The focus on practical engagement and community participation is something that sets the Community Information Corps apart from other student groups at SI. It is our belief that the best way to learn about the community is to get to know it - to get involved. With this in mind, members of the Community Information Corps have developed two focus projects, each providing participants with opportunities to engage community members. In addition to these focus projects, the Community Information Corps continually encourages participants to come up with new project ideas and suggest ways we might get involved. We realize that the possibilities for involvement are endless. But, if you have a project you want to see happen, CiC can make it happen.

Projects Opportunities - Winter 2005

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Click the titles below for more information about the new and ongoing CIC projects for the Winter 2005 semester.

CIC Project - Community Consulting Club/UM Business School

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CIC Project - Community Consulting Club/UM Business School
www.bus.umich.edu/clubs/ccc

In the fall of 2004, CIC developed a relationship (thanks much to Tanuka Roy!) with the UM Business School's Community Consulting Club (CCC - www.bus.umich.edu/clubs/ccc). We spoke with the CCC Executive Board about doing a trial semester of including interested SI students in their community, nonprofit projects. They agreed that such collaboration between MBA and MSI students could yield some great outcomes, so they've invited us to join them in this semester's projects! See the announcement below.

CIC Project - Community Mobilization/Activism Project

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Community Mobilization/Activism Project

● Interested in using your information skills to help a local community group organize, mobilize and effectively oppose the building of a new Wal-Mart?
● Want to learn more about employing information and communication tools in community activism?

CIC Project - CICweb Development

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CICweb Development Project

CICweb Project Plan
During Jan.-April 2005, the CICweb project intends to involve 6-10 SI students in the fundamental design and development of the new CICweb site (www.si.umich.edu/cic). The immediate goal is to make the site useful to its primary audience – SI students, faculty and staff. Gearing the site to a broader public audience is the medium-term goal, something that will be planned but not necessarily implemented during this semester.

CIC W05 Project - Technology Opportunities Program (TOP)

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Technology Opportunities Program of the Department of Commerce

Here are tentative descriptions of CIC student projects that would be connected to our community informatics data archive project in partnership with TOP and others.

1. Make a mirror of the website of the largest community technology funder in the US. Site contains a db of 600+ projects which would be part of mirror. This project is part of archiving this unique community informatics history. Work on your own, but liaise with Kate Williams, Joan Durrance, and website staff at Department of Commerce. (http://www.ntia.doc.gov/top/)

2. Make a collection (electronic e.g. pdfs) of documents regarding the Technology Opportunities Program: any mentions in congressional records; testimony by TOP staff to Congress or in hearings; NY Times articles.
Index that by TOP staff. Use docs to produce a table indicating annual funding of TOP 1994-2005. Work on your own, but liaise with Kate Williams and Joan Durrance.

Each of these projects could certainly be DFEs, probably one credit (60 hours).

Grameen Foundation USA / World Links

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Grameen Foundation USA and World Links
http://www.gfusa.org/ and http://www.world-links.org/


Student participants: Vijay Dakshinamoorthy, Tanuka Roy, Aaron Dombrowski, Noor Ali-Hasan, Erika Doyle, Maurice Solomon, Rasika Ramesh (F04 and W05 terms)

Also, Amy Anderson (F04), Jason Rodriguez (F04) and Stephen Suryo (W05).

Peace Neighborhood Center - Web Redesign

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Peace Neighborhood Center Web Design Team
www.peaceneighborhoodcenter.org


Students:
Matt Dull, Matt Raw, Michael Beasley, Cari Rottenburg, Chris Petersen

Timeline: Fall 2004 and Winter 2005

Summary:

CICweb Development Project

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CICweb Development Team - www.si.umich.edu/cic
Students: Mark Bard, Sylvie Kahujuria, Maria Cervone, Olga Khroustaleva, Eva Reffell, Andrea Wiggins

CICweb Development Project

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CICweb Development Team - www.si.umich.edu/cic

Students: Mark Bard, Sylvie Kahujuria, Maria Cervone, Olga Khroustaleva, Eva Reffell, Andrea Wiggins

Timeline: Fall 2004 and Winter 2005 and ongoing

Harms Elementary School - Detroit

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Harms Elementary School Service Project
http://schools.detroit.k12.mi.us/jsp/index.jsp?Harms

Students: Kathryn Stine, Renata Ewing, Mellanye Lackey, Eva Reffell, Matt Dull, David Choi, Diane Crang, Vijay Dakshinamoorthy

Summary: On a Saturday in November 2004, eight ambitious students visited Harms Elementary School in Detroit to help configure 60 donated iBook laptops for the school’s brand new wireless network. After several hours of tinkering and trying, it became apparent that the wireless system would not assign IP addresses to the iBooks. The students valiantly called the vendor support and worked through several solutions, to no avail. Unavailable to make necessary server adjustments, the students were resigned to give up on the project. They did manage to clean up spyware and adware from several of the school’s PC laptops, but the main goal of the day could not be achieved, leaving them, and wonderful Principal Diaz, disappointed.