Community Informatics

Community informatics is the field of scholarship, policy, and practice that helps communities use information technologies to improve healthcare, foster civic engagement, preserve cultural heritage, inspire and educate youth, improve economic development, and achieve other goals related to social change.

Opportunities with the Journal of Community Informatics

Submitted by nbartine on February 17, 2007 - 12:07pm
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We have had exploratory discussions with Ann Bishop (from the University of Illinois) about having a group of students from UM provide editorial support for the online publication of the Journal of Community Informatics. Here is how Ann envisioned our potential role:

"What Mike (Gurstein) and I had discussed was finding a dedicated group of students with a strong interest in CI to take on the electronic production on an ongoing basis. The students and their institution would be prominently listed on the journal's website. There would be JoCI staffer somewhere in the world who would supervise and help lead your work, as needed.

CI@SI - sustainability

Submitted by pieter on February 1, 2007 - 5:56pm
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On a plane ride from Chicago to Detroit on Tuesday, Garin and I had an hour-long brainstorming session where we came up with some ideas about sustainability for Community Informatics at the School of Information. Garin typed up our notes that night and we polished up a paper the following day. You'll find the working document below - we've sent it to the CiC faculty group (Maurita, Paul, Steve, and Joan) for review, hoping to glean some comments. We wanted to throw it out to the entire CiC student group as well, but could not before sending it off to the faculty in time for a meeting.

103 questions about community informatics

Submitted by edwardvielmetti on December 1, 2006 - 2:35pm
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These came from a Prato conference on community informatics held this fall in Europe. Here are the 103 questions that were raised through group process at the Prato Community Informatics Conference workshops. If you go to www.ccnr.webstylus.net/wiki you can see hyperlinks to some of the answers. If you would like to add any answers please go to the website and add

notes from Community Informatics Workshop, Oct 15 2006

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Hi folks - attached as PDF are notes from our Community Informatics Workshop, held on Sunday, October 15th, and bringing together CI researchers, practitioners and students from across the I-School movement. More information and follow-up from the workshop will follow by email for all those who participated - if you weren't there but would like to follow up, please email me - sjackso@umich.edu.

Notes From the CI Gathering

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Notes and other contents related to the CI gathering in Ann Arbor on Oct.14-16, in conjunction with the I-schools conference, can be found at this page. If you'd like to post a blog entry or a page related to that event, please use the following tags under the "Topics" field: Community Informatics, Annual Gathering. If you do that, it will automatically show
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