: access; action; adult; agency; analysis; approach; benefits; categories; center; change; chundur; community; community informatics; complexities; concerns; contextual; critical; cultural; data; design; digital; digital divide; digital learning; digital skills; disadvantaged; discussion; divide; economic; education; empowerment; eubanks; experiences; financial; framework; freire; gla; group; health; help; horton; important; individual; inequality; information; instruction; internet; interview; issn; issues; journal; knowledge; lack; learners; learning; level; life; literacy; literature; lives; need; new; novice; participants; participatory; people; personal; photographs; photovoice; political; privacy; process; professional; project; prompts; research; results; role; safety; security; skills; social; society; socio; specific; stage; study; table; technological; technology; terms; themes; theoretical; time; users; van; work; world
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- joci-3489
- author: Kante, Macire; Ndayizigamiye, Patrick
- title: An analysis of the policies of Information and Communication Technologies for Agriculture in Mali
- date: 2020-12-22
- words: 7453
- flesch: 49
- summary: Cette étude recommande la refonte des deux documents en réponse aux résultats de l'étude Keywords: ICT policy; Agricultural productivity; Extension services; Developing countries; Mali Mots clés: politique des TIC; Productivité agricole; Services de vulgarisation; Pays en voie de développement; Mali Kante, M., & Ndayizigamiye, P. (2020). Furthermore, it has been argued that ICT policies can help increase agricultural production (Chavula, 2014; Kunyenje, 2019) in developing countries.
- keywords: africa; agetic; agricole; agricultural; agricultural information; agricultural sector; analysis; case; cent; communication; community; content; countries; country; data; des; development; digital; documents; economy; electronic; et al; extension; extent; fao; farmers; field; food; framework; ict; ict policies; ict policy; icts; implementation; increase; information; instance; international; issn; issue; journal; kante; knowledge; kunyenje; les; loa; mali; national; national ict; ngulube; objectives; officers; policies; policy; pour; power; production; productivity; public; qualitative; question; reports; research; results; sector; security; services; state; study; systems; tanzania; technologies; technology; theory; tic; use; women
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- joci-3490
- author: Gustafsson, Mariana; Wihlborg, Elin
- title: ‘It is unbelievable how many come to us’:: A study on community librarians’ perspectives on digital inclusion in Sweden
- date: 2021-12-01
- words: 9764
- flesch: 44
- summary: Library inclusionary practices By facilitating access to learning, economic, health and civic engagement opportunities, libraries engage in a critical part of digital inclusion services, which is a vision for the role of libraries in a democratic society (IFLA/FAIFE, 2016, 2020). The findings in our case study support the thesis that advancing digitalization, in terms of increasing complexity of information systems and extent of digital public services, involves different varieties of digital exclusions that shift in focus and nature (van Dijk & Hacker, 2003) and go beyond traditional divides such as class, genders, ethnicity ( Bertot, 2016; Molnar et al., 2015).
- keywords: 2019; access; action; activities; advanced; authorities; bertot; books; campaign; case; challenges; communities; community; competence; conference; context; daily; democratic; development; different; digital; digital divide; digital inclusion; digital literacy; digital services; digitalization; dijk; diversity; divide; economic; education; exclusion; focus; för; government; groups; help; important; inclusion; increase; information; inhabitants; international; internet; issn; issues; jaeger; journal; knowledge; librarian; libraries; library; literacy; local; management; media; mission; motala; municipal; municipalities; municipality; national; needs; new; och; offices; online; open; opportunities; participation; people; plan; policy; practices; problem; public; public libraries; questions; region; regional; research; resources; role; services; skills; social; society; staff; studies; study; support; sweden; swedish; technologies; technology; terms; time; users; van; work; working; östergötland
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- joci-3492
- author: Lupi, Lucia; Antonini, Alessio; De Liddo, Anna; Motta, Enrico
- title: Actionable Open Data: Connecting City Data to Local Actions
- date: 2020-12-22
- words: 10380
- flesch: 44
- summary: 1721-4441 3 Article Actionable open data connecting city data to local actions Open Data are recognised as invaluable resources at the city level for improving local services, community engagement and businesses initiatives, but their use still struggles to have the desired impact. Indeed, city data are often perceived as resources able to provide value on their own, promising to reveal the solutions to local problems and opening new unforeseen economic opportunities and development.
- keywords: access; acm; actionable; actionable data; actions; activities; actors; agencies; analysis; available; building; business; challenge; city; city data; city open; civic; collection; commons; communities; community; community informatics; computing; conference; context; data; data ecosystem; data portals; data sources; data technologies; design; development; different; ecosystem; expected; forms; goals; government; human; impact; information; information needs; infrastructures; initiatives; issn; janssen; journal; knowledge; level; local; local actions; mobility; needs; new; non; open data; open government; organisations; participants; portals; potential; problem; proceedings; process; processes; production; profiles; profit; projects; public; related; research; resources; results; roles; section; services; set; social; sources; specific; stakeholders; stories; story; study; support; systems; tasks; taylor; technologies; technology; topic; underuse; urban; use; users; workshop
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- joci-3494
- author: Pankomera, Richard; van Greunen, Darelle
- title: ICT Framework to Support a Patient-Centric approach in Public Healthcare: A Case Study of Malawi
- date: 2020-12-22
- words: 11005
- flesch: 42
- summary: One participant who leads a team of ICT health applications in a non-governmental organization stated: “there are few systems analysts and programmers to develop healthcare systems.” Figure 2: Research process for developing ICT framework (Jabareen, 2009)
- keywords: access; activities; analysis; applications; approach; areas; availability; central; centric; centric care; centric healthcare; centric services; challenges; communication; community; community informatics; components; comprehensive; concepts; consumers; context; countries; data; delivery; design; developers; developing; development; district; electronic; emrs; evaluation; experts; facilities; factors; figure; following; framework; greunen; health; health applications; health care; health information; health sector; health services; healthcare; healthcare sector; healthcare services; hmis; hospital; human; ict; ict framework; ict interventions; inadequate; information; interventions; interviews; issn; journal; lack; legal; levels; lilongwe; literature; major; makers; malawi; management; medical; ministry; mobile; monitoring; needs; number; pankomera; participants; patient; policies; policy; political; population; process; projects; providers; public; public health; public healthcare; quality; relationship; research; review; science; section; sector; semi; services; social; stakeholders; standards; step; strategy; structured; study; support; systems; table; technology; themes; useful; user; values; van; ✓ ✓
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- joci-3496
- author: Chen, Kenzen
- title: Bridging the Digital Divide in a Remote Elementary School: A Teacher's Reflection on Invisible Work
- date: 2020-12-22
- words: 8423
- flesch: 54
- summary: I had intentioned to give more structured, discipline-based instructions to 5th grade students while giving freedom for 2nd grade students to explore their own laptops (2011/09/01, journal). Study design To discover the experiences of teachers’ hidden work, regarding efforts towards closing digital inequalities, and the changes of remote elementary school students while learning with the XO laptops, this investigation was designed to be a qualitative case study (Stake, The Journal of Community Informatics 16 (2020), 77-99 ISSN: 1721-4441 83 1995; Merriam, 1998; Yin, 2009), because it explored a bounded and particular system and was intended to generate a holistic explanation, rather than to confirm or criticize pre- existing theoretical underpinnings.
- keywords: 1st; 2nd; 3rd; 5th; academic; access; activities; activity; analysis; bridge; case; children; class; classes; classroom; close; college; community; community informatics; computers; context; critical; curriculum; daily; data; design; desktop; digital; dijk; divide; economy; education; efforts; elementary; exam; example; experiences; family; field; figure; grade; grade students; hidden; high; home; informal; informatics; infrastructure; interview; invisible; invisible work; issn; journal; labor; laptops; learning; little; london; moe; needs; notes; olpc; parents; photos; process; project; qualitative; reality; remote; research; researchers; role; rural; sage; school; science; sessions; sheets; skills; skyline; smith; social; society; software; students; study; support; taiwan; teachers; teaching; technology; time; underwood; use; van; work; world; xo laptops; xos
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- joci-3498
- author: Rhinesmith, Colin
- title: A legacy to continue
- date: 2020-12-22
- words: 885
- flesch: 48
- summary: I strongly hesitate to say that community informatics, in general, and this Journal, more concretely, have the answers to these tremendous global challenges facing us today. However, I will say that community informatics and this Journal have helped to remind us over the years that our sense of community and our need as human beings to stay connected remains incredibly important regardless of technology.
- keywords: associate; community; editorial; eduardo; global; home; informatics; journal; new; practitioners; researchers; role; university
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- joci-3519
- author: Andre, Marie Kettlie
- title: Ethics in Social Design: Definitions, Models, and Perspectives
- date: 2021-12-01
- words: 8708
- flesch: 46
- summary: These reasons validate the need to develop ethical standards in computer technology and social system design and usage. Conversely, Flusser (1993) and Dallman (1998) stressed the necessity to have a code of ethics in social systems design and use that space to promote and maintain social systems’ integrity.
- keywords: accountability; accountable; actions; activities; algorithms; artificial; autonomous; behavior; beings; blank; case; challenge; checkland; churchman; code; collaborative; collaborative platforms; collective; communities; community; computer; conduct; content; cyberspace; data; decisions; design; designers; development; digital; ethical; ethical standards; ethics; eubanks; extent; facebook; global; good; governance; government; groups; human; ieee; individuals; information; instance; institute; intelligence; interest; issn; issues; journal; kizza; knowledge; laws; life; lives; making; moral; need; networks; new; norms; november; online; people; personal; platforms; policies; practices; press; principles; privacy; problems; professional; public; reason; regulation; research; responsibility; responsible; rules; science; security; services; social; social systems; society; sociotechnical; software; specific; speech; standards; states; systems; technological; technologies; technology; theory; users; values; virtual; world; york
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- joci-3576
- author: Stratton, Caroline
- title: Planning to maintain the status quo? A comparative study of digital equity plans of four large US cities
- date: 2021-12-01
- words: 10931
- flesch: 38
- summary: A comparative study of digital equity plans of four large US cities Caroline Stratton Assistant Professor, School of Information, Florida State University, USA cstratton2@fsu.edu The term digital equity is at the forefront of municipal government planning to mitigate digital inequality. Adopting an approach from critical discourse studies, comparative analysis of the texts demonstrates how digital equity plans conceive of digital equity, characterize current problematic circumstances, and prescribe actions to make change.
- keywords: access; actions; affordable; analysis; barriers; broadband; building; change; circumstances; cities; city; communities; community; community informatics; community technology; computing; condition; construction; cost; critical; current; development; devices; digital; digital divide; digital equity; digital inclusion; digital inequality; dijk; discourse; discursive; divide; economic; economy; education; equity plans; financial; francisco; funding; goal; government; guidance; high; housing; inclusion; income; individuals; inequality; informatics; infrastructure; internet; isps; issn; jobs; journal; kansas; kansas city; lack; little; local; low; movement; municipal; ndia; new; office; options; organizations; participation; people; planning; plans; points; policy; portland; prescribed; private; problem; problematic; process; programs; public; related; residents; resources; san; seattle; sector; service; servon; skills; social; society; strategies; studies; study; support; technology; term; texts; training; urban; use; van; vision
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- joci-3595
- author: Pine, Kathleen H; Hinrichs, Margaret; Love, Kailey; Shafer, Michael; Runger, George; Riley, William
- title: Addressing Fragmentation of Health Services through Data-Driven Knowledge Co-Production within a Boundary Organization
- date: 2022-12-31
- words: 10252
- flesch: 42
- summary: These studies have indicated a strong belief that sharing health services data would lead to improvements in healthcare delivery. While a wealth of community based behavioral health services data is available (and thus could be used to identify service problems and improve health services delivery), use of these data is hampered by the fact that individuals with behavioral health disorders are served by multiple service sectors and providers in a community (Bhugra et al., 2014).
- keywords: agency; analysis; approach; arizona; awareness; behavioral; behavioral health; boundary; boundary organizations; center; claims; collaborative; collective; community; community informatics; data; data design; data sharing; data visualizations; datasets; ddkco; decision; delivery; design; different; example; figure; fragmentation; groups; health; health data; health services; healthcare; human; important; individuals; informatics; informatics issn; integrated; interactions; intervention; issn; journal; key; knowledge; knowledge co; level; literature; local; making; medicaid; medical; meetings; mental; multiple; multisector; need; new; organizations; participants; patients; people; perspective; physical; policy; population; practice; problems; process; processes; production; project; provider; public; related; relationships; research; role; science; sectors; services; share; sharing; smi; social; solving; stakeholders; state; studies; support; system; team; time; understanding; university; use; visualizations; work; workshops
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- joci-4216
- author: Latif, Farhan
- title: Book Review: The Promise of Access: Technology, Inequality, and the Political Economy of Hope
- date: 2021-12-01
- words: 1751
- flesch: 43
- summary: Greene uses the term “Access doctrine” to draw attention towards the mythical nature of the assumptions that access to digital technology may eliminate poverty and class imbalances. A challenge for The Promise of Access is then to distinguish the critique of technology from the critique of capitalism and proclaim the subjectivity towards the role of digital technology in contemporary society.
- keywords: access; bootstrapping; capitalism; centric; change; culture; development; digital; disruptive; divide; doctrine; economy; future; greene; hope; inequalities; inequality; informatics; innovation; institutions; issn; libraries; new; political; poverty; promise; public; readers; skills; social; startups; technology; use
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- joci-4427
- author: Renyi, Madeleine; Hegedüs, Anna; Schmitter, Paul; Berger, Fabian; Ballmer, Thomas; Maier, Edith; Kunze, Christophe
- title: Lessons Learned: The Multifaceted Field of (Digital) Neighborhood Development
- date: 2022-03-31
- words: 8746
- flesch: 37
- summary: Previous experiences show that neighborhood projects differ between urban and The Journal of Community Informatics ISSN: 1721-4441 5 rural areas and are also strongly influenced by structural and cultural differences in the national welfare systems. A further criterion was that digital neighborhood technology was implemented or planned to be implemented in a timely manner.
- keywords: access; activities; actors; analysis; assistance; associations; available; businesses; care; cases; categories; citizens; communication; communities; community; community informatics; concerns; content; covid-19; cross; data; development; different; digital; digital neighborhood; facilities; funding; general; germany; goals; groups; health; implementation; important; individual; informatics; informatics issn; infrastructure; introduction; involved; issn; journal; kuckartz; local; management; measures; media; municipalities; municipality; national; need; neighborhood; neighborhood assistance; neighborhood development; neighborhood platform; neighborhood projects; neighborhood work; networking; networks; new; onboarding; online; operational; organized; partners; people; phase; physical; platform; privacy; process; projects; providers; requirements; researchers; resources; responsible; role; rural; scientific; services; social; solutions; stakeholders; start; strategy; strong; structures; study; support; sustainability; sustainable; switzerland; systems; target; technical; technology; test; text; time; tools; traffic; training; university; urban; users; value; vogel; way; work
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- joci-4679
- author: Mersereau, Michel
- title: Constructing Household Routines with the Internet: Assessing the role of the Internet in Normalizing Household Productivity
- date: 2022-03-31
- words: 9611
- flesch: 43
- summary: Data collected from TCHC residents suggests that household internet services inform the organization and efficiency of household routines by minimizing the labour and financial expenditures2 associated with the household activities. Comparing monthly labour-time expenditures reported by residents across banking, nutrition, and healthcare activity areas prior to and after the adoption of household internet services evidences a decrease of 32% in the overall hours expended on these activities across the participant cohort (Table 4).
- keywords: access; activities; activity; adoption; adult; analysis; areas; average; barriers; basic; broadband; canada; changes; children; cohort; communities; community; community informatics; computer; connectivity; constraints; corporation; cost; cres; data; digital; disruption; divide; economic; elderly; expenditures; facilities; facility; family; financial; framework; government; health; healthcare; home; hours; household; household activities; household internet; household routines; housing; human; income; informatics; informatics issn; internet; internet services; interview; issn; journal; labour; late; level; long; low; month; monthly; needs; normal; older; online; organization; park; participants; periods; policy; poverty; primary; productive; provisioning; public; rankin; reported; research; residents; resources; role; routines; services; social; study; stuff; subsidized; support; system; table; tchc; technology; term; theory; time; toronto; total; transit; understanding; urban; value; victoria
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- joci-4712
- author: Fink, Alexander; VeLure Roholt, Ross
- title: Surfacing Human Service Organizations’ Data Use Practices: Toward a Critical Performance Measurement Framework: From the 2021 Community Informatics Research Network (CIRN) Conference
- date: 2022-03-31
- words: 7637
- flesch: 57
- summary: It also included a national study of youth- serving organizations with a strong focus on data use. This phenomenon is one of the few in this area that recognize the problematic foundations and impacts of performance measurement strategies in a way that demonstrates awareness of systematic oppression and injustice in data use.
- keywords: analysis; change; clients; collection; community; community informatics; concerns; context; conversations; creating; critical; data; data collection; data use; database; example; fink; focus; framework; funders; hsos; human; informatics; instruments; issn; journal; kind; line; measurement; need; nonprofit; organizations; outcomes; participants; people; performance; person; practices; problems; process; processes; program; questions; relationships; research; right; service; significant; social; specific; staff; studies; study; systems; tensions; themes; tracking; use; useful; van; ways; work; workers; young; young people; youth; ysos
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- joci-4720
- author: Rhinesmith, Colin
- title: Community informatics in pandemic times
- date: 2021-12-01
- words: 686
- flesch: 55
- summary: This could allow for new ideas and perspectives to enter JoCI leadership, and to respect the individual personal and professional constraints that inevitably arise. This new co-leadership model has encouraged us to consider several new ideas, which I will use this space below to elaborate upon. 1.
- keywords: chief; community; informatics; joci; journal; leadership; model; new; time
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- joci-4749
- author: Farinosi, Manuela; Cirulli, Adriano; Fortunati, Leopoldina
- title: The impact of the pandemic on communication between local government and citizens in a small village in Tuscany: From the 2021 Community Informatics Research Network (CIRN) Conference
- date: 2022-03-31
- words: 7927
- flesch: 37
- summary: A greater knowledge of these specificities in the dynamics of local communication in small towns and villages becomes essential, therefore, to identify, through comparative studies, which models and tools can be adopted in different contexts by local administrations to achieve effective public communication in rural and urban contexts. According to Centorrino (2020), alongside the infodemic (Yang et al., 2021; Brennen et al., 2020; Zarocostas, 2020) a comdemic also took place, that is, an overabundance of actors who wanted to be accredited in the field of public institutional communication.
- keywords: administration; administrators; analysis; approach; belvedere; case; changes; channels; citizens; communication; community; community informatics; context; covid-19; crisis; data; different; digital; digitalization; emergency; face; facebook; farinosi; figure; government; greater; hand; impact; increase; informatics; initiatives; institutional; institutional communication; interviews; issn; italian; italy; journal; level; local; local administrators; local government; lockdown; main; management; mayor; media; mouth; municipalities; municipality; online; pandemic; peccioli; people; place; platforms; political; population; positive; presence; process; public; public administration; public communication; questions; relationship; research; respondents; response; role; sample; second; small; social; social media; specific; strategies; structured; study; support; survey; traditional; use; village; virus; way; word; years
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- joci-4806
- author: Ali, Christopher; Simmerman, Abby; Lansing, Nicholas
- title: Towards a connected commonwealth: The roles of counties in broadband deployment in Virginia
- date: 2022-12-31
- words: 12369
- flesch: 54
- summary: Such sentiments were reflected in our survey of Virginia counties, with rural counties accusing state policymakers and lawmakers of urbannormativity and a bias towards wealthy areas of Virginia. USTelecom, the trade association for the major telecommunications companies found discrepancies between FCC reported coverage and their own coverage reports in 53% of rural Virginia counties (Stegeman, 2019).
- keywords: access; act; affordability; ali; americans; areas; availability; best; broadband; broadband access; broadband deployment; broadband policy; cares; center; challenges; city; commonwealth; communities; community; community informatics; commuting; connectivity; counties; county; crucial; data; deployment; development; digital; digital divide; divide; economic; electric; ended; fast; fcc; federal; fiber; funding; funds; gallardo; government; grants; greater; high; iija; importance; inclusion; informatics; informatics issn; infrastructure; instance; internet; investment; isps; issn; issue; journal; lack; large; level; literature; local; localism; major; mapping; maps; media; mile; municipal; national; needs; networks; new; office; pandemic; partnerships; pew; plan; policy; press; prince; private; program; projects; provider; public; questions; regional; report; research; residents; respondents; results; review; roles; rural; rural areas; rural broadband; service; speed; state; state broadband; studies; study; support; survey; tax; telecommunications; themes; track; united; university; urban; urbannormativity; usda; use; van; vati; virginia; whitacre; work; yes; york
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- joci-4828
- author: Meza-Cordero, Jaime
- title: Digital Literacy and Long-Term Labor Outcomes: Impacts from the One Laptop per Child Program in Costa Rica
- date: 2022-12-31
- words: 10005
- flesch: 60
- summary: The 2012 and 2013 student surveys have a mean age of 9.6 years for primary school students. Results The results present an analysis estimating repeated cross sections for primary school students only.
- keywords: access; activities; age; allocation; aspirations; baseline; children; collar; college; columns; computer; computer use; connectivity; control; county; covariates; data; development; difference; digital; duties; education; effects; estimates; family; future; gender; group; head; home; homework; hours; household; increase; informatics; internet; intervention; journal; labor; laptop; levels; literacy; mean; members; motivation; number; numeric; observations; occupations; olpc; outcomes; outside; panel; paper; past; percent; positive; primary; primary school; program; regression; research; results; school; school students; science; secondary; secondary school; significant; size; skills; squared; standard; strategy; students; study; table; time; total; training; treatment; trend; variables; weekly; white; years
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- joci-4948
- author: Shakya, Shobhit; Drechsler, Wolfgang
- title: ICT and Institutional Transformations in the Global South: A Study of the Rejuvenation of the Guthi Institution in Nepal
- date: 2023-06-22
- words: 10061
- flesch: 54
- summary: A prime example of such a guthi in function and name, but not in a legal sense, is Nepal Lipi Guthi (Nepal Lipi Guthi, n. d). The Journal of Community Informatics ISSN: 1721-4441 11 Nepal Lipi Guthi (NLG) was established as NGO in 1980 with the aim of promoting Nepal’s native scripts (lipi).13 The mode of establishment is similar to how the guthis of the past would have been established with a charitable purpose in mind.
- keywords: action; active; activities; ancient; approach; better; buddhist; case; century; communication; community; community informatics; context; continued; cultural; culture; data; democracy; democratic; development; digital; drechsler; earthquake; economics; eds; example; facebook; functions; gellner; gender; general; global; governance; government; groups; guthi; habitat; heritage; hindu; historical; home; ict; important; inclusive; indigenous; informatics; institution; international; issn; iterations; journal; july; kathmandu; key; land; lipi; maharjan; media; members; modernization; movement; n. d.; neo; nepal; newar; non; online; organization; organizing; outside; page; paper; participation; personal; perspective; political; press; private; process; public; quasi; rankin; reforms; relevant; research; role; science; self; shakya; sharma; shrestha; social; society; south; studies; study; sub; tansen; technology; theory; time; today; toffin; traditional; university; upakarma; urban; use; valley; water; welfare; western; whelpton; wno; work; world
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- joci-5228
- author: Rhinesmith, Colin
- title: Envisioning the Future of Community Informatics
- date: 2022-12-31
- words: 595
- flesch: 41
- summary: Rhinesmith_editorial_final The Journal of Community Informatics ISSN: 1721-4441 1 Editorial Envisioning the Future of Community Informatics Colin Rhinesmith, Co-Editor-In-Chief, The Journal of Community Informatics, crhinesmith@metro.org This November marked the 20th anniversary of the Community Informatics Research Network (CIRN) conference at the Monash Centre in Prato, Italy, co-sponsored by Monash University and the Metropolitan New York Library Council. Lastly, I am excited to announce that in the new year we will begin our planning to offer additional types of submissions to The Journal of Community Informatics (JoCI), including creative works, such as poetry and visual art.
- keywords: cirn; community; conference; editorial; informatics; journal; new; prato; vannini; year
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- joci-5234
- author: Sexton, Anna; Shepherd, Elizabeth; Duff, Wendy
- title: Relational and person-centred approaches to archival practice and education
- date: 2023-05-26
- words: 9161
- flesch: 42
- summary: This testimony shows how powerful the affective value of care records is for the people whose childhoods are captured there. In another part of the relational landscape surrounding care leavers and care records, records and information professionals also need better support since they face challenges in processing access requests (Shepherd et al., 2020).
- keywords: access; affective; approaches; archival; archival science; archival theory; archivaria; archives; archivists; better; care; care records; caswell; children; communities; community; concept; context; different; douglas; duff; education; emotional; ethics; evidence; experience; family; feminist; focus; framework; hart; human; identity; impact; individual; informatics; issn; journal; knowledge; laurent; leavers; life; literature; memory; mental; mirra; models; need; new; paper; participatory; people; person; personal; potentiality; power; practice; praxis; processes; profession; recordkeepers; recordkeeping; records; regehr; relational; relationships; research; researchers; rights; role; science; section; shepherd; social; social care; studies; support; survivor; systems; theory; time; trauma; traumatic; turn; understandings; users; ways; work; workers
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